Byzantine state laws demand you get a state-approved license before you may become a hairdresser, tour guide, travel agent, house painter and all sorts of other jobs where customer happiness should be the guide.
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The Crime Tax on Low Income Neighborhoods
Crime imposes a hefty tax on people who can least afford it.
Virginia’s Second Amendment Attack
As a friend once explained to me, “I carry a gun because I can’t carry a cop.”
Where Was the Love for Whistleblowers During the Obama Administration?
Democrats like Pelosi and their media sympathizers think highly of whistleblowers — when they whistleblow on Trump.
The Big Aristotle Educates King LeBron on Freedom for Hong Kong
With his historic statement against Communist China for the ideal of free speech and the United States of America, Shaq showed a prime example of the highest moral action. Leonard Peikoff once said that to save the world is the simplest thing — all one has to do is think. Shaquille O’Neal did exactly that.
Calls To Restrict Gun Ownership Are Part of a Strategy To Ban Guns All Together
Americans who call for stricter and stricter gun control know that getting rid of rifles will do little or nothing for the nation’s homicide rate. Their calls for more restrictive gun laws are part of a larger strategy to outlaw gun ownership altogether.
Legalization of the Canadian Cannabis Market
The principle of freedom trumps government regulation. In Ayn Rand’s words: “Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind.”
NBA Kneeling To China Demonstrates That Freedom of Speech is Imposible Without a Free Market
The difference between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is that Donald cannot command companies doing business with the NFL to stop doing so until every football player who has kneeled during the national anthem publicly apologize for “offending the American people.” China can.
The Free Market of Ideas Is The Best Way To “Regulate” Social Media
The view that social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook are corroding our public discourse has become increasingly accepted wisdom, the starting point for a debate rather than the debate itself.
Laissez-Faire Social Media: Stop Blocking Us
On at least some platforms, all speech should be free. The more that is blocked, the less we learn.
Bernie Sanders Against Freedom of the Press
The Sanders plan would clear the path for any authoritarian to dictate whatever he defines as “real journalism.”
Price Controls Attack the Freedom of Speech
We increasingly live in a new “dark age” of economic ignorance, and even stupidity. Few things exemplify this trend as much as the call for price controls over the interactions of multitudes of people in the marketplace of supply and demand. There are few government...
Criminologists Mislead Us Because of Their Ideology
Ideology almost perfectly predicts the position of criminologists on issues from gun control to capital punishment to harsh sentencing.
Trump’s Promise on Deregulation: Repeal 22 Regulations for Every New One
Every excessive rule repealed is a step in the right direction: toward freedom.
High Crime Black Communities Need Law and Order, Not Political Rhetoric
Today’s level of lawlessness and insecurity in many black communities is a relatively new phenomenon. In the 1950s, ’40s, ’30s and earlier times, people didn’t bar their windows.
Protecting IP with Tariffs: A Recipe for Cronyism Costumed as Ethical Law Enforcement
Do Allegations of Intellectual-Property Theft Justify Protective Tariffs?
‘Veggie Burger’ Ban: Mississippi’s Unconstitutional Advertising Restrictions
The government has no power to keep consumers in the dark—or to prohibit the use of terms that consumers understand—in order to protect special interests from honest competition.
Things Haven’t Always Been This Way
Police and laws can never replace moral values as restraints on personal conduct.
The Government Bureaucrat Bullies of Dunedin Florida vs. The Eighth Amendment
The Founding Fathers, says Bargil, “recognized that the ability to fine is the ability to cripple. It’s one of the ways, other than incarceration, that government can really oppress.”
The Contempt for Free Speech on College Campuses
The true test of one’s commitment to free speech comes when others are permitted to say and publish ideas they deem offensive.
U.S. Constitution Gives the Trade Power to Congress Alone
Republicans must join with Democrats to end Trump’s tariff authority. They should repeal these “emergency” laws that allow the president to unilaterally impose new taxes on Americans, in defiance of the intent of the framers of the Constitution.
Paid Family Leave Mandated By Government
Can’t we just leave government out of it and let employers and employees work this out to meet individual needs?
Free Speech on Campus: Colleges Committed to Ideological Diversity
When you send your youngster off to college, you might not mind that they will have to walk on eggshells, respect taboos, snitch on fellow students for politically incorrect jokes and learn to use ad hominem arguments as a means to attack ideas they find...
Moral Panic Over Sex Workers
Sex slavery is evil. Authorities should do everything they can to stop it. But there is a big difference between slavery and sex work done by consenting adults.
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