Politics & Rights
Politics & Rights, Reviews
Review: American Individualism, by Margaret Hoover
Michael A. LaFerrara November 20, 2011
Michael A. LaFerrara reviews American Individualism—How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party, by Margaret Hoover.
Politics & Rights
The Assault on Abortion Rights Undermines All Our Liberties
Diana Hsieh and Ari Armstrong
Surveys the expanding efforts to outlaw abortion in America, examines the facts that give rise to a woman’s right to abortion, and shows why the assault on this right is an assault on all our rights.
Politics & Rights
The American Right, the Purpose of Government, and the Future of Liberty
Craig Biddle November 20, 2011
Identifies the proper role of government; applies this principle to crucial issues of the day, including “entitlement” programs, corporate bailouts, and the Islamist threat; and calls for lovers of liberty to save America by adopting this moral truth as their fundamental political principle.
Politics & Rights
Democrats Further Entrench Rights-Violating Net Neutrality Regulations
Joshua Lipana November 15, 2011
Democrats have blocked an effort by Senate Republicans to stop the FCC from enforcing “net neutrality” regulations on the Internet. The regulations in question make it illegal for Internet providers to allocate bandwidth on their networks and equipment in accordance with their judgment and their customers’ needs. For example, if…
History, Politics & Rights
UNESCO Embraces PLO Terrorists
Joshua Lipana November 2, 2011
As part of the United Nations’ general support for murderous regimes, one of its agencies—The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization—has granted the Palestinian Liberation Organization full membership in UNESCO. In response, U.S. officials have indicated that the United States will cut off all funding for UNESCO. But this ignores…
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Newt’s Outrageous Package Deal: Secularism and Islam
Joshua Lipana October 30, 2011
CBS News reports that presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said that he is "convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America” by the time his grand-children are his age, America will be “a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with…
Politics & Rights
Student Loan Scheme Just Another Rights-Violating Bailout
Ari Armstrong October 28, 2011
[caption id="attachment_1809" align="alignright" width="228"] Wikipedia Commons[/caption] “Banks got bailed out, we got sold out,” cried Wall Street Occupiers. The sentiment is true, but it explains nothing. Remember that the federal government also bailed out the auto unions and, more recently, more underwater homeowners. On Wednesday President Obama spoke to students…
Politics & Rights
Yes, President Obama, We Can’t Wait...
Ari Armstrong October 25, 2011
We can’t wait,” says President Obama. Among other things, he insists, the federal government must expand the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) to federally guarantee low interest rates for more “underwater” homeowners who seek to refinance their mortgages. But the program should not be expanded, it should be scrapped. The…
Politics & Rights
The Justice of Income Inequality Under Capitalism
Ari Armstrong October 19, 2011
Many “Occupy Wall Street” protesters oppose the bailouts of failed banks and financial institutions. They are right to do so: such bailouts violate rights by forcibly transferring wealth from some people to others via taxes, deficit spending (future taxes), and monetary expansion (hidden taxes). At the same time, however, many…
Politics & Rights
Harry Reid and Company’s Latest Immoral Scheme
Joshua Lipana October 16, 2011
As part of the left’s ongoing assault on productive Americans, Sen. Harry Reid is leading the senate Democrats in an effort to impose a new 5.6 percent surtax on people making a million dollars or more. This is economically stupid and morally wrong. Generally speaking, people who make a million…