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What is Effective National Government?
What is Effective National Government?
By Richard Spencer, Ph.D.
A major part of the mission that CRI has taken upon itself is dedicated to the measured improvement for individual liberty and personal fulfillment of each Delawarean. That can be largely accomplish...[read more]Read Document Here |
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Delaware Public Housing: Defenseless by Decree
Delaware Public Housing: Defenseless by Decree
After an investigation by the Caesar Rodney Institute revealed the state’s public housing authorities prohibit gun ownership, the National Rifle Association says it will take legal action if the gun bans are not withdrawn.
By L...[read more]Read Document Here |
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Do Not Take Lighlty the Perils of Peace
Do Not Take Lightly the Perils of Peace
Is Peace beyond Humanity’s Reach
By Richard Spencer, Ph.D.
Upon completing college, teaching a year, and waiting to be drafted, I volunteered for active duty with the USAF in 1961. The country soon becam...[read more]Read Document Here |
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Candidates, elected officials pledge to support Second Amendment
A bipartisan group of more than two-dozen lawmakers and challengers told a crowd of ardent Second Amendment supporters they will protect their right to keep and bear arms, at the 2010 Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association (DSSA) election year candidate forum and Second Amendment rally. Read Document Here |
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Why? To Shut the Door on Utopia
To Shut the Door on Utopia
By Richard Spencer, Ph.D.
Not long ago one of President Barack Obama’s senior White House aides professed her admiration for China’s most notorious Communist leader, Mao Tse-Tung. I, for one, do not consider that a small matter for anyone serving in...[read more]Read Document Here |
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Individual Liberty vs. Government Authority
Individual Liberty vs. Government Authority
By Richard Spencer, Ph.D.
While teaching graduate level Economics in Delaware during the 90's, I used The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayekas a required secondary reading. Hayek was the 1974 Nobel Prize winner in Economics and a pro...[read more]Read Document Here |
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The McDonald Case: Adhering to the Constitution
The McDonald Case: Adhering to the Constitution
The high-profile Chicago case should be viewed through the prism of the original intent of the Constitution. The nearly 1,000 state lawmakers, 38 Attorneys General, numerous academics and overwhelming, bipartisan majority of members ...[read more]Read Document Here |
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Lawmakers Sign onto Brief Supporting 2nd Amendment Rights
Attorney General Beau Biden, Rep. Mike Castle, Senators Ted Kaufman and Tom Carper did not sign similar briefs
By Lee Williams
Nearly 1,000 lawmakers from all 50 states – including 21 Delawareans – have signed a “friend of the court” brief supporti...[read more] |
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Bailouts Likely to Result in Malaise
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., eminent scholar emeritus in the Department of Economics at Auburn University and Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn co-authored a paper on the bailouts long term impact.
Among their conclusions is that, "Bailouts also create...[read more] |
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The perfect storm...
The perfect storm of negative influences is heading our way.
As 2008 came to a close, business owners were looking at 2009 with concern, if not outright fear. Today, concerns over the economy take center stage, particularly with manufacturers who have asset-heavy businesses with significant fixed...[read more] |
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A Whither Report
The individuals who gathered in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 to declare the independence of the original thirteen Colonies from England did so at great peril because they were, as a group, among the wealthiest and better educated citizens with the most to lose if their efforts failed.Read Document Here |
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Economic Sophisms
Some think protectionism is a recent phenomenon beginning with the Great Depression, but it has been with mankind since commerce began and always with the same outcome: higher prices for the consumer and the destruction of a portion of an offending country’s production. With this in min...[read more]Read Document Here |
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Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy
By Lawrence W. Reed
The following contains excerpts from a speech given by Larry Reed, an adjunct scholar with the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and president emeritus of the Midland, Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, to the Economic Club of Detroit in 2001.
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The Philosophy of Liberty
Follow the link below to a short (15 minutes) tutorial on the meaning of liberty and the connection between liberty and the concept of "Ownership." To speak of an Owner is to accept that something is to be owned. That something starts with yourself. Do you "own" yourself? Do you ...[read more] |
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