January 1998 - December 1998
January 1998 - Best of 1997 issue
Editorial
The Right to Wealth (January)
Only Money? (February)
Who is more dangerous: Capitalism or
George Soros? (March)
Tidbits
News you possibly missed
Farmers for economic freedom
Updates about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada
Deng Upgraded To Satisfactory Condition
As Superwoman Arrives! (March)
What Conservatives Owe Ayn Rand (April)
Tax Heroes (May)
The "Rights of Man" Didn't
Create Rights, and Neither Can You... (May)
Either He Lied or He is a Moron. Neither
is Good (June)
The Right to Discriminate (June)
A Nation of Four Solitudes (July)
The Virtues of Competition (July)
Economic use need not be a death knell (July)
Blowing smoke at freedom (August)
Acid Test (August)
Empowering workers: The privatization
of social security in Chile (September)
Myths of the Rich Man (September)
Moral Criticisms of the Market (October)
Times have changed and so must conservatives (October)
In praise of insider trading (October)
The anti-capitalist jihad against
Microsoft (November)
Stopping spam is the responsibility of
the spammer, not Big Mother (November)
How Capitalism Saved the Whales (November)
Live free or die: how many more Carl
Dregas? (December)
The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980 - 2020 (December)
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Campaign finance laws need a tune-up,
not an overhaul
David W. Almasi proposes an easy fix for American campaign finance laws
The fixed quantity of wealth fallacy
Brian Micklethwait smashes the idea that wealth cannot be created rather
than rearranged
High court invites one-two punch
of fines, criminal charges
Vin Suprynowicz lauds the U.S. Supreme Court for one decision, but knocks
it for another
Tidbits
ESR gives you the news items that you may have missed...or the ones the
newspapers, magazines, or TV anchors didn't think you needed to hear
Farmers for economic freedom
Updates about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada
Racism: Public and Private
Walter Block tells us how the free market helps the victims of racism
Apocalypse never!
So what saved us from the nihilism of the 1960s and 70s? Michael Miller
tells us
A Politically Correct Primer
Language is power! Read this tongue-in-cheek conversion guide
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Femspeak
Michael Miller reveals the real meaning behind feminist language
Growth sector
What's the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? When it comes
to cutting government, not much says Vin Suprynowicz
Short calendar makes movement of major
environmental legislation unlikely
A short legislative session in Congress means less time for good and bad
environmental legislation, says David Ridenour
Tidbits
ESR gives you the news items that you may have missed...or the ones the
newspapers, magazines, or TV anchors didn't think you needed to hear
Farmers for economic freedom
Updates about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada
"Batty" women blamed for
Clinton's troubles
Stephanie Herman dissects one impossibly insulting and stupid defense
for Bill Clinton
Firearms control -- what makes sense?
National Firearms Association president David A. Tomlinson ruminates about
logical firearms control
Medical savings accounts: A solution
for health care
"Reforms" like those proposed by Kennedy-Kassebaum aren't the
way to solve Medicare's problems, says Joseph Kellard
Reform's biggest salesman
Jim Hinter argues that Canada's Reform Party's biggest booster isn't even
a member of the party
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Reinventing Socialism
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch argues that neosocialism is far from dead,
but alive and well
Papers, please?
The future of employment in Las Vegas is getting scary, says resident
Vin Suprynowicz
Testimony of Bill Gates
Does Microsoft's capo belatedly recognize who his real friends are in
his testimony to the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate?
Read and decide for yourself
Tidbits
ESR gives you the news items that you may have missed...or the ones the
newspapers, magazines, or TV anchors didn't think you needed to hear.
So thick this section, it's been called a magazine in its own right
Farmers for economic freedom
Updates about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada
The Second Amendment: America's First
Freedom
In this speech to the National Press Club, NRA First Vice President Charlton
Heston bravely tells journalists why the Second Amendment is more important
than the First Amendment
Save Social Security: Bring back the
balanced budget amendment
Borrowing from Social Security is the thing that will kill it says Amy
Moritz Ridenour
Forgetting Reagan's lessons
Twain once made a quip about death and taxes, but David Hogberg asks does
it have to be the same way with the Internet?
Political science
Gord Gekko used to believe in Guy Lafleur and scientists...the list has
narrowed by one
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How many did Communist regimes murder?
If you're celebrating May Day, read this and reconsider
The rooster always takes the credit
Charles VanEaton argues that Clinton is as responsible for the economy
as much as a rooster is for the rising sun
Armed robbery
1980s junk bond king Michael Milkin took it on the chin again recently,
says Vin Suprynowicz
Tidbits
ESR gives you the news items that you may have missed...or the ones the
newspapers, magazines, or TV anchors didn't think you needed to hear.
So thick this section, it's been called a magazine in its own right. This
month: 5 pages of news with Gord's sarcastic rips!
