As noted in today’s morning links, yesterday afternoon the House of Representatives approved H.R. 1443, also known as the Property Rights Protection Act, which is designed to forbid the sort of eminent domain abuse that the Supreme Court let slide in its notorious 2005 ruling in Kelo v. City of New London, where it upheld [...]
The chain of events that led to a January 4 shootout in Ogden, Utah, that left one police officer dead and five others wounded apparently began, as these things often do, with an informant’s tip. Last September, The Salt Lake Tribune reports, the informant told Ogden police that Matthew Stewart, a 37-year-old Army veteran who worked [...]
Metaphorically, of course, in this colorfully reported piece from Forbes on a hearing of the House Committee on Financial Services. Some highlights: In what is usually the most heated and interesting exchange of Bernanke’s excursions to Congress, the Fed Chairman was forced to sit down and listen as Ron Paul scolded him for “debasing” the [...]
Join us TONIGHT, Wednesday, February 29 for a Webinar with Bryan Caplan of George Mason University as he discusses “The Case Against Education.” Wednesday, February 29 at 8pm (Eastern Time) Education is over-rated. While it sharply increases the incomes of the well-educated, the reason is largely “signaling.” But the problem is largely the government’s fault: [...]
At Students For Liberty, we count ourselves fortunate for the dedication of students from all over the world. At the same time we know we would not be where we are without the work of those who came before us and who now serve as our teachers, friends, and mentors of liberty. Apparently, this gratitude [...]
Ron Paul won big in the straw poll at the Fifth Annual International Students For Liberty Conference two weeks ago, where he won virtually every category in which his name was presented. This includes the overall straw poll where he received 71% of the vote over second place winner Gary Johnson with 11%, followed by [...]
Yes, They DO Hate the Constitution! Posted by Rick Montes Tweet Share on Tumblr Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:33 — 6.9MB) “I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012” Amazingly, these words are from United States Supreme Court Justice, Ruth [...]
In a first-time upset, Rasmussen Report‘s daily presidential tracking poll found Ron Paul leading President Barack Obama nationally in a hypothetical 2012 match-up. Here were all four match-ups: Romney 45% – Obama 43% Paul 43% – Obama 41% Obama 45% – Santorum 43% Obama 49% – Gingrich 39% These latest numbers, reported by the nationally-acclaimed [...]
Rick Santorum is making mischief in Michigan. It turns out he’s robocalling Michigan Democrats and telling them to come out and vote for him in Michigan’s Republican Primary today: Michigan’s primary rules allow Dems to vote in the state’s GOP primaries… The Santorum campaign evidently decided they’d take votes from any legitimate source. Following some [...]
When I first read a headline saying that the city of Rocklin, California was considering banning residents from smoking outside of their homes on their own property, I was outraged. Even though I acknowledge the dangers of smoking, the idea of a city government telling a resident that they couldn’t choose to smoke on their [...]
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