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In The Noblest Triumph, Tom Bethell looks at the history of property rights and shows that the key role played by the institution of private property has been misunderstood by Western elites for over a century. Beginning with the ancient Greeks and arriving at the present day, Bethell looks at basic ideas about property found in Plato, Adam Smith, Blackstone, Bentham, Marx, Mill and others. He shows that the institution of property is inextricably...

Opportunity knocks for an Iranian immigrant in California when the county offers for sale a seized house at a bargain price. It will serve as a launching pad for his real-estate business. When the county discovers it made an error, the drug-addicted woman who owned the house demands its return, but the Iranian refuses. Unfortunately for him, the woman's lover is a policeman who takes the law into his hands.

Intended to allow one-stop shopping for researchers by providing an overview, primary and secondary information, and charts and graphs on the issue of gun control.

From the Publisher: Nothing conjures up images of the American frontier and a pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps view of freedom and independence quite like guns. Gun Crusaders is a fascinating inside look at how the four-million member National Rifle Association and its committed members come to see each and every gun control threat as a step down the path towards gun confiscation, and eventually socialism. Enlivened by a rich analysis of NRA materials,...

A collection of reprints of previously published articles. Examines all aspects of the gun control issue.

Beginning with a seminal article that reaches deep into the roots of the problem, -30- considers the impact of technology, management policy, and social values on the operations of the press and its changing marketplace. Yes, the rapid development of the Internet leeched away crucial advertising revenue and store the newspaper's job of presenting the news to an audience no longer satisfied with the nineteenth-century comforts and pleasures of words...

Airing ten weeks after the Sandy Hook massacre, this program examines the power of the National Rifle Association to block gun control legislation and examines the gun culture in rural America that gives it a constituency and the rhetoric the NRA uses. It shows how the NRA enforces loyalty to its agenda by defeating politicians who go against it.