Do Allegations of Intellectual-Property Theft Justify Protective Tariffs?
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‘Veggie Burger’ Ban: Mississippi’s Unconstitutional Advertising Restrictions
The government has no power to keep consumers in the dark—or to prohibit the use of terms that consumers understand—in order to protect special interests from honest competition.
Things Haven’t Always Been This Way
Police and laws can never replace moral values as restraints on personal conduct.
The Government Bureaucrat Bullies of Dunedin Florida vs. The Eighth Amendment
The Founding Fathers, says Bargil, “recognized that the ability to fine is the ability to cripple. It’s one of the ways, other than incarceration, that government can really oppress.”
The Contempt for Free Speech on College Campuses
The true test of one’s commitment to free speech comes when others are permitted to say and publish ideas they deem offensive.
U.S. Constitution Gives the Trade Power to Congress Alone
Republicans must join with Democrats to end Trump’s tariff authority. They should repeal these “emergency” laws that allow the president to unilaterally impose new taxes on Americans, in defiance of the intent of the framers of the Constitution.
Paid Family Leave Mandated By Government
Can’t we just leave government out of it and let employers and employees work this out to meet individual needs?
Free Speech on Campus: Colleges Committed to Ideological Diversity
When you send your youngster off to college, you might not mind that they will have to walk on eggshells, respect taboos, snitch on fellow students for politically incorrect jokes and learn to use ad hominem arguments as a means to attack ideas they find...
Moral Panic Over Sex Workers
Sex slavery is evil. Authorities should do everything they can to stop it. But there is a big difference between slavery and sex work done by consenting adults.
Rise of Citizen Journalism: Reporting News That The Washington Post Keeps in Darkness
Independent journalists provide facts that biased editors at the Washington Post keep in darkness.
How Did Freedom Fare in the Supreme Court This Year? (2018)
Gay wedding cakes. Compulsory union dues. Mandatory disclosures for pregnancy centers. Police searches of cell phone records. These are just a few of the subjects the Supreme Court has taken up this term. The Court’s major cases impact freedom in America and involve...
Take What You Want — And Pay For It
Voluntary trade is the only way for human beings to deal with one another, to make their flourishing possible and to enhance it through division of labor.
Right to Print Arms
Are you very afraid? 3D-printed guns are coming. "Virtually undetectable!" shrieked CNN. "This changes the safety of Americans forever!" shrieked MSNBC. Does it? Six years ago, a company called Defense Distributed posted blueprints for 3D-printed guns on the web. The...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Immoral Plea For Government Censorship
Mark Zuckerberg wants government regulation of the internet content, not because it would somehow protect us against “harm,” but because it would protect Facebook against competition. Without free speech, we will become sheep. That is the reason we must condemn Mark Zuckerberg’s immoral plea and defend our freedom of speech
Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Kisses The Rings of Regulators
The lesson is that if you don’t want politicians destroying your business, you must go to Washington to give them money. Kiss their rings.
The Fake News ‘Surge’ in Hate Crimes
“The number of hate crime hoaxes actually exceeds the number of convictions. The majority of these high-profile incidents never happened” according to the author of Hate Crime Hoax.
How Many Lives Are Saved by Guns — and Why Don’t Gun Controllers Care?
How many lives are saved each year through the use of firearms
Police Aren’t Enough To End Crime
Most of today’s major problems encountered by black people have little or nothing to do with racial discrimination and a legacy of slavery.
How “Young Turks” Podcaster David Rubin Escaped The Collectivist Left
Watching this video upset me. Students and even faculty members won't let Dave Rubin speak. They constantly interrupt, shouting "hate speech!" and "black lives matter!" Rubin was once a man of the left. He even was a co-host on The Young Turks network. But then he...
Government Censorship in New Zealand and The Christchurch Massacre
Government censorship will only reduce the ability to understand the causes of people guided by anti-capitalist ideas.
Censorship to Protect Us: Government Sanitized History, Books, and Press
Imagine that in 1946 the general-secretary of the United Nations had submitted a resolution to the General Assembly stating that Nazi crimes were so horrendous and despicable that the countries of the world needed to impose a blanket censorship on any public reference...
Packing the Supreme Court Of The United States
The current court packing approach is sharply at odds with our founders. It violates the most famous of the Federalist Papers on the courts, Federalist 78, and would justify an “I told you so” from the Anti-Federalists.
Video: The War on Cops by Heather Mac Donald
Since summer 2014, America has been convulsed with a protest movement known as Black Lives Matter, which claims that police officers are among the greatest threats—if not the greatest threat—to young black males. Heather Mac Donald...
Jussie Smollett Lies Expose a Culture of Lying to — and About — the Police
How often do people lie to or about the police?
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