Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online on a state audit showing that Tarboro’s former city manager made $366,000 in excessive purchases. Roy Cordato’s Daily Journal explains how the Hobby…
View in your browser. This is an excellent post at the Bloomberg View blog by Megan McArdle explaining why the left and the right view the outcome of the Hobby Lobby case…
This is an excellent post at the Bloomberg View blog by Megan McArdle explaining why the left and the right view the outcome of the Hobby Lobby case so very…
While we certainly know of no cases of harmful judicial activism in this state … I’ll pause while you snicker … it might be helpful to consider Steven Malanga‘s City…
One of the most ruinous of all ideas is the notion that people have a right to things that can only be obtained by taking the property or restricting the…
No, it isn’t, argues Jeff Jacoby in this Boston Globe column. Unfortunately, most people are incessantly told that they have a right to everything important in life. Jacoby point out…
David and Mitch, I have discussed them before on TLR. Suffice it to say, negative rights ? self-evident rights intrinsic to an individual human being, bestowed there by Creator God…
I don’t think a bill is necessary, for many of the reasons stated on this blog. I also think if a bill does go through, it should be limited to…
The addlepated Time writer in Mitch’s link fumbles (emphasis added), “Party members I’ve met often speak of freedom as if it were a phantom limb: you’re born with it, but…
UNC-CH Students will be revamping the US Constitution to include ?positive rights? on Saturday. Students from two UNC-CH classes – Sociology 131 and Sociology 273 – coordinated their work this…
Roy, apropos of your post, libertarians in general don’t believe in positive rights, correct? That would assume that rights flow from government. So I can see why you don’t see…