Under the direction of Attorney General Janet Reno we have recently reached a low point in our history. In a period of only a few months, she has sought to destroy an entire industry, crush America’s most successful company, and sentence a boy to slavery in a dictatorsh…
Renowned (in liberal circles) Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz stated in an interview on the Fox News Channel this week (April 24), that the Clinton administration acted against the law when its agents violently seized 6-year-old Elián Gonzalez from the home of hi…
“Partial-birth” abortion, most commonly known as intact dilation and extraction (D&X), is designed primarily to be used in the case of 5- and 6-month-old fetuses that are dying, malformed, or threaten the woman’s health or life.
Clint Eastwood should insist that his “Dirty Harry” movies be edited to remove all references to his famous .44 magnum. The words “Me and Smith and Wesson” have been eternally tainted by the gun-maker’s capitulation to the bureaucrats...
Cities in Canada and western Europe-at least all the ones that I’ve seen-are charming and convenient. In contrast, American cities seem awkward.
Families of Columbine High School shooting victims plan to sue the gun manufacturers. I have a better idea. Why don’t we sue the public schools? If not financially — then at least morally. Guns and bullets don’t kill people; bad ideas do. Unhealthy...
Question: In a proper society, individuals surrender to government the right to the use of retaliatory force. How does this line of reasoning applies to gun control. If it is moral and hence legal to own a weapon that can kill many quickly, where and what reasoning...
Individual rights begin at birth, with the creation of a new, separMorality is an issue of rationality, and a woman who becomes pregnant on a whim, then capriciously chooses an abortion, is as immoral and irrational as someone who buys an American flag and then burns it…
The race for the Republican presidential nomination resembles a piety test over a single issue: the right to abortion.
Two hundred eighty-six million dollars last year. This year, $1.6 billion goes from the United States to Colombia to fight the “war on drugs.” “Clinton spent more federal money in the war on drugs in his first four years than was spent during...
“Thank ‘My Sweet L-rd’ For Gun Laws.” A major newspaper opinion piece led with that headline. Ex-Beatle George Harrison, maintains the columnist, remains alive today only because of England’s tough anti-gun laws. A few weeks ago, an...
Forget the Lindbergh Kidnapping. The Crime of the Century is Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s Finding of “Fact” against Microsoft. The 207 page condemnation of Microsoft as a “monopoly” that “hurts consumers,” is one of the...
Continuing a policy begun with a presentation at The Jefferson School in 1989, The Association for Objective Law presented a panel discussion at the 1999 Lyceum conference
Much fuss has been made recently about George W. Bush’s alleged drug usage. Apparently fearful of a scandal, Governor Bush has dodged the issue — with disturbingly Presidential style — creating a bigger scandal. Whether he has used drugs or not, he...
“So many racists, so little time.” Black Time magazine editor Jack E. White fired that shot at David Horowitz, the “conservative” head of an organization called The Center for the Study of Popular Culture. And get a load of White’s...
George W. Bush holds a most contradictory stand on abortion. Earlier this decade he said: “I do not like abortions. I will do everything in my power to restrict abortions.” Yet when asked if he would seek a constitutional ban on all abortions, he replied...
The recently publicized DNA evidence claiming to show Thomas Jefferson had fathered a child with his black slave, Sally Hemmings, illustrates the difference between the way evidence is handled in a court of law and the way it is handled by the popular press.
The differences between the actions allowed to private parties on one hand and to the Postal Service and Internal Revenue Service on the other, are examples of a reversal of the proper relationship between the government and the governed.
Women’s soccer enthusiasts screamed foul when, during the 1996 Olympics, NBC gave only scant attention to the victorious women’s soccer team.
Six woman recently file suite against the state of Alabama over a law it enacted last year regarding vibrators and other sex toys. The law states that selling or distributing “any obscene material or any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the...
The following statement originally appeared as an advertisement, placed by Elia Kazan in the New York Times, April 12, 1952. In the past weeks intolerable rumors about my political position have been circulating in New York and Hollywood. I want to make my stand...
We should insist on the one principle that forms the foundation for the protection of all rights; that the purpose of law is to punish criminals for initiating force against others-not for holding bad ideas.”
There is no such thing as “private censorship.” It is only when government uses its coercive powers to inhibit speech that censorship occurs.
A recently released University of Chicago survey suggests that sex is among the last things on the minds of too many American couples. The study concluded that 31 percent of men and 43 percent of women regularly have no interest in sex–with boredom ranking as...
During the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, people of that court replaced saying the word “nigger”(as used by former LA police detective Mark Fuhrman) with “the ‘N’-word.” Last year, Merriam-Webster was asked by certain people to omit...
Why have certain feminists refused to demand Bill Clinton’s resignation? For in his sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, he committed an act of “sexual harassment” that these feminists eagerly apply to other violators of it, whose resignation or...
The supporters of the President and, apparently, a majority of the American public, believe that the President should be exempt from laws and sanctions to which ordinary citizens are subject.
Legal services to the poor should be funded voluntarily, not by expropriation.
How does having legal immunity for completely arbitrary acts preserve this confidence? In Ayn Rand’s words, “blank out.”
“Liberty is always at stake when one or more of the branches seek to transgress the separation of powers.”
What do Monica Lewinsky, tennis star Venus Williams and television’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer have in common? They all made the George magazine list of the 20 Most Fascinating Women in Politics. That’s right, politics. And what do Attorney General Janet...
Monica Lewinsky is reported to have testified before a grand jury that President Bill Clinton did have sexual relations with her. Given that Clinton lied in 1992 about having extramarital sex with Gennifer Flowers, in order to get elected, who can be surprised that he...
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