On the hypocrisy behind the student renaming craze.
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Facing the Spectre of a Bond
Think of that: the government can take your property without charging you with a crime and then make you pay a bond just to have your day in court.
Europe Sacrifices Free Speech for Political Correctness
Geert Wilders is on trial not for his actions, but for his opinions.
Taxi Deregulation Is On a Roll
The taxi lobby had called for everyone to be equally regulated. Instead, the commissioners made everyone equally free.
Trump Is Not Responsible for Violence Against Him
You don’t have to like Donald Trump, or his positions, to be uspet about what’s happening to freedom of speech and association in America.
James Madison: Father of the Constitution
Madison, who would become known as the “Father of the Constitution,” argued that in a pure democracy, “there is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.”
Individualism and Capitalism vs. Marxian Gender and Race Conflict: Trigger Words and College Safe Spaces
In our post-Soviet era, the Marxian framework and mind games have been transformed into issues concerning “gender” and “race” as well as “social class.”
Government Subsidies Will Erode The Freedom of The Press
If the government subsidizes or operates newspapers, the important role of independent investigation and criticism of government actions—and the hope for changing the government—is lost.
The Flawed Premise In Conscripting Women Into The Military
You do not preserve a free country by enslaving its citizens to perform life-or-death activities.
Showman-in-Chief: President Obama on Guns and Crime
None of the things proposed by president Obama is likely to reduce gun violence.
An Unappreciated Tax on the Poor: The Cost of High Crime Communities
Compare the operation of a supermarket in a low-crime neighborhood with that of one in a high-crime neighborhood.
Criticizing Islam and Free Speech
Lynch, who is the Attorney General of the United States, is advancing the idea that not merely actions, but thoughts, ideas and feelings can and must be against the law, and are worthy of prosecution.
Smearing Scientists Who Disagree with State Propaganda
Academics who don’t toe the leftist line get attacked and lose their jobs.
Defending The Freedom of Speech and Association Requires Bravery
To truly support free speech, one has to accept that some people will say and publish things he finds deeply offensive. Similarly, to be for freedom of association, one has to accept that some people will associate in ways that he finds deeply offensive, such as associa…
Anti-Gun Laws Benefit Criminals, Terrorists and Politicians, and Leave The Innocent Defenseless
What might have happened if a few of the 1,500 concert attendees in Paris’ Bataclan theater had guns?
How to Defend Freedom of Speech in the Face of Religious Attacks
Charlie Hebdo, the West and the Need to Ridicule Religion.
Donald Trump: Master of Political Pull
“A powerful, politically influential person using his power to steal, essentially, somebody else’s private property for his own private profit,”
Identity Politics and a Women President
I don’t want a woman president or a male president. I want the best one available.
Open Season on the Police
Maybe the parents who are so bitter over the loss of a son in a wholly unnecessary confrontation with a policeman doing his job might ask themselves if they did their job, when they raised a child without teaching him either common sense or common decency.
Guns and Self Defense: The Anti-Freedom “Progressive” Vision
After every tragic shooting, liberals and progressives call for more gun laws. They exploit American ignorance as to why the Framers gave us Second Amendment protections.
Leftists Encourage Censorship in America
If we’re going to sort out which ideas are good and which are bad, everyone must be allowed to speak.
The ‘Gun Control’ Farce: Part II
A disarmed population makes crime a safer occupation and street violence a safer sport.
The ‘Gun Control’ Farce
Gun control zealots are almost always people who are lenient toward criminals, while they are determined to crack down on law-abiding citizens who want to be able to defend themselves and their loved ones.
Suppressing Free Speech To Promote The Environmental Cult’s Agenda
I receive loads of mail in response to my weekly nationally syndicated column. Some recent mail has been quite disturbing. Here’s a sample: “Given your support of freedom on a great many issues, I wish to bring to your attention the following George Mason...
The Massive Ignorance Behind The Guns Cause Crime Agenda
Do you want to live in a world where a violent criminal knows that all the nonviolent, noncriminals out there are disarmed?
Three Campaigns That May Save Your Life — If The Government FDA Permits It
We must no longer allow American citizens to die of government bureaucracy.
What’s Holding Women Back in the Workplace?
Among the many reasons for gross disparities in many fields, and at different income levels, is that human beings differ in what they want to do, quite aside from any differences in what they are capable of doing, or what others permit them to do.
End Drug Prohibition and Abolish the DEA
The DEA is an outrageous violator of rights.
The “War” on Drugs Creates More Problems Than It Solves
Our Drug War creates the carnage that drives poor Latin Americans to abandon their villages and move north.
God’s Will, Secular Government and Gay Marriage
If you don’t like the fact that the government is now issuing marriage licenses to adult humans of the same gender, then don’t work in a government marriage licensing bureau.
Innovation vs. Regulation: Cutting Red Tape
America became the most innovative and prosperous nation in history because many Americans were adventurous, individualistic people willing to take big risks to discover things that might make life better.
The Flawed Premise Behind Discrimination Laws
The flawed premise is that the supposed right of people not to be discriminated against trumps the individual rights of the employer to hire whom the employer sees fit.
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