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Save the Constitution

Relevance: 38%      Posted on: May 1, 2000

Last week President Clinton explained that he fought against his own impeachment to "save the Constitution." It makes one wonder whether ole Bill even knows the difference between the Constitution and his own posterior because he was certainly trying to save one of those two things. Of course, Clinton's excuse-making…

Cosmic or Merely Comic?

Relevance: 38%      Posted on: December 2, 2021

A number of important criminal trials are bunching up together at the moment. The Rittenhouse acquittal came first, but the Coffee and Arbery verdicts, along with it, also qualified as major milestones. Looming over our heads is perhaps the headiest of all, the Ghislaine Maxwell honey pot case. But for…

Townhall: The Unsurprising “Success” of Subsidy

Relevance: 38%      Posted on: February 16, 2014

Give people money, or services free of charge, and (shock of all shocks) they will do things with them ... and even go so far as to change their behavior to keep getting more and more freebies. Click on over to Townhall.com, for this weekend’s dosage of Econ 101 —…

Choosing Choice

Relevance: 38%      Posted on: August 30, 2013

Public schools often get lousy report cards. One big reason is that under the bureaucratically run government monopoly, teachers and administrators have no freedom to try fundamentally different approaches and be rewarded by consumers when they get it right. Educators must obey uniform and stifling standards. Alas, too many of…

Red-​lining Democracy

Relevance: 38%      Posted on: December 13, 2010

Why does a fellow who’s the executive director of the Greenlining Institute want to red-line democracy? Recently, in the pages of California’s Capitol Weekly, Orson Aguilar called the state’s initiative process a “monster.” Mr. Aguilar’s main beef is that “huge corporations and business groups” spent “massive” amounts of money, and…

Separation of Senators

Relevance: 38%      Posted on: May 5, 2017

The separation of powers doctrine has been a bedrock principle of small-r republican government. Each branch — legislative, executive, judicial — should be independent, and check the power of the other branches. This requires that no person hold positions simultaneously in more than one branch of government. Which brings us…

Abraham Lincoln

Relevance: 38%      Posted on: June 25, 2012

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it is in his love of justice.

Burning Isn’t the Only Way to Attack Books

Relevance: 38%      Posted on: October 18, 2018

The U.S. Copyright Office is enforcing an unjust and destructive law merely because it is there. Selectively enforcing. Valancourt Books prints books on demand. It keeps no stocks of books in a warehouse in between orders. Even so, the Copyright Office is demanding to be supplied with physical copies of…

Ian and the Scurvy Knave

Relevance: 38%      Posted on: October 21, 2022

Don’t help people after a hurricane!  Not if you live in another state and there’s no time to lose but . . . you’re licensed only in that other state. Now, before you declare Houston-based Terence Duque an innocent victim because he was arrested for not being Florida-licensed, let’s take…

June 19

Relevance: 38%      Posted on: June 19, 2014

In 1910 on this date, the first Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington. On the same day, in Tennessee, future Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas was born. In 1941, Václav Klaus was born; other June 19 births include Salman Rushdie in 1947, Kathleen Turner in 1954, and Laura Ingraham…