Campaign for Liberty

The problem is the forest. Cutting down a tree here and there isn't enough. The question is whether we want to put the federal government in control of American medicine. And about the related question of what medicine should be.

If the politicians who are bent on redesigning the medical and medical-insurance industries really wanted only to curb rising prices and help the uninsured get coverage, they would have zeroed in on the previous government interventions that created those problems.

It's common knowledge that a president -- but above all a Democratic president -- who tried to de-escalate a war like the one now expanding in Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan, and withdraw American troops, would be so much domestic political dead meat.

Thanks to your quick action in contacting Congress, the House Financial Services Committee earlier today rejected Representative Mel Watt's attempt to hijack Audit the Fed by voting 43-26 to pass Ron Paul's amendment to the financial regulatory reform bill.

Hamilton thought that a strong central government was needed to bring about national prosperity and power. He was a mercantilist who rejected Adam Smith’s idea that capitalism based on the individual pursuit of self-interest was the most efficient and progressive economic system.

"I am very surprised to confess that Krugman has convinced me of the virtues of currency debasement. As I was reading his blog post on the tragic fate of Ecuador, I applied Krugman's lessons to my personal life, and suddenly everything became clear. In a flash, all of my household's financial stress...

Financial Services leadership seems determined to include Audit the Fed as part of a regulatory reform package instead of passing it as a standalone bill. While C4L will still do everything in its power to fight for a standalone vote on Audit the Fed on the House floor, it is critical we challenge ...

The Tennessean reports that a Gibson Guitar plant in Nashville, Tennessee was raided by agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Their mission: to find out if Gibson Guitar was in violation of the U.S. Lacey Act, which now prohibits the use of some exotic and "endangered" woods from the world'...

On one level, it is tempting to greet the rise of the conservative bestseller with elation. Our long exile from the world of letters has ended. We're on the New York Times bestseller list. We have arrived. But where?