Politics & Rights

What does the Supreme Court’s decision upholding ObamaCare mean for you? What does it mean for the future of the nation? Although volumes can and will be written about the decision and the law it addresses, a number of consequences stand out. The individual mandate violates moral rights. The ObamaCare…

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the heart of ObamaCare: the “individual mandate” forcing people to purchase government-approved health insurance starting in 2014. Beyond the constitutional issues, this decision offers two major lessons, one political, the other, moral. The political lesson is that “ObamaCare,” while spearheaded by the…

On Monday the Institute for Justice (IJ) announced “a major legal victory for cancer patients and their families from across the nation.” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder declined to seek Supreme Court review of a March 2012 decision of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that compensating most…

Defines the political spectrum in terms of essentials, identifying the precise nature of the left and the right.

Although the left is apoplectic that the Supreme Court tossed out a Montana law limiting corporate speech, the Court was right to do so. Steve Simpson, a senior attorney with the Institute for Justice, addresses a wide range of issues surrounding freedom of speech in his recent interview for The…

“If you have to work to live, is it a choice? If you have no choice, are you free?” So read a sign at the Occupy Chicago May Day event. This illustrates perfectly what sort of freedom the Occupy movement desires. In their view, because we must exert effort and…

The good news is that the Supreme Court threw out Federal Communications Commission fines against television broadcasters who let slip a swear word or image of partial nudity, Fox News reports. The bad news is that the ruling is restricted to the FCC’s notification practices. The ruling states: Because the…

[caption id="attachment_4321" align="alignright" width="300"] Image: Gage Skidmore[/caption] Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, rightly states, “To argue specific policies, free enterprise advocates need to be fluent in the moral case.” Unfortunately, if Brooks’s articles on “Policy Solutions” and entitlements are any indication of what he regards as…

In just two paragraphs, Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises corrects both conservatives and libertarians regarding the proper nature of government. Whereas conservatives advocate “small” government, as if the size of government were the essential issue, Mises points out that the essential question is not how big government is, but what…

A proposed New Jersey law would revise the state’s surrogate parenting laws to legalize a new type of surrogacy, called “gestational surrogacy.” A state senate committee report on the New Jersey Gestational Carrier Agreement Act explains: A gestational carrier agreement is a written contract pursuant to which a woman agrees…