The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the junior senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly.... We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.
We will not walk in fear, one of another.... We are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.... We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
–Edward R. Murrow, See It Now [1954]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
July 31, 2023 Uncle Sam, Nuclear Polluter
Why would anyone who is concerned with protecting the environment want to put the U.S. government in charge of that task? After all, look at how much damage the U.S. government has done to people and the planet over the decades with its nuclear testing. I haven’t seen the movie Oppenheimer but based on some of the commentaries, it is clear that ...
The Iraq War Was a Systematic Atrocity
by James Bovard
Media coverage of the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War mostly portrayed the war as a blunder. There were systematic war ...
Jeremy Bentham, Usury Laws, and the CFPB by Laurence M. Vance
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in a case that challenges the constitutionality of the funding of the federal Consumer Financial ...
How Evil Are Politicians? Part 2 by George Leef
Caplan follows up on that observation with a devastating point about the calculating political mindset. Suppose that a politician had to...
