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Jeff Sessions: Wildly Wrong on Civil Asset Forfeiture
Because America’s Founding Fathers properly wanted to protect citizens from government abuse, the Constitution has several provisions (presumption of innocence, ban on warrantless searches, right to...
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The Case for Jury Nullification, Part II
I wrote two days ago about a jury correctly voting to acquit a Swiss banker who was being prosecuted (and persecuted) by the government. The jury presumably recognized that it’s not the responsibility...
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What’s the Best Way to Reduce School Shootings, Armed Teachers or Gun Control?
It’s been several weeks since the awful tragedy in Parkland, FL, where 17 students were killed by an evil loser. Since I written several times about the utter impracticality of gun control, and since a...
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Honesty about Gun Confiscation
I have a special page to highlight honest left wingers, and I’ve acknowledged several who have confessed that gun control is misguided. Jeffrey Goldberg admits gun ownership reduces crime. Justin...
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Mocking Gun Control
I shared some satire about gun control last month, but the left’s campaign to exploit the horrible Parkland shooting seems to have instigated a bunch of new material. So let’s have some weekend fun....
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The Bill of Rights, Gun Ownership, and the Constitution
I don’t own an AR-15. I’m not a “gun person,” whatever that means. I hardly ever shoot. And I never hunt. But I’m nonetheless a big supporter of private gun ownership. In part, this is because I have a...
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Is Alexander Hamilton the Real Libertarian Hero, not Thomas Jefferson?
Like many libertarians, I’ve always assumed that Thomas Jefferson was one of the best Founding Fathers. He certainly was an advocate of liberty and I’ve cited him several times (see here, here, here,...
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Confronted by Reality, a Leftist Changes His Mind on Gun Rights
I’ve periodically featured folks on the left who have rejected gun control. In 2012, Jeffrey Goldberg admitted gun ownership reduces crime. In 2013, Justin Cronin explained how he became a left-wing...
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Calvin Coolidge, the Declaration of Independence, and Limits on the Power of...
To keep with tradition, it’s time to expand my collection of 4th-of-July columns. In 2010, I contemplated the issue of libertarians and patriotism. My view, for what it’s worth, is captured by this...
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A Libertarian Quandary
My opinions on crime are very straightforward. Have very few laws, mostly at the state level, with the goal of protecting life, liberty, and property. Have strong constitutional and procedural...
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Trade, Congress, Separation of Powers, the Administrative State, and the...
One of the interesting games in Washington is deciding who on the right (however defined) is a “Trumpie” and who is a “Reaganite.” Here are a few indicators. If you claim to be for small government,...
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Supreme Court Chips Away at Egregious Scam of Civil Asset Forfeiture
It’s not easy being a libertarian. Thanks to senseless and harmful government policies, you run the risk of being perpetually outraged. One day, you get angry because an innocent person is being...
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Majoritarianism and Democracy vs. Liberty and the Constitution
While she’s mostly known for radical proposals such as confiscatory tax rates and the Green New Deal, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also made waves with recent comments about imposing “democracy” on the...
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Economic Liberty and the Constitution
Two days ago, I wrote about how the Constitution was designed, in large part, to protect Americans from majoritarianism. The Supreme Court is doing a reasonably good job of protecting some of our...
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What We Should Be Celebrating on the 4th of July
For my annual Independence Day columns, I sometimes try to make serious points, such as last year when I shared the very wise words of Calvin Coolidge, who is probably America’s most-underappreciated...
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Heartwarming Stories of Civil Disobedience
I was delighted to learn in 2013 that an overwhelming majority of Americans would disobey if politicians passed laws to confiscate private firearms. And we have firsthand evidence from Colorado and...
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Three Cheers for (Liberty-Minded) Rogue Jurors
I wrote a three-part series (here, here, and here) about “jury nullification,” which is the notion that jurors can declare defendants not guilty if they think the underlying law is unjust or immoral....
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Defending the Second Amendment in Virginia
Other than an occasional column about events in my home county of Fairfax, I’ve never written about public policy in Virginia. This is because the Commonwealth has had a dull profile. It doesn’t have a...
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Economic Liberty and the Constitution
In this interview from last March, I groused that the Supreme Court – largely thanks to statist Justices appointed by one of America’s worst presidents – basically decided, starting in the 1930s, that...
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The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and Judicial Activism
Some of my right-wing friends complain about “judicial activism,” which seems to mean that they want courts to defer to other branches of government. Since I’m opposed to majoritarianism and because I...
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Democracy and Liberty
A pure democracy, where 51 percent of the people have the right to do anything they want, is not a desirable form of government. It means tyranny of the majority. That’s why America’s Founding Fathers...
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The Wrong Kind of Constitutional Reform in Chile
The good thing about being a libertarian is that real-world events repeatedly demonstrate that your skepticism of big government is fully justified. Nations that adopt dirigiste policies don’t do well....
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Happy 229th Anniversary to the 2nd Amendment
When I write about gun control, it’s normally to make wonky points about how gun ownership reduces crime by changing the cost-benefit analysis of potential bad guys. Today, in honor of Bill of Rights...
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Another Leftist Has an Epiphany on Guns
I’m (unfortunately) not a rich person, but that doesn’t stop me from opposing punitive taxes on successful entrepreneurs, investors, and small business owners. Likewise, I’m not a gun aficionado, but...
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The 2nd Amendment and the Individual Right to Gun Ownership
Back in 2012, I shared a video clip of Ice-T defending the 2nd Amendment, but that video is now dead, so I’m glad to see that Prager University has added his comments as a prologue to this defense of...
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Chile Election Week, Part VI: Wrecking the Constitution?
Now that a socialist has been elected (with open support from the Communist Party), what comes next for Chile? Lots of bad policy, for sure, but Axel Kaiser warns that the left also wants to replace...
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How Should the Constitution Be Changed?
John Stossel has added to his collection of great videos. His latest releases asks whether the Constitution should be amended. If you watch carefully, you’ll see that I made an appearance toward the...
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Will Chileans Vote for a Statist Constitution?
When I went to Chile last December to write about that nation’s election (see here, here, here, here, and here), I concluded my coverage with a column about the risks of changing that nation’s...
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Time for a Constitutional Convention?
Yesterday’s column was about the referendum for a new leftist constitution in Chile. Fortunately, Chilean voters overwhelmingly rejected that awful plan (a surprisingly positive outcome since those...
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Newsom’s Proposed Gun Ban: Honest But Wrong
Given his state’s awful fiscal policy, I generally don’t have anything nice to say about Gavin Newsom, California Governor. And I don’t like his proposal to amend the Constitution to weaken gun rights,...
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