---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: The Independent Institute Date: Monday, November 14, 2011 Subject: The Lighthouse: Mario Vargas Llosa | New Book | Human Organ Trade | Gadhafi | Blogs To: majors.br...@gmail.com
If you prefer, click here to view this message on our website. <http://www.independent.org/images/email/banners25/newsletter.jpg> <http://www.independent.org/images/blank.gif> < http://www.independent.org/images/ii_int_body_leftline_8.gif> <http://www.independent.org/images/ii_int_body_top_ulcorner2.gif> < http://www.independent.org/images/ii_int_body_topm.gif> < http://www.independent.org/images/ii_int_body_top_urcorner.gif> <http://www.independent.org/images/ii_int_body_leftline_400.gif> < http://www.independent.org/images/blank.gif> <http://www.independent.org/images/whatsnew/2011_gala_group_hp.png> Please join with us to celebrate The Independent Institute's 25th Anniversary Dinner: A Gala for Liberty, November 15th, at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco. Honorees Lech Walesa, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Robert Higgs will be presented with the Alexis de Tocqueville Award as champions of individual liberty, entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, civic virtue, and the rule of law. ________________________________ The Lighthouse - Volume 13, Issue 46 - November 15, 2011 In this week's issue: 1) Mario Vargas Llosa and the Search for Liberty 2) New Book Criticizes U.S. Defense Subsidies for Oil 3) Save Lives--Lift the Ban on the Organ Trade 4) Is the World Really Safer without Gadhafi? 5) New Blog Posts ________________________________ 1) Mario Vargas Llosa and the Search for Liberty In an op-ed that ran last week in the Wall Street Journal, Nobel laureate writer and Gala for Liberty honoree Mario Vargas Llosa defended his passion for individual liberty and lamented those critics--on the left and the right--who praise his novels but distance themselves from the pro-freedom ideals they represent. One reason for the disconnect, he argues, can be blamed on those who have championed the market economy without lending adequate support to civil liberties--or worse, have directly or indirectly supported their curtailment. READ MORE Literature and the Search for Liberty, by Mario Vargas Llosa (The Wall Street Journal, 11/8/11) Mario Vargas Llosa: An Intellectual Journey, by Julio H. Cole (The Independent Review, Summer 2011) Event: A Gala for Liberty, Honoring Mario Vargas Llosa, Lech Wałęsa, and Robert Higgs (San Francisco, Calif., 11/15/11) ________________________________ 2) New Book Criticizes U.S. Defense Subsidies for Oil The United States gets only about 10 percent of its oil from the Persian Gulf, but it spends more than $334 billion per year to defend that region. If that cost were incorporated into gasoline prices, Americans would pay $5 more per gallon of gas, according to one estimate. Those eager to learn more about the hidden costs of U.S. defense subsidies for foreign oil will feel as if they've hit a gusher when they read the richly insightful new book, No War for Oil: U.S. Dependency and the Middle East, by Ivan Eland, senior fellow at the Independent Institute and director of the Center on Peace & Liberty. READ MORE No War for Oil: U.S. Dependency and the Middle East, by Ivan Eland Video: Ivan Eland on Obama Breaking War Powers Act (RT, 5/22/11) ________________________________ 3) Save Lives--Lift the Ban on the Organ Trade Lawyers for renegade entrepreneur Levy Izah Rosenbaum argued last month in federal court that their client saved lives with his admitted trafficking of donor organs for medical transplants. They have a valid point. In the United States, as in almost every other country (Iran is an exception), buying and selling organs is illegal despite shortages of transplant organs that kill thousands each year. The deadly shortage is caused by bad laws and could be solved if the ban on the commercial trade of organs were lifted, according to Anthony Gregory, research editor at the Independent Institute. READ MORE Why Legalizing Organ Sales Would Help to Save Lives, End Violence, by Anthony Gregory (The Atlantic, 11/8/11) The Meat Market, by Alex Tabarrok (The Wall Street Journal, 1/8/10) A Free Market in Kidneys: Efficient and Equitable, by William Barnett II, Michael Saliba, and Deborah Walker (The Independent Review, Winter 2001) ________________________________ 4) Is the World Really Safer without Gadhafi? The demise of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi brings a sense of relief to many, but the rebellion and war that brought him down may have made the world a more dangerous place. For starters, it remains to be seen whether the regime that replaces Gadhafi's dictatorial rule will end up supporting or opposing anti-Western militants. Another reason is that Libya's stockpile of shoulder-launched missiles--an estimated 20,000 of them--has reportedly gone missing. There is precedent to justify concern. Since 1973, at least 920 civilian airline passengers worldwide have been killed by thirty or more attacks that employed this kind of weapon, according to Charles V. Peña, senior fellow at the Independent Institute's Center on Peace & Liberty. Thus the disappearance of Libya's storehouse of the missiles--known as Man Portable Air Defense Systems or MANPADS--may have deadly consequences for the safety of air travel. READ MORE Gadhafi's Exit May Increase Threat, by Charles V. Peña (The Sacramento Bee, 11/8/11) Video: Charles V. Peña Responds to Obama's Comments on Libya (Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano, 3/28/11) ________________________________ 5) New Blog Posts >From The Beacon: Why I Voted 'No' to a Strike Jonathan Bean (11/13/11) More "Green" Energy Cronyism and Corporate Welfare David Theroux (11/12/11) Biodefense Cronyism and Corporate Welfare David Theroux (11/12/11) Armistice Day Anthony Gregory (11/11/11) >From MyGovCost News & Blog: Happy Holidays from Washington Stephanie Freedman (11/11/11) Italy Getting the Boot Craig Eyermann (11/9/11) Generation Jobless Stephanie Freedman (11/7/11) The Independent Institute's Spanish-language blog has surpassed 3 million page views! You can find it here. ________________________________ The Lighthouse, edited by Carl P. Close, is made possible by the generous contributions of supporters of the Independent Institute. If you enjoy The Lighthouse, please consider making a donation to the Independent Institute. 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