The Case for Ending the EPA
In the Republican presidential debate last evening, some of the candidates passionately stated that the Environmental Protection Agency should be eliminated. It’s a position that sounds strange to some...
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Statists Order High School to Change “Indians” Nickname
It’s time to originate a new joke: “What do you call 10,000 statists at the bottom of the sea? A good start.” ...
The Naked Truth and Public Nudity in San Francisco
There currently is a debate raging over public nudity in San Francisco. It’s not what you think. ...
Cherokee Nation Revokes Citizenship Rights of Black Slave Descendants
Just a week ago this Monday, the Cherokee Nation’s Supreme Court ruled that the tribe may revoke the citizenship rights of black members. The case stemmed from a 2007...
Statists Want to Force Priests to Reveal Confessions
First there were efforts to compel Catholic hospitals to perform abortions. Now statists in some nations want to force priests to violate the confidentiality of confession for, ostensibly, the purpose...
Multiculturalism
It is 1991, and Yugoslavia, born of the ashes of WWI, is starting to break up. It is a violent affair that will be long, painful, bloody, and complex....
Mars Attacks: Scientists Say Aliens May Destroy Mankind Over Global Warming
Three years after the release of the remake The Day the Earth Stood Still, a team of American researchers has made the film’s theme a scientific theory: They are...
Only National Collapse Will End America’s Spending Problem
While many are complaining about the recent debt-ceiling deal, is it really the issue? Sure, statists say that the Republicans steered us toward crisis with their initial unwillingness to...
“Why Has ‘Capitalism’ Failed?”
While discussing socialism on a talk show recently, I was confronted with the question: If “capitalism” is so great, why has it failed? Of course, ever since our financial...
Defend It Like Beckham: Soccer Star Condemned for Having Too Many Children
Adorning an article in the Guardian is a picture you might think represented a prototypical family: a handsome couple standing behind three healthy, well-grown children. But according to the...
Researchers Concerned About Creation of Human/Animal Hybrid “Monsters”
When we hear about the implantation of human genes in animals, it may conjure up images right out of the story The Island of Dr. Moreau. Of course, present-day experiments...
The Statist Call-for-Civility Con
When I hear today’s frequent calls for civility, I’m reminded of Rodney King’s plaintive appeal, “Can we…can we all get along?” After all, King was a thug but, when...
Woman Faces Jail Time for Planting Vegetables on Own Property
Vegetable gardens may be popping on abandoned land in Detroit, Michigan, but nearby Oak Park apparently likes broccoli as much as does George H.W. Bush. At least, that is,...
Trashing the Constitution: The Living Document Con
Is constitutionalism akin to blind faith? Some statists certainly think so, as they have called the position “constitution-worship.” In light of this, what should we call those who lack that...
New York Plunges into Marriage Insanity
If it weren’t so tragic, there really would be something amusing about “progressivism.” New York just legalized the curiosity that many call by an oxymoronic euphemism but that I,...