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...gambling is truly immoral, the government should not be participating in it. The government should not even be sanctioning it, for if revenue is sufficient justification for immoral activities, why not open, say, state-run brothels...
...went into exile in Switzerland but in the late 1940s served as a top adviser to Ludwig Erhard, architect of Germany's "economic miracle." Ropke warned of "the tendency for the increasingly centralized state of our times to surround like a parasitical vine both society and economy." In books such as A Humane Economy, he advocated a "Third Way"--neither freewheeling capitalism nor a state-run economy. He stressed "those mysterious powers of the human soul and of human society which cannot be expressed in mathematical equations." It is this aspect of Ropke's philosophy that inspires Buchanan's "conservatism...
Chinese officials have formally charged Wei Jingsheng, the country's most prominent dissident, with attempting to overthrow the government, according to a report from the state-run Xinhua news agency. Wei, who served 15 years in prison for his involvement in the 1978 "democracy wall" movement, disappeared under police custody 20 months ago after continuing to speak out against the government. "It is not immediately clear whether Wei's trial is already underway," reports Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz, "but sources here think that the Xinhua report signals that the stage is set. By formally indicting Wei, Beijing must...
Although Syrian President Hafez Assad has condemned the assassination, his official state-run paper expressed no sorrow at the event. Syria and its client Lebanon are the only neighboring countries that have not signed a peace agreement with Israel, and little progress has been made in Syrian-Israeli peace talks since they began in 1991. "Syria's stand toward the peace process is fixed and it is still sincere to the issue of just and comprehensive peace in the region," the Tishrin daily said. "Syria will persist with this path regardless of this or that incident." In Lebanon, many cheered...
...illegitimate births. There are more powerful forces at work than a $300 monthly check. Columnist George Will warns fellow conservatives against saying "nothing could be worse" than the current system. They are underestimating the potential damage to children, he argues. He recalls similar rhetoric about another broken system: state-run mental hospitals. Patients were discharged into community-based programs for their own good. Turns out, something was worse: homelessness...