Showing posts with label reason. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reason. Show all posts
Elliot Rodger And Gun Control's False Promise
by Jacob Sullum. The day after his 20-year-old son, Christopher, was shot down at
a deli in Isla Vista, California, Richard Martinez
blamed his death on "craven, irresponsible politicians and the
NRA." Gun control advocates quickly seized upon Martinez's remarks,
using his grief to obscure the illogic of their position. None of the items on the ... MOREThe 2016 Presidential Candidate We Need
by George F. Will. All modern presidents of both parties
have been too much with us. Talking incessantly, they have put politics
unhealthily at the center of America’s consciousness. Promising
promiscuously, they have exaggerated government’s proper scope and
actual competence, making the public perpetually disappointed and surly. Inflating ... MOREPaul Bonneau: Evil Rationalizations For Good People
Why is it that evil proliferates? What mechanism keeps it going? Who is to blame? Why are there so many wars and occupations? Why such huge amounts of theft (“taxes”, fines, fees and “civil forfeiture”)? Why are so many nonviolent people in jail? What keeps the “War on Some Drugs” going? Why does the police state expand and expand? ... MOREWhy Gun Owners Oppose Universal Background Checks
Building the gun owner database. Gun control groups (including the Obama White House) have been pushing hard for new laws and restrictions on firearms. One of their biggest dreams is to have what is known as a “universal background check” (UBC). The gun control groups see this as a panacea to stop violence. They believe that if they ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The High Cost Of Liberalism - Part Two
Liberals can be disarming. In fact, they are for disarming anybody who can be disarmed, whether domestically or internationally. Unfortunately, the people who are the easiest to disarm are the ones
who are the most peaceful — and disarming them makes them vulnerable to
those who are the least peaceful. We are currently getting a ... MORE
Emma Roller: Millennials Are Down On Government
The future of hope and change. Two recent studies—one released by the Pew Research Center and one by Third Way—show that the generation that helped elect President Obama in 2008 now identifies as independent more than ever. Millennials who may have voted with youthful exuberance in 2008 seem to have grown fatigued ... MOREAtlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt?
by Brian Doherty. A labor of love over money. John Aglialoro is a businessman, and a very successful one, named by Fortune magazine in 2007 as the 10th richest small business executive in the country. But his latest project is, he says, about “love.” It’s the film Atlas Shrugged III: Who is
John Galt?, the conclusion of a trilogy of movies based ... MOREPetition To Split California Into Six States Gets Green Light
More laboratories of liberty please. A venture capitalist who feels colossal California is too unwieldy to govern is proposing to split it into six separate states, and Secretary of State Debra Bowen has given him the green light to start collecting petition signatures. Tim Draper filed a ballot initiative in December stating that because of ... MORE
Craig Biddle: What Is Objectivism?
The philosophy of 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 ... MOREVIDEO: Ayn Rand - Introducing Objectivism
Perhaps the most important philosophic video you will EVER see.
How Jury Nullification Accelerates the Drug War’s Demise
by Steve Silverman, Flex Your Rights. I recently had the privilege of joining three jury nullification heavyweights on a panel hosted by the International Drug Policy Reform Conference. The discussion focused on how strategic jury nullification can be used to dismantle the War on Drugs. If you watch this 84-minute panel from
beginning ... MORE
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