Most regulation is useless. It’s the need to maintain one’s reputation that does most to keep us safe.
LAW
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.
Oprah’s Hate Speech
Emotional charges of racism? What a convenient way to escape defense of your own flawed viewpoints.
ObamaCare Phase Two: Point the Gun at Your Doctor
The New York Post reports that New York doctors are “treating ObamaCare like the plague,” according to a new survey. See? I told you so. A poll conducted by the New York State Medical Society finds that 44 percent of MDs said they are not participating in the nation’s...
Adam Mossoff’s Senate Testimony on Patent Assertion Entities, Demand Letters and Patent Litigation
There certainly are bad actors, deceptive demand letters, and frivolous litigation in the patent system. The important question, though, is whether there is a systemic problem requiring further systemic revisions to the patent system.
Rescuing BlackBerry?
The latter, nationalistic motive of buying BlackBerry or any other company is misguided.
Freedom of Speech vs. Embarrassing The Government
A federal employee decides to write a book on his knowledge of a known government scandal. After signing a book contract with a major publisher, the book deal is subsequently forbidden—by the government. Does this sound like a George Orwell novel? Or an Ayn Rand work...
Are Guns the Problem?
Why — at a time in our history when guns were readily available, when a person could just walk into a store or order a gun through the mail, when there were no FBI background checks, no waiting periods, no licensing requirements — was there not the frequency and kind of gun violence that we sometimes see today, when access to guns is more restricted?
Honesty and Trust
The fact that honesty and trust are so vital should make us rethink just how much tolerance we should have for criminals and dishonest people.
Aaron Alexis: The Homegrown Terrorist
Aaron Alexis was the product of a psychiatric/political establishment committed to making excuses at all costs.
NSA Spying, Economic Intervention, and Legal Positivism
Legal Positivism has slowly eaten away the Constitution and individual rights.
The Myth of the “Patent Troll” Litigation Explosion
Unfortunately, the complaints today about today’s patent litigation crisis arise more from unchecked intuitions about what feels like a bad situation, from unrealistic assumptions about how much certainty we can achieve in the patent system, and from emotionally-compelling anecdotes about innovators running into trouble with patents.
Obama’s Whistleblower Protection of Convenience
“Hope and change” were never about ideals or principles. They were about power.
Chris Christie vs. the Constitution
Christie, like most career politicians, has unlimited faith in unlimited government.
Profiling for Crime: Who Is Too Blame?
A law-abiding black person denied a taxi is rightfully angered, but to whom should his anger be directed, at the driver who’s trying to protect his life or at the people who’ve instilled fear by robbing and assaulting cabbies?
Print the Legend: Thoughts on The Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman Tragedy
Martin was the aggressor in the physical encounter.
Hillary Clinton Insults Herself–and Women Everywhere
Hillary Clinton recently said she hoped the U.S. would elect a woman to the White House because it would send "exactly the right historical signal" to men, women and children. She said women in politics need to "dare to compete" and the nation needs to "take that leap...
Edward Snowden: Traitor by What Definition?
It’s now an undisputed fact, in the minds of our esteemed government officials: Edward Snowden, the man who exposed the U.S. government for spying on private, law-abiding citizens, is a traitor. Exactly how did this label get smuggled in to the whole controversy about...
Edward Snowden vs. Fascism
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man’s only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.” — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old ex-CIA technician who has come forward to self-identify as the source for news reports about massive...
NSA, Obama and The Loss of Trust
Amid all the heated cross-currents of debate about the National Security Agency's massive surveillance program, there is a growing distrust of the Obama administration that makes weighing the costs and benefits of the NSA program itself hard to assess. The belated...
Sex and the Military
The headline on the front page of the New York Times said it all: "Women in the Senate Confront the Military on Sex Assaults." In a triumphalist article showcasing the growing numbers of women on the Senate Armed Services Committee, "one of the Senate's most...
Obama Exploits a Compliant America
"You can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. We're going to have to make some choices as a society." So says Barack Obama, in defense of his administration’s policy of monitoring the phone records of private...
Alan Dershowitz vs. Ben Franklin
The collection of millions of Americans' phone records by the National Security Agency is a necessary compromise on privacy —but should be monitored to keep it from being abused, renowned civil rights attorney Alan Dershowitz says. "Even Benjamin Franklin was wrong...
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