All Posts Tagged With: "civil rights"
The Ominous Expansion of Class-Action Suits
At stake are billions of dollars and the creation of a new standard for certifying class-action lawsuits.
7Dec2010 | Wendy McElroy | 13 comments | ContinuedA Pen That Turns into a Sword
It’s a promotional giveaway pen, a rather nice one by BIC, white with red and blue writing that at first I found puzzling: MEN: Don’t lose benefits! Use this to register with Selective Service. Benefits from (or through, or with) Selective Service? When I turned 18 several years before the Vietnam era I registered for [...]
24Nov2010 | N. Joseph Potts | 5 comments | ContinuedAn American Stasi?
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reported on July 25 that “there are 72 fusion centers around the nation, analyzing and disseminating data and information of all kinds. That is one for every state and others for large urban cities.” What is a fusion center? The answer depends on your perspective. If you work for the [...]
22Oct2010 | Wendy McElroy | 22 comments | ContinuedBlack Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power
Black Maverick is the only biography of Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard, whose remarkable life (1908–1976) combined entrepreneurship, medical practice, civil-rights activism against segregation, philanthropy, and high living. He was an irrepressible but flawed character, a man on the make who grew up under Jim Crow and took advantage of the few opportunities that system [...]
25Aug2010 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedOpposing the Civil Rights Act Means Opposing Civil Rights?
Just after winning his Republican primary in May, Rand Paul got himself into a political pickle over his views on property rights and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Having reluctantly discussed concerns about antidiscrimination laws with the Louisville Courier-Journal and NPR, Paul made his now-notorious appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show, where Maddow grilled him [...]
25Aug2010 | Charles Johnson | 16 comments | ContinuedRacism and Libertarianism
At FreedomFest last month I spoke on racism and libertarianism. My remarks can be downloaded here.
5Aug2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedWhat’s Wrong with Reparations for Slavery
There has been much debate recently about reparations for slavery. According to its proponents, the federal government should award Americans of African descent financial damages solely because slavery, as an institution, existed in the United States from the founding until almost a century later. Three principal arguments are offered: (1) The legacy of slavery has [...]
30Jun2010 | Stefan Spath | 16 comments | ContinuedRace & Liberty in America: The Essential Reader / Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America
Two recent books criticize racial discrimination from a classical-liberal perspective. The first, Race & Liberty in America, is an anthology edited by Jonathan Bean, a professor of history at Southern Illinois University. It includes dozens of selections, from 1776 to today, arguing eloquently for colorblind equality before the law and against slavery, Jim Crow, and [...]
20May2010 | Roger Clegg | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Left, The Right, and the State
The Left, The Right, and The State, a collection of 103 essays by Llewellyn Rockwell, looks at the ways both the left and right use the State to pursue their goals. Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, argues forcefully that our liberty and property are endangered equally by left-wing and right-wing statism. As [...]
23Oct2009 | George C. Leef | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Great Writ Then and Now
The Great Writ Then and Now by Wendy McElroy Wendy McElroy (wendy@wendymcelroy.com) is an author, the editor of ifeminists.com, and a research fellow for the Independent Institute in Oakland, California. Habeas corpus is a rarely invoked legal writ, or document, widely considered to be the cornerstone of individual liberty. Also known as The Great Writ, [...]
23Oct2009 | Wendy McElroy | 1 comment | ContinuedFederal Surveillance: The Threat to Americans’ Security
Since the terrorist attacks on 9/11 the Bush administration has launched many new surveillance programs in the name of homeland security. When critics raised questions about the potential abuses of the new powers, some administration supporters insisted that Bush’s new surveillance policies were benign because there was no evidence the programs were being abused. But [...]
1Jan2004 | James Bovard | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Post Office as a Violation of Constitutional Rights
In September 2000, the United States Postal Service (USPS) launched a $12 million campaign to advertise a new Internet service, eBillPay, through which customers could pay their bills electronically. EBillPay is one of several new e-services designed to woo back the growing army of Americans who would rather click a mouse than lick a stamp [...]
1May2001 | Wendy McElroy | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Liability Lottery: Politics by Other Means
Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Liability law, no less than war, has become a continuation of politics by other means. When defeated at the ballot box, interest [...]
1Jun1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Ending Affirmative Action: The Case for Colorblind Justice by Terry Eastland
Dr. Yates is Adjunct Research Fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (ICS Press, 1994). This book is a tour de force. Terry Eastland looks at the history of civil rights in America and sees two incompatible visions [...]
1Jan1997 | Steven Yates | 1 comment | ContinuedCivil Rights Socialism
Mr. Rockwell is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. The Fabian Society of Britain believed in three central doctrines of political economy. First, every country must create its own form of socialism. Second, socialism imposed slowly is more permanent than the revolutionary form. and third, socialism is not likely to succeed [...]
1May1996 | Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr | 1 comment | Continued-
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