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...
LAW
All laws must be objective (and objectively justifiable): men must know clearly, and in advance of taking an action, what the law forbids them to do (and why), what constitutes a crime and what penalty they will incur if they commit it. – AYN RAND
The Perils of Gun Ownership?
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...
NY Times Commentator has a Confused Concept of Censorship
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.
How the right to self-defense became a crime to defend one’s own life in England
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...
Guns and Rosie: One Million Moms Marching Against Reason and Logic
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...
The Real (and Sinister) Meaning of the Elian Raid
Reno’s deeper premise is that a totalitarian dictatorship is not inimical to a child’s rights.
The Government vs. Rights: Janet Reno’s Fascism
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 dictatorship.
Clinton-Reno Acted Against The Rule of Law
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 his Miami relatives.
Supreme Court Should Protect Right to Abortion in Current “Partial-Birth” Abortion Case
“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.
Gun Maker Smith and Wesson Takes First Step Down The Slippery Slope to Outlawing Guns
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...
The Disfigurement of the American City, Part 1
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.
Bad Ideas, Not Guns, Kill People
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...
Limits on Guns
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...
Abortion: When Do Rights Begin?
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.ate human being. Rights are a concept applicable only to individual, actual human beings, not a merely potential one.
The Religious Right’s Descent into the Anti-Abortion Swamp Will Send Americans Reeling to the Far Left
The race for the Republican presidential nomination resembles a piety test over a single issue: the right to abortion.
Hollywood: Another Casualty in the War on Drugs
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...
Did Britain’s anti-gun laws save ex-Beatle Harrison?
“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...
The Department of Justice and Judge Jackson Commit The Crime of the Century
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...
Jury Nullification, Adverse Possession, and Liability of Parents for Actions of Their Children
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
The Immorality of the “War on Drugs”
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...
Horowitz: Guns Don’t Kill Black People, Other Blacks Do
“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’s Contradictory Stand on Abortion
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...
Did Thomas Jefferson Father Slave Children?
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.
Let Not Thy Left Hand
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.
Feminism and The World Cup
Women’s soccer enthusiasts screamed foul when, during the 1996 Olympics, NBC gave only scant attention to the victorious women’s soccer team.
The Government’s Assault on Sexual Pleasure
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...
A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and “Naming Names”
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...
Hate Crime Laws Will Spawn Thought Police
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.”
Blacklists Are Not Censorship
There is no such thing as “private censorship.” It is only when government uses its coercive powers to inhibit speech that censorship occurs.
Bad Ideas Equal Boring Sex
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...
The “Sensitive” Road to Censorship
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...
A Double Standard of Hypocrisy: Feminism’s Love Affair with President Clinton
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...
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