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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
Aiming at Ordered Liberty
Post Date: 2023-01-25 18:11:59 by Charles_Byrd
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The telos, or final cause of the American regime, according to the prophets of the Common Good, descends like a vision from God, telling us precisely how our society ought to be ordered. They invoke telos to justify transformative arguments about the American Constitution, using broad language in the Preamble to interpret and circumscribe the document. Telos’s power, they argue, derives not just from words, but from intellectual tradition. Telos is important for Aristotle and Aquinas; a classical provenance for “classical lawyers.” When scrutinizing arguments about telos, we find something missing: a definition. Thinkers throw the term around casually, as if it were self- ...
Winning the all-out war against America's children
Post Date: 2023-01-24 18:19:13 by Charles_Byrd
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Of all the shared values Americans have held sacred over the centuries, one of the most important has been the conviction that our children are precious, innocent, literally a gift from God, to be cherished and protected – at all costs. Why then, in today’s America, are so many adults destroying children in a dizzying variety of ways – from aborting them right up to the very moment of birth, to killing them after they’re born, to sexualizing them virtually from birth (Harvard now teaches a course on infants who are “LGBTQIA+,” “queer” or “asexual”), to injecting them with an experimental “vaccine” PROVEN to be both ineffective and ...
Letting Kids Play Outside Is Not Neglect
Post Date: 2023-01-24 18:07:15 by Charles_Byrd
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Each year, the nonprofit I helm, Let Grow, works with local advocacy groups, parents and sometimes even kids to get states to pass the “Reasonable Childhood Independence” law. This law says that “child neglect” is when you put your kid in serious, obvious and likely danger — not anytime you take your eyes off them. Want your kids to play outside, walk to the store, come home with a latchkey? Parents don’t have to second-guess themselves in the four states where this bill has passed, always with bipartisan sponsorship. In fact, it sailed through red state Utah and blue state Colorado unanimously. Click for Full Text!
The Power to Regulate Is the Power to Control
Post Date: 2023-01-23 16:48:31 by Charles_Byrd
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In his 1819 opinion in McCulloch v. Maryland, US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall famously stated what everyone already knew, “the power to tax is the power to destroy.” Americans also knew that the power to regulate imposes costs too, so it is akin to the power to tax. And they are now relearning a lesson they should have never forgotten, that the power to tax or to regulate is also the power to control, not just in the supposed “public interest” but in the interest of the regulators themselves, or specific politicians, or the government more generally. Once, companies could fight government mandates and win. Perhaps most infamously, during World War II, the ...
Our Naked Society
Post Date: 2023-01-23 16:36:04 by Charles_Byrd
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In his 1964 book The Naked Society, Vance Packard challenged the ever increasing loss of privacy as technology and large institutions began wide spread surveillance that today has become acceptable. At the time, computer power, hidden cameras, and concealed microphones were crude gadgets compared to the technology currently in use. The intrusion into a person’s life then was nothing compared to what is acceptable today. With each generation we become comfortable and more obliging to the fact that we no longer are allowed privacy. We have all been stripped naked. A subcommittee in the U.S. Congress to study the invasion of privacy was created due to the publishing of The Naked Society ...
Truth Is More Than Propositional
Post Date: 2023-01-23 16:27:42 by Charles_Byrd
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Navigating a world riddled with attacks on gender, goodness, and morality, I’m always encouraged by people who cling to truth. Still, even as we hold to rightly ordered propositions, we have to recognize exactly what truth encompasses because it has profound impacts on our systems of belief and how we communicate. Click for Full Text!
The Best Video On Climate Change That You Will Ever See
Post Date: 2023-01-22 23:48:42 by Charles_Byrd
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It’s less than seven minutes long. Play it. Play the video then think about the lead chart and the path of China and India while noting the whole continent of Africa is not even on the scale. Click for Full Text!
Pro-Family Conservatives Must First Be Pro-Men
Post Date: 2023-01-22 23:46:39 by Charles_Byrd
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Those conservatives who want to shape the nascent pro-family movement emerging on the right must be willing to embrace a controversial — and countercultural — reality: Healthy families require strong, stable, and secure men. That means Republicans interested in crafting pro-family policy must focus on the well-being of America’s boys and men. Democrats have spent decades supporting policies that make men and fathers economically and socially obsolete. They’ve promoted the notion that families and societies flourish when women are empowered, even to the detriment of men. For instance, they see the fact that women outnumber men in the college-educated labor force as a win ...
Two Cultures
Post Date: 2023-01-21 06:46:20 by Charles_Byrd
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I am occasionally reminded (some would say warned), by people whom I respect, that the Chronicles’ polemical tone carries a seed of zealotry. This may result, say those who remind me, in unreflective rejections. If this is the case, I must have misguided my messages, as narrow partisanship was never my ambition. I do not want to become a cause of showdowns, in either word or deed. But I do want to stir intellectual emotions. We all feel that the divisions of the last two decades must be defined in ideological categories. The liberal/conservative dichotomy befits those categories. These days, a liberal is one who has no qualms in accepting that everything around him is deteriorating ...
Anarcho-Tyranny, U.S.A.
Post Date: 2023-01-21 06:42:13 by Charles_Byrd
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On the morning of September 22, 1993, a law-abiding citizen named B.W. Sanders was driving his car down the street in Raleigh, North Carolina, when all of a sudden he found himself flagged down by a policeman and presented with a ticket for $25. Mr. Sanders, it turned out, had not been wearing his seat belt, and under a new state law, that crime carries the penalty he received. But in this case it was not just a traffic cop who flagged down Mr. Sanders. It was a force of some six dozen police officers as well as the governor of North Carolina himself, James B. Hunt. The governor was searching for a photo-op with which to