Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently announced a proposal for a state law to permanently prohibit vaccine passports, forbid businesses from requiring masks, and prohibit “employers from hiring or firing based mRNA stabs.” In making the announcement, DeSantis said that during the pandemic Florida has served “strongly as freedom’s linchpin.” DeSantis has an Orwellian view of…
CNN reports that cities across the nation are cracking down on abandoned shopping carts. They are fining retailers and imposing storage fees for carts the municipality collects. Some are also fining individuals who remove carts from store property, but most are putting responsibility for the great shopping cart theft on retailers. City officials argue that…
On January 9, the unesteemed Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee introduced the “Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023.” Among the provisions of the bill, an individual can be convicted of a hate crime if he publishes material on social media or elsewhere that, as determined by a reasonable person, motivate actions by a person predisposed to…
What if there were no government regulations? What if there were no public schools, public libraries, or public parks? What if there were no labor laws, minimum wage laws, or prohibitions on discrimination? How would government function if it did not force you to pay for its services? If you are like most Americans, you…
Most people want the freedom to choose how they will live their lives. Yet, many of those same people advocate policies that eliminates freedom of choice for others. They support freedom of choice, so long as they agree with the choices. Sadly, we see this among both Republicans and Democrats. Republicans don’t like the choices…
On September 27, 2022, the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) announced that it is suing the Biden administration in an effort to halt the President’s cancellation of student loan debt. The plaintiff in the lawsuit is Frank Garrison, a public interest lawyer in Indiana. He has been making payments on his student loans for six years….
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have recently made headlines for sending immigrants to “sanctuary states,” i.e., states that do not cooperate with federal immigration officials. Both claim that they are trying to send a message to Joe Biden. In truth, they are simply playing to their base and using people as…
Force is not a creative power. Force is a destructive power. The only goal that can be achieved through force is destruction. Force cannot build a house, write software, grow food, or create any value. The only thing that force can “achieve” is the destruction of values. However, if you examine nearly any political issue,…
The Onion, which calls itself “America’s Finest News Source,” recently filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in defense of Anthony Novac. In 2016, the aspiring comic created a parody of the Parma, Ohio, Police Department’s Facebook page. He was subsequently arrested and charged with “disrupting police operations.” The Onion’s brief brilliantly…
In 2021, Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance blamed America’s problems on the “childless left.” He singled out Vice-President Kamala Harris, transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, Senator Cory Booker and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as examples. Despite Vance’s claim, the childless left isn’t the problem. Certainly, Harris, Buttigieg, Booker, and AOC are a part of the problem. But…
When pharmaceutical companies refused to waive their intellectual property rights to the COVID-19 vaccines, they were attacked for putting profits before people. When landlords increase rents to a level that tenants cannot afford, the property owns are condemned for putting profits before people. These attacks, and others like them, are unjust. Profits are pro-people. The…
In his concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous, we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those…