“If the courts send Elian back to Cuba, it will be a slap in the face to every American living or dead — a repudiation of the very principles upon which this country was founded,” she said.
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A Firsthand Account Of Child Abuse, Castro Style
I was in solitary confinement in Fidel Castro’s tropical gulag — where I spent 22 years for refusing to pledge allegiance to the Communist regime — when I heard a child’s voice whimpering. “Get me out of here! Get me out of here! I want to see my mommy!”
Elian Gonzalez Has a Right Not to Live in Slavery
Parental rights end where totalitarianism begins.
The Slavery Known as Communism
Elian’s mother knew firsthand that life under slavery is no life at all, which is why she fled Cuba to go to the land of the free.
Whitewashing Castro’s Crimes
One day Castro’s brutality will end. But that end will not be hastened by the Western press, which cannot seem to shed its esteem for Fidelismo
Ayn Rand Heir Asserts Elian’s Right to Remain in U.S.
“The liberals want Elián returned to Cuba, because they regard the difference between the United States and Cuba as ‘merely a difference of political opinion,’ merely a matter of ‘how you define freedom.’ In other words, as statists themselves, they see nothing objectively wrong with Cuba.
Russia’s Chance for a Free Market Future
Winston Churchill once described Russia as a mystery wrapped in an enigma. The election of Vladimir Putin as Russia’s new president for the next five years has in no way diminished this imagery. Groomed in the ranks of the KGB, the Soviet secret police, Putin has...
Don’t Destroy America’s Best: Will America Repeat the Errors of Ancient Greece
In Judge Jackson's "findings of fact" in which he declared Microsoft to be a dangerous monopoly, one fact was undisputed: the defendant is extraordinarily successful. This success is often described in terms of "market share," which is a measurement of millions of...
Is the U.S. Embargo of Cuba the Cause of Cuba’s Economic Woes?
It is Cuba’s totalitarian economy (socialism) that is the cause of her economic woes.
A Sin to Deport Elian Gonzalez
It would be a sin to deport Elián Gonzalez. To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy. To send him there in order to preserve his father's rights is absurdity, since there are no parental or other...
Elian Gonzalez, Communist Cuba, and “Father’s Rights”: An Interview with Psychologist Edwin Locke
Prodos for Capitalism Magazine: You have been very busy lately talking about Elián Gonzalez and the argument of whether to keep him in America or to return him to Cuba. You've been talking to a lot of the media on this issue. I'm pleased to see that the issue is taken...
Who should have legal custody of Elian Gonzalez?
Elián’s mother died trying to escape Cuba with her son.
Keep Elian Free
The debate over Elián Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban boy whose mother died trying to bring him to America, hinges on one essential question: Is freedom a necessity of human life? For our own sakes, we must answer this question with a resounding "Yes"--and keep Elián...
The Rights of Elian Gonzalez
Is communism physically harmful to human life?
The Life of Six Year Old Elian Gonzalez Is In President Clinton’s Hands
Elián Gonzales, a 6-year-old Cuban boy, found Thanksgiving Day clinging to an inner tube off the coast of Florida, is about to be deported back to Communist Cuba on January 14, 2000, if the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has its way. It was...
The IMF in Brazil = Inflation + Recession
Mundell’s economic policy recommendations have been summarized as: “low taxes solve recession, hard money solves inflation”.
Here Comes Mickey Mao: Hong Kong’s new Mickey Mouse economics
Hong Kong's new government appears to be losing its inhibitions about contradicting market prices, favoring some industries over others, and using taxpayers' money to dispense windfall profits to those in favor. The deal recently signed with Disney to build a theme...
England, The Euro, and Socialist Europe
For years the socialists have been claiming that England should join the single European currency (the Euro) and should follow a central economic policy as voted by all 15 nations. England, we are told, faces dire economic woes if it fails to join the economic "party"...
Clinton-China vs. Taiwan-America: Independence Day’s Meaning Long Forgotten
On July 4, the US celebrated its 223rd birthday with hot dogs, cotton candy, ice-cream and fireworks. There was much self-congratulation but few tributes to the day's real meaning. July 4, 1776 was the day the Continental Congress approved and signed the Declaration...
The “Bubble” Theory is Full of Hot Air: A Case Study in Japan
What the market at large did not foresee [which] perhaps could be called a ‘widespread error in thinking’, was that Japanese politicians would [take] political issue [with] the quickly increasing prosperity.
The IMF in Brazil: The Emperor Has No Clothes!
I'm not sure what's more infuriating: witnessing Brazil's drawn out slow-motion crash and burn after an endless string of stupid policies over the past year; the sudden breakdown in devaluative stupidity; or enduring the lame economic analysis that ensued in the days...
United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Destroys Individual Rights
The UN doesn’t openly attack individual rights; that would be rejected outright by freer countries. It destroys rights by internal corruption — by perverting the meaning of rights into its exact opposite.
Global Crisis and the Survival of Capitalism
A growing number of countries–among them, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, and Russia–are in a state of financial turmoil. They are all suffering from the effects of currency devaluation, widespread bankruptcies and insolvencies, actual or impending bank failures, collapsing stock markets, and mounting unemployment.
Appeasing Dictatorship: From Munich to Hong Kong
With little regard for this recent history, Britain is appeasing dictatorship once again. On July 1, 1997, Britain will officially give back political authority over Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.
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