December 15, 2013 -- Author and speaker Barbara Branden died in Los Angeles on December 11, 2013, at the age of 84. In this video William R Thomas and Edward Hudgins discuss highlights of Barbara Branden's life as well as personal recollections about this fascinating woman.
When the federal government demanded his encryption keys , Ladar Levison
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In Venezuela, Atlas Shrugged is coming to life, with President Nicolas Madur
November 18, 2013 -- Why did so little thought go into the testing and launch of the Obamacare website? This question is more puzzling given how important the site launch was to the Affordable Care Act, touted as a signature achievement of the Obama administration. Will and Ed discuss the fiasco and compare it to the Bush administration's lack of planning for the post-invasion governance of Iraq.
“(Reuters) - US Airways Group Inc and American Airlines will give low-cost competitors more access to a half dozen key U.S. airports, including New York and Washington, D.C., in exchange for permission to merge and create the world’s largest airline.”
If you’re working for a U.S. senator and you think your boss is doing something unconstitutional, you need to be able to say so. If you’re not free to inform the public about it, even by publishing information the senator isn’t willing to release, the voters can’t hold their senator accountable.
Lavabit founder Ladar Levison, who created the email system that Edward Snowden used and who tried to protect it from the government, closed that system —but he hasn’t given up on providing private email.
Are you scared of Ayn Rand? Do you think she wants us to suck the life out of other people, like vampires , for our own self-interest? Are you afraid that in the world as she wanted it to be, most of us would be slaves to monstrous lords of wealth ?
THE IDEAS AT WORK Is There a Right to Health Care? by David KelleyDavid explains why when government attempts to implement a right to health care, the result will be the abrogation of liberty rights.
Suppose the government accuses you of a crime. Suppose it freezes your money while you await trial, claiming that if you’re convicted, you’ll have to forfeit the assets. Are you entitled to argue to a judge that you’re entitled to the money, so that you can use it to pay an attorney to get you acquitted? Or do you have to go to trial without the money you maintain you earned legally, even if that means relying on a public defender?
Reihan Salam at National Review Online blogged today that people who want to improve health care should look to antitrust law.
Before he was famous as the man who shut down his email service rather than “become complicit in crimes against the American people,” Lavabit owner Ladar Levison was a businessman whose company faced an existential threat from the United States Government—because he was trying to provide private email.
If you don’t care about the rights of a high-achieving executive whose triumphal deal to create the world’s largest airline may be taken away from him , perhaps Norean Blankenship’s story will move you. She’s a flight attendant from Arizona, and she took unpaid leave to come to Washington this week and make her voice heard.
Join us for a Webinar on September 23, 2013 Title: Student Rights on Campus: Absent Force, Does the Concept Apply? - Presenter: Alexander R. Cohen Date: Monday, September 23, 2013 Time: 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM EDT
Federal Judge Denise Cote has issued a final injunction in the Apple ebooks antitrust case. As the Department of Justice requested, the order requires Apple to pay for two antitrust cops : a compliance officer and an external monitor.
My civil procedure professor used to paraphrase Tom Lehrer's Smut : “When correctly viewed,” he said, “everything is outcome-determinative.” (The original said "lewd.")The Department of Justice's proposed schedule for one case risked determining the outcome not only of the trial, but of Doug Parker's attempt to create the world's biggest airline . But today, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she would not let that happen .
August 12, 2013 -- The Tea Party Patriots and The New Hampshire Republican Leadership Institute are organizing an event that will bring together victims of IRS abuse to tell their stories and to inspire action against further government abuse. Aaron Day, CEO of The Atlas Society, will be a featured speaker. The Tea Party Patriots, a national tea party group, will be flying in victims from all over the country. These victims will be telling their stories of unbelievable abuse. The stories are appalling and need to be heard.
The federal government wants to sacrifice Doug Parker’s plan to create the world’s largest airline on the altar of lower airfares. But it’s not willing to sacrifice its own policies to that same goal. Even as its Department of Justice tries to stop the US Airways-American Airlines merger with an antitrust lawsuit , the federal government continues to restrict competition in air travel.
