Politics & Rights
Politics & Rights
Steve Jobs, Willy Wonka, and Good Reason for a Torrent of Expletives
Daniel Wahl May 3, 2012
When reading about the life of Steve Jobs, my favorite moments are those when I get to see him enjoying his work. A fascinating new book by Ken Segall, who worked with Jobs for seventeen years at NeXT and Apple, shares one such moment that I hadn’t heard of before:…
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The Israeli Freedom Movement Stands Against Leftists on May Day
Joshua Lipana May 3, 2012
The Israeli Freedom Movement (aka the New Liberal Movement), led a counter protest against leftist organizations celebrating May Day. Boaz Arad a founder of the IFM, was quoted in Israel National News, saying, “We came here to commemorate more than 100 million victims of the socialistic agenda in the 20th century.…
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“Occupier” Thug Clubs A Female Cop Over the Head
Joshua Lipana May 2, 2012
Here's footage of an "Occupier" thug clubbing a female cop over the head. This is but a fraction of their violent ways. For a good recap of some of their pro-communist, pro-violence activities, see Ari Armstrong’s post on the “Occupiers” May Day celebrations. HT: Jonathan Hoenig Like this post? Join…
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Occupiers Celebrate Communism, Socialism, and Anarchism for May Day
Ari Armstrong May 2, 2012
Communist regimes enslaved, tortured, and slaughtered hundreds of millions of people in the last century, and to this day communists in North Korea, China, and elsewhere tyrannize citizens. To cite but a couple of examples from recent headlines, North Korean communists continue to murder even children in brutal concentration camps,…
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On May Day, Remember the Victims of Communism—and Condemn the Evil Ideology
Ari Armstrong May 1, 2012
MSNBC recently featured a favorable discussion of the ideas of Karl Marx in the context of a proposed May Day “general strike.” To put this in context: MSNBC would never do the same with respect to the ideas of Adolf Hitler, yet Marxists slaughtered many millions more people than the…
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Institute for Justice Fights Theft by Police
Ari Armstrong May 1, 2012
It is outrageous that here in America the police can seize a person’s property, sell it, and keep the proceeds—all without so much as charging the victim with a crime, much less obtaining a criminal conviction. Under such a system, the police are violators rather than protectors of property rights.…
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Will Bork Convince Romney to Select Anti-Liberty Judges?
Ari Armstrong April 30, 2012
Timothy Sandefur, an attorney with the pro-liberty Pacific Legal Foundation, argues on his personal blog that the next president’s ability to select judges is not sufficient reason to support Mitt Romney: Romney is turning for advice on the judiciary [to] none other than Robert Bork, an intellectually dishonest anti-moral authoritarian…
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Washington’s Spending Problem and Other Matters: TOS’s Week in Review for April 28
Ari Armstrong April 28, 2012
Noteworthy news and views from the week ending April 28, 2012 Washington’s Spending Problem The Institute for Humane Studies has published a series of short videos on free-market economics (and other subjects) at LearnLiberty.org. The latest is titled, “Does Government Have a Revenue or Spending Problem?” The narrator of the…
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Will Republicans Wield Muskets in a Nuclear War?
Michael A. LaFerrara April 24, 2012
The Democrats, having made so-called “fairness” a key campaign issue in this year’s election, engineered a symbolic Senate vote on the so-called “Buffet Rule”—a special, higher income tax rate on the “rich.” As expected, it was defeated. But the Democrats’ assault on the rich is not mere political gamesmanship. It is…
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Week in Review for April 21, 2012
Ari Armstrong April 21, 2012
Noteworthy news and views from the week ending April 21, 2011 The Antritrust Assault on Apple Discussing the government’s antitrust action against Apple, an attorney for the company said, “We believe that this is not an appropriate case against us and we would like to validate that.” Calling the government’s…