Leftists who have been on the forefront in denying free speech rights to those deemed politically incorrect have now begun to champion the First Amendment in defense of those who advocate the killing of Jews.
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Patent Rights: Life, Liberty and Intellectual Property
The Founding Fathers’ moral achievement in securing patents and other intellectual property rights in U.S. law.
Right Approach to the Pro-Hamas Protests
The First Amendment gives anti-Israel protesters the right to be immoral. It gives them the right to lie and to reflect antisemitic bigotry. The First Amendment, though, also gives us the right, indeed the responsibility, to call out this immorality, mendacity, and do…
The High Stakes in the Legal Battle for Free Speech
The decision reaffirmed what the Supreme Court called the “bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment” in 1989: “that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”
Free Speech, Censorship, and Life or Death Distinctions
Historian Eric Daniels clarifies what free speech and censorship are in this inspiring talk.
Donald Trump Is Being Denied His Constitutional Right to Due Process
Trump’s opponents believe that the reelection of President Trump would be more dangerous than compromising his constitutional rights. That is a shortsighted view that endangers future generations of Americans.
A Tremendous Victory for Free Speech
The White House, the FBI, and the CDC violated the First Amendment by encouraging and coercing social media companies to suppress free speech.
Legalization of Cocaine: Respectfully Disagreeing With George Will on the Drug War
Ending the war on drugs would significantly shrink the scope of law-enforcement officers’ incentives and abilities to violate the civil and property rights of Americans – even, indeed chiefly, of Americans who do not and would never use hard drugs, be these legal or…
John Locke, The U.S. Constitution and the General Welfare
John Locke’s view reflects the fact that a government that has nothing of its own to give, but can only give what it takes from others, means it cannot “give” to some without involuntarily violating the general welfare of others.
Maui Wildfires: Hawaii Governor Adds Insult to Injury
Preventing some individuals from making bad decisions also prevents individuals from making good decisions.
No, the 14th Amendment Can’t Disqualify Trump
Interpreting this post-Civil War amendment as a general provision for disqualifying candidates who some people may believe participated in what they regard as an insurrection or rebellion—as distinguished from a protest or even a riot—would create yet another divisi…
Unwarranted Charges Demonstrate Two-Tiered Justice System
The U.S. justice system has been corrupted and weaponized. Donald Trump is just one example. This should be disconcerting to all Americans, regardless of political affiliation.
The Self-Interest of Self-Regulation
Honest businessmen, who are well aware of the importance of customer goodwill, try to insure that their businesses are not harmed by the unscrupulous actions of others. Many of them have formed voluntary associations to provide self-regulation in their industries.
The Political Cleverness of Envy-Driven Housing Policies
If the supply of new housing is restricted by the government’s monopoly power to initiate physical force against housing producers, the market price of housing will be higher.
The Supreme Court’s ‘303 Creative’ Decision – Right Result but Not for the Best Reasons
“No unit of government shall enact any law or regulation that compels any citizen to enter into a contract, forbids any citizen to enter into a contract, or dictates any term of a contract between citizens.”
ULC’s “Model Public Health Emergency Authority Act”: A United States of Fifty Little Dictatorships?
Those responsible for the Covid response aren’t looking for amnesty or forgiveness; they seek a government structure that codifies their authoritarian impulses and a legal system that offers citizens no means of demanding accountability from their rulers. Publicly, th…
Cleaned by Capitalism and Soiled by Socialism
Another example of “Soiled by Socialism” is government-mandated low-flow water faucets, showerheads, and toilets.
Government “Efficiency” Regulation Makes Dishwashers That Make Dishes Less Clean
The U.S. Department of Energy has just announced a proposed rule to make dishwashers more “efficient” by limiting them to a maximum of 3.3 gallons per wash cycle, a reduction of one-third.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Speaks Out Against Lockdowns and Mandates
“Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country. Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders f…
The Jones Act Has Decimated American Shipping & Trade
The Jones Act, the most restrictive cabotage law in the world, has decimated the number of American-flagged ships and the trade they carry, not built it up.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Should Be Defunded For the Right Reason
The moral argument for defunding the CBC is the principle that people should not be forced to fund things they disagree with.
Who Regulates the Regulators?
We need to go beyond the review-and-approval paradigm. The review-and-approval model is broken, and we should find better ways to manage risk and create safety.
“Woke-Washing”: Who Is To Blame in the Moral Marketing Game?
If we want companies to stop engaging in woke-washing, we must steer the incentives back toward supporting firms for their core offerings and stop basing our purchases according to cause-related marketing messages and social labels.
What They Meant by Essential and Nonessential
The deployment of the terms essential and nonessential, however, has no precedent in our language. This is because of a view stemming from the democratic ethos and real-world commercial experience that everyone and everything is essential to everything else.
Freedom of Speech Should Not Be Limited by the Government
Crushing freedom of speech is an assault on the mind, and thus on life itself.
Reforming vs. Defunding the Police
What would rational police reform look like?
People Should be “Seething Mad” Over COVID – And Much More
COVID policies were a great mistake, imposed by arrogant officials who were not following science, but rather were following their own authoritarian instincts.
The Biden Administration’s Unconstitutional Tax on “Unrealized Capital Gains”
The Biden Administration’s 2023 budget bill proposing a “billionaire tax,” imposing a 25-percent minimum rate on the “unrealized capital gains” of the wealthiest Americans is unconstitutional.
Dealing with Deadly Shootings
Our citizens are justifiably sickened and infuriated by so many deadly shootings.
The Power to Regulate Is the Power to Control
The power to tax or to regulate is also the power to control, not just in the supposed “public interest” but in the interest of the regulators themselves, or specific politicians, or the government more generally.
Wyoming GOP State Lawmakers Propose to Ban Electric Cars
Wyoming: Blue California’s Red Mini-Me?
Judicial Review: The Supreme Court’s Complicity in Our Loss of Freedom
So how has judicial review worked out?
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