Liberty
Free Speech and Good Health
Earlier this month, the US District Court of the Southern District of New York announced its decision in Amarin Pharma, Inc. v. FDA. As healthcare economist John Goodman reports in…
Citizens United v. FEC
2010 United States Supreme Court case about campaign spending limits
Law & Public Safety
Scholars criticizing ‘The American Scholar’
It’s nice to see that at least some readers of the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s American Scholar have called the publication to task for its previous cover story, which cast…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online on the Wake County school board’s interest in pursuing charter-like flexibility for its schools. John Hood’s Daily Journal responds to liberal attacks on…
Liberty
Fascinating Reddit debate on the Citizens United case
The Internet is constantly evolving and one of the most worthwhile ways it has is by enabling people to engage in serious debates. In this Cato@Liberty post, Tim Lynch writes…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the trail, January 13, 2015
• The liberal group Progress Action NC on Monday filed an ethics complaint against Gov. Pat McCrory, making a series of charges dealing with the disclosure of his business and…
Elections & Public Integrity
Campaign finance laws too complex
Joe Trotter of the Center for Competitive Politics laments in the Washington Examiner about the overly complex web of federal campaign finance laws. Writing for the U.S. Supreme Court majority…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the campaign trail, August 13, 2014
• The conservative Capitol Hill newspaper Human Events interviews GOP U.S. Senate nominee Thom Tillis. • Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan takes a few swipes at Tillis for the General…
Liberty
ProPublica? The Head of the Media Institute isn’t buying the hype
Patrick Maines of The Media Institute explains in a Daily Caller column why the hype surrounding a media outlet such as ProPublica is misplaced. ProPublica has received funding from such…
Liberty
“Corporations are not people with Constitutional rights.” Oh really?
View in your browser. 1. "Corporations are not people with Constitutional rights." Oh really? This is a standard claim of progressives. It is one of the left’s biggest complaints against…
Liberty
“Corporations aren’t people with Constitutional rights!” Do you really believe this?
This is a standard claim of progressives and their biggest complaint against not only the recent Hobby Lobby ruling regarding the HHS contraceptive mandate but also the Citizens United decision…
Elections & Public Integrity
Goldberg notes the lack of media outrage over the IRS scandal
Jonah Goldberg notes with interest in his latest column the media’s blasé attitude toward the latest IRS controversy involving missing emails. “Congressional investigators are fuming over revelations that the Internal…
Liberty
The Left’s Fight Against Free Speech
JLF’s John Hood weighs in on the illogical fight by the Left to squash the right to speak. Democrats in Washington want to strip the NAACP, the Sierra Club, the…