While it is too late to prevent the damage in Fort McMurray now, the solution to minimizing losses from fires in the future is to sell the government forests and let private owners manage them for long-term profitability—by protecting their own property and respecting the property rights of others (through good property management to reduce the fire hazard).
What’s fascinating, in a psychologically dark way, is the rationalized justification Nye provides for chilling and outlawing dissenting opinion.
On the hypocrisy behind the student renaming craze.
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.
Geert Wilders is on trial not for his actions, but for his opinions.
The taxi lobby had called for everyone to be equally regulated. Instead, the commissioners made everyone equally free.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
You do not preserve a free country by enslaving its citizens to perform life-or-death activities.
None of the things proposed by president Obama is likely to reduce gun violence.
Compare the operation of a supermarket in a low-crime neighborhood with that of one in a high-crime neighborhood.
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.
Academics who don’t toe the leftist line get attacked and lose their jobs.
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 associating or not associating on the basis of race, sex or religion.
What might have happened if a few of the 1,500 concert attendees in Paris’ Bataclan theater had guns?
Charlie Hebdo, the West and the Need to Ridicule Religion.
“A powerful, politically influential person using his power to steal, essentially, somebody else’s private property for his own private profit,”
I don’t want a woman president or a male president. I want the best one available.
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.
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.
If we’re going to sort out which ideas are good and which are bad, everyone must be allowed to speak.
A disarmed population makes crime a safer occupation and street violence a safer sport.
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.
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...
Do you want to live in a world where a violent criminal knows that all the nonviolent, noncriminals out there are disarmed?
We must no longer allow American citizens to die of government bureaucracy.
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.
The DEA is an outrageous violator of rights.
Our Drug War creates the carnage that drives poor Latin Americans to abandon their villages and move north.
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.
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