This week in Enter Stage Right

Nanny state says no smoking allowed: Even non-smoker W. James Antle III has had enough of the anti-smoking jihads that public officials have launched in the interests of a healthier society. The problem? The price is your liberty

The stories behind the bomb: Although it's the atom bomb that fascinates most people, Steve Martinovich says Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller proves the people who designed it were just as interesting

Pardon me, but I don't give a damn!: Alan Caruba doesn't care what the United Nations has to say about a potential war in Iraq. It is irrelevant and nothing but a very bad joke

In the case of the diluting druggist, no good deed goes unpunished: In 2001 an Eli Lilly salesman came to the conclusion that a druggist was cheating his customers and he went to the police. What's the company's reward for saving lives? Horace Cooper says figure it out for yourself: there are lawyers involved

Jersey heat would favor Lautenberg: Regardless of what happens in the courts, Brad Keena says that Frank Lautenberg will be the next Senator from New Jersey

Might as well face it, you're addicted to power: The Robert Torricelli drama in New Jersey provided yet more evidence for Bruce Walker's contention that Democrats are only interested in one thing: power

Courting disaster, as the kingdom declines: James Hall says the Britain that we all know is a tourist's perspective. The real Britain is in sad decline

Property rights take a hit: The "Sawgrass Rebellion" may have fell apart before it even began, writes Tom DeWeese, but that doesn't mean that the fight has been lost

When it comes to safeguarding chemical facilities, the EPA is no Defense Department: New Jersey Sen. Jon Corzine wants the EPA to be in charge of security at America's chemical facilities, something Amy Ridenour says is inviting disaster given recent history

Talking trash at the Barbershop: Kimberley Lindsay Wilson was raised to revere men like Martin Luther King Jr. but that doesn't mean that she didn't find Barbershop to be a funny and warm look at a black institution

What your children will face in college: When you send your kids to college, writes Isabel Lyman, you had better prepare them for people like Dr. Noel Ignatiev

Okay, maybe it will be an 8.5 per cent GST: Walter Robinson says Canadians can expect a massive tax hike whether or not their political leaders will admit it

'Restorative justice' offers battered women more options: There is a lot of new thinking going on when it comes to the subject of domestic abuse. Wendy McElroy says one concept, restorative justice, deserves to be given more consideration

Can abolishing sole custody curb divorce?: Glenn Sacks and Dianna Thompson think that abolishing sole custody might eliminate one of the weapons used against men and promote a family working things out instead of opting for divorce

The conniving Gray Davis: Roger F. Gay is accusing California Gov. Gray Davis of putting money ahead of basic human rights when he vetoed a bill recently

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Farmers for economic freedom
Updates about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada

My conversation with Ed Feulner: Talk show icon Rush Limbaugh interviews Heritage Foundation president Ed Feulner

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