The Center for International Policy has a very curious speaker in Wayne Smith, Chief of Mission at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Cuba appointed by Jimmy Carter. He proudly describes himself as a close friend of Fidel Castro. Less than two months into his presidency, on March 15, 1977, Carter called for normalization of […]
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Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton was correct when she said in Albany, New York, “I hope no one is ever in doubt again about whether their vote counts.” Indeed, citizens should make their votes count, but they also have a responsibility to become informed and vigilant in exercising that civic duty. She is quite wrong, though,
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As dramatic events unfold in Florida (i.e., tainted by mismarked ballots in Palm Beach County, miscounted votes, bureaucratic snafus, etc.) the Democrats are exploiting these “irregularities” to the core. Never mind that voter fraud by the Democrats has been widespread in South Florida for years, and Janet Reno has known about it. Vice President Al
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This would have been one among the books Maximilien Robespierre would have chosen as an acceptable biography of himself, according him his rightful place in history. It is disturbing that so many readers of this book expressing their views in Amazon.com praise this idealized biography, once again reinterpreting the career of the authoritarian despot, who
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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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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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