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Relevance: 31% Posted on: August 16, 2022
“Democracy has nothing to do with liberty,” the Libertarian Party announced on Facebook, “just as so many of the world’s greatest minds have warned.” Huh? Just exactly which “greatest minds” are we talking about? Not Aristotle! The party’s statement introduced a meme quoting Hans-Hermann Hoppe, the “Austrian school economist and…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 26, 2018
In the constitution of that rational animal I see no virtue which is opposed to justice, but I see a virtue which is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, VIII, 39.
Relevance: 30% Posted on: October 27, 2009
The Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court recently declared the state’s government “dysfunctional.” But Judge Ronald George didn’t bother to tell this to his employers, the people of California. Instead, the judge delivered his speech all the way across the continent, in Massachusetts, at his induction into the American…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: February 11, 2013
On February 11, 1752, Benjamin Franklin opened Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States. On the same date in 1790, the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitioned U.S. Congress to abolish slavery. In an early effort towards republican government transparency, on this date in 1794,…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: March 31, 2012
A young man was shot dead by a neighborhood watch captain a month ago in Sanford, Florida, a town I’ve only driven through during a vacation or two. The particular facts of the case, at least as they’ve been reported, are that the victim, 17-year old Trayvon Martin, committed no…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: June 25, 2012
Waiting for this week’s Supreme Court decision on Obamacare, which most folks expect to strike down the mandate and perhaps the entire law, George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley argues in the Washington Post that the court should be expanded from nine justices to 19. FDR, no doubt sitting…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: June 28, 2015
Last week, we reported on a filing of a citizens' initiative in Ferguson, Missouri. Now, a fuller report, for the good folks at Townhall.com. Click on over, then come back here for more relevant reading. Police Cameras for Ferguson: Ferguson Charter Initiative website USA Today: “Ferguson residents petition for police…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 20, 2023
In an interim victory for freedom of speech that may lead to an important precedent, a court has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against the University of Texas. According to Richard Lowery’s complaint, filed in February 2023, university officials threatened his “job, pay, institute affiliation, research opportunities, [and] academic freedom”…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: June 16, 2024
“The Supreme Court ruled on June 14 that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) exceeded its authority,” reports Sam Dorman in The Epoch Times, “when it interpreted a federal firearms statute to outlaw the use of bump stocks.” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion in the…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: August 13, 2014
For every one, as he is himself, so he has a self-propriety, else could he not be himself; and of this no second may presume to deprive any of without manifest violation and affront to the very principles of nature and of the rules of equity and justice between man…