Politics & Rights
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Faith-based Politics costs Colorado Republicans by Ari Armstrong
TOS Admin October 15, 2008
Colorado is known for its Western values of independence and economic liberty. So why do Republicans, the supposed champions of those values, keep getting trounced? Republicans can blame wealthy Democratic donors, but in large part Republicans have beaten themselves by pushing a faith-based agenda of banning abortion and stem-cell research,…
Announcements, Philosophy, Politics & Rights
CSG on Colorado's Amendment 48
TOS Admin October 15, 2008
Announcing the Coalition for Secular Government's new web site on Colorado's Amendment 48: Amendment 48 is the ballot measure that would define a fertilized egg as a person with full legal rights in the Colorado constitution. (Read the full text.) If passed and implemented, it would pose a grave threat…
Politics & Rights
America's Anti-America Candidates
Mark V. Kormes October 8, 2008
Last night’s debate offered further proof—if any was necessary—that neither Senator McCain nor Senator Obama is a champion of the basic principle of America: the principle of individual rights. Obama, when asked if he believes health care is a “privilege, right or responsibility,” replied: “Well, I think it should be…
Announcements, Politics & Rights
Urgent: Oppose Bailout of Wall Street Now
Craig Biddle September 28, 2008
Despite enormous citizen opposition to the proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street, U.S. lawmakers are reviewing a tentative agreement to pass it, and the House and Senate likely will vote tomorrow. This proposal is an outrage, and Americans who value liberty must oppose it in the strongest terms possible.…
Politics & Rights, Reviews
Review: The Terrorist Watch, by Ronald Kessler
Joe Kroeger August 20, 2008
Joe Kroeger reviews The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack, by Ronald Kessler.
Politics & Rights
Deeper Than Kelo: The Roots of the Property Rights Crisis
Eric Daniels August 20, 2008
Surveys the pivotal historic events that paved the way for today's flagrant violations of property rights in America, documents the United States Supreme Court's indifference to and complicity in the crimes in question, and indicates the solution to the crisis.
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
Mandatory Health Insurance: Wrong for Massachusetts, Wrong for America
Paul Hsieh August 20, 2008
Identifies the theory behind the Massachusetts mandatory health insurance program, exposes the program as a fiasco, explains why the theory had to fail in practice, and sheds light on the only genuine, rights-respecting means to affordable, accessible health care for Americans.
Economics, Politics & Rights
The Resurgence of Big Government
Yaron Brook August 20, 2008
Identifies the cause of America's two-decade swing to the right, explains why this cause was philosophically insufficient to sustain the movement toward capitalism, and indicates what Americans must understand if we want to resume the trek toward freedom, armed with the means to sustain it.
Politics & Rights
McBama vs. America
Craig Biddle August 20, 2008
Surveys the promises of John McCain and Barack Obama, shows that these intentions are at odds with the American ideal of individual rights, demonstrates that the cause of such political aims is a particular moral philosophy (shared by McCain and Obama), and calls for Americans to repudiate that morality and to embrace instead a morality that supports the American ideal.
Politics & Rights
Israel and the Front Line of Civilization
John David Lewis June 21, 2008
I just returned from a speaking engagement at Tel Aviv University . . . My honorarium was four days of sight-seeing in Tel Aviv, Abu Gosh, Jerusalem, En Gedi and Masada, and a series of meetings with writers, policy analysts, academics and writers. I came back with one overriding conclusion,…