Liberty, tyranny and the majority

Damon Root has an excellent article at Reason where he discusses liberty and federalism in the context of a draconian South Dakota law that, if the voters decide so, would ban virtually all kinds of abortions.
Look at it like this. The United States Constitution guarantees a number of specific individual rights, including free speech and the [...]

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Not disclosing affair + sex with girlfriend = rape?

It’s the classic pitfall. The law tries to prevent a reprehensible act of fraud (in this case, obtaining sex from one’s brother near-sleeping girlfriend by impersonating the brother). However it does so by passing a law whose language is much broader than it should. The result is yet another encroachment by the law into an area it [...]

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A hero is…

“A hero is one who knows how to make a friend out of an enemy”
-old Talmud saying.

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A sign of the future?

Tesla rolls out its electric sports car.

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