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Nov 12, 2009
Funding the Next Generation of Slovenian Freedom Fighters
By Alejandro Chafuen
I’m grateful that totalitarians have not been able to perfect their art of coercion and tyranny. They build walls, they strengthen their borders, but some of their victims will always escape to tell the story. Such is the refreshing case of Bojan Ribnikar and [...]
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Aug 18, 2009
Rose Friedman passed away this morning, August 18, 2009. I met many times with Milton Friedman, her husband and co-author of many books, I do not recall ever seeing Milton alone. Rose was always at his side. I can imagine how lonely she must have been during these months without Milton. The book which describes Rose’s [...]
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Jul 09, 2009
When, during my college years, I began studying about the compatibility or incompatibility of Catholic doctrine with the principles of free enterprise and the free economy, most thought I was crazy. They took for granted that the Catholic Church was for socialism. Major studies by Murray Rothbard, Rodney Stark, Berman, Hamilton, Gric-Hutchinson, and others have changed this view. In [...]
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Jan 21, 2009
It would seem impossible that a young, educated, strong free-market champion, like Oscar Ortíz Antelo, would ever win a Senate seat in Bolivia. It happened last year. Last weekend, Bolivians again had to choose a head of the Senate and guess what? To the surprise of the Socialists and President Evo Morales, Oscar Ortíz won again. Oscar is a former think [...]
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