If government will just relax its regulatory chokehold, private citizens will find safe ways to deliver food, rescue lost cats and fill the skies with happy new possibilities.
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Republican Attempts To Impeach Obama are Irresponsible
Republicans’ launching of foredoomed symbolic actions like lawsuits and impeachment are an irresponsible self-indulgence.
Book Review: “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State” by Glenn Greenwald
Despite its shortcomings, Glenn Greenwald has written an important book about today’s emergent totalitarianism in America.
Who Owns You? On the Right To Try Experimental Drugs
On the FDA banning drugs that can help people.
America’s Budding Tyrants
Western values of liberty are under ruthless attack by the academic elite on college campuses across America.
Offensive Speech
It’s fine if the NBA — or any private group — wants to censor speech on its own property. But it’s important that government not have the power to silence us.
Interview: Brandeis Prof. Thomas Doherty in Defense of Infidel Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali
After being abused by Moslems in Somalia, Ayaan Hirsi Ali moved to the Netherlands. She became an outspoken critic of Islam and wrote a screenplay for Submission, a 2004 movie that specifically critiques Moslem treatment of women.
The Constitution or Good Ideas?
Should we be ruled by what are seen as good ideas or by what’s permissible by the U.S. Constitution?
American Dreaming
Government mostly hinders us, and then brags that it is waiting to take charge when we fail.
Privacy, Please
You can decide whether to use Facebook or let private sites install cookies to track your info. Johansson didn’t give that hacker permission to steal her photos. And I didn’t give the NSA — not to mention the IRS, FBI, etc. — permission to access my information.
Feminism Submits to Islam
Where are the feminists outraged by the Brandeis decision?
Statistical Frauds: War on Women
The “war on women” political slogan is in fact a war against common sense.
Minimum Wage Laws are Immoral
The government has no business in dictating voluntary trade between employers and employees. The minimum wage laws are immoral and should be abolished, leaving businesses and workers free to prosper.
Sex and Race Equality
Should we insist upon equal treatment of people by race and sex or tolerate differences in treatment?
War on Women
It’s fine if dance and art groups are mostly women, but if athletic teams are too male, lawsuits follow.
Governed by Rules, Not Men
Who’s in office is making a difference, because government has abandoned its referee and night watchman function and gotten into the business of determining winners and losers.
Freedom Is Not Free
As long as millions of Americans vote on the basis of who gives them free stuff, look for their freedom — and all our freedom — to be eroded away, bit by bit.
FCC “Study” vs. the First Amendment
ending federal bureaucrats to meddle in newsroom affairs by conducting an alleged “study” will chill news coverage and make government-licensed broadcast media think twice about airing stories that place the Obama administration in a bad light.
The Kansas Anti-Gay Law and The Freedom of Association
What we need is a law — or a Constitutional amendment, if need-be — ensuring freedom of association. In other words, all individual citizens should be guaranteed the right to associate, or not associate, with whom they choose.
Obamacare for News Reporting: Will Government Censors Be Placed in America’s Newsrooms?
Individual liberty, freedom and private property — including the most precious right of free speech – are not frozen in place forever. Government will always test its limits and watch how we respond.
Shackling Minds and Speech: IRS Reg-134417-13
The IRS Reg-134417-13 ruling is an unconscionable attack on our right to discuss, agree or disagree about political matters.
Reputation Versus Regulation: Why Is The Government Concerned With Whom You Eat With?
Most regulation is useless. It’s the need to maintain one’s reputation that does most to keep us safe.
No “Patent Troll” Litigation Problem
With the future of innovation at stake, it is not crazy to ask that before we make radical, systemic changes to the patent system that we have validly established empirical evidence that such revisions are in fact necessary or at least would do more good than harm.
Abolish the TSA
The TSA is a failure.
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