Judge Sotomayor's respect for property rights disturbs me. In Didden v. Village of Port Chester she ruled against a private citizen and in favor of a local government. "The case involved about as naked an abuse of government power as could be imagined," wrote law professor Richard Epstein in his ...
Printed in the Daily Camera, April 18:
Would you argue against government's banning a book by citing the positive outcomes of free speech? Of course not. This concedes that free speech takes a back seat to whatever authorities consider to be "good for society." Free speech derives from our individual rights: ...
From the Colorado-based Coalition for Secular Government:
Colorado's proposed Amendment 48 -- the ballot measure that would grant full legal rights to fertilized eggs -- would usher in disastrous government controls on abortion, birth control, medical research, and in vitro fertilization. It would violate the rights of real men and women ...
