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The Second Amendment — Reaching a Consensus as an Individual Right

In public pronouncements, Attorney General Janet Reno’s Justice Department and other administration officials have implied erroneously that the Second Amendment refers to a collective right rather than an individual right. Never mind that when James Madison, the father of the Constitution, wrote, “The advantage that Americans have over every other nation is that they are […]

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The Nazi War on Tobacco and Cancer

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I was recently asked to review The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor for Ideas on Liberty. What follows here is a more extended critique of this scholarly but deeply disturbing book. Proctor, a professor of history of science at Penn State, thoroughly documents and describes in a good light what he calls

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Psychiatry in a Communist Utopia

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I recently read a book that should shock freedom-loving and civil-liberty-loving readers, even the libertarians, Objectivists, and Americans of other political persuasions who (thanks to Dr. Thomas Szasz) have come to be skeptical and even critical of psychiatry, particularly in the courtroom. The Politics of Psychiatry in Revolutionary Cuba by Charles J. Brown and Armando

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Gore’s Environmental Hypocrisy; Castro’s Chernobyl

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Although it is not yet mid-autumn (and we are already experiencing record low temperatures in certain areas of the country), presidential candidate Al Gore, you can be sure, will continue to preach about the perils of global warming, ozone depletion, and the burning of fossil fuels. In fact, environmental and ecological concerns about the latter

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Robespierre: The Fool as Revolutionary by Otto Scott

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This biography of Robespierre, The Incorruptible, reads like a spellbinding novel, only that this book recounts more than the life of Robespierre. It graphically describes the horrors of the French Revolution and gives us vivid descriptions of all of the main participants in that orgy of blood, horror and death. It begins with the notorious

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Book Review: The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor

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The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor is a deeply disturbing book for it describes in a good light what the author calls “the lesser-known ‘flipside’ of fascism-the side that gave us struggles against smoking, campaigns for cleaner food and water, for exercise and preventive medicine.” The Nazi “accomplishments” include the establishment of

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Hacienda Publishing

Hacienda Publishing

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Helen

The Second Amendment — Reaching a Consensus as an Individual Right

The Nazi War on Tobacco and Cancer

Psychiatry in a Communist Utopia

Gore’s Environmental Hypocrisy; Castro’s Chernobyl

Robespierre: The Fool as Revolutionary by Otto Scott

Book Review: The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor

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