The success of a nation depends on the answer. Property rights depend on the principle that you own yourself. If you own yourself, then you own the fruit of your labor. A medieval hunter cuts a branch and sharpens it into a spear. Now he has changed a common stick into a useful tool; he has made personal property. Property rights protect the ... MOREDavid John Marotta: Are Property Rights Human Rights?
The success of a nation depends on the answer. Property rights depend on the principle that you own yourself. If you own yourself, then you own the fruit of your labor. A medieval hunter cuts a branch and sharpens it into a spear. Now he has changed a common stick into a useful tool; he has made personal property. Property rights protect the ... MOREGrowing Number Of States Defy Federal Gun Laws
by Gregory Gwyn-Williams Jr. Shortly after voters in Colorado and Washington State approved measures that legalized the recreational use of marijuana, President Obama told Barbara Walters that his Justice Department would not prosecute pot users in these states. "We've got bigger fish to fry," Obama said. Although the state measures defy ... MOREJeffrey Phelps: American Police State Expanding
Government to snoop through your financial records. A very startling report emerged Wednesday spelling out another example of the loss of ever-dwindling rights and liberties in the US. According to the report, Obama has decided to allow all US intelligence agencies the ability to “scour American's finances” and dig through the ... MORERick Moran: Libertarians On The Rise At CPAC
What about the social conservatives? This account by the Daily Beast's Michael Moynihan highlights the virtual libertarian takeover of CPAC this year and what it means for Rand Paul: When Rand Paul addresses those issues that divide libertarians and traditional conservatives-national security, the drug war, immigration, gay rights-he does so ... MOREVIDEO: The Next Generation Of Surveillance Capability
ARGUS Featured on PBS Nova. BIG BROTHER IS HERE!
NY State Assemblyman Busted For Pot -- And Hypocrisy
Thomas Kaplan reports on a fallen drug warrior. A New York State assemblyman from the Hudson Valley was charged with marijuana possession after he was stopped for speeding, the authorities said on Friday. The assemblyman, Stephen M. Katz,
59, a Republican from Mohegan Lake, was found with a “small bag” of
marijuana when stopped ... MOREHouse Defeats Minimum Wage Increase
More unemployment avoided. The House on Friday rejected a Democratic push to raise the federal
minimum wage to $10.10, shooting down one of President Obama’s
priorities from his State of the Union speech. The 233-184 defeat also exposed divisions within the Democratic Party. Where Mr. Obama called for a hike from the current $7.25 ... MORESteven Chapman: The Tyranny Of The Virtuous
We haven't yet rid ourselves of the Puritans! The first law of thermodynamics says that energy can't be created and can't be destroyed — it can only be changed from one form into another. The same holds true of the puritanical impulse. Puritanism in the historical sense is as dead as the Salem witches. The religious group that settled in New ... MOREMatt Ridley On How Fossil Fuels Are Greening The Planet
An inconvenient truth the media ignores. Matt Ridley,
author of The Red Queen, Genome, The Rational
Optimist and other books, dropped by Reason's studio in Los
Angeles last month to talk about a curious global trend that is
just starting to receive attention. Over the past three decades,
our planet has gotten greener! Even stranger, the ... MORE
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