Campaign For Liberty: Featured Article Archive, October 2009

The Monetary Economics of Halloween Candy
10/31/09

The trick-or-treat economy teaches us about free exchange, and even the function of money.  [Read More]

by Jeffrey Tucker
Hair of the Dog
10/31/09

Unfortunate for the future of prosperity, instead of facing our economic hangover, America is drinking ever more easy credit.  [Read More]

by Peter Schiff
The Phony Radicalism of Michael Moore
10/31/09

How anti-corporatism can be distorted into cheering on the power elite.  [Read More]

by Sheldon Richman
The Fallacies of Another New Deal
10/30/09

And the fallacies behind the first New Deal, Obama's model for America.  [Read More]

by William Anderson
The Myth of Objective Journalism
10/30/09

It's not just Fox News that's biased.  [Read More]

by Jack Hunter
The Most Important Argument Against Drug Prohibition
10/30/09

It's the moral argument.  [Read More]

by Laurence M. Vance
No Straitjacket
10/29/09

Does the Constitution allow treaties to override state and individual rights?  [Read More]

by Adam de Angeli
Nancy, Are You Serious?
10/29/09

On House Speaker Pelosi's dismissal of the Constitutional position on national health care.  [Read More]

by Jake Towne
Stealth Inflation
10/29/09

Prices should be falling, but they are not.  [Read More]

by John Browne
Economics and Moral Courage
10/28/09

What the courageous example of Ludwig von Mises can teach us about standing up for liberty and truth.  [Read More]

by Lew Rockwell
The Fed Repays the Treasury Most Interest It Collects from the Treasury
10/28/09

"Most critics of the Federal Reserve believe that the central bank earns enormous profits as a result of its legal authority to create money." This is not so.  [Read More]

by Gary North
The Early History of a Worldwide Nuisance
10/28/09

On the bipartisan National Endowment for Democracy.  [Read More]

by James Bovard
Anything Less Than Full Disclosure is Unacceptable
10/27/09

On the attempt to water down the audit of the Fed.  [Read More]

by Ron Paul
Don't Cry for Us, Argentina
10/27/09

The U.S. is following the Latin American country's playbook, which turned the nation from one of the richest in the world to one stricken by poverty.  [Read More]

by William Anderson
The Great Superpower Meltdown
10/27/09

Are the days of America's global dominance coming to an end?  [Read More]

by Michael Klare and Tom Engelhardt
The Threat of Mandatory Vaccinations
10/26/09

A cure worse than the disease.  [Read More]

by Adam Murdock, MD
The Wall Street Journal Defends the Predator State
10/26/09

A conservative pub's confusion on socialized medicine.  [Read More]

by Robert Murphy
Can Government "Manage" the Economy?
10/26/09

How ridiculous is that?  [Read More]

by Jacob Hornberger
Obama's Tax on the Middle Class
10/24/09

But the administration prefers to call them "fees."  [Read More]

by Sheldon Richman
The Case for Higher Interest Rates
10/24/09

The meaning of the weakened dollar.  [Read More]

by Peter Schiff
What the U.S. Military Can't Do
10/24/09

Obama must confront the limits of power or be a failure.  [Read More]

by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt
Distrusting Climate Change Globalism
10/23/09

Is it really that crazy to harbor doubts?  [Read More]

by Anthony Gregory
A Maoist in the White House?
10/23/09

Why does the establishment give history's worst totalitarian mass murderer a pass?  [Read More]

by George Reisman
You Might Be a Constitutionalist If. . .
10/23/09

Here are some indications.  [Read More]

by Chuck Baldwin
Health Care Hypocrisy
10/22/09

And the real solution.  [Read More]

by Laurence M. Vance
Why the White House Worries About Fox News
10/22/09

The meaning behind the administration's media litmus test.  [Read More]

by John Browne
Hot-Air Conservatism
10/22/09

Does Lindsey Graham represent the future of the GOP?  [Read More]

by Jack Hunter
Alliances as Transmission Belts of War
10/21/09

America must follow George Washington's advice, now more than ever.  [Read More]

by Doug Bandow
Is a Weak Dollar a Strong Sign? Not So Fast!
10/21/09

Debunking Orwellian/Keynesian thinking.  [Read More]

by William Anderson
The Very Busy Politicians in Washington DC
10/20/09

"The United States is headed the way of Rome and the Soviet Union, for the same reasons, unless we reverse the trend."  [Read More]

by Ron Paul
Will Today's U.S.-Armed Ally Be Tomorrow's Enemy?
10/20/09

Who's next? Lessons from the long war and a blowback world.  [Read More]

by Tom Engelhardt
Freedom's Destruction By Constitutional De-Construction
10/19/09

The government's founding document turned on its head.  [Read More]

by Timothy Baldwin
Let's Make Health Care Inexpensive Again
10/19/09

An article from 2002, still relevant today in showing the ultimate solution to America's health care problems.  [Read More]

by Harry Browne
Climate Change, Socialized Medicine and Population Control
10/17/09

A look at some eerie connections.  [Read More]

by Adam Murdock, MD
Ignorance Is Bliss
10/17/09

But America can't keep borrowing and spending more and more forever.  [Read More]

by Peter Schiff
Warren Harding and the Forgotten Depression of 1920
10/16/09

Why have we not heard of it? The government did nothing, and it ended quickly.  [Read More]

by Tom Woods
The Imperial Presidency Marches On
10/16/09

Will those who love the current president and his power also love every future president?  [Read More]

by David Swanson and Tom Engelhardt
U.S. Stock Markets Disconnected from Reality
10/15/09

Does the rally mean the economy's trajectory is healthy? Not at all.  [Read More]

by John Browne
A Nobel Prize We Can Cheer
10/15/09

Oliver Williamson, co-winner of the economics prize, is friendly to Austrian free marketers, and his insights are most important.  [Read More]

by Peter Klein
Saving Face in Afghanistan
10/14/09

Why are we there at all?  [Read More]

by Ron Paul
These Are Not Negotiable
10/14/09

On the rights most fundamental to a free society.  [Read More]

by Chuck Baldwin
Rich Uncle Pays Your Mortgage
10/13/09

A reminder: Government has no money of its own.  [Read More]

by Lew Rockwell
Pity the Imperialists
10/13/09

The U.S. welfare-warfare state is running out of money.  [Read More]

by Jacob Hornberger
Second Stimulus or Hair of the Dog?
10/12/09

Is the answer to an economic hangover to get more drunk?  [Read More]

by William Anderson
War of the Worlds: London, 1898; Kabul, 2009
10/12/09

On how alien invaders and occupiers must be perceived.  [Read More]

by Tom Engelhardt
Obama Deserved It
10/10/09

The Orwellian version of the Nobel Peace Prize, that is.  [Read More]

by Jerry Salcido
"Ravenwood" Comes To America
10/10/09

On the unconstitutional militarization and nationalization of U.S. domestic policing.  [Read More]

by Chuck Baldwin
The Fed's Dilemma
10/09/09

The central bank's balance sheets are in worse shape than the institutions it purports to save. Is there a way out without destroying the dollar?  [Read More]

by Philipp Bagus
Global Warming Scandals and Extortion for 'Dignity'
10/09/09

On some of the latest claims of the climate-change authoritarians.  [Read More]

by Floy Lilley
The New Left Was Right
10/08/09

As was the Old Right, on localism, anti-authoritarianism, anti-imperialism, and opposition to corporate liberalism.  [Read More]

by Dylan Hales
The Currency Cabal
10/08/09

U.S. monetary policy is a covert war on the dollar.  [Read More]

by John Browne
Bernanke's Great Fib - The "Gold Standard" and the Great Depression
10/07/09

It was not gold, but government, that caused the crash and deepened the Depression.  [Read More]

by Jake Towne
Bombs and Bribes
10/06/09

On the two major tools of U.S. foreign policy.  [Read More]

by Ron Paul
The Unemployment Racket
10/06/09

The economic fallacies behind an important part of the welfare state.  [Read More]

by Laurence M. Vance
Looking Beyond Terrorism
10/05/09

The terrorist threat is way overblown, and US foreign policy should be changed to reflect that.  [Read More]

by Philip Giraldi
Michael Moore Wants to End the Fed (He Just Doesn't Realize It)
10/05/09

You keep on using that word, capitalism. I do not think it means what you think it means.  [Read More]

by Tom Mullen
The Recovery That Isn't
10/03/09

The fundamentals of the economy are still unsound, as unemployment demonstrates.  [Read More]

by Peter Schiff
A Truly Shocking Guantánamo Story
10/03/09

Judge confirms that an innocent man was tortured into false confessions.  [Read More]

by Andy Worthington
The Evil of Sanctions
10/02/09

Not only are they anti-capitalism, they are anti-life.  [Read More]

by Jacob Hornberger
Hands Off Iran!
10/02/09

Unless the goal is to bolster the Islamist regime.  [Read More]

by Peter Orvetti
The Afghan Disaster
10/01/09

War is just another big government program, no more or less successful than the rest.  [Read More]

by Lew Rockwell
A Somber G-20
10/01/09

And a casino-like U.S. economy.  [Read More]

by John Browne
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