by Ari Armstrong | 5 May 2010
Throughout the debate over South Park, various commentators have been extremely sloppy in their use of the term “censorship.” That’s a real problem, because censorship is a horrible evil, but it’s hard to fight if people don’t even know...
by Ari Armstrong | 5 May 2010
James Taranto just doesn’t get it with respect to “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day,” which I have endorsed and promoted. Here are the essential lines of Taranto’s April 26 column entitled, “Everybody Burn the Flag: If we don’t act like...
by Ari Armstrong | 4 May 2010
Americans do not cower over death threats made against those practicing their First Amendment rights. Americans do do stand idly by while terrorist thugs treat our Bill of Rights like toilet paper. As an American, I may hate what you say, and I may loudly condemn you...
by Ari Armstrong | 13 Sep 2009
The Harm of Conflating Price Distribution with Rationing Whether price distribution counts as a type of rationing is not merely some semantic dispute. Conflating price distribution with political rationing obliterates the crucial distinctions between the two. A system...
by Ari Armstrong | 12 Sep 2009
That the political health “reform” endorsed by Barack Obama and his supporters would entail rationing is indisputable. It is simply impossible to expand subsidized care and contain costs without rationing. For more on this point, see my article in the...
by Ari Armstrong | 6 Jul 2009
While I usually write about regional issues here, today’s national issues are so crucially important that I’ll devote substantial space to the views of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, nominated for the Supreme Court. Empathy First recall what President Obama...
by Ari Armstrong | 15 Oct 2008
Colorado is known for its Western values of independence and economic liberty. So why do Republicans, the supposed champions of those values, keep getting trounced? Republicans can blame wealthy Democratic donors, but in large part Republicans have beaten themselves...
by Ari Armstrong | 29 Sep 2008
Kristi Burton tries to hide Amendment 48 behind a cloud of smoke in her September 19 Post opinion article. The measure would define a fertilized egg as a person in Colorado’s constitution. Burton’s claim that Amendment 48 “doesn’t change the...