Liberty
Donor Privacy
Introduction The free and unfettered flow of competing ideas is essential to the operation of our republican system of government and to the survival of our free and open society.…
Civil liberties
civil rights and freedoms that provide individual specific rights
Liberty
Emergency Powers
Introduction The North Carolina Constitution declares that, “The legislative, executive, and supreme judicial powers of the State government shall be forever separate and distinct from each other,” and it assigns…
Liberty
“A government official cannot do indirectly what she is barred from doing directly.”
In National Rifle Association v. Vullo, the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed that principle and applied it to the superintendent of New York State’s Department of Financial Services. According to the NRA,…
Liberty
What’s Worse Than Long COVID? Long Tyranny
Editors at Issues and Insights highlight one of their biggest fears about Big Government. Not to downplay the damage done by COVID, but we’re still dealing with a far worse…
Liberty
Report Blasts COVID Response, Issues Warning for Future
Michael Dorgan reports for FoxNews.com about an important new study. A new report has sharply criticized the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, writing that lockdowns, school closures and vaccine…
Liberty
Government Targets Average Consumers for Domestic Terrorism
Joy Pullmann of the Federalist documents the government’s absurd approach toward battling domestic terrorism. Americans who shopped at sporting goods stores and bought religious books “like a Bible” were flagged…
Liberty
John Locke Foundation & Independence Institute File Amicus Brief in NRA v. Vullo Supreme Court Case
Raleigh, NC / Denver, CO – Together, the John Locke Foundation and Independence Institute have filed an amicus brief in the landmark Supreme Court case, National Rifle Association of America (NRA) v. Vullo.…
Liberty
Biden Administration Betrays Constitutional Principles
Andrea Widburg of the American Thinker outlines her concerns about the Biden administration’s approach to basic rights. If our government does not respect the Constitution, we have no constitution. If…
Liberty
Saluting the Sensible
There was a great deal of uncertainty surrounding the proper societal response to Covid-19. Governments’ reactions to it didn’t help, as I discussed in previous posts. They were dictatorial and marked by shocking,…
Liberty
Ben Carson Decries CDC’s ‘Outrageous Overreach’
Ben Carson writes for the Washington Examiner about the Centers for Disease Control’s misguided ideas. Last week, a CDC advisory council voted unanimously to add the novel COVID-19 mRNA vaccine…
Liberty
Shanghai Offers Final Example of Lockdown Failure
Editors at National Review Online explore the implications of China’s draconian COVID lockdown in Shanghai. In Shanghai, a city of 25 million, people are presently subjected to a noxious superstition…
Regulation
Why mask orders were wrong and must never return
The governor continued to say that “science and data” backed his orders. I went through all 23 of his citations looking for findings strong enough to justify such an extreme…