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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…