by Elizabeth Nolan Brown. The most baffling thing about the people—mostly liberals—who push for laws against "hate speech" is their apparent inability to imagine these bans backfiring. In their zeal to punish those who spread sexist, racist, transphobic, or otherwise unfashionable speech, they too often ignore the ways tools of censorship—including hate ... MORE
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Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Coming: America’s First 24-Hr Firearm Shopping Channel
by Michelle Gorman. GunTV debuts in 2016. As the fractious debate over American gun laws continues, two people in California are preparing to launch the country’s first all-gun home shopping television channel. Created by Doug Bornstein and Valerie Castle—both of whom previously worked for home shopping networks—the new channel, named ... MORE
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business,
entrepreneur,
firearms,
freedom,
guns,
individual liberty,
protection,
self-defense
Andrew Napolitano: Paris And Freedom
Our liberties are NOT the problem. The tragedy in Paris last Friday has regrettably been employed as a catalyst for renewed calls by governments in western Europe and even in the United States for more curtailment of personal liberties. Those who accept the trade of liberty for safety have argued in favor of less liberty. They want ... MORE
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civil rights,
free speech,
freedom,
individual liberty,
privacy,
rights,
safety,
scare tactics,
travel
Nullification And The Kentucky Resolution Of 1798
by William J. Watkins, Jr. Because the United States was founded as a constitutional republic -- one based on certain specific principles, not power or privilege -- Americans of all eras frequently raise concerns about federal authority that bear resemblance to debates from earlier times in our history. A good illustration of this “echo effect” in American ... MORE
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Constitution,
Founding Fathers,
freedom,
history,
individual liberty,
justice,
nullification
Economic Liberty Vs. Big Government Illusions
by John Hayward. Economic freedom is the practical expression of liberty – if we’re not free to sell our goods and labor, spending and investing the proceeds as we see fit, we’re not truly “free” to do anything except complain about how the government treats us. And if we don’t have access to valid information about the government, and ... MORE
Benjamin A. Rogge: The Case for Economic Freedom
The free market is about self-determination. I shall identify my brand of economics as that of economic freedom, and I shall define economic freedom as that set of economic arrangements that would exist in a society in which the government’s only function would be to prevent one man from using force or fraud against another — including ... MORE
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economics,
force,
fraud,
free market,
freedom,
laissez fare,
self-interest,
voluntary exchange
John Stossel: Escaping Tyranny
The joy of thinking for yourself. North Korea is called the "worst place on earth" for good reason. Thousands of people are tortured. Some North Koreans eat rodents to try to survive, and many starve anyway. In winter, they freeze. No one but the dictator has any true freedom, and no one is allowed to leave. One person who understands that is ... MORE
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arrest,
freedom,
incentives,
individual liberty,
North Korea,
police state,
sex offenders,
slavery
When American Exceptionalism Was Self-Evident
by Barry Farber. A journalism professor once insisted that if the headline were good enough you wouldn’t have to write the rest of the story. Shall we try it? Here goes! “The World Has Lost America as a Champion of Freedom.” Our teachers never tried to sell us on American exceptionalism. It wasn’t necessary. It automatically became ... MORE
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America,
exceptionalism,
freedom,
history,
humanity,
individual liberty,
opportunity,
refugees
SF’s LAST GUN SHOP To Close Over City’s New Regs
by Jessica Chasmar. San Francisco’s
last gun shop has been a defiant fixture against the liberal city’s
suffocating arms policies for more than 60 years, but a new set of
regulations is forcing the owners to finally throw in the towel. The proposed new regulations would require High Bridge Arms in San Francisco’s Mission District to videotape all transactions ... MORE
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consumer,
freedom,
government,
gun control,
liberalism,
politicians,
regulation,
restrictions
Frank Newport: Gallup Poll Reveals That 51% Of Country Still Fail To See Government As An Immediate Threat
Half the country is oblivious to lost liberty. Almost half of Americans, 49%, say the federal government poses "an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens," similar to what was found in previous surveys conducted over the last five years. When this question was first asked in 2003, less than a third of Americans held ... MORE
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2nd Amendment,
America,
citizenship,
Constitution,
freedom,
individual liberty,
politics,
rights
Lawrence J. McQuillan: The United States Of America Now Has Less Economic Freedom Than Chile, Jordan, Or Taiwan
The verdict on hope and change is in. Today the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, Canada, released the 2015 Economic Freedom of the World Report (pdf) and it’s bad news for the United States, where economic freedom is falling. The U.S. ranks only 16th in economic freedom trailing Chile, Jordan, and Taiwan. The EFW Report measures the level ... MORE
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