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Defining the Right of Self-Defense by Gun

Thomas Bowden | 15 March 2008
A proper legal system recognizes and protects the right to self defense, by permitting private ownership of handguns under appropriate limits.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian and The Right to Assisted Suicide

Thomas Bowden | 31 May 2007
Here's a quiz: During the eight years Dr. Jack Kevorkian languished in a Michigan prison, how many state legislatures reformed their laws against physician-assisted suicide?

Rights Before Religion: The Individual's Right to Commit Suicide

Thomas Bowden | 5 October 2005
Only the Supreme Court can thwart the designs of conservatives who, by injecting religion into the bloodstream of American law, seek to assist in our own national suicide.

Assisted Suicide: A Moral Right

Thomas Bowden | 27 March 2005
Supreme Court should rise above legal technicalities and affirm the individual's right to commit suicide.

Assisted Suicide: A Moral Right

Thomas Bowden | 1 June 2004
In upholding Oregon's assisted-suicide law, the federal appeals court in California has reached the right result for the wrong reasons.

Conservativism vs. Individual Rights

Nicholas Provenzo | 27 May 2004
Those who support the detention of American citizens without a trial turn the principle of individual rights up upon its head. If a foreign threat exists against America, it ought to be dealt with at its source by our military, and not at the price of destroying checks that protect the individual from the abuse of government power.

Amnesty International: More Than Just Bad Manners

Carter Laren | 26 May 2004
Would it hurt Amnesty International's political agenda too much to include a simple 'thank you' to America?

Tis the Season...to Understand Individual Rights

Andrew Bernstein | 25 December 2002
Why object to voluntary employment but remain silent regarding slavery? It looks like a terrible inconsistency. But is it? A closer look shows that liberals consistently endorse the violation of the rights of the very people they profess to protect.

Rights vs. Wishes

Walter Williams | 27 October 2002
We hear so much about "rights" -- a right to this and a righealth care, food and a decent job, and more recently, senior citizens have a right to prescription drugs. In a free society, do people have these rights? Let's look at it.

Freedom of Association

Walter Williams | 27 September 2002
Do Americans really cherish freedom of association? Are there any justifiable restrictions on freedom of association?
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