Measure 37: Oregon Supreme Court Gets One Right

The Oregon Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the constitutionality of Measure 37, the property rights initiative approved by the voters in 2004. It requires government to either compensate landowners for reductions of real property fair market value due to certain...

Introducing The Objective Standard

It is widely believed today that our cultural and political alternatives are limited either to the ideas of the secular, relativistic left–or to those of the religious, absolutist right–or to some compromised mixture of the two. In other words, one’s...

Addiction is a Choice

Most talk of addictions as something over which the individual is helpless. Yet how does this explain that so many end their addictions? People quit smoking all the time. People quit alcohol. They quit nail-biting. They even quit heroin and crack cocaine. These are...

Indoctrination of Our Youth

Let’s start off with a few quotations, then a question. In reference to the president’s State of the Union: “Sounds a lot like the things Adolf Hitler used to say.” “Bush is threatening the whole planet.” “[The] U.S. wants to...

Postponing Reality

Let’s face it: Reality can be stressful and can sometimes get very rough. Everyone has an incentive to postpone it. Most of us, however, learn the hard way that postponing reality only makes it far worse than facing it early on. The problem gets more complicated...