Myth: Markets lead to more inequality than non-market processes

Market processes redistribute wealth, giving owners of assets incentives to maximize their value or to shift their assets to those who will. Political processes redistribute property, making property in general less valuable and destroying wealth. Those with the power to transfer property in the name of equality inevitably use it to benefit themselves, and the process fails.

The Dynamics of the Season, Part III

By Sam Clovis It seems whenever I encounter someone who admits they are a moderate they give the impression that being around a conservative makes them uncomfortable.  Though the moderates are loyal to the republican party, they drive conservative and libertarian members of the party crazy.  To reiterate, we make them uncomfortable and they make [...]

Appel Dissected

How, exactly, did Justice Appel, joined by Justice Hecht, find an unenumerated constitutional right to a free and meaningful public education in King v. State of Iowa?  Simple really.  It only took 77 pages of references to the Founding Fathers, international law, positive rights, and Varnum to draft such a right into the Iowa Constitution. [...]

UC San Diego Student Left in Holding Cell for Five Days; Drank His Own Urine to Survive, Then Attempted Suicide

By Ethan NadelmannDrug Policy Alliance
Daniel Chong, UC-San Diego student, said he was forced to drink his own urine after he was left in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell for nearly five days. Chong was smoking marijuana at a friend’s h…