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The Media That Couldn’t Shoot Straight: How a Hand Gun Saved Lives
On January 16, 2002, a law student at Virginia's Appalachian School of Law shot and killed the dean, a professor and another student, while wounding three others. How did the shooting spree end? According to the Los Angeles Times, "Other students tackled (emphasis...
Economic Liberties And The Constitution By Bernard H. Siegan
Although the Founding Fathers were committed to protecting the individual’s property rights as well as his political/ intellectual rights, the Supreme Court since the 1930s has consistently failed to protect the former.
Attacks on Free Speech
The genie cannot be kept in the bottle.
Activism Alert: Campaign Finance Regulation vs. Free Speech
The House Republican leadership announced that on Wednesday, February 13, 2002 campaign finance regulation legislation will be brought to the floor for a vote. A similar bill has already passed in the Senate and if passed by the House, this legislation threatens a...
Liberal Conspiracy Theories: Bush and Enron
The U.N., the Trilateral Commission, the international conspiracy of Jewish bankers -- these are the conspiracy theories for which right-wing nuts are infamous. But what about the conspiracy theories of the left? I'm sure you have heard of them: the...
Guns in the Hands of Private Citizens Make Us All Safer
For the gun controllers, the year gone by was bleak. As 2001 began, their lawsuits against gun manufacturers were being dismissed in one city after another. An attorney general nominee they bitterly opposed was confirmed. Soon after, he wrote to the National Rifle...
Music “Sharing” and Music Piracy: End Intellectual Theft
I've held my mouth shut for some time concerning Napster and file-sharing in general. Mostly because I did not wish to offend people close to me that are participating in this activity. I realize that this has been a mistake. As a music-lover, I completely understand...
Support the Liberty Bill Act And Put the Constitution on our Dollars
Congressional office-holders take an oath that says: "I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic . . ." Wouldn't it be nice if the Constitution had an amendment requiring...
Drugs and Politics
A tourist in New York's Greenwich Village had his portrait sketched by a sidewalk artist, who charged him $100. "That's expensive," the tourist said. "But it's a great sketch, so I'll pay it. But, really, it took you just five minutes." "Twenty years and five...
Post-September 11: Another Look at Guns and Racial Profiling
Care to revisit, post-Sept. 11, the issue of racial profiling? "Civil rights activist" Al Sharpton, during the Harlem presidential debate between Al Gore and Bill Bradley, asked the first question. "Many in our community have to live in fear of both the cops and the...
Is There An Individual Right To Keep and Bear Arms?
Since the gun control issue is a detail of law and not an issue of philosophy, there is no Objectivist position.
A Kindler, Gentler…Less-Fit Military
Walk, don't run. That's an order for the service men and women of U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Miami. Their weekly fitness runs were terminated this past August when a female officer claimed they were "demeaning." According to media reports, the officer...
Superfluous Airport Safety Regulations
Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta, Czar Norman, has ordered new, ill-thought out, oppressive airline regulations in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Among them: a ban on knives -- plastic or steel -- anywhere in the airport and on airplanes, even in...
Responding To Terrorism
He who turns the other cheek deserves what happens to it.
Remember the Constitution
"In every generation, the world has produced enemies of human freedom," President Bush reminded us in his remarks at the National Cathedral. "They have attacked America because we are freedom's home and defender, and the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of...
Teachers, Guns, and Zero-Tolerance Tyranny
When the new school year begins, Deena Esteban will not be among the legions of educators welcoming students back to class. That's because Mrs. Esteban, a 43-year-old art teacher in Prince William County, Va., lost the job she loved after being convicted of a felony...
Inside the Crime: Why is Chandra Levy Missing?
One of the clues in the Chandra Levy case that may have been dismissed too quickly was a call to the police on the morning of her disappearance, reporting a woman's scream heard in the building where she lived. This seems to have been disregarded as an unrelated event...
Mandating Unemployment with “Living Wage” Laws
Living wage laws, the altruist’s modernized euphemism for compulsory wage rates, have met a setback.
Modern Eminent Domain
This use of eminent domain flatly contradicts the fundamental principles of this country, which declare that all men are created equal, that every man is an end in himself endowed with inalienable rights, including property rights, that each man be accorded equal protection by the law and that no man be deprived of due process under the law.
Guns, Kids, and Condoms
Let us, for a moment, take the sex-education pushers at their word: If you teach a child how to use a condom, you're promoting safety -- not usage.That's what a new review of sex-ed curricula claims. "The overwhelming weight of evidence shows that sex education that...
Ignorance or Contempt of the U.S. Constitution
Congressmen, presidents and Supreme Court justices take an oath of office swearing to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution. As if the Constitution itself isn't clear about what they must do, in Federalist Paper No. 45, James Madison, the acknowledged father of the...
More Dads, Less Crime
"America's Greatest Problem: Not Crime, Racism or Bad Schools -- It's Illegitimacy," reads Chapter 5 from my book, "The Ten Things You Can't Say in America." Absentee, non-involved fathers are the primary reason behind recent Department of Justice statistics showing...
New State Regulations During ‘Deregulation’ are the Cause of California’s Energy Crisis
The attacks against deregulation of the California power industry by the enemies of capitalism are attacks against a straw man. Deregulation means that government removes onerous regulations that violate the rights of producers and consumers to trade freely (markets...
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