Nov 9, 2014: Sheldon Richman: Reason: The Political Sterility of Jon Stewart
|
|
Jan 5, 2014:. Sheldon Richman (The Future of Freedom) has an insightful perspective one the contraception mandate of obamacare and the stupid that exists on the New York Times editorial board: "In the wacky world of American politics, if you as an employer have a religious objection to paying for your employees’ contraceptives, it is you who is contemptuous of religious freedom. As the New York Times editorial board lectured a judge who thinks otherwise, “the threat to religious liberty comes from employers trying to impose their religious views on workers.” You read that correctly. Refusing to pay for other people’s birth-control products — more specifically, opposing a government mandate to pay — is equivalent to imposing your religious views." He says it far more than just a religious rights issue: "......proponents of the mandate warn that if religious employers can opt out of paying for contraception, what’s to keep any employer from claiming a conscientious objection to all Obamacare (or other) mandates? Nothing, I hope. We should welcome it. Religious people who oppose contraception are not the only people with rights against the government. No one should be subjected to government mandates. The only thing any of us can be legitimately required to do is abstain from initiating force and fraud against others. Enforceable decrees that go beyond that simple prohibition violate our rights and have no place in a civil society." Nuff said.
|
Oct 16, 2013: Cato Institute: Edward H. Crane gives a speech on economics at The Future of Freedom Foundation
Aug 17, 2012: Examiner: ‘Scott Horton Show’ partners with Future of Freedom Foundation
Yesterday, August 16th, radio host Scott Horton announced a new partnership with the Future of Freedom Foundation.
Yesterday, August 16th, radio host Scott Horton announced a new partnership with the Future of Freedom Foundation.
Sheldon Richman is an American writer. He is vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation and editor of FFF's monthly journal, Future of Freedom and was formerly the editor of The Freeman.
Richman has written on foreign policy, population issues, federal disaster assistance, international trade, education, the environment, American history, privacy, computers, and the Middle East. These articles have appeared in, among others, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, American Scholar, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Washington Times, Christian Science Monitor, CounterPunch, Independent Review, Insight, Cato Policy Report, Journal of Economic Development, The World & I, Reason, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East Policy, and Liberty. He is a contributor to the Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics.
