When the state won't act, individuals must. The resistance to one-size-fits-all education is gaining steam. This is evidenced by the latest display of power from concerned parents who are saying no to the Common Core State Standards while the New York legislature fails to do so. An excess of 175,000 parents in the state of New York alone ... MORE
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Common Core Resistance Gains Steam In New York
When the state won't act, individuals must. The resistance to one-size-fits-all education is gaining steam. This is evidenced by the latest display of power from concerned parents who are saying no to the Common Core State Standards while the New York legislature fails to do so. An excess of 175,000 parents in the state of New York alone ... MOREWalter E Williams: Some Thoughts And Questions
What's the true test of one's commitment to free speech? It does not come when he permits people to be free to say or publish ideas with which he agrees. Not by a long shot. The true test of one's commitment to free speech comes when he permits others to say and publish ideas he deems offensive. In March, a video surfaced of ... MORE
Ron Paul: IRS, Congress Hold Our Liberty In Contempt
Unaccountable government marches on. This week the Justice Department announced it would not charge former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner with contempt of Congress. Some members of Congress requested that Lerner be charged with contempt after she refused to testify at a congressional hearing ... MORE
Daniel J. Mitchell: Liberty, Morality, and Discrimination
Decent people should not obey immoral laws. When describing their view of government and public policy,
libertarians and constitutional conservatives sometimes use a variation
of this phrase: “Not everything that’s illegal is immoral, and not
everything that’s immoral should be illegal.” To put this in tangible terms, consider the fact that ... MOREWalter E Williams: What's Gone Wrong With Democracy?
Majority rule can be dangerous. The Economist magazine recently published "What's gone wrong with Democracy ... and what can be done to revive it?" The suggestion is that democracy is some kind of ideal for organizing human conduct. That's a popular misconception. The ideal way to organize human conduct is to create a system that maximizes ... MORECraig Biddle: What Is Objectivism?
Reason, egoism and capitalism. It is widely believed today that our moral, cultural, and political
alternatives are limited either to the ideas of the secular,
relativistic left—or to those of the religious, absolutist right—or to
some compromised mixture of the two. In other words, one’s ideas are
supposedly either extremely “liberal” or extremely ... MOREBrian Doherty: A Loss for Justice, Liberty, Safety & Peace
The persecution of Silk Road. The operation Ulbricht was found guilty of managing was one guaranteed to save lives, reduce real crime, and preserve liberty. As I
reported earlier today, Ross Ulbricht was found guilty of all
seven counts related to running the Silk Road website. The government baldly asserted—and the judge allowed the grossly ... MOREDid Congress Stop Marijuana Legalization in D.C.?
by Jacob Sullum. The omnibus
spending bill that Congress approved last week includes a
rider aimed at blocking marijuana legalization in Washington, D.C.
Whether it actually will do that is a matter of debate,
and the way this provision was passed suggests that pot
prohibitionists are in a weaker position than ever before. The rider, introduced ... MOREAre ‘We The People’ Useful Idiots In The Digital Age?
by John W. Whitehead. Is this really a government of consent? “Who needs direct repression,” asked philosopher Slavoj Zizek, “when one can convince the chicken to walk freely into the slaughterhouse?” In an Orwellian age where war equals peace, surveillance equals safety, and tolerance equals intolerance of uncomfortable truths and ... MOREJohn Stossel: Electing Liberty
Yearning to live as a free man. I watch election results to gauge whether America has become freer or more tyrannical. It's hard to know whether Tuesday's results will make much difference. Often, individual liberty erodes in ways that neither major political party much cares about. Last weekend, I suffered through the New York ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: The Presumption Of Liberty
The presumption has become tyranny. In the years following the adoption of the Constitution, before he was Secretary of State under President Thomas Jefferson and then president himself, James Madison, who wrote the Constitution, was a member of the House of Representatives. During that period of his life, he gave ... MORE
Democracy Is Neither Freedom Nor Prosperity
by Jacob Hornberger. Consider this excerpt from a New York Times article on the recent success that Tunisia has had in adopting a democratic system: Many young Tunisians say that the new freedoms and elections have done little to improve the daily life, create jobs, or rein in a brutal police force that many here still refer to as “the ruler, ... MORE
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