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Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics
Courts Should Treat Gun Rights as Liberally as Abortion Rights
Why should unduly burdensome regulations that place obstacles in the path of those looking to exercise one right be struck down while equally burdensome regulations that infringe on another right are upheld?
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A Bit About Toy Gun Buybacks
In the real world, sometimes grown-ups need to use guns.
An Assault Weapons Ban Won’t Pass Constitutional Muster
The likelihood an innocent person will be injured or killed with a so-called ‘assault weapon’ is slim by any standard – let alone the standard that should be met before interfering with the freedoms of American citizens.
The Gun Control Vote: How the Constitution Did its Job
In what is perhaps the heyday of government overreach, the Constitution is still fighting for us, serving one of its most important purposes – protecting the liberty of the few against the tyranny of the many.
Turning on Obama — Could it Be That the Liberal Press has Finally Figured Him Out?
The MSM seems to have noticed that its fawning, sycophantic coverage of the Obama administration has meant declining circulation and viewership. The turn is as remarkable as it is welcome.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics
Other People’s Children: Part Two
In the race to the financial bottom the State of Illinois vies nicely with several other states, including (depending on the precise year involved) California, New York, and Ohio, with[...]
Legal Affairs · Media · Politics
Obama Failed to Notice the Biggest Common Denominator in Hadiya’s Death
From what I heard, the biggest applause line in President Obama’s State of the Union speech was when he said new gun regulations “deserve a vote” because of communities “ripped[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Environment/Energy · Politics
State of the Union: Will Congress Deliver?
The State of the Union address long ago devolved into political theater, so it is no surprise that both President Obama and members of Congress surrounded themselves with sympathetic guests,[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
Enough of This Glumness: There is Light at the End of the Obama Tunnel
Conservatives are still glum about the election, and the upper hand President Obama seems to have over Republicans. But the political stage has been framed far worse for conservatives and[...]
Forget Market Failure, Our Crumbling Democracy Speaks To Political Failure
Government does not even have the power to take guns away from criminals. It can only take guns away from the victims of criminals. This is not a matter of[...]
Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics
Gun Truth: Background Checks
John Lott is the author of the book “More Guns, Less Crime,” which revealed the truth about the importance of gun use for self defense. He forever transformed the debate[...]
Talking Gun Control on Fox Chicago Sunday
Rarely do I feel better after speaking with a gun control advocate than I do today. (See the clip below.) I have just returned from taping a segment of Fox[...]
Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics
Heartland Institute Experts React to Sen. Feinstein’s ‘Assault Weapons Ban of 2013’
At a Capitol Hill press conference today, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) announced the introduction of the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013. The bill would prohibit the sale, transfer, importation, and[...]
Astonishing Video: Bulgarian Assassination Attempt Fails When Gun Misfires
Watch this and read the article to believe it. If the guy had had a revolver, as I use in my Bullseye matches, or even a single-shot pistol, instead of[...]
When Seconds Count, Police Are . . . 20 Minutes Away in Sandy Hook
Wow, wow, wow! Where is the outrage? Where are the demands for accountability? How can this be receiving so little attention? CNN has put together a timeline of the mass[...]
Fewer Guns, More Crime
To President Obama, the word “politics” means anyone who disagrees with him, as in the phrase “It is time to put politics aside.” Whenever he says that, he is really[...]
Law and Order in the Fallen World
It is a natural tendency on the part of most human beings, when confronted with great evil, to want to do something about it. We want to stop the horror[...]
Bob Costas is Wrong: Gun Ownership Deters Crime
Here we go again. Sports broadcaster Bob Costas used his platform at NBC’s Sunday Night Football to blame guns for Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher’s murder of his girlfriend[...]
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Readable Links- Kirsten Powers: Liberals' mob rule
- Charles Krauthammer: Thought police on patrol - The Washington Post
- Thoughtcrime at Mozilla — Jonathan Last Online
- A Conversation Between Milton Friedman and Gary Becker
- Organic activists need GMOs now more than ever
- Bullies drove Eich from public square: Column
- Jonah Goldberg: Climate activists uncaged
