Who’s in office is making a difference, because government has abandoned its referee and night watchman function and gotten into the business of determining winners and losers.
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Freedom Is Not Free
As long as millions of Americans vote on the basis of who gives them free stuff, look for their freedom — and all our freedom — to be eroded away, bit by bit.
FCC “Study” vs. the First Amendment
ending federal bureaucrats to meddle in newsroom affairs by conducting an alleged “study” will chill news coverage and make government-licensed broadcast media think twice about airing stories that place the Obama administration in a bad light.
The Kansas Anti-Gay Law and The Freedom of Association
What we need is a law — or a Constitutional amendment, if need-be — ensuring freedom of association. In other words, all individual citizens should be guaranteed the right to associate, or not associate, with whom they choose.
Obamacare for News Reporting: Will Government Censors Be Placed in America’s Newsrooms?
Individual liberty, freedom and private property — including the most precious right of free speech – are not frozen in place forever. Government will always test its limits and watch how we respond.
Shackling Minds and Speech: IRS Reg-134417-13
The IRS Reg-134417-13 ruling is an unconscionable attack on our right to discuss, agree or disagree about political matters.
Reputation Versus Regulation: Why Is The Government Concerned With Whom You Eat With?
Most regulation is useless. It’s the need to maintain one’s reputation that does most to keep us safe.
No “Patent Troll” Litigation Problem
With the future of innovation at stake, it is not crazy to ask that before we make radical, systemic changes to the patent system that we have validly established empirical evidence that such revisions are in fact necessary or at least would do more good than harm.
Abolish the TSA
The TSA is a failure.
Oprah’s Hate Speech
Emotional charges of racism? What a convenient way to escape defense of your own flawed viewpoints.
ObamaCare Phase Two: Point the Gun at Your Doctor
The New York Post reports that New York doctors are “treating ObamaCare like the plague,” according to a new survey. See? I told you so. A poll conducted by the New York State Medical Society finds that 44 percent of MDs said they are not participating in the nation’s...
Adam Mossoff’s Senate Testimony on Patent Assertion Entities, Demand Letters and Patent Litigation
There certainly are bad actors, deceptive demand letters, and frivolous litigation in the patent system. The important question, though, is whether there is a systemic problem requiring further systemic revisions to the patent system.
Rescuing BlackBerry?
The latter, nationalistic motive of buying BlackBerry or any other company is misguided.
Freedom of Speech vs. Embarrassing The Government
A federal employee decides to write a book on his knowledge of a known government scandal. After signing a book contract with a major publisher, the book deal is subsequently forbidden—by the government. Does this sound like a George Orwell novel? Or an Ayn Rand work...
Are Guns the Problem?
Why — at a time in our history when guns were readily available, when a person could just walk into a store or order a gun through the mail, when there were no FBI background checks, no waiting periods, no licensing requirements — was there not the frequency and kind of gun violence that we sometimes see today, when access to guns is more restricted?
Honesty and Trust
The fact that honesty and trust are so vital should make us rethink just how much tolerance we should have for criminals and dishonest people.
Aaron Alexis: The Homegrown Terrorist
Aaron Alexis was the product of a psychiatric/political establishment committed to making excuses at all costs.
NSA Spying, Economic Intervention, and Legal Positivism
Legal Positivism has slowly eaten away the Constitution and individual rights.
The Myth of the “Patent Troll” Litigation Explosion
Unfortunately, the complaints today about today’s patent litigation crisis arise more from unchecked intuitions about what feels like a bad situation, from unrealistic assumptions about how much certainty we can achieve in the patent system, and from emotionally-compelling anecdotes about innovators running into trouble with patents.
Obama’s Whistleblower Protection of Convenience
“Hope and change” were never about ideals or principles. They were about power.
Chris Christie vs. the Constitution
Christie, like most career politicians, has unlimited faith in unlimited government.
Profiling for Crime: Who Is Too Blame?
A law-abiding black person denied a taxi is rightfully angered, but to whom should his anger be directed, at the driver who’s trying to protect his life or at the people who’ve instilled fear by robbing and assaulting cabbies?
Print the Legend: Thoughts on The Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman Tragedy
Martin was the aggressor in the physical encounter.
Hillary Clinton Insults Herself–and Women Everywhere
Hillary Clinton recently said she hoped the U.S. would elect a woman to the White House because it would send "exactly the right historical signal" to men, women and children. She said women in politics need to "dare to compete" and the nation needs to "take that leap...
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