http://www.independent.org/ The Lighthouse: The Newsletter of The Independent Institute http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss FeedForAll Mac v2.1 (2.1.0.1) unlicensed version; http://www.FeedForAll.com/ Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:07:23 -0800 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:07:10 -0800 http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=313#1455 http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=313#1455 By the end of 2009, the U.S. Treasury Department will have hit its debt ceiling--again. Adam Smith warned more than two centuries ago that national debts, once they reach above a cer... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:20:02 GMT http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=313#1456 http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=313#1456 In the inaugural issue of his magazine, National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. wrote: "It is the job of centralized government (in peacetime) to protect its citizens... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:20:02 GMT http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=313#1457 http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=313#1457 The United States has won a few successful counterinsurgency wars in its history, but a victorious anti-guerilla campaign is the exception rather than the rule. When such a campaign succe... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:20:02 GMT http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=313#1458 http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=313#1458 Florida homeowners are in a bind. They would like affordable insurance protection against hurricane damage, but at least one major carrier, State Farm Insurance, is ending its underwritin... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:20:02 GMT http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=313#1459 http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=313#1459 Visit the Independent Institute's Spanish-language blog, a href="http://independent.typepad.com/"El Independent. Below are the past week's offerings from our English-lan... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:20:02 GMT http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=312#1450 http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=312#1450 The fall of the Berlin Wall, twenty years ago today, was not inevitable. Nor was the collapse of the Soviet Union. The failure of central economic planning does not explain those remarkab... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:20:02 GMT http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=312#1451 http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=312#1451 Bridges and health care--could two things be any more different? Yet when both are guided by political decision-making without meaningful accountability, their similarities become all... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:20:02 GMT http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=312#1452 http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=312#1452 President Obama is reportedly weighing two alternative strategies for the war in Afghanistan: sending another 40,000 soldiers (Gen. McChrystal's recommendation) or keeping troop lev... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:20:02 GMT http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=312#1453 http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=312#1453 More than 10 million soldiers died in World War I. Civilian deaths are harder to determine, but many millions died of mass murder, forced migration, execution in reprisal or for spying, a... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:20:02 GMT http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=312#1454 http://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=312#1454 Visit the Independent Institute's Spanish-language blog, a href="http://independent.typepad.com/"El Independent. Below are the past week's offerings from our English-lang... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:20:02 GMT