Our citizens are justifiably sickened and infuriated by so many deadly shootings.
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The Power to Regulate Is the Power to Control
The power to tax or to regulate is also the power to control, not just in the supposed “public interest” but in the interest of the regulators themselves, or specific politicians, or the government more generally.
Wyoming GOP State Lawmakers Propose to Ban Electric Cars
Wyoming: Blue California’s Red Mini-Me?
Judicial Review: The Supreme Court’s Complicity in Our Loss of Freedom
So how has judicial review worked out?
Jordan Peterson’s License Fiasco Highlights Why Government Licensing Should Be Abolished
The alternative to state licensing is free-market certification.
How an Occupied Twitter Ruined Countless Lives
What people used to say about the CCP role in the management of TikTok applies fully in the US today with all the main tech companies.
The Biden Administration Is Banning Low-Cost Appliances—and Bragging about It
New Biden administration regulations will lower the standard of living of Americans.
Patent Rights: Life, Liberty and Intellectual Property
The Founding Fathers’ moral achievement in securing patents and other intellectual property rights in U.S. law.
Support Free Speech? You Should Be Rooting for Elon!
Those who support a culture of reason should be rooting for Elon Musk’s Twitter to succeed.
When Defenders of Property Rights Are Its Own Worst Enemies
Many attempts to defend property rights are founded on the wrong premises. The result, unfortunately, is ultimately destructive to the cause.
The Coercive “Solution”
Do as I say, or else you will be fined or sent to prison.
Inconvenient Truths and Convenient Lies
Facebook’s vice president has admitted fact-checkers are not necessarily objective, and the company even acknowledged recently in a lawsuit that fact-check tags are “opinion,” not factual assertions.
Judge Orders Fauci to Cough It Up
At issue is whether and to what extent the government itself has had a hand in encouraging tech companies to squelch speech. If so, this is unconstitutional.
The Real Villain Regarding Vaccines
If Cruz really wants parents, and all Americans, to have freedom of choice, he should call for the abolition of the FDA.
The Two Sides of the Censorship Coin
Forcing companies to allow content is the flip side of prohibiting them from expressing certain ideas. These are the two side of the censorship coin.
The Government Shouldn’t Decide Who May Practice Law
Occupational licensure is a species of political favoritism, invariably enacted to protect incumbent practitioners by restricting competition.
It’s All About Property Rights
Ayn Rand correctly wrote that without property rights, no other rights are possible.
Would You Abdicate If You Could Be the Dictator?
“If only I was dictator, I know how to set things right.”
Mozart, Mediocrity, and the Administrative State
Every highly productive person – we don’t even have to speak of geniuses here – often ends up surrounded by resentful and mediocre people who have too much time on their hands. They use whatever limited talents they have to plot, confound, confuse, and ultimately wreck their betters. The demand to “comply” is always the watchword: it’s a tool of destruction.
Let Novak Play
Banning uninfected foreigners, like Novak Djokovic, from the US because they are unvaccinated is anti-science as vaccination does not stop the spread of covid-19, and anti-American as it violates the principles of individual freedom & choice that America was founded upon.
Texas’ War on Free Speech
Social media companies are not a threat to free speech. Governments that do not respect property rights are.
The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F
The gradual rise of the 4th branch of government (the administrative “deep state” bureaucracy) which is very much the most powerful branch – has reduced the American political process to mere theater as compared with the real activity of government, which rests with the permanent bureaucracy.
Dismantling Roe
Important lecture by Objectivist philosopher Onkar Ghate examining the reasoning and implications of SCOTUS overturning Roe vs Wade.
The Mighty Gorsuch vs. the Administrative State: Quotes from West Virginia vs. EPA
Justice Gorsuch rules against the dictatorship by the administrative state, in favor of the system established by the Constitution’s framers.