Showing posts with label self-ownership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-ownership. Show all posts

Michael J. Hurd: Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized

Government and the people; who serves who?      The most common reason I hear people give for supporting Obama and his party is that he’s not the Republican Party. In other words, “Republicans won’t permit gay marriage, legalization of marijuana or abortion. How can you support them?” I actually don’t support Republicans (other than   ... MORE

Don't Forget To Tingle At Benefits Of Capitalism

by Rich Tucker.     In his classic baseball book “Ball Four,” Jim Bouton writes that as a child he longed to be able to run, just once, across the beautiful outfield grass. Yet as an adult and a major league ballplayer, he takes being on the field for granted. “Sometimes I forget to tingle,” he writes. In our capitalist system, we're all forgetting to tingle.     ... MORE

Craig Biddle: What Is Objectivism?

The philosophy of reason, egoism and capitalism.    It is widely believed today that our moral, cultural, and political alternatives are limited either to the ideas of the secular, relativistic left—or to those of the religious, absolutist right—or to some compromised mixture of the two. In other words, one’s ideas are supposedly either       ... MORE

J.D. Tuccille: The Right To Take (Even Really Stupid) Risks

The beauty of self-determination.         There's nothing like the feeling of a motorcycle sliding out from beneath you on a busy thoroughfare to focus the mind beautifully on the value of life. As your ass bounces from the cushioned seat toward the hard tarmac with the screech of unseen cars slamming on their brakes to your rear, you have   ... MORE

Cops Kill 95-Year-Old For Refusing To Go To Hospital

by Jonathan Turley.        There is a disturbing report out of Chicago where police were called when 95-year-old world War II veteran John Wrana refused to go to a hospital for a urinary tract infection. Called by paramedics to assist in getting Wrana into an ambulance, the Park Forest police showed up in riot gear and proceeded to shoot Wrana   ... MORE

VIDEO: The Free Market And Equality Under The Law


Highlights from "Testing Milton Friedman."  The full discussion is available at freetochoose.tv

    Zach Weissmueller: Who Decides How You Die?

    A question of self-ownership.   You may have the right to control your own life, but what about your own death? This is a question facing several states across the U.S., including, most recently, Vermont and Montana. While physician aid-in-dying, or assisted suicide, has been legal in Oregon for almost two decades and legal in Washington for    ... MORE

    Brian Witte: Pot Legalization Will Not Deter Drug Czar

    The will of the people be damned.   The nation's drug czar said Wednesday the legalization of marijuana in Washington state and Colorado won't change his office's mission of fighting the country's drug problem by focusing on addiction treatment that will be available under the federal health overhaul.  Gil Kerlikowske, director of the   ... MORE

    New York Times Op-Ed: The War On Drugs Is A Failure

    Ron Paul, Chris Christie perform in video.    Could it truly be a coincidence that April 20 lands only five short days after Tax Day? Surely the Internal Revenue Service orchestrated this calendar synchronicity, understanding that after another harrowing round of W-2s, 1099s and 1040s, many Americans relish the hard-earned opportunity to illegally   ... MORE