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TGIF: Abortion Rights v. Abortion Permissions
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 1, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Even if you cringe at last week's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, it would be wrong to say that the five Supreme Court justices took away women's right to have abortions. I say this because the Supreme Court, unfortunately, never actually recognized a...
Substantive Due Process
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 28, 2022 | Blog, Justice
[T]he conservatives reject substantive due process, which they see as a contradiction in terms that authorizes judges to legislate. If the term sounds odd, it would be odder still to dismiss the idea. As Roger Pilon writes, “By ‘law’ [in due process of law] the...
The Antiwar Comic: The War on Bodies
by Tony DiGerolamo | Jun 27, 2022 | Blog
How quick they switch to the current thing. For more comics, visit The Webcomic Factory. Also, check out my latest book, The Pineys: Book 9: The Witch Hunter Piney.
Privacy and the Constitution
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 27, 2022 | Blog, Justice, Libertarianism
"[B]oth the [']liberals['] and the conservatives misunderstand privacy. The conservatives engage in a narrow and unnatural reading of the Constitution in order to avoid seeing what they do not wish to see, while the [']liberals['] find in the Constitution not...
The Antiwar Comic: The War for the Weak
by Tony DiGerolamo | May 16, 2022 | Blog
This one feels like a Babylon Bee prediction. More comics at the Webcomic Factory.
TGIF: Alito’s Challenge to Libertarians
by Sheldon Richman | May 13, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
In his recently leaked first draft of an opinion that would reverse the abortion-rights cases Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito gives Americans a choice between judges who read their personal preferences into the...
Rational Optimism, Adam Kinzinger, NATO 2034, Abortion, and Economic Exploitation (Weekly Roundup)
by Keith Knight | May 11, 2022 | Blog
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Against Abortion: A Christian/Libertarian Alliance. Kerry Baldwin & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | May 8, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/kAy14b8yX7k On one occasion in the 1960s when abortion was still illegal, I witnessed, while visiting a surgical suite as an OB/GYN resident, the abortion of a fetus that weighed approximately two pounds. It was placed in a bucket, crying and...
Dr. Ron Paul on Abortion
by Keith Knight | May 6, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/8ws0V_SyIyA On one occasion in the 1960s when abortion was still illegal, I witnessed, while visiting a surgical suite as an OB/GYN resident, the abortion of a fetus that weighed approximately two pounds. It was placed in a bucket, crying and...
Privacy as a Property Right
by Sheldon Richman | May 5, 2022 | Blog, Justice, Libertarianism
In 1993 I wrote an article at the Cato Institute that may be relevant to the current controversy over abortion and the Supreme Court: "Dissolving the Inkblot: Privacy as a Property Right."
Utah Independence Tied to Abortion? 11-30-90
by Will Grigg | Mar 4, 2020 | Article Clippings, Everything Will
‘Right’ to Abortion on Loose Scaffolding 06-29-90
by Will Grigg | Mar 4, 2020 | Article Clippings, Everything Will
Feminist Fringe on Abortion Panel 11-01-91
by Will Grigg | Mar 3, 2020 | Article Clippings, Everything Will
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Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
What Kind of Liberal?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
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