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Relevance: 100% Posted on: October 28, 2009
You are “innocent until proven guilty” in America, with one big exception: Under civil forfeiture laws, police don’t have to prove that a crime has actually been committed in order to seize your property. And once your boat or car is stolen by your government, the burden falls to you…
Relevance: 80% Posted on: October 14, 2008
Interior design: Most homeowners wing it, but a few call in the professionals. Regulation of interior design: Most states just let our nation’s Graces freely contract with willing Wills. But a significant number of states, including Oklahoma and Connecticut, regulate these designing women and men. Why? Have you heard a…
Relevance: 75% Posted on: August 26, 2022
Q. What is that fundamental principle?A. It is justice, which alone comprises all the virtues of society.Q. Why do you say that justice is the fundamental and almost only virtue of society?A. Because it alone embraces the practice of all the actions useful to it; and because all the other…
Relevance: 73% Posted on: January 13, 2014
Is taking bread from the mouths of those who labor to feed the appetites of able-bodied adults who decline to work your idea of economic justice? Or of injustice? A recent Cato Institute study by Michael Tanner and Charles Hughes found that welfare benefits exceed the minimum wage for workers…
Relevance: 71% Posted on: June 6, 2022
Michigan’s lawmakers and governor seem determined to remind us that history is no nonstop march into the light. In the Great Lake State, the latest confirmation is a return to virtually unrestricted legalized cash-grabbing at the airport, reversing halfhearted reforms of several years earlier. After those reforms were enacted, a…
Relevance: 71% Posted on: April 4, 2023
In August 2020, Jerry Johnson made a mistake: he carried a large sum of money while flying from Charlotte to Phoenix to buy a semi truck for his business. Police grabbed the cash when he arrived in Phoenix. Mr. Johnson had decided to use cash to avoid certain fees and…
Relevance: 71% Posted on: July 14, 2010
Some of the most vicious threats to individual rights and liberty occur not on the federal but on the local level. Clint Bolick, an attorney who has combated many local governmental assaults on citizens around the country, once wrote a book to make the point entitled Leviathan: The Growth of…
Relevance: 70% Posted on: August 22, 2008
How does the marketplace of ideas — and how do people who generally support free speech — react to the advancement of free-market ideas? Well, the new Milton Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago has sure kicked up a fuss. That is, a whole bunch of anti-free-marketers have kicked…
Relevance: 69% Posted on: February 19, 2018
“Carrying cash is not a crime,” Institute for Justice attorney Dan Alban informs us, “yet too often the government treats it like one.” Musician Phil Parhamovich learned that the hard way. He was porting his life savings, almost $92,000 — earmarked for a down payment on a recording studio —…
Relevance: 65% Posted on: November 2, 2023
“We know there are abuses of the forfeiture system,” Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declares. “We know it because it’s been documented throughout the country repeatedly.” Civil asset forfeiture is a crime — if a legal one. I’ve devoted numerous columns to it, here, these past few decades. Interestingly, there’s…
Relevance: 64% Posted on: March 4, 2018
Sometimes law is just politics. But must it be so? Make a motion over to Townhall, and then make your appeal back here. Washington Post: Scalia embraced compromise on unions. Today’s Supreme Court should, too. (editorial) Liberty Justice Center: Janus v. AFSCME SCOTUS: Oral Argument (Audio ) (Transcript) Illinois Policy…
Relevance: 63% Posted on: September 12, 2013
Would you be upset if you had to pay “too little” for a limo ride? Me neither. Nevertheless, the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission requires limo drivers to charge a minimum of $50 per ride, no matter how brief the ride may be. In 2001, Florida lawmakers foolishly empowered the…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: March 22, 2012
The taxman puts his hands in our pockets. But it’s one thing to reach into our bank accounts and take our money, it is quite another when governments engage in different kind of overreach, where they go beyond the rule of law and just start pushing people around. Take the…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: December 31, 2011
Punching fog, warming up fuzzy phrases, and understanding "social justice": "Society" is neither omniscient nor omnipotent. The justice society can provide cannot require either complete knowledge or total power. Pretending it can, or should, is pure folly.