Farmers for economic freedom
Updates about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada
Paycheck Protection: Cheap for business,
good for unions
David W. Almasi argues that paycheck protection will be a boon to both
workers and employers, though the unions wouldn't tell you that
Empowering workers: The privatization
of social security in Chile
It's time private industry take over government handouts and the man who
did it in Chile, José Piñera, tells how its done. Originally
published in ESR last September, the "nation-wide" discussion
Clinton will hold will likely ignore the option presented in this piece
Foxes given seven years to negotiate
henhouse pact
Vin Suprynowicz says the very people negotiating for freer trade in the
Western hemisphere are the very people we don't want negotiating for freer
trade
Global warming: Enjoy it while you
can
John Carlisle argues that global warming is natural and is actually a
boon
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Times have changed and so must conservaties
Gord Gekko argues that conservatism has to move back to the past to move
forward in the future
The Germans are at it again
Libertarian Vin Suprynowicz has some really strong opinions about the
new Euro
In defense of stay-at-home moms
In a recent address to a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee,
stay-at-home mother Susie Dutcher discusses the other side of work
Tidbits
ESR gives you the news items that you may have missed...or the ones the
newspapers, magazines, or TV anchors didn't think you needed to hear.
So thick this section, it's been called a magazine in its own right
Farmers for economic freedom
Updates about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada
Print media never discovered any
"Reagan Haters" only conservatives qualify as "Haters"
Yes, it's true. The media is overwhelmingly liberal. Here's the proof
The Art of Politics by Colonel Davy
Crockett
Print this out and email it to every politician you can
A point of privilege
In a recent speech, Dan Burton (R-IN) talks about his investigation of
the White House and how the administration has done everything it could
to "assist" him
The White House flea market
U.S. president Bill Clinton may soon be begging for another Lewinsky scandal,
says Vin Suprynowicz
Barry Goldwater's 1964 acceptance
speech
Goldwater's recent death reminds of us where the modern Republican Party
largely came from
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The more things change, the more
they say the same?
Government is at the mercy of economic forces and right wing Conservatives...blah,
blah, blah, responds Gord Gekko
If some earn less, must be it be a
conspiracy?
All may not be as it seems in the wage gap debate, says Vin Suprynowicz
The New Bill of Rights
Midas Mulligan re-wrote the U.S. Constitution at the end of Atlas Shrugged
and now Rex L. Fuller III does the same for the Bill of Rights
Tidbits
ESR gives you the news items that you may have missed...or the ones the
newspapers, magazines, or TV anchors didn't think you needed to hear.
So thick this section, it's been called a magazine in its own right
Farmers for economic freedom
Updates about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada
Blame the sun for global warming
John K. Carlisle says an unexpected villain may be responsible for that
global climate change the Earth has experienced over the past several
thousand years
Ohio's sad legacy of antitrust:
John Sherman to Betty Montgomery
Ohio has a long history when it comes to antitrust, says the Buckeye state's
James Damask
School vouchers OK'd
Vin Suprynowicz says a recent Wisconsin State Supreme Court decision allowing
school vouchers is quite obviously a good thing
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Noblesse oblige...or else?
Gord Gekko says today's rich are being pressured to give money away to
every cause with the implied threat of "or else"
If we're treated like a number,
we're property
Vin Suprynowicz has a serious problem with national identification cards...think
you'd never have one? If you live in the U.S., you're closer than you
think
Update! America betrayed by her politicians (Added August 2)
Silent propaganda
When it comes to the environmental movement, says Joseph Kellard, there
are plenty of lies being spoken
Tidbits
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newspapers, magazines, or TV anchors didn't think you needed to hear.
So thick this section, it's been called a magazine in its own right
Farmers for economic freedom
Updates about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada
Congress takes a byte out of the FCC
Al Gore wants all schools in the U.S. hooked up to the Internet...guess
who's paying? Did you even know you were on the hook?
As long as a man has another cartridge
or hand weapon to use, he does not yield
Though Germany sat on the border, Swiss Jews generally may have lost their
money to banks, they didn't lose their lives though. Why? Vin Suprynowicz
thinks he has the answer
Moral criticisms of the market
Christians have always been edgy about free markets, but Ken S. Ewert
says there is nothing to fear
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Editorial
Tonight's Match up: Clinton vs. Vader In this 1997 piece, Kevin Bertram compares which administration would
be better: Darth Vader or William Jefferson Clinton
Home-schoolers say 'the public education
system has failed us' With the kids going back to school, you might
think of keeping them home, says Vin Suprynowicz
Freedom or gun control Ken Burton
tells us that the gun control nuts will win if we begin to relax
Tidbits ESR gives you the news
items that you may have missed...or the ones the newspapers, magazines,
or TV anchors didn't think you needed to hear
Farmers for economic freedom Updates
about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada
The ghost of John D. Rockefeller In July, ESR told you about the resemblance of Thomas Watson's problems
to Bill Gates'...this month its another "robber baron"
Private Ryan, front and center Colonel
David Hackworth says Saving Private Ryan should be a lesson to us all
What's in a name? Vin Suprynowicz
contrasts the definition of fascism and what happened to a restaurant
in Miami last month
Rethinking school governance Andrew Coulson writes that one option for school governance has been largely
ignored
Gore may have more political baggage than
Clinton If Al Gore is called upon to take over the presidency, he
may have more skeletons in the closet to worry about than Clinton
Lycos grudgingly agrees (for now): man's
not a destroyer Gord Gekko tells the story of Lycos, EnviroLink, a
contract and the senior editor of Off-Road.com who revealed what the search
engine really signed on to
Political kayfabe Neil Murphy teaches
us a new word and the truth behind Bill Clinton's agenda
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Eleven stages of a liar Neil Murphy
uses some psychology to explain Bill Clinton
Globalization, wages, jobs and myths Gerard Jackson of The New Australian explains globalization and what it
represents
All those in favor, sign here -- but
not me! Sean Hackbarth discusses positive and negative liberty and
the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights
Tidbits ESR gives you the news
items that you may have missed...or the ones the newspapers, magazines,
or TV anchors didn't think you needed to hear
Farmers for economic freedom Updates
about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada
Let's stop bailing out these 'former'
Communists Help those who help themselves, says Vin Suprynowicz
I, Pencil The 1958 classic by Leonard
Read. The story of the pencil is used to illustrate the beauty of the
free market and individuals.
Who are the uninsured? Who are
these people that live without health insurance that Hillary Clinton is
so worried about?
Awwww…Let the big lug go, He's just
upholding tradition Tom Adkins thinks its goofy that Clinton should
follow the same laws as everyone else
Who's in charge around here, anyway? It's time to refocus on a dangerous world, says David Hackworth
Politics tainted green: EPA uses enforcement
as partisan political weapon David Ridenour says politics, and not
the environment, seems to be the mission of the EPA
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Strengthening property rights In a speech to Canada's House of Commons, Garry Breitkreuz talks about
property rights and a bill that would have strengthened it
The myth of technological unemployment Gerard Jackson writes that unemployment due to technology is hogwash
The scum are free to ride it If you
run a newspaper or magazine, your greatest joy are the letters you receive.
Just ask Vin Suprynowicz
Tidbits ESR gives you the news
items that you may have missed...or the ones the newspapers, magazines,
or TV anchors didn't think you needed to hear
Farmers for economic freedom Updates
about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada
Not-So-Radical Republicans Stephen
Moore of the Cato Institute tells us why the Republican budget revolution
failed...just in time for election day!
It's a jungle out there! Keith Wade
tells us about an unlikely government service to privatize, and one that
works
Who owns the fruit of your labour? C. Grady Drago offers a solution to ever increasing taxation. And it's
quite simple
The android president KFC, classic
sci-fi film Alien, and Bill Clinton figure in this Vin Suprynowicz piece
Crazy court cases show: Bad science
makes bad law Any Ridenour details the growing conflict between science
and law thanks to trial attorneys and paid expert witnesses
Blair may rule, but Thatcher still leads Steve Myers says the recent arrest of General Augusto Pinochet showed
who really leads Britain
No way, that could not happen in America
Oh yeah? Read this piece by C. Grady Drago if you want to vote Democrat
on November 3
Coercion: A few preliminary definitions Sam Wells discusses the concept of coercion from the Libertarian perspective
Can this become victory? Michael
R. Allen ponders the results of the 1998 election and what they meant
Needed: a new breed Jim Hill warns
Republicans that they had better change their ways or see a continued
loss of support
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Enter Stage Right's Third Annual
Conservative of the Year Gord Gekko reveals the person we think had
the biggest impact this past year. Who could it be?
Black folks and Bill Clinton Kimberly Wilson thinks it's time that African-Americans rethink their
support of Bill Clinton
The real national scandal: Clinton's
legacy The pundits and C. Grady Drago differ in what they think Clinton's
legacy will be. Find out what Drago thinks it will be
Tidbits ESR gives you the news
items that you may have missed...or the ones the newspapers, magazines,
or TV anchors didn't think you needed to hear
Farmers for economic freedom Updates
about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada
To enhance officer safety and convenience The Supreme Court is mulling over a case which Vin Suprynowicz says could
lead toa "one-way trainride to tyranny"
It's time the Republicans went back to
what worked Gord Gekko knows why the Republicans lost the elections
last month...and it's so simple
Provide for the common defense Rod
D. Martin argues that of all the things that the federal government should
be doing for Americans, providing national defense isn't one of them
Greenspan is no hero If you have
money in the market, you probably like U.S. Federal Reserve capo Alan
Greenspan. C.W. Mayer does not
This time the liberals are right Don't get him wrong, Gord Gekko loves the Free Republic, but they are
doing wrong
'That Communism might work in Russia
today' An e-mail Vin Suprynowicz recently received earns one reader
a well deserved rebuke
Who are our national heroes? The Lincoln
Heritage Institute will be honoring those who are trying to preserve freedom.
Submit your nominations today!
Government regulation robs retired couple
of home Harold and Iris Stone live in America. That did not protect
them from a rapacious government
Destroying liberty, one bomb at a time Michael R. Allen of SpinTech fame thinks bombing Iraq is a mistake
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