Tag: Civil Liberties
By Robert Higgs | Thursday December 27, 2012 at 6:21 PM PDT | 38 Comments
Libertarians divide into two broad classes: those who espouse a free society because it gives better results than an unfree society, and those who espouse a free society because they believe that it is wrong to deny or suppress a person’s right to be free (unless, of course, that person is suppressing the equal...
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Tags: Civil Liberties, Free Market, Law, Liberty, Morality, Natural Law, Personal Liberty, Philosophy, The State, Utilitarianism
By Anthony Gregory | Friday December 21, 2012 at 2:56 PM PDT | 25 Comments
Somehow, left-liberals have associated the cause of gun rights with white racism, when if anything it is gun control that has a racist legacy. In the United States, early gun laws targeted recently freed blacks, and open carry first became banned in California under Governor Ronald Reagan to disarm groups like the Black Panthers....
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Tags: American History, Civil Liberties, crime, Gun Control, Racism
By Vicki Alger | Tuesday December 4, 2012 at 2:08 PM PDT | 0 Comments
Welcome to the 21st century Hotel California. The number of Los Angeles Unified School District teachers warehoused in administrative offices, also referred to as “rubber rooms,” for alleged misconduct has doubled in the past 18 months to nearly 300 according to the LA Daily News. The cost is staggering: $1.4 million a month just...
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Tags: California, Children, Civil Liberties, Civil Society, Corruption, Education, Employment, Labor, Personal Liberty, Politics, Power, Safety, The State, Unions
By Mary Theroux | Monday December 3, 2012 at 5:38 PM PDT | 3 Comments
William Binney, a mathematician who worked for the NSA for 32 years as a cryptographer, goes on the record to detail that the FBI’s going through General Petraeus’s email is no particular exception: all electronic communications of all Americans are under constant surveillance and are permanently stored so security agencies can look through them...
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Tags: CIA, Civil Liberties, Civil Society, Defense, FBI, Intelligence agency, Liberalism, Liberty, Peace, Personal Liberty, Presidential Power, Privacy, Surveillance, Technology, Terrorism, The State, Transparency
By Vicki Alger | at 12:05 PM PDT | 1 Comment
“What the CTU Strike Teaches Us about the Fight for a Better World” was a featured theme of last month’s Midwest Marxist Conference, held at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. (Document link was available here, but apparently the Chicago Socialists site is down. As of this posting, the document can be accessed here.)...
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Tags: Civil Liberties, Civil Society, Education, Free Market, Labor, Liberty, Personal Liberty, Politics, Power, Progressivism, Propaganda, Socialism, Unions
By Anthony Gregory | Thursday November 29, 2012 at 9:48 AM PDT | 0 Comments
Immigration reform has seemingly become an important part of the agenda. It is good that attitudes of tolerating the presence of illegal immigrants rather than wanting them deported have overtaken the majority. A higher percentage of Americans also favor more immigration rather than less, which is also a happy development. Yet I fear that the...
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Tags: American History, Civil Liberties, Immigration, Liberty
By Vicki Alger | Wednesday November 28, 2012 at 2:07 PM PDT | 5 Comments
The fight for civil liberties continues in San Antonio. The Northside Independent School District recently launched its controversial “Student Locator Project,” which requires students to carry ID badges equipped with radio frequency tracker chips. If they refuse, they could face fines, “involuntary transfers,” or suspensions. John Jay High School officials insisted the trackers were...
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Tags: Children, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil Society, Constitution, Education, Fascism, Liberty, Nanny State, Personal Liberty, Politics, Power, Privacy, Propaganda, Surveillance, The State
By Mary Theroux | Monday November 19, 2012 at 10:07 PM PDT | 9 Comments
An excellent movie released six years ago, “Amazing Grace,” depicted the life of William Wilberforce and his ultimately successful efforts to abolish, first, the British Slave Trade in 1806, and then slavery throughout the English empire with the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. He did so entirely peacefully, through the British parliamentary system. It...
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Tags: Africa, American History, Books, Censorship, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Culture, Entertainment, History, Liberty, Peace, Personal Liberty, Presidential Power, The State, Totalitarianism, War
By Vicki Alger | at 7:43 AM PDT | 10 Comments
Texas launched its controversial “Student Locator Project” last month. When fully implemented, it will reach more than 100 Texas schools districts and around 100,000 students. Two San Antonio schools are among the first to participate, John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School in the Northside Independent School District. Basically students returned to...
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Tags: Children, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Education, Liberty, Nanny State, Personal Liberty, Politics, Privacy, Religion, Surveillance, The State
By Anthony Gregory | Wednesday November 7, 2012 at 2:02 PM PDT | 24 Comments
If ever a president had to go, it’s Barack Obama. His progressive fascism has prolonged the recovery for four solid years in a row. From Dodd-Frank and the auto bailouts to stimulus spending and Obamacare, he is easily the most economically interventionist president since the LBJ-Nixon years. In addition to this, he is one...
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Tags: Civil Liberties, Elections, Peace, Personal Liberty, Politics, Presidential Power, Progressivism, Property Rights, The State, War