Politics & Rights

Craig Biddle interviews John R. Bolton about individualism, foreign policy, and good government.

Examines and grades various components of Rep. Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity,” which, although rejected in the Senate, is perhaps the best plan put forth by an elected official to date about how to deal with America’s financial crisis.

Examines Ayn Rand's theory of rights in contrast to theories of God-given, government-granted, and "natural" rights.

Examines the essence of this approach and what it’s delivered so far.

FoxNews.com reports that four of the five biggest U.S tobacco companies are suing the federal government to stop it from forcing them to use “new graphic cigarette labels that include the sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs.” They are right to do so: The government’s…

In the recent Fox News debate in Iowa, Ron Paul claimed that Iran should be unhindered in its quest to acquire nuclear weapons and then blamed any tension with the Iranians on the United States, adding that the United States should “Stay out of their internal business.” If someone openly…

Miguel Octavio in the CS Monitor attempts to discredit Hugo Chavez and his government by denying that they are genuinely socialist, but Octavio fails to grasp the nature of socialism. [Chavez] said we were entering into socialism long ago (2005?), but has yet to define it or implement it. Socialism…

The Islamic terrorist organization Abu Sayyaf recently killed 7 Filipino Marines, beheading two. Philippine President Noynoy Aquino, expressing the proper outrage, said: Mark my words: to those of you who perpetrated this atrocity, know that you are now number one on my radar... make no mistake about it: you will…

Sen. Jim Demint (R-SC) has introduced the “Retirement Freedom Act,” a piece of legislation that would allow seniors to opt out of Medicare Part A while continuing to collect Social Security payments. As Demint’s press release states, “Currently, the Social Security Administration has handcuffed Social Security benefits to Medicare enrollment.”…

On July 4, 1776, the Founders declared to the world not only that the colonies would henceforth be independent from Britain, but also, and more fundamentally, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and…