By Mary Theroux | Tuesday May 29, 2012 at 2:05 PM PDT | 9 Comments
One might think that a Catholic priest removed from his position for sexually abusing children might find it difficult to find gainful employment. And one might think that this is a good thing—especially that he find it difficult to find employment involving intimate contact with children. But the Transportation Security Administration apparently thinks differently....
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Tags: Civil Liberties, Civil Society, Defense, Family, Morality, Personal Liberty, Privacy, Surveillance, Terrorism, The State, Transportation, Women
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa | at 1:56 PM PDT | 14 Comments
A few days ago, one of the founders of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin, a native of Brazil, caused an uproar when it was made public that he had renounced his U.S. citizenship before that company´s IPO (he holds 4 percent of the shares). Two Senators, Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Bob Casey (D-Pa), have introduced a...
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Tags: Free Market, Latin America, Nationalism, Personal Liberty, Socialism, Taxation, The State
By Mary Theroux | at 1:48 PM PDT | 11 Comments
It was one thing for gullible college students in the late 1960s to present themselves for voluntary sterilization as a result of their buying into Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb myth. In keeping with the premise of the annual Darwin Awards, it might be just as well that those so prone to falling for groundless...
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Tags: Budget and Tax Policy, Civil Liberties, Culture, Energy, Environment, Family, Global Warming, Government subsidies, Morality, Nanny State, Natural Law, Poverty, Science, Women