Relevance: 61% Posted on: March 8, 2023
Justice is indiscriminately due to all, without regard to numbers, wealth, or rank. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay, Georgia v. Brailsford (1794).
Relevance: 61% Posted on: July 21, 2010
Let a thousand floral arrangements bloom. Louisiana has just abolished the “demonstration” section of the state’s licensing exam for florists. The new law came in response to a lawsuit by florists working with the Institute for Justice. IJ argued that the four-hour demonstration requirement was “arbitrary, subjective and antiquated,” and…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: November 23, 2022
In 2014, Sally Ladd started a service to help clients in the Poconos rent out their vacation homes. She posted notices on Airbnb, arranged for cleaning, and performed other chores. But then, in 2017, the Pennsylvania Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs — one of the many government agencies in…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: April 9, 2017
The IRS doesn’t just seize money for reasons of taxation. The folks in that agency have another racket in their job description. Click on over to Townhall for the story, then come back here for background. Treasury.gov: “Criminal Investigation Enforced Structuring Laws Primarily Against Legal Source Funds and Compromised the…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: February 5, 2014
The Socialists say, since the law organizes justice, why should it not organize labor, instruction, and religion? Why? Because it could not organize labor, instruction, and religion, without disorganizing justice.
Relevance: 57% Posted on: June 18, 2001
If there's anything worse than a cover-up of terrible crimes, it's a cover-up by the officials entrusted with investigating the cover-up. That may well be what has happened in the case of the federal assault on a religious group in Waco, Texas in 1993, which ended in the deaths of…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: November 22, 2015
Government is supposed to defend our rights, including rights to property. Too often, our police departments merely steal. Play criminal themselves. Click on over to Townhall.com for the full story. Come back here for more reading . . . and viewing: Institute for Justice – TAKEN: New Report Finds Civil…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: July 8, 2023
Justice? — You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. First words of A Frolic of His Own (1994), William Gaddis’s fourth novel.
Relevance: 56% Posted on: November 21, 2012
It essential to oppose the Humanitarian theory of punishment, root and branch, wherever we encounter it. It carries on its front a semblance of mercy which is wholly false. That is how it can deceive men of good will. The error began, with Shelley’s statement that the distinction between mercy…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: June 14, 2017
Mary Lou Wesselhoeft doesn’t have to lie about the milk she’s selling. The Florida Department of Agriculture has lost in court. Mary Lou has won. Ocheesee Creamery sells pasteurized milk without any additives. One of her products is skim milk. Ocheesee sells skim milk without vitamin additives, which is perfectly…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: January 6, 2014
Perhaps Hermine Ricketts should be glad that a SWAT team didn’t descend upon on her front-yard garden. After all, in blatant if ignorant violation of a new zoning law, the former architect had been growing vegetables there. Yes. Vegetables! Several months ago, a Miami Shores zoning inspector happened by (doubtless…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: September 10, 2021
Since September 1991, the libertarian law firm founded by Chip Mellor and Clint Bolick has been fighting for the rights of its clients against governmental assault. For no charge, Institute for Justice helps people stripped of options fight for: ● The right to keep one’s land (and what’s on it).…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: February 24, 2015
don’t know if Juan Williams is right about who qualifies as America’s most influential thinker on race. But I hope he is. In a Friday Wall Street Journal op-ed, Fox News’s liberal-leaning political analyst and author of Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (1998), argues that our country’s most important influencer of…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: July 9, 2001
Is it all over, finally? Bill Gates and Microsoft have had a tough time. They've been in the courts for umpteen years now, hounded for alleged breaches of anti-trust law. Anti-trust law is so fuzzy that even ever-lower prices and higher productivity can't save you from the charge of harming…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: January 20, 2017
The science of mine and thine — the science of justice — is the science of all human rights; of all a man’s rights of person and property; of all his rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Lysander Spooner, Natural Law; or, The Science of Justice, Section…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: June 30, 2009
Imagine being on the edge of your seat for some 20 years. It’s a long time to wait for anything, especially about whether you can keep doing business on your own property. That’s what Karen Haug and her company, Advance Shoring, have endured since the early ’90s. That was when…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: November 14, 2023
The gas stations of DeKalb County, Georgia, never did nothing to nobody . . . except provide petrol. Yet, thanks to a draconian county ordinance, the stations can be shut down if they fail to splurge on expensive new video surveillance systems. Even if they already have security cameras. Which…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: January 21, 2018
Everybody who objects to injustice does so on the ground that these practices violate some principle of justice which is above human will. This is so even when authority for justice, or equality among men, is found in the ‘dignity of the individual’; for that phrase is just as metaphysical…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: August 12, 2020
The Socialists say, since the law organizes justice, why should it not organize labor, instruction, and religion?Why? Because it could not organize labor, instruction, and religion, without disorganizing justice.Frédéric Bastiat, The Law (1850).
Relevance: 54% Posted on: June 29, 2016
Man was created for social intercourse; but social intercourse cannot be maintained without a sense of justice; then man must have been created with a sense of justice. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis W. Gilmer, June 7, 1816
Relevance: 54% Posted on: July 1, 2016
On July 1, 1944, American activist and founder of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Lew Rockwell, was born.
Relevance: 54% Posted on: July 1, 2018
On July 1, 1944, American activist and founder of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Lew Rockwell, was born.
Relevance: 53% Posted on: January 13, 2014
“No Justice, No Peace” is an old, vaguely threatening leftwing bumpersticker slogan advocating the amorphous concept of “economic justice.” That basic utterance, whatever it means, has currently been labeled “income equality,” leaping off car bumpers and into the political mainstream as the issue de jour of President Obama and congressional…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: August 4, 2016
Bureaucracies established by prohibition are inherently inefficient and unable to discover the knowledge required to solve social problems. Prohibition also suppresses the market's ability to solve social problems, so that little or no progress is made while prohibitions are in effect. And finally, prohibitions create profit opportunities which add to…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: June 29, 2013
Too many people want to push America's schools in the wrong direction. Neal McCluskey, of the Cato Institute, isn't one of them: http://youtu.be/oo13VIX2aTg
Relevance: 53% Posted on: May 2, 2014
You have a golden opportunity to help kill some of the bad laws infesting San Francisco’s city code. The news is being passed along by the indefatigable champions of liberty and property rights at the Institute for Justice. Wherever local governments have assaulted the right of citizens to use and…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: January 7, 2018
From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen. A slogan to counter the socialist principle of distributive justice, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” by Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State And Utopia (1974), Ch. 7: Distributive Justice, Section I, Patterning, p. 160.…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: June 20, 2008
We could use a few million-dollar ideas to help fight juvenile crime. How about a half-million-dollar idea? The Justice Department gave $500,000 to the World Golf Foundation. The foundation’s beneficiary program is called “First Tee.†It’s designed to get youngsters interested in that most civilized of sporting passions, golf. Employees…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: April 13, 2009
When Ted Stevens, former senator from Alaska, was convicted on seven felony counts of corruption, I stressed that what I knew about Stevens’s corruption was not what was debated in court but what happened, quite openly, in the U.S. Senate. Do you remember my verdict? Here’s what I said: “[I]f…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: July 1, 2019
On July 1, 1944, American activist and founder of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Lew Rockwell, was born.
Relevance: 50% Posted on: July 29, 2010
Many is the time I’ve compared various politicians to The Wizard of Oz’s man behind the curtain. They’re not bad men; they’re just not very good wizards. But today brings a different connection to Oz: I can’t get the song, “Ding-dong, the Witch Is Dead!” out of my head. Tuesday,…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: October 4, 2022
Unconstitutional actions are constitutional. A federal judge doesn’t say so explicitly, but that’s what his ruling amounts to. The case, which we discussed previously, involves U.S. Private Vaults, a Beverly Hills company that the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided last year. The company has been fined $1.1 million for money…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: December 1, 2020
Maybe it’s an honor when big-tech companies gag you. Maybe you’re doing something right. Google-owned YouTube has yanked a Mises Institute talk by Tom Woods (“The COVID Cult”) from the Institute’s YouTube channel for challenging orthodox views of the pandemic. Google is also threatening the Mises Institute with further sanctions…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: October 17, 2023
The science of mine and thine — the science of justice — is the science of all human rights; of all a man’s rights of person and property; of all his rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Lysander Spooner, Natural Law; or, The Science of Justice, Section…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: August 29, 2015
John C. Goodman, of the Independent Institute, has been studying and writing about health care and government policy for a long time. Here he sketches a way out of the current impasse, which is not just an “ObamaCare” problem: https://youtu.be/P5OCzNvgUK0
Relevance: 49% Posted on: October 27, 2008
The Broward Coalition of Condominiums, Homeowners Associations and Community Organizations, Inc., regularly puts out newsletters. No surprise. Lots of organizations do. This Florida organization, though, does something more. Its newsletters regularly feature political subjects. Nothing shocking about that, either. This is America, right? Well, yes. But the First Amendment has…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: December 12, 2022
Maybe we can put a stop to the assault on the privacy of donors to political causes. By “we” I mean The Buckeye Institute and the Institute for Free Speech, who have teamed up to challenge “a decades-old law that forces the IRS to demand that nonprofit charities hand over…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: June 9, 2009
Illinois is hopeless. When John Tillman hears people say that about government in the Land of Lincoln, he gets pretty peeved. Tillman, head of the Illinois Policy Institute — a think tank offering what it calls “liberty-based public policy initiatives” — doesn’t think battling big government is hopeless at all.…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: July 18, 2022
Criminal courts provide an old kind of justice, where individuals’ specific acts are judged and individuals, if found guilty, are punished. “Social justice” is something else again — a daring, socialistic attempt to correct for all the ills “of society” or, more widely, “the cosmos.” That’s a huge agenda to…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: February 26, 2001
Good men are not that hard to find. But you do have to take the trouble to look for them. In September of 1999, a few months after confirming that he would step down after his third term in the House, Congressman Matt Salmon of Arizona held a press conference…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: March 6, 2024
Sandy Martinez: mother of three, working hard to get by, whole life ahead of her — why would she sabotage it by failing to perfectly park her car in her narrow driveway such that two of the wheels edged onto the grass? Think I’m making it up? No. It’s true.…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: March 28, 2016
I believe that freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience.
Relevance: 49% Posted on: September 6, 2018
Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.
Relevance: 49% Posted on: April 29, 2018
Man was created for social intercourse; but social intercourse cannot be maintained without a sense of justice; then man must have been created with a sense of justice. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis W. Gilmer, June 7, 1816.
Relevance: 49% Posted on: November 9, 2023
Man was created for social intercourse; but social intercourse cannot be maintained without a sense of justice; then man must have been created with a sense of justice. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis W. Gilmer, June 7, 1816.
Relevance: 49% Posted on: June 29, 2015
For once, The Washington Post headline actually reflected the commentary: “America is the worst polluter in the history of the world. We should let climate change refugees resettle here.” Michael B. Gerrard, associate faculty chair at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: March 11, 2014
On March 11, 1936, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was born.
Relevance: 48% Posted on: July 21, 2017
Sympathy which, a generation ago, was taking the shape of justice, is relapsing into the shape of generosity; and the generosity is exercised by inflicting injustice. Daily legislation betrays little anxiety that each shall have that which belongs to him, but great anxiety that he shall have that which belongs…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: December 18, 2017
Natural justice is a pledge of reciprocal benefit, to prevent one man from harming or being harmed by another.
Relevance: 48% Posted on: March 5, 2018
Natural justice is a pledge of reciprocal benefit, to prevent one man from harming or being harmed by another.
Relevance: 48% Posted on: January 25, 2008
Do we have the right to say things only when other people can’t hear us? Such seems to be the principle informing an attempt by the government of St. Louis. The city’s trying to force citizen activist Jim Roos to take down a sign that allegedly violates the city’s zoning…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: March 7, 2008
Even the obvious needs defenders. It is obvious that private property rights are vitally important. It is obvious that markets in property encourage development where development is desired. It is just as obvious that a lot of the progress that has happened in America over its two hundred year-plus history…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: December 22, 2020
Good news: New York City businessmen can no longer be threatened with eviction and forced to forfeit their rights for the crime of . . . well, for no crime at all. Sung Cho, owner of a Manhattan laundromat, is one of many victims of an eviction-and-extortion racket perpetrated by the city. For…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: October 20, 2018
Sympathy which, a generation ago, was taking the shape of justice, is relapsing into the shape of generosity; and the generosity is exercised by inflicting injustice. Daily legislation betrays little anxiety that each shall have that which belongs to him, but great anxiety that he shall have that which belongs…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: May 2, 2024
Sympathy which, a generation ago, was taking the shape of justice, is relapsing into the shape of generosity; and the generosity is exercised by inflicting injustice. Daily legislation betrays little anxiety that each shall have that which belongs to him, but great anxiety that he shall have that which belongs…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: November 23, 2017
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Relevance: 47% Posted on: August 25, 2023
Il n’y a point de plus cruelle tyrannie que celle que l’on exerce à l’ombre des lois et avec les couleurs de la justice, lorsqu’on va, pour ainsi dire, noyer des malheureux sur la planche même sur laquelle ils s’étaient sauvés. No tyranny is more cruel than the one practiced…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: January 17, 2015
Please, please, don't be a pessimist. Steven Pinker interviewed by Caleb Brown, courtesy of Cato Institute:
Relevance: 47% Posted on: May 21, 2001
Mr. Ashcroft is in trouble again. What has the controversial attorney general been doing this time? Well . . . praying and reading the Bible. Not during work hours. Not disruptively. But right in his office at the Justice Department before work starts. Well, is he requiring other workers to…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: June 27, 2015
Michael Tanner of Cato Institute has a new book out, and it looks like it takes on the federal budget, deficits, and debt in an honest and realistic manner. This is what Americans need to understand. But will politicians ever tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: June 25, 2021
Now hold on just a minute. I’m not one of those crazies who thinks the government is nothing better than a den of thieves constantly looking for new ways to steal from us. So don’t accuse me of making such an accusation. Please. But, gee whiz, it sure makes the…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: December 16, 2009
In his book Stuff White People Like: The Definitive Guide to the Unique Tastes of Millions, Christian Lander notes that “Yoga is essentially stretching with guidance. . . . . You might think that since yoga is such a minimalist activity, it can be done almost anywhere. But you would…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: October 22, 2014
Sometimes the only way to make your point is to keep repeating yourself. So it is when explaining why the law requires educational institutions that receive federal funding, like Ward Melville High School, to allow clubs such as the one formed by17-year-old student John Raney in 2013. Students United in…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: October 11, 2003
60 Minutes is known for its hard-hitting investigative journalism. Sometimes it seems to hit harder at business than at government, but recently we've seen an exception to that. Mike Wallace talked to businessmen and homeowners under attack for the crime of well, owning property, I guess. Governments around the country…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: December 20, 2015
Fixing the welfare state, for everybody’s benefit, should be high on the political agenda. But if a fix isn’t possible, maybe we should be thinking more radically about its very real problems. Click on over to Townhall.com, for Paul Jacob’s December 20, 2015, column. Then come back here, for more information. Cato: “Finland…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: October 8, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh’s weekend confirmation as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 50-48 Senate vote, didn’t settle the allegations of his past sexual conduct in a judicial manner. Wild disagreement remains. Many on the Left continue to believe our newest justice repeatedly lied under oath, having abused…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: August 5, 2022
Your constitutional rights have been violated. Now what? One thing you can do is find out exactly where you stand with respect to what the Institute for Justice calls “clearly established law.” IJ has created a new research tool, the Constitutional GPA, to help lawyers and others identify relevant legal…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: March 15, 2024
“You get paid good.” So said one student when asked “Why should students join CFJ?” How well-paid? $1,400, for learning to fight for “racial justice” and “social justice.” Parrot left-wing propaganda, that is. The activist group Californians for Justice has paid at least 78 public high school students a total…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: June 7, 2017
Primitively the love of property is gratified only by possession of food and shelter, and, presently, of clothing; but afterwards it is gratified by possession of the weapons and tools which aid in obtaining these, then by possession of the raw materials that serve for making weapons and tools and…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: June 16, 2023
Some gangsters take it personally if you object to being railroaded. So they railroad you some more. That’s what happened to Robert Reeves, a Detroit auto mechanic and construction worker. In 2019, Wayne County confiscated his Camaro after police saw him visit a site that supposedly contained stolen equipment. The…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: November 23, 2010
No supporter of so-called “clean elections” would argue that we should be forced by law to pull the lever on election day for the candidate we oppose. But the tangled web that politicians and regulators have woven with campaign finance laws does often force us to support candidates we oppose…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: April 14, 2012
“The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: March 20, 2024
Trying to find justice in the justice system is sometimes like panning for gold in a dry river. But what ho, hey, we’ve found some. Victoria Taft points us to “a federal judge who believes in justice” . . . or a reasonable facsimile thereof. Recently, California District Court Judge…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: September 22, 2010
Want a measure of the regulatory state run amok? Recently in the Washington Post, Robert McNamara of the Institute for Justice informed us that “In the 1950s, only about one out of every 20 Americans needed a license to pursue the occupation of their choice. Today, that number is one…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: July 13, 2011
It’s an impasse worthy of Joseph Heller. The author of the comic novel Catch-22 provided us with the perfect term for a specific type of trap. In Heller’s story, you could only get out of the army if you were crazy — but if you asked to get out, that…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: February 20, 2008
My new favorite comedian is Drew Carey. Not that Carey is funnier than, say, Don Knotts . . . or explanations of the national debt. I just like what Carey’s doing lately — helping turn local stories about political lunacy into national stories. Carey is working with reason.tv, spinoff of…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: March 31, 2022
Based on a quick look at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate’s splash page, I wasn’t immediately sure what, precisely, the institute’s raison d’être might be. On the top menu bar there’s a slogan: “Just Vote.” Big clue? On the About page, though, we are told…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: April 6, 2012
“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”
Relevance: 44% Posted on: January 27, 2024
Government agencies that “fight crime” too often engage in criminal behavior to do so. In June of 2021, Common Sense with Paul Jacob reported on an FBI operation that raided safe deposit boxes. In March, the federal government conducted a raid of a safe deposit box company called U.S. Privacy…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: December 10, 2009
Suppose I donated bone marrow to help save someone’s life . . . and you, to encourage people like me to step forward, offered college scholarships for such donations. Most folks would applaud us. But not the federal government. It would charge us with a felony and send us to…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: October 23, 2000
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things is just not the same. Can you guess which one? First is the antitrust suit against Microsoft, undertaken at the behest of Microsoft's competitors, like Netscape and AOL. They pushed the Justice Department to do something about…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: July 9, 2001
We hear a great deal about money corrupting politics these days. But Paul Farago, with the Cascade Policy Institute, says politics is corrupting money. He points out that much of the problem is created by politicians dispensing special favors or threatening to bludgeon the market to shake down contributions from…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: May 22, 2008
The sign said “Beware of the Dance Police.†It graced a wooden post at San Tan Flat, a restaurant in Pinal County, Arizona. It was part of the restaurant’s protest against the county’s busy-bodyish no-dancing rule. Owners Dale Bell and son Spencer appealed that decision. And won. Spencer gladly took…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: March 6, 2018
by Paul Jacob While the Supreme Court heard oral argument, last week, in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the court of public opinion focused not so much on the constitutionality of the law in question, i.e. justice, but instead on the partisan impact of…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: August 21, 2000
One of the reasons Americans are so fond of term limits is that once in office politicians change right before our eyes. The longer a person stays in Congress, the more they vote for higher taxes and more spending. There's logic there. The more you, as a congressman, think of…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: December 18, 2013
We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. Ambition and intrigue abuses the credulity and experience of men lacking all…