Nationalization, stripped of all rationalization, is naked theft.
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Good Ideas vs The Constitution of the United States of America
Good Ideas During winter months, I work out 10 minutes on the treadmill and lift weights at seven stations four mornings a week. Over the years, during the spring through fall months, I racked up about 2,000 miles on my road bike. This level of exercise helps account...
“Fairness Doctrine” Equals Censorship
A growing number of “elites,” including Bill Clinton, are calling for a return of the “fairness doctrine” to talk radio, a sure indication that Congress and the new President will soon be taking on this issue. Supporters of the “fairness...
The Indecency of Government-Sanctioned “Decency”
So let me get this straight. When government regulates what can and cannot be said on the Internet, it’s NOT a restriction on freedom of speech — so long as the government claims it’s striving to act in “the public interest.”
Stimulus Package? The Hell with Our Constitution
Dr. Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Oakland-based Independent Institute, penned an article in The Christian Science Monitor (2/9/2009) that suggests the most intelligent recommendation that I’ve read to fix our current economic mess. The title of his article...
Big Government, Not Big Media, Threatens Free Speech
The critics of media consolidation are frauds. They are not defenders of free speech–they are dangerous enemies of that freedom.
PRO-IP, Rights, and the Roots of Copyright Opposition
President Bush recently signed into law the “PRO-IP” bill, an act for “Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property.” The purpose of the bill is to enhance remedies for violations of intellectual property laws. The law...
The Supreme Court’s Function is Not To Uphold Social Opinions But To Protect Individual Rights
America desperately needs a new generation of judges who understand that their function is not to uphold social opinions but to protect our rights.
Fleeting Freedom: The Indecent Assault on Broadcasters
The question is not whether fleeting expletives are indecent, an issue that individuals have a First Amendment right to decide for themselves. It’s whether the Constitution grants government the power to trample on freedom of speech, using non-objective laws to dictate …
Was the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis Caused by Lack of Regulations?
Did lack of regulation create the subprime mortgage crisis? I am asked this all the time. The short answer: Of course not. Nowhere close. Not a chance. Here is the long answer. What regulations have we had? The mortgage originator (your local bank or mortgage broker)...
Amendment 48 Smoke Screen
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...
A Proper Public Policy for Dealing with Hurricanes and Other Natural Diasters
The Katrina tragedy and the more recent experience of Hurricane Ike should call into question the so-called safety net composed of government policies that actually encourage people to embrace risks they would otherwise shun–to build in defiance of historically obvious…
Amendment 48 Is Anti-Life: Morality and Abortion (Part 6 of 6)
If you believe that “human life has value,” the only moral choice is to vote against Amendment 48.
Amendment 48 Is Anti-Life: Personhood and the Right to Abortion (Part 5 of 6)
Amendment 48, if fully implemented, would outlaw all or nearly all abortions involving concerns of health, and definitely all abortions for rape, incest, and other reasons.
Amendment 48 Is Anti-Life: Amendment 48 and Abortion (Part 4 of 6)
Amendment 48 would ban all abortion, except perhaps in cases of extreme risk to the mother’s life. As a result, the measure would cause permanent injury or death to some at-risk women. It would also force a woman to bring any pregnancy to term, regardless of her judgm…
Amendment 48 Is Anti-Life: Fertility Treatment and Medical Research (Part 3 of 6)
Amendment 48 would require dramatic changes to the treatment of fertilized eggs in laboratory settings, including fertility clinics and research facilities. Such changes further illustrate the harm Amendment 48 would inflict on real people as well as the absurdities tha…
Amendment 48 Is Anti-Life: Amendment 48 and Birth Control (Part 2 of 6)
The most obvious and severe effect of Amendment 48 would be a total or near-total ban on abortion.
Amendment 48 Is Anti-Life: Why It Matters That a Fertilized Egg Is Not a Person (Part 1 of 6)
Amendment 48 seeks to define a fertilized egg as a person with full legal rights in Colorado’s constitution.
Let’s Stop Making Disasters More Disastrous
No longer will government make disasters more disastrous by pretending that citizens have a right to defy the forces of nature at others’ expense.
Net Neutrality, the FCC and Comcast
Would the Seattle Times acquiesce to a “printing press-neutrality” law that dictated how it should run its presses?
Oklahoma Rebellion
Both parties and all branches of the federal government have made a mockery of the checks and balances, separation of powers and the republican form of government envisioned by the founders.
The Supreme Court Versus The Constitution
Recent landmark court decisions are reminders that elections are not just about putting candidates in office for a few years. The judges that elected officials put on the bench can remake the legal landscape, change fundamental social policies and even affect the way...
True Deregulation for The Cable Industry
In an article on Ars Technica, a lobbyist for the cable industry is quoted as saying that deregulation allows vendors to innovate faster and is a pro-consumer move. The article’s author, however, cries that past evidence shows that deregulation has always...
Control Criminals Not Guns
Every time there’s a highly publicized shooting, out go the cries for stricter gun control laws, and it was no different with the recent murder of Philadelphia Police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, in...
Lobbying, Free Speech and The First Amendment
Charles Krauthammer makes a trenchant argument in defense of a perennial whipping boy: Everyone knows the First Amendment protects freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly. How many remember that, in addition, the First Amendment protects a fifth freedom...
Islamic States and Thought Crimes: The Thug’s Ideal
What deeper attack on civilization, freedom, the mind, and human life could be possible than to propose the establishment of thought crimes in an American university?
Defining the Right of Self-Defense by Gun
Self-defense was his right, as it is ours. A proper legal system recognizes and protects that right, by permitting private ownership of handguns under appropriate limits.
Alternatives to Incarceration and The Costs of Crime
For more than two centuries, the political left has been preoccupied with the fate of criminals, often while ignoring or downplaying the fate of the victims of those criminals. So it is hardly surprising that a recent New York Times editorial has returned to a...
Jesus in the Constitution?
A liberal friend phoned last week with his analysis of how the presidential race was shaping up. The news that morning was that both John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani had dropped out. “Same old,” he said, referring to the likelihood that our choice in...
Hiding Black Interracial Crimes
If you’re like I am, you’ve heard scores of media reports about the 2006 Duke University rape case, in which three white lacrosse players were falsely accused of raping a black stripper at a wild party at the home of one of the team members. These guys,...
Free Speech or Censorship: Their Is No Middle Ground
Americans face a choice: free speech or censorship. There is no middle ground.
A World Where Abortion is Murder
In the United States, just as in the Middle East, there are large numbers of people who believe that the cloak of religion and their claim to be inspired by the will of God entitles them to practice lunacy, in total disregard of the suffering and harm they cause to othe…
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