Table of Contents: 2012

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• The Jacob Hornberger Show - October 28, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Life without FEMA?
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Legal Earthquake Rocks the Scientific Community
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Sheldon Richman Joins FFF Full-Time
  by The Future of Freedom Foundation
  
  

• McGovern Reconsidered
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Classical Liberalism as a Form of Progressivism (video)
  by Steven G. Horwitz
  
  
• Conservatives and Medical Freedom
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The War on Terrorism, Civil Liberties, and the Constitution: University of California - Davis
  by Jacob G. Hornberger, Glenn Greenwald, and Bruce Fein with Jack Hunter
  
  
• Another Torture Victim on Trial at Guantánamo
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• Americans Should Reject Obama-Romney Foreign Policy
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The War on Terrorism, Civil Liberties, and the Constitution: University of Washington - Seattle
  by Jacob G. Hornberger, Glenn Greenwald, and Bruce Fein with Jack Hunter
  
  
• Supreme Court Considers the Warrantless Sniff
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Do Libertarians Hate the Poor?
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The 9/11 Trial: Torturing Justice
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• America's Drone Terrorism
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Pretexts and Provocations
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• The Malalas You Will Not Hear About
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• The Prospects of Drug Freedom
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• America's Extradition Problem
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• Clinton's Legacy: The Financial and Housing Meltdown
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• An Economy of Illusions
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Amtrak Joins the Police State
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• The Glaring Contradiction in Anti-Iran Policy
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Should People Pay More Taxes?
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - October 7, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• The Institutionalized Racism of Affirmative Action
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• In the U.S. Election, No Time for Guantánamo, But Torture Rears Its Ugly Head
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• QE Forever and John Q. Public
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Debates? Let’s Call Them the Agreements
  by Ken Sturzenacker
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - September 30, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Government Impossible
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  

• Obama Releases Names of Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners; Now It's Time to Set Them Free
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• The Hubris of Romney and Obama
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Government Dependency and Corporatist America
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• The Problem with Conservative Plans to Save Social Security
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - September 23, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Why Does the Government So Desperately Want Indefinite Detention for Terror Suspects?
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• Romney, Taxes, and Dependence on Government
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• A Militarist Foreign Policy Means More Death and Destruction
  by Gregory Bresiger
  
  
• Republicans Just Don't Get It
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - September 16, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• More Markets? More Government? Wrong Question! (video)
  by Michael C. Munger
  
  
• Obama, the Courts, and Congress Are All Responsible for the Latest Death at Guantánamo
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• Deeper in the Afghan Quagmire
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Democrat's War of Women against Women
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Share Our Wealth
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - September 9, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Eleven Years after 9/11, Guantánamo Is a Political Prison
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• The GOP's Gold Plank
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Republican Welfare State
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• Texas Inventories Children
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Medicare Is Doomed
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  

• Crisis Response
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Prison Inservitude
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Social Insecurity
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• Don't Call for an Ambulance
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Paul Ryan Selection
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Paul Ryan: Would-Be Savior of the Welfare-Warfare State
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Sick Economics
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The MAD Myth
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Labor Outsourcing Is Not the Problem
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Organ Donor Revolution — or Revolt?
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• The Lessons of Aurora
  by Benedict D. LaRosa
  
  
• The Cans and Shoulds of Gun Control
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - August 5, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Obama, Romney Are Reckless on Iran
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Ten Years of Torture: Marking the 10th Anniversary of John Yoo's "Torture Memos"
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• Putting the LIBOR Scandal in Context
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Who Should Feed the Children?
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  

• Your Religion or Your Business
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Extradition Gives America Jurisdiction over the Globe
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Abd Al-Rahim Al- Nashiri: The Torture Victim the United States Is Desperate to Gag
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• Republicans versus Freedom
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• Reviving a Peculiar Institution
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - July 22, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Don't Let Aurora Shooting Curtail Right of Self Defense
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Obama, Romney Rhetoric Risks Trade War
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Uncle Sam Is a Sugar Daddy
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• Bagram: Still a Black Hole for Foreign Prisoners
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• College Civil Liberties Tour (video)
  by Jack Hunter, Jacob G. Hornberger, Glenn Greenwald, and Bruce Fein
  
  
• A Message from Jacob Hornberger
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - July 15, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• U.S. Honors Deal to Release Convicted Bin Laden Cook from Guantanamo to Sudan
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• The Obamacare Ruling and the Rise of Unlimited Government
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• The Two Little Cities Who Can't
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Government Shows Itself Impotent on Economy
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Why the War on Drugs Should Be Ended
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - July 8, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Big Pharma and Crony Capitalism
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• The United States in Talks to Return the 17 Afghan Prisoners in Guantanamo
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• Socialized Medicine Is Here to Stay
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• What Part of "Illegal" Really Matters?
  by Scott McPherson
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - July 1, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Supreme Court's Word Game Saves Obamacare
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  

• Flexing Executive Privilege
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Polish Senator's Startling New Allegations about the CIA Torture Prison in Poland
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• The Big Health-Care CON
  by Michael Tennant
  
  
• Congressional Contempt
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Self-Defense and the Anti-Gun Mentality
  by Scott McPherson
  
  
• An Unfamiliar Definition of "Voluntary"
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Is It Time to Raise the Minimum Wage?
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• Are Americans Not Submissive Enough?
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - June 24, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• A Tilting Domino
  by Richard Schwartzman
  
  
• Still No Accountability for Torture
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• How to Get Money out of Politics
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Will Supreme Court’s Ignorance Torpedo Americans’ Freedom?
  by James Bovard
  
  
• The Continuing Economic Crisis
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - June 17, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Twelve Victims of the Drug War
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Supreme Court Abandons the Guantánamo Prisoners
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• Slow, Predictable Hearing on Fast and Furious
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Bloomberg's Soda Policy: The End Doesn't Justify the Means
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - June 10, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• The Constitution versus the Executive-Branch Departments
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• "Pragmatism over Ideology": Obama's Failure to Close Guantánamo, and His Love of Drones
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• The Wisconsin Union Fight Reconsidered
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Do Republicans Oppose the Redistribution of Wealth?
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - June 2, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Obama Steps into It on the Family Farm
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• U.S. Should Steer Clear of Syria
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  

• The Myths of NATO
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Ban the Public Library
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - May 26, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Imperialists in the Refrigerator
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• U.S. Judge Rules against Military Detention of U.S. Terror Suspects — But What About the Foreigners in Guantánamo?
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• Romney and Bain Capital
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• No More Entangling Alliances
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Police State Is Here
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Why No Trials for Abu Zubaydah and Seven Other "High Value Detainees" in Guantánamo?
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• The War on Drugs: Cui Bono?
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• JPMorgan Lesson: End Government Bank Guarantees
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• When Will Obama Evolve on the Drug War?
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - May 12, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Obama's Campaign Slop to Women
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Government-Created Racism
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Chaos at Guantanamo as the 9/11 Trial Begins
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• Does the First Amendment Protect the Freedom of Association?
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - May 5, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Britain’s “Fat and Fags” Health Policy
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• Obama, bin Laden, and Mitt
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• HR 1983: Good Idea, Wrong Reason
  by Richard Schwartzman
  
  
• Florida Doubles Down on Cuba Restrictions
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  

• Political Capitalism in Action
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Canada's Shameful Treatment of Omar Khadr
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• An Echo, Not a Choice
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Right to Refuse Service
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Death of All Banking Freedom?
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - April 21, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Obamacare and Unlimited Government
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• The Supremacy of the Tenth
  by Richard Schwartzman
  
  
• The Torture Trials at Guantánamo
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• The Regulatory State Gone Wild
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• Barack Obama: Corporatist
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - April 14, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Guantánamo and Recidivism: New Report Debunks Government's Inflated Claims
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• The Murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Budgeting Leviathan
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• A War on Us
  by Richard Schwartzman
  
  
• Manufacturing Racism?
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Clinton's Loose War Talk
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Republican Path to the Welfare/Warfare Sate
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - March 31, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  

• The U.S. Military and the Massacres
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Ten Years of Torture
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• Health Insurance Mandate: Immoral, Unnecessary
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• When Did Facebook Become Congress?
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Welfare for the Masses
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - March 24, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Defusing the Middle East Would Lower Gas Prices
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Crash of 2008 and Its Implications (video)
  by Scott B. Sumner
  
  
• The “Taliban Five” and the Forgotten Afghan Prisoners in Guantánamo
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• A Vanishing Miranda
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Time for a Drink
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• An Unlikely Ally
  by Richard Schwartzman
  
  
• Obama's Iran Policy Commits Him to War
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• America's Collision with Economic Reality
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Vouchers: For and Against
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The First Amendment Needs a Rape Kit
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Guantánamo and Recidivism: The Media's Ongoing Failure to Question Official Statistics
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - March 10, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Uncle Sam's Greatest Hits: Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You
  by Michael Tennant
  
  
• The Enclosure Acts and the Industrial Revolution
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• The Nonissue That's Still an Issue
  by Gregory Bresiger
  
  
• Tax-Credit Hypocrisy
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• No to AIPAC, No to Israel, and No to War
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Bishop McFadden and "Totalitarian" Public Schooling
  by Michael Tennant
  
  
• How to Leave Guantánamo: By Means of a Plea Deal or in a Coffin
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• Out of Afghanistan Now!
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Iran: Scapegoat for a Bankrupt Empire
  by Tim Kelly
  
  

• Too Little, Too Late
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - February 25, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Who Benefits from the War on Drugs?
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Nuclear Hypocrisy
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• As the Underwear Bomber Receives a Life Sentence in Federal Court, Lawmaker's Obsession with Military Trials Looks Idiotic
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• The Trouble with Aid (Video)
  by Claudia R. Williamson
  
  
• Obama Administration "Brainwashes" Public on Afghanistan
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The War on Terrorism, the Constitution, and Civil Liberties (video)
  by Jack Hunter, Jacob Hornberger, and Bruce Fein
  
  
• FFF/YAL Civil Liberties College Tour (videos)
  by Jack Hunter, Jacob Hornberger, Glenn Greenwald, and Bruce Fein
  
  
• No One Should Be Forced to Act against His Conscience
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• In Defense of Censorship
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Missing Peace Dividend
  by Richard Schwartzman
  
  
• Bush’s Torture Program Began Ten Years Ago
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• The Catholic Bishops and the Morality of Government Mandates
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - February 11, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Consolidate or Eliminate?
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - February 4, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Obama Can Stop Israel from Attacking Iran
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Are Obama and Netanyahu Trying to Push Iran toward a Nuke?
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  

• The Jacob Hornberger Show - January 28, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• The Real Reason Guantánamo Should Be Closed
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• Obama Considers Repatriating Foreign Prisoners from Bagram
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• Hubris and Illegitimate Assumptions
  by Richard Schwartzman
  
  
• A Real Foreign Policy Debate
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Food Stamp Politicians
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• Beyond the DREAM Act
  by Fergus Hodgson
  
  
• Stopping the Rush to War against Iran
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• A Fitting Symbol of the American Empire
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - January 14, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• The American Press and War
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• Is Ron Paul an Isolationist?
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• Police Nondisclosure Rises to a New Low
  by Wendy McElroy
  
  
• Be Careful What You Wish For
  by Richard Schwartzman
  
  
• Opposing Imperialism Is Not Isolationism
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Jacob Hornberger Show - January 7, 2012 (video)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Three Views on the Drug War
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• The Prospects for Sound Money
  by Tim Kelly
  
  
• A Moral Distinction
  by Richard Schwartzman
  
  
• A Tired Obsession with Military Detention Plagues American Politics
  by Andy Worthington
  
  
• In Defense of Affirmative Action
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• Exiting Iraq
  by Sheldon Richman