In December, the government of Thailand seized an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane loaded with thirty-five tons of small arms. The aircraft had stopped in Bangkok enroute from North Korea to Iran. The shipment contained rockets, fuses, rocket launchers and rocket-propelled grenades. Iran has no need to smuggle small arms from North Korea, for domestic use. [...]
Sales of new U.S. homes fell by 7.6% in December, earning 2009 a place in history as the worst year for new home sales since the Commerce Department started keeping records in 1963. The 2009 numbers were down an astounding 23% from 2008. The median sales price of the homes that did sell in December [...]
Organizing Tea Party protesters is a nearly impossible task. This new American resistance movement is leaderless — and not looking for a leader. A leader, any leader can be defeated. A single person can be imprisoned or murdered with minimal effort. Worse, revolutionary leaders have a bad history of sliding into the role of dictator [...]
The recent Supreme Court ruling protecting the First Amendment rights of Americans, even if they are corporations or labor unions, causes many of us to pause to think about the nature of corporations and similar organizational structures. Corporations are merely groups of people. Corporations have no rights that people don’t have, but they also don’t [...]
Only days after a victory for free speech in the United States comes a major defeat for free speech in Venezuela. Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez forced cable television providers to stop transmitting Radio Caracas Television because the station was not broadcasting his official propaganda messages. Chavez had previously forced RCTV off the air by revoking [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court recently create a surprising and welcome roadblock in the path of those who seek to destroy free speech in the United States. In a narrow victory for freedom, the judges ruled 5-4 that groups of Americans who organize as corporations and labor unions do not lose their rights to free speech [...]
