[Economic Freedom and Interventionism (1980)] Animals are driven by instinctive urges. They yield to the impulse that prevails at the moment and peremptorily asks for satisfaction. They are the puppets of their appetites. Man’s eminence is to be seen in the fact that he chooses between alternatives. He regulates his behavior deliberatively. He can master
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After listening to dozens of stories of people ignored, denied, shortchanged and defrauded, as more than one person alleged, the chairman of the House Insurance Committee wondered aloud if it wasn’t better just to shut down the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association.Five hours of testimony, much of it provided by people bused in from all over
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When I am asked to speak at events for liberty and economic freedom, I break the ice (for myself mostly) with a phrase: “Some of you know me and some of you know of me.” As my Mother holds her breathe while she reads The Texan and my Facebook page, she is the one voice
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