People have to reexamine everything, and soon, if cities like Baltimore are ever to turn around and have a chance.
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All laws must be objective (and objectively justifiable): men must know clearly, and in advance of taking an action, what the law forbids them to do (and why), what constitutes a crime and what penalty they will incur if they commit it. – AYN RAND
What’s The True Test of One’s Commitment to Free Speech and Association?
Permitting discriminatory practices in publicly owned facilities — such as libraries, parks and beaches — should not be permitted. That is because they are publicly financed by taxpayers and everyone should have a right to equal access. Denying freedom of association in private clubs, private businesses and private schools violates a human right.
The False Alternative of Religious Rights vs. Gay Rights
Neither “gays” nor “religions” have rights. Only individuals have rights. And those rights are all the same.
Gentrification vs. Egalitarianism
Who owns the land is something that ought to be decided not by government but by free people making their own decisions about where they wish to live.
Product Quality and Safety: Government Regulation or Free Competition?
In free markets with a strong protection of individual rights by the government, competition weeds out bad products and bad companies.
Regulations Impede Rationality
Regulations force individuals to act contrary to their own judgment. This applies to both irrational and rational decisions.
Books: Inside the Criminal Mind
Criminals are criminals because of the way they think.
Can Obama Dictate An Increase In Taxes Without Congress?
Don’t think that “hard” dictators (of the right-wing or left-wing variety) don’t lie in wait to exploit the next economic or military crisis, now that Obama has set the stage for going way outside the boundaries of the Constitutional separation of powers.
On The “Pay Gap” Between Men and Women
The “gender gap” is not nearly as big as the honesty gap.
The Feminist Male Demonizing Fantasy of “Rape Culture”
If we forget the difference between violent and non-violent conduct, no one is safe. If we pretend everyone is guilty instead of a few real criminals, rapists win.
Gay Marriage, State’s Rights and Social Conservative Evasion
It’s not ‘states’ rights’ they’re in favor of, so much as gay marriage that they’re against.
‘Sensitivity’ Versus Freedom of Speech
Businesses should not self-censor and appease those who bully them. They should uphold the right to free speech and liberty—and pressure governments everywhere to do their job of protecting business and the rest of us against the initiators of physical force.
Chapel Hill and “Hate” Crimes vs. “Regular” Crimes
There should not be politically correct or incorrect crimes in the first place. There should only be crimes.
An Open Letter to Clemson Students
It is our moral obligation as faculty to defend our students’ basic rights to free speech and expression, whether we support those views or not.
Freedom of Speech and Business: What Charlie Hebdo Taught Us (Again)
If businesses want to operate successfully, they must stand up for liberty and freedom of speech, in solidarity to those who have been attacked, for their own self-interest.
Trust Reputation, Beware of Regulation
Trust — society depends on it.
Are Facts Obsolete?
Reasoned thoughts on Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Rodney King.
Reputation Protects Better Than Regulation
Regulators call themselves “consumer protectors,” but often their main role is to ban better options.
Displaced Anger Over Sony’s Shelving Of The Interview
Sony has the power of the dollar. Don’t blame it for not having the power of the gun.
Should Profiling Be Banned?
The true villains, to whom anger should be directed, are the tiny percentage of people in the black community who prey on both blacks and whites and have made black synonymous with crime.
What’s Rule of Law?
If one conducts such a test, he will conclude that it is virtually impossible to find a single act of Congress that adheres to the principles of the rule of law.
Is Law Optional?
If grand juries are supposed to vote on the basis of what mobs want, instead of on the basis of the evidence that they see — and which the mob doesn’t even want to see — then we forfeit the rule of law and our freedom that depends on it.
The Doctor-Laborer Inversion
The battle over minimum wage is raging. Emotions are running hot. Some cities are setting the bar very high. For example, Seattle is mandating a $15/hour wage. Economically, the issue is very simple. Minimum wage laws do not raise anyone’s wage. This is because it’s...
Place Your Bets: Bootleggers and Baptists
Bills to legalize betting go nowhere in Congress. Casinos oppose them because they don’t want competition. They are joined by people who consider gambling immoral.
Does Government Regulation Make Us Safe?
Proper protection of individual rights by government and private licensing and certification programs would make us safer (100% safety for fallible and mortal beings is impossible)—no regulations and government inspectors needed.
Opinions Versus Facts: Michael Brown, Officer Wilson and The Ferguson Riots
Who benefits from the Ferguson riots?
Obama vs The Rule of Law: On The President’s Selective Enforcement of Immigration Laws
If immigration laws are, as I hold, violations of individual rights, it is up to the courts, not the President, to determine that.
Why The Founders Didn’t Give Us a Democracy
As the famous story goes, when Ben Franklin left Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia had a question she wanted answered. “Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied, “A republic, if...
Obama vs. Us
Obama is living up to those pledges by subverting our Constitution and adopting the political style of a banana republic dictator.
FDA Horror Stories: How the FDA Denies Drugs to the Terminally Ill
The FDA has vigorously defended its power to deny drugs to the terminally ill, and it has been successful.
“Social License to Operate” is a Violation of the Right to Liberty and Property
Companies should be free to operate in any way they choose: to develop mining and oil sands operations, to build pipelines or nuclear power plants, to start and operate biotechnology ventures or any others—as long as they do not violate the individual rights of others, including their rights to liberty and property.
Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice
How Federal Persecutors Hide The Truth To Punish The InnocentLicensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice
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