The gun control debate should be addressed as a debate over individual rights.
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An Electoral College Within Each State By Ron Pisaturo
Instead of the United States abandoning the Electoral College, state legislatures should take us in exactly the opposite direction. From now on, they should abandon a statewide popular vote for president, and instead either appoint electors directly or implement an Electoral College-type system within each state.
Restrict Political Pickpockets To End Budget Deficits By Richard M. Ebeling
Our dilemma, today, is that, to use John Stuart Mill’s phrase, we have a political system in which many who have the right to vote use it “to put their hands into other people’s pockets for any purpose which they think fit to call a public one.”
Dr. Fauci’s Mutating Covid Advice By Phillip W. Magness
In just under a year’s time, Fauci’s messaging on reinfection and herd immunity has now mutated across dozens of variants of its own, each conveniently aligning with his political messaging of the moment.
The Constitutional Protection of Intellectual Property By Adam Mossoff
Both Founding Era sources and 19th-century court decisions, official statements, and commentaries confirm that intellectual property rights are property as a matter of basic legal doctrine and constitutional principle.
A Pandemic of Fiscal Profligacy By Veronique de Rugy
The Democrats’ $1.9 trillion “American Rescue” plan, which has little to do with rescuing and everything to do with using the pandemic as an excuse to move the country closer to statism. The latest $1.9 trillion addition to the federal debt is best described as a left-wing slush fund.
Class Harmony, Not Class War By George Reisman
One of the innumerable destructive consequences of an almost 250-year-old error in economic theory made by Adam Smith.
Why Do Canadians Pay So Much for Cell Phone Service? By Jaana Woiceshyn
Telecom companies’ “greed” for profits and the alleged price fixing is not the real reason for the high prices of their services in Canada.
