June 1: Robert Higgs in Reason Magazine on the coming recession
May 8: Carlos Sabino in the Washington Times on Latin America's bad habits
May 5: Ivan Eland quoted in Chicago Tribune on military recruiting
May 3: John Semmens in Statesman Journal (on line), on rail in highway medians

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Civil Liberties Conference to Feature Independent Institute Speakers

The Future of Freedom Foundation’s 2008 conference, Restoring the Republic, will feature several Independent Institute policy experts: Research Analyst Anthony Gregory of the Center on Peace & Liberty, Senior Fellow Robert Higgs, editor of the quarterly journal The Independent Review, and Research Fellow David R. Henderson, author of the Independent Policy Report, Do We Need to Go to War for Oil?

The conference, whose theme this year is Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties, will be held in Reston, Virginia, on June 6-8. For the list of speakers, click here, and to register, click here.

War on Terror has cost $650 billion, over 4,000 lives, and civil liberties

Five years after invading Iraq, the U.S. has no plans to withdraw. Taken as a whole, the War on Terror has cost the U.S. $650 billion, 30,000 wounded Americans, more than 4,000 lives, and invaluable civil liberties. Yet the conflict has uncovered no weapons of mass destruction and has succeeded only in radicalizing and augmenting the terrorist threat.

“The War on Terror is the most potent threat Americans face to their liberties and security,” says Independent Institute Research Fellow Ian S. Lustick in his new policy report, Our Own Strength Against Us. In fact, the first official assessment sponsored by U.S. intelligence agencies and released in 2006, determined that the Iraq War has ultimately exacerbated the problem of terrorism worldwide.

Read the press release.