Monday, August 2nd, 2010
That's the headline the Denver Post used for my article about the University of Colorado's gun ban, which prohibits concealed-carry permit holders from being armed on campus. It begins: Imagine this news headline: "School shooter apologizes — not for killing — but for violating CU campus gun ban." Preposterous, right? ...
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Banning seat belts in cars would be immoral. Banning guns deserves equal condemnation. Self-defense is a fundamental human right - not granted by governments, but recognized by just law. Gun bans deny peaceful people an effective means of self-defense against violent criminals, who ignore gun bans. ...
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
My first article/post for the Huffington Post appeared today. It begins: "You oppose Medicaid and government-run schools? You're heartless and lack compassion." If you have ever made this accusation, even tacitly, I invite you to reconsider the government policies you support. Why does being compassionate mean supporting government-run ...
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
How free are you? Some food for thought by Robert Nozick, an excerpt from Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 290-292 (1974), winner of the National Book Foundation's National Book Award in 1975. Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it is ...
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
The Daily Camera asked its editorial advisory board members their view of ObamaCare, formally HR 3590. My response was published in the March 27 edition: ObamaCare is a scam. It further empowers politicians to dictate how you seek medical care and support charities. Politicians should protect, rather than ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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 ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
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: ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
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 ...
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