“[T]he vast regulatory structure the federal government has erected in the name of the commerce power cannot be ended overnight, in many cases, but the pretense that such programs are constitutional can be ended, even as the programs themselves are phased out over time.” GovernmentNamesCasesProgramStructureCommerceFederal GovernmentPretenseE Commerce Author:Roger Pilon
“MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.” PeopleDoeGovernmentFormNationsMillionsIssuesEvidenceWeakHarmTreatmentPornographyAnecdotes Author:Richard Posner
“I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. But let us not sacrifice our civil liberties on the altar of her obsession.” KnowsGovernmentLibertySacrificeObsessionObsessedCensorshipPornographyAltarsCivil LibertiesZealous Author:Richard Posner
“It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.” DoeTwoGovernmentSpaceImagineActivitySpeechJudgmentMessagesAreasAccessParksAddressesSpeakersRegulationUtilityExpressiveProprietyForums Author:Richard Posner
“Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judging from the record of this case, not very violent compared to what is available to children on television and in movie theaters today.” ChildrenGovernmentTodayGamesCasesRecordsViolenceModernMediaTelevisionJudgingTheaterAvailableTinyViolentVideoExposedFractionsMovie TheaterMedia ViolenceViolent Video Games Author:Richard Posner
“A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.” MenFirstsGovernmentBearsFitCommonwealth Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh
“Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any and all forms of intervention in production and trade, the separation of State and Economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of Church and State.” WayHas BeensMatterStatesReasonGovernmentFormEvilChurchEconomySourceSolutionsCapitalismEconomicsTradeProductionsSeparationBehalfInterventionChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateAbolitionLaissez FaireLaissez Faire Capitalism Author:Ayn Rand
“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.” MenMayMeanSelfUseGovernmentPurposeForceActingRightsViolenceProtectDefenseAgentsResortsPolicemenSelf DefenseUse Of ForcePhysical Violence Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged
“I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!” I CanHateRocksBearsTraditionI HateRock Music Author:Brian Eno
