Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra spoke to two Texas television stations Wednesday night regarding his investigation of injustice within the prison systems which led to the indictment by a Texas grand jury of Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, along with other officials....Link
Austrian School economists advocate the strict enforcement of voluntary contractual agreements between economic agents, the smallest possible imposition of coercive (especially government-imposed) commercial transactions and the maximum openness to individual choice (including free choice as to the voluntary means of exchange). The role of the state should be confined to the provision of public goods and the regulation of common goods, and little else.link
abcnews.go.com — The credit bailout will be the most expensive single expenditure in American history, potentially costing around $7.5 trillion -- or HALF THE VALUE EVERYTHING PRODUCED BY THE UNITED STATES LAST YEAR. In comparison, the total U.S. cost of World War II adjusted for inflation was $3.6 trillion...link
PRAGUE — In the 1980s, a Communist secret police agent infiltrated clandestine economics seminars hosted by Vaclav Klaus, a fiery future leader of the Czech Republic, who had come under suspicion for extolling free market virtues. Rather than reporting on Marxist heresy, the agent was most struck by Mr. Klaus’s now famous arrogance........link