Opinion
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What Road For America — Liberty Or Political Plunder?
Opinion -Presidential election years, more than many others, focuses our attention on politics, those running for political office, and the promises the competing candidates make to sway our allegiance and votes toward one or some of them in comparison to others. -
What If Obama Believed in Individual Liberty and Free Markets?
Opinion -President Barack Obama delivered his final State of the Union address on January 12, 2016, and devoted most of the time to defending his “legacy” of bigger and more intrusive government, with an emphasis on the other aspects of personal and social life -
“Democratic Socialism” Means the Loss of Liberty
Opinion -Democratic Party hopeful, Bernie Sanders, recently outlined what it means for him to be a “democratic socialist. -
Don’t Expect 2016 Candidates to Restore Real Liberty
Opinion -Many in the media and some among the voting public are focused, now, on the field of candidates who are offering themselves as the presidential nominees of the Republican and Democratic Parties. -
School Choice is Liberty’s Last Best Hope
Opinion -Although we often hear about distinctive American features such as apple pie, baseball, and freedom of speech, the single greatest characteristic of the American way is the willingness to provide opportunity for all. -
Freedom to Move: Personal Liberty or Government Control, Part I
Opinion -The immigration issue has once more bubbled to the surface in America because of the provocative statements and assertions by one of the Republication contenders for their party’s presidential nomination. -
Marijuana Flavored E-Cigarettes Hit U.S. Markets Creating Questions about Liberty
Opinion -While the war over the use and taxation of electronic cigarettes wages, Dutch company E-njoint has started selling a new marijuana-flavored “e-joint” that will almost certainly lead to controversial legal battles over their distribution and use in states -
The Morality of Capitalism: Liberty, Honesty, and Humility
Opinion -In American culture there is one persistent villain portrayed as the enemy of humanity, the perpetrator of deception, and the agent for social corruption and human harm: the businessman. -
A New Year’s Resolution: Becoming a Light of Liberty
Opinion -With the beginning of 2015, what might be a “New Year’s resolution” for a friend of freedom? -
The Unpredictable Future and Winning Liberty
Opinion -As a new year begins, it is easy to consider that the prospects for freedom in America and in many other parts of the world to seem dim. -
Benjamin Constant: A Principled Voice of Liberty Worth Recalling
Opinion -October 25th marked the 247th birthday of one of the greatest voices of liberty, the French political philosopher of freedom, Benjamin Constant. He may not be a household name to friends of freedom today, but he should be. -
The Case for Liberty, Through Thick and Thin
Opinion -One of the most important issues before those who care about the advancement of liberty is how the case for freedom can best be made, and what it should include. -
The Liberty and Energy Connection
Opinion -Following my appearance on the Daily Show, I’ve received emails and phone calls from people who don’t agree with my views about energy and the advantages America’s energy abundance provides—benefits that drive both progress and prosperity. -
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Opinion -Monday, April 28, 2014, purportedly marked Tax Freedom Day for Illinois taxpayers. -
Is the Case for Liberty Too Extreme?
Opinion -If there is one label more than any other that principled advocates of individual liberty are often stamped with it is that they are “extremists. -
Labor Day 2013: Lincoln, Labor, and Liberty
Opinion -I've just finished reading Rich Lowry's new book, Lincoln Unbound, and as someone who has read a lot of books on Lincoln, I happily commend it to you. -
Labor Day 2013: Lincoln, Labor, and Liberty
Opinion -I've just finished reading Rich Lowry's new book, Lincoln Unbound, and as someone who has read a lot of books on Lincoln, I happily commend it to you. -
An Inconvenient Federalism: Marriage and Religious Liberty
Opinion -Cato’s Jonathan Adler, writing in Reason, gives a more eloquent version of the argument I’ve advanced in the past about the perils of tossing federalism aside on the marriage issue. -
Hobby Lobby Case Could Redefine Religious Liberty
Opinion -Hobby Lobby, the big-box craft store chain, recently lost the first round of its case against the administration over President Obama’s contraception mandate. The national chain will be fined $1. -
Publisher Wins Injunction Against Obamacare as Religious Liberty Battle Escalates
Opinion -A for-profit publishing corporation won an injunction against the Obama administration’s implementation of the president’s health reform law, which could prove the basis for the next challenge to the law to arrive before the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Hobby Lobby and Religious Liberty Under ObamaCare
Opinion -Hobby Lobby, the mega craft store, has lost the first round of their case against the government over the contraception mandate, and will be fined $1. -
North Carolina’s Ban on Midwives Restricts Liberty
Opinion -Who should have the final say about where a baby is born? In North Carolina, it's not the parent. A growing number of educated, health-conscious women are opting to have their babies at home with a midwife, instead of in a hospital with a doctor. -
Obama’s Attack on Religious Liberty Will Raise Health Care Costs
Opinion -President Barack Obama is becoming his own worst enemy when it comes to keeping his promises. -
Dennis Avery, Fred Singer Honored with 2008 Heartland Liberty Prize
Opinion -CHICAGO -- Two outspoken skeptics about the hot-button topic of global warming will be honored Thursday in Chicago with an award presented by The Heartland Institute, a national 24-year-old nonprofit research organization based in Chicago.