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Philadelphia Freedom?

Relevance: 34%      Posted on: January 7, 2015

It’s fun to watch intrusive, abusive, and exclusive government operations fail. It’s instructive to see how they react. Years ago, internationally renowned artist James Dupree purchased a large building in Philadelphia’s depressed Mantua neighborhood to renovate it not only into his studio, but into a place other artists could practice…

Epicurus

Relevance: 34%      Posted on: October 6, 2023

Those animals which are incapable of making covenants with one another, to the end that they may neither inflict nor suffer harm, are without either justice or injustice. And those tribes which either could not or would not form mutual covenants to the same end are in like case.  Epicurus, Principal Doctrines (Robert Drew…

Monopoly vs. Monopoly

Relevance: 34%      Posted on: March 25, 2024

The Biden Administration makes much of its pro-consumer actions. President Sleepy Joe never tires of boasting about how his regulations favor consumers over credit card companies. Considering the massive taxation that his administration supports, however, saving a few bucks on overdraft fees looks a bit absurd in context. As does…

John Wesley

Relevance: 34%      Posted on: May 1, 2022

I deny that villany is ever necessary. It is impossible that it should ever be necessary for any reasonable creature to violate all the laws of justice, mercy, and truth. No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity. It can…

Equitable Stealing?

Relevance: 34%      Posted on: November 23, 2015

Is freedom a simple matter of drafting a lofty document about respecting the rights of citizens? Alas, no. Our Constitution does that, as does Turkey’s and, for that matter, so did the now-defunct Soviet Constitution. Obviously, vigilance is also required. Keeping powerful government agencies respectful of the law — our…

Constitution-​Free Zones?

Relevance: 34%      Posted on: November 3, 2021

Depending on the constitutional provision we’re talking about, probably every state is (or is at risk of becoming) a “Constitution-free zone.” The present case: a court ruling that a dissident judge says is turning Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi into Constitution-free zones with respect to the crimes of federal officers. On…

Top Cop Says Stop

Relevance: 33%      Posted on: August 16, 2013

I agree with Eric Holder, the Attorney General of these United States of America: His gang at the federal Department of Justice should stop unfairly locking people up. At the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco, Mr. Holder admitted that, “too many Americans go to too many prisons…

Albert Camus

Relevance: 33%      Posted on: March 23, 2020

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

David Boaz, 1953 – 2024

Relevance: 33%      Posted on: June 9, 2024

David Boaz was a friend and mentor to many. We now learn, to our sadness, of his death on Friday. Who was David Boaz? Here is the bare bones of his public identity, from Wikipedia, first paragraph: David Douglas Boaz (/ˈboʊ.æz/; August 29, 1953 – June 7, 2024) was an American…