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Relevance: 32% Posted on: May 18, 2023
My wife and I are attending tonight’s Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty dinner at the Cato Institute. We are very excited, for this year’s award will be given to a very worthy recipient: Jimmy Lai. The 75-year-old Lai, alas, won’t be there.* He sits in a Hong Kong jail…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: September 5, 2021
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.Isaiah 59: 4-5. A cockatrice…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: December 7, 2021
In October, Pastor Artur Pawlowski, who had been jailed during the pandemic for holding church services in Calgary, Alberta, was ordered as one condition of his probation to always append a statement of official government doctrine to his own public uttering of opinions about pandemic policy. According to the October…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: July 23, 2022
The governmentalization of charity affects not just the donor but also the recipient. What was once asked as a favor is now demanded as an entitlement. The transformation of charity into legal entitlement has produced donors without love and recipients without gratitude.Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, September 6, 2013, at…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: June 18, 2018
Some government officials work overtime to throw people out of work. What I’m referring to differs from losing your job or business because of slack performance or slackening sales. Instead, you lose the right to earn your living a certain way so that the government can benefit competitors at your…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: December 8, 2012
I bet most folks really want to help families with disabled children, with the kind of “kids” (many of whom are adults) who need round-the-clock help. I am sure that is why the State of Michigan pays family members to care for their children that have such extraordinary and demanding…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: May 29, 2020
Minneapolis is up in smoke, after protests became rioting became looting became conflagrations became nightmare. At issue is the police killing of civilian George Floyd. It was the biggest story in the news, this week, and you can see why. Watch the video of a white policeman with his knee…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: January 10, 2012
On Jan. 10, 2003, then-Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois' death row in the aftermath of a scandal involving Chicago detective Jon Burge, who was accused of torturing suspects into making confessions and later found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice. On…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: December 1, 2014
Most people agree about the wrongness of police brutality, if not about whether a particular police action is an example of it. But what about protester brutality? Again, most oppose it. Still, skeptics on this point have been particularly loud and insistent lately. Some even suggest (or scream) that violence…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: November 30, 2015
On November 30, 1804, the United States House of Representatives began impeachment hearings against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. The House thought he was too partisan, too “Federalist.” The Senate later acquitted Chase. On 1835 on this date, Samuel Clemens was born, later to achieve world fame as author and…