Every time there’s a school shooting, there are demands for greater gun control measures that range from longer waiting periods and mandated gun locks to stricter licensing and restricted sales. With all the political posturing and demagoguery that follows, a...
You don’t end bribery and corruption by banning contributions to campaigns. Instead, you simply step up prosecution against bribery and corruption.
Despite media proclamations of “the public’s right to know” and frequent invocations of the First Amendment, there has been a deafening silence from the national media over the storm trooper tactics used on college campuses against student newspapers...
The last vestige of civilized Britain has fallen away — the unarmed British “Bobbie.” For 170 years, British police functioned without guns. Since their founding by Sir Robert Peel in 1829, Bobbies walked their beats armed only with their...
To the majority, the pragmatic goal of “avoiding the appearance of corruption” is more important than the First Amendment. One wonders if the limit of this line of non-thinking is that only individuals speaking on soap boxes ultimately have protected speech.
President Bush’s stance on abortion is and will remain a concern to the advocates of individual rights. He holds a convoluted position that straddles the intellectual fence between the pro- and anti-abortion groups. He believes abortion is wrong–except...
Here’s the thing about the Bill of Rights: It isn’t an a la carte menu. You can’t just pick and choose. But that’s exactly what public officials in my neighborhood want to do in their brazenly unconstitutional attempt to ban gun shows. The...
The power crisis in California now threatens to shut down Silicon Valley–and if Silicon Valley goes, it could end up shutting down America’s economy. To save itself — and the rest of us — what should California do? That depends on what the...
President Clinton should pardon Michael Milken, said Yaron Brook, the executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. “It would be an act of justice–one of the few of the Clinton administration–if Clinton pardoned the man truly responsible for the...
YOU MAY NEVER HAVE HEARD of the University of Phoenix, but it has more students than Harvard, Yale or Notre Dame —- combined. There is a reason you probably have not heard of the University of Phoenix. It represents a new development in higher education and one...
In response to the tragic shootings at Columbine High School and the Los Angeles JCC, the relation of gun availability to violent crime has been furiously debated in the media. One highly visible scholar in the media debate is economist and social scientist, John...
Here in the land of pontificators and tolerance preachers, a hateful crime goes unpunished. President Clinton, our lame duck lip-biter, is nowhere to be found. Neither are the chest-beaters at the New York Times. And the rainbow coalition of loud-mouthed minority...
WHEN IT COMES to talking about guns, responsible women should adopt Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Shampoo pledge: No more tears. No more mom-in-tennis-shoes proselytizing. No more irrational NRA-bashing. No more maudlin sermons. Alas, the sopping feminization of...
The Microsoft antitrust case represents a breathtaking and frightening extension of antitrust law to a new American technological industry that is the envy of the rest of the world.
The war against crime is getting out of hand and needs to be reassessed before the Constitution is torn to shreds. Both lawmakers and law enforcers have forgotten that the ends don’t justify the means. In the determination to pursue crime — drug-related...
Q: I observe much “male-bashing” in today’s America, and I also observe that it has become widely acceptable. (The “Lifetime” channel on cable TV provides one poignant example of this). I don’t mean the usual, superficial...
Q: What are your thoughts on assertions of a conspiracy by Republicans to steal the presidential election — made by Democrats and the mainstream media? It seems “conspiracy theories” abound today, by both the left and the right. What’s at the...
The Gore campaign has maintained a constant theme for the past week or so: it wants the “will of the people” to prevail, and thus Gore wants all the votes counted (and recounted and recounted and recounted). Invocations of the “will of the...
They came. They roared. They’re being ignored. The top lieutenants of the Million Mom March have been put in their proper place: far back, out of sight, on the margins of national debate and the presidential campaign. Good riddance. Led by Democratic political...
Boycott this! Boycott that! Fill in the blank: Grapes. Diamonds. Tobacco. Wal-Mart. Nike. Nestle. Denny’s. Disney. McDonald’s. Burma. Nigeria. South Africa. For every politically incorrect product, corporation, and location under the sun, there is a...
While the FDA’s delayed approval of the “Abortion Pill” RU-486 (which will be sold in America as mifepristone), is generally a good sign for the recognition of abortion rights, the conditions that the FDA has placed on its use raise serious concerns...
The abortion pill, the controversial RU-486, is now allowed by the FDA to be sold on the market. How nice of them. President Clinton insists the delay was purely scientific, and not political. Will this man’s capacity for lying never exhaust itself? Of course...
For the past week, our politicians have been busy constructing the foundations of censorship in America. And worse: They have been doing so unanimously. Censorship is being promoted across the political and cultural spectrum, from Al Gore and Joe Lieberman to John...
Tracinski dismissed Gore and Lieberman’s claim that they are concerned only with ‘marketing’ and not artistic expression.
“Takings” Reform is Undercut by Relativism
While the “takings” clause does not actually protect the right to property, it often serves as an effective deterrent.
Some months ago MSNBC.com reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate raising the state tax on a six-pack of beer by 20 cents could reduce the nation’s gonorrhea rate by almost 9 percent.1 How are beer and a sexually transmitted...
1. Ted Kennedy, Rosie O’Donnell, Charles Schumer, and Barbara Boxer strongly denounce private gun ownership. However, their bodyguards carry: A. Toy guns with trigger locks B. A tape recorded message that says “Boo!” C. CandyD. Slingshots E. Very...
Censorship refers to the government’s forcible suppression of speech, to the imposition of legal penalties on those who would express particular points of view.
On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk, England, killed one burglar and wounded a second. In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term. How did it become a crime to defend one’s own life in the once-great British Empire? How did it...
On Sunday May 14, as many as 750,000 people, mostly mothers, gathered in Washington, D.C., as part of the Million Mom March. What a tragic collection of emotionally driven, self-righteous but utterly wrongheaded people. These “gun control supporters,” as...
Reno’s deeper premise is that a totalitarian dictatorship is not inimical to a child’s rights.
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