Aug 29
There is a powerful movement among the ranks of government trusters to allow government vastly more power in the area of political regulation. This movement sometimes calls itself a “campaign finance reform movement” and promotes its pro-government agenda by means of certain innocuous-sounding slogans. It posits that the influence of the private sector on politics …
Aug 19
The brilliant Walter E. Williams has written another essay about the embarrassing state of ideological oppression at America’s government-sponsored colleges and universities. See here. For example, Oberlin College and Georgetown University have both issued “trigger warnings” to students prior to campus visits by the noteworthy scholar Christina Hoff Sommers. According to the dominant government-supremacist culture …
Aug 13
Whenever you walk from the free world onto a government-supported college campus, you are entering a world where products and services are more expensive and where your freedoms are decreased. Everything at most modern government-supported colleges is more expensive than off-campus. In Bozeman, Montana, for example, parking is free everywhere. Except in one location: the …
Aug 10
For centuries, governments have sought to suppress open debate about their wars and violent aggression. Now the new U.S. Law of War Manual contains passages indicating that the Pentagon considers some journalists to be “belligerents.” A belligerent is the same broad category that includes guerrillas or members of al-Qaeda. The U.S. government (like all governments) …
Aug 02
(Pictured above: Bernie Sanders, who is pushing to amend the Constitution to give much more power to the government to “regulate” (meaning fine, punish, or imprison for) (private) spending on ideological-oriented ads, pamphlets or broadcasts.) More than a dozen proposals have been introduced in the two chambers of Congress to supposedly overturn the Supreme Court’s …
Jul 31
Trusters of government frequently complain about private-sector money in politics. They say that private-sector voices (especially business and pro-free-market voices) should be barred from spending money on ads that could influence American politics. However, the government is spending massively to influence politics, and to convince Americans that government is good and should be expanded and …
Jul 19
In a free society, every person has a right to say, publish and broadcast any truthful facts about anything. One can pay for a full-page ad in any newspaper (that is willing to take the money) saying what one wants to say. Increasingly, this is not the case in America. After generations of suffering setbacks …
Jul 17
There is no reason that taxpayers should be forced to OWN a university. The two justifications that are routinely offered for the existence of government universities do not stand up to scrutiny. The first claim–that public schools somehow meet the needs of the poor in ways that private institutions do not–is shattered by measurable data. …
Jul 09
Ira Glasser, long one of the ACLU’s most important legal advisers and litigators, spoke at an event put on by the Center for Competitive Politics entitled “Citizens United v. FEC after Five Years – Should Liberals Support Citizens United?” The video is here. Glasser excoriated those on “the left” for calling for a constitutional amendment …
Jul 04
Professor Lawrence Torcello an assistant professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, has called for the arrest and prosecution of doubters of the government’s manmade-carbon-dioxide-driven-global-warming hysteria. Torcello says there is “an organised campaign funding misinformation” regarding climate change which “ought to be considered criminally negligent.” See here. Torcello is not speaking of the well …
