October 9, 2007
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: What Does It Affirm?
by Wendy McElroy Last week I learned that a friend had been passed over for tenure at an ivy-league school. He had been teaching at the university for several years and was immensely popular - not only with the students but…
June 12, 2001
Seven Great Ways to Protect Your Privacy Freedom
by Jarret Wollstein Ron Paul – the only true libertarian in Congress – gives this answer to the question, "What is the relationship of privacy to freedom?" "Privacy is freedom. Leave us alone!" Unfortunately, Paul is one of the few…
June 12, 2001
Juries: A History of Jury Nullification
"If a juror accepts as the law that which the judge states, then that juror has accepted the exercise of absolute authority of a government employee and has surrendered a power and right that once was the citizen's safeguard of…
June 12, 2001
The Hidden War On Your Privacy
How government secretly spies on you, your children and your finances . . . and uses that information to control you. by Jarret B. Wollstein There is a hidden war on your privacy. If you're like most Americans, you probably…
June 9, 2001
The Causes of Aggression
by Jarret B. Wollstein We live in a world which often seems more violent with every passing day. Terrorist bombings, school-yard massacres, war, and atrocities fill news headlines. At times it even seems that humanity has a collective death wish. Human…
March 12, 2000
The Swiss Cantonal System: A Model democracy
by Frances Kendall In this, the first of the "ISIL Solutions" series, we examine the "Swiss model" of government – a highly-decentralized system which Swiss economist Robert Nef more accurately describes as an "ongoing experiment" than a "model." The concepts…
January 12, 2000
New Declaration of Independence
NEW DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE by Vincent H. Miller & Jarret B. Wollstein Two hundred years ago our ancestors signed a document which forever changed the course of history: the Declaration of Independence. That document severed the bonds of Colonial America…
October 12, 1999
The Green Gestapo
by Jarret Wollstein For the "crime" of cleaning up his own property without a federal permit, the EPA charged him with 41 violations of the Clean Water Act. According to the EPA, water retained in decaying tires and rusty ditches…
October 12, 1999
Freedom of Speech Under Siege
by Jarret B. Wollstein "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire No right is more fundamental than freedom of speech. Without freedom of speech you can't communicate your ideas and…
October 9, 1999
Death by Regulation: The Price We Pay for the FDA
by Dr. Mary J. Ruwart A Matter of Life and Death Have you lost a loved one to breast cancer recently? If so, you probably wished with all your heart that your sister, mother, or wife had detected it earlier.…
September 12, 1999
Juries: New Hope for Freedom: Fully Informed Juries
by Larry Dodge & Don Doig edited by Mark Valverde & Larry Dodge "For more than six hundred years – that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215, there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that,…
September 12, 1999
Is Your Freedom In Danger: Destruction of the Bill of Rights
by Jarret B. Wollstein What defines the character of America and makes this country a good place to live? For over 200 years, our prosperity and liberty had been the envy of much of the world. But prosperity is inseparable…
October 27, 1998
Libre Comercio o Proteccionismo?
Razones en contra de las restricciones comerciales por Vincent H. Miller y James R. Elwood traducido por Alberto Mansueti El señuelo del proteccionismo El argumento en pro del llamado "proteccionismo" (que algunos llaman comercio "justo" o "leal") puede sonar atractivo…