by Richard M. Ebeling. With the seventieth anniversary last year of the end of the Second World War, a number of commentators have focused on the presumed “unity” of America seven decades ago to “win the war” against global tyranny and international aggression by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Individuals put aside their individual personal ... MORE
Showing posts with label public good. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public good. Show all posts
“National Purposes” Versus Individual Rights
by Richard M. Ebeling. With the seventieth anniversary last year of the end of the Second World War, a number of commentators have focused on the presumed “unity” of America seven decades ago to “win the war” against global tyranny and international aggression by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Individuals put aside their individual personal ... MOREJack Healy and Kirk Johnson: This Land Is Your Land
The folly of federal land management. Ken Ivory, a Republican state representative from Utah, has been roaming the West with an alluring pitch to cattle ranchers, farmers and conservatives upset with how Washington controls the wide-open public spaces out here: This land is your land, he says, and not the federal government’s. Mr. Ivory, ... MORE
How Jury Duty Almost Turned Me Into An Anarchist
by Matt Welch. A painful government process. "Jury duty!?!?" the former aide to a certain libertarianish senator wrote me Tuesday, after I had mentioned how I was spending my day. "A very anti-libertarian and statist idea. Compulsory service to the state. I treat jury duty like I treat voting—I show up if I feel like it. And I have not felt like showing ... MOREWith a Big GOP Wave, Americans Wisely Voted for Gridlock
by J.D. Tuccille. On election night, TV talking heads watching the Republican wave/surge/tidal flow across the country earnestly looked at each other and asked if the new Republican Senate majority can work with the president and overcome the gridlock that has so turned off voters. Umm...what? Yeah, I know Americans keep telling ... MOREWashington Times Editorial: Water Vigilantes In California
Nobody likes a tattletale, but snitching comes naturally to a certain kind of busybody. The remarkable drought in California has produced a new category of righteous snitches called “water vigilantes.” They prowl through neighborhoods with smartphones, creeping through the shrubs and bushes in the dead of night looking for working sprinklers ... MOREMichael Bastasch: EPA Tested Deadly Pollutants On Humans
For the Obama administration's agenda. The Environmental Protection Agency has been conducting dangerous
experiments on humans over the past few years in order to justify more
onerous clean air regulations. The agency conducted tests on people with health issues and the
elderly, exposing them to high levels of potentially lethal ... MORETibor Machan: The Libertarian Public Interest
Libertarians understand the public good. A particularly irksome rhetorical ploy against the free society’s champions is that they refuse to acknowledge that there is such a thing as the public interest (or public good or general welfare or some such goal). Critics of these champions routinely wag their fingers charging that those who insist that the free ... MORE
Joe Palazzolo: The Budding War Against Big Food
Addicted to Coke ... and suing Coca-Cola? Our colleagues Ashby Jones and Shirley Wang had a great story over the weekend about mothers and fathers in custody lawsuits increasingly hurling accusations at each other about the nutrition and obesity of their children. They are using the obesity issue in an attempt to persuade judges that their kids are ... MORE
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