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Relevance: 24% Posted on: April 18, 2008
Do citizen initiative rights give voters or give special interests "too much" power to pass bad laws? Sure, bad initiatives sometimes pass. But as Eric Dixon points out at the Show-Me Institute blog, our intermittently esteemed representatives do not religiously avoid passing bad bills. Lawmakers enact lousy laws galore. Dixon…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: July 22, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Second Amendment means what it says: The right of the people to keep and bear arms - that is, have guns - must not be infringed. While more limited in scope than we might wish, District of Columbia v. Heller affirms that…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: October 30, 2008
American city planners tend to obsess over trains. Though not nearly as economical as buses, light rail trains are regarded as the gold standard in public transportation. But ten years after Portland established its westside line, just how bad an investment light rail can be is becoming clear. So argues…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: November 22, 2010
Maybe the most interesting thing to come out, so far, from the “porno-scanner”/TSA-gropings controversy is this statement by Rep. Ron Paul of Texas: "You can't provide perfect safety." Going on, Rep. Paul denied that it is "the government's role . . . to provide safety." It isn’t; it’s to protect…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: October 12, 2016
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, thinking he had reached India. Exactly two hundred years later, a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips ended the Salem Witch Trials. On this date in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by students in many U.S. public…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: October 12, 2017
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, thinking he had reached India. Exactly two hundred years later, a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips ended the Salem Witch Trials. On this date in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by students in many U.S. public…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: October 12, 2018
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, thinking he had reached India. Exactly two hundred years later, a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips ended the Salem Witch Trials. On this date in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by students in many U.S. public…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: May 15, 2015
“Children learn the fundamental principles of natural law at a very early age. Thus they very early understand that one child must not, without just cause, strike or otherwise hurt, another; that one child must not assume any arbitrary control or domination over another; that one child must not, either…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: December 25, 2009
Ten days before Christmas, America noted the 218th anniversary of the Bill of Rights . . . and I hadn't even finished my own holiday shopping. I might wish that I could get you a pristine, enforceable Bill of RIghts, but it's not just up to me. It's up to…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: August 20, 2013
A life of constant external enmity generates a code in which aggression, conquest, revenge, are inculcated, while peaceful occupations are reprobated. Conversely a life of settled internal amity generates a code inculcating the virtues conducing to harmonious cooperation — justice, honesty, veracity, regard for other’s claims. And the implication is…