By Mary Theroux | Monday January 2, 2012 at 4:51 PM PDT | 15 Comments
On Saturday, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) a/k/a the “Homeland Battlefield Bill,” (so named because it defines the entire U.S. as a battlefield in the War on Terror), that grants the executive virtually unlimited power to indefinitely detain any American citizen he deems a suspected “belligerent”—at his own...
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Tags: Civil Liberties, Constitution, Culture, Defense, Imperialism, Intelligence agency, Iran, Liberty, Middle East, Military, Peace, Personal Liberty, Police, Presidential Power, Privacy, Propaganda, Surveillance, Terrorism, The State, Torture, War
By David J. Theroux | at 4:50 PM PDT | 4 Comments
On December 29th, the world-renowned economist Ronald H. Coase celebrated in Chicago his 101st birthday. Professor Coase received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991, and he is the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School and the former, highly influential editor of the prestigious Journal...
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Tags: Austrian School of economics, Books, Business, California, Civil Society, Culture, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Free Market, Land use, Law, Liberty, Monopoly and Antitrust, Privatization, Property Rights
By Randall Holcombe | at 2:25 PM PDT | 4 Comments
In the face of substantial budgetary problems, California’s legislature voted to shut down its more than 400 redevelopment agencies that used tax dollars to partner with developers to redevelop blighted areas. Governor Jerry Brown proposed shutting down those agencies, saying the $5 billion they spent annually could be better spent elsewhere. One reason this...
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Tags: Budget and Tax Policy, California, Corruption, Economics, Free Market, Government subsidies, Housing, Land use, Politics, Taxation, The State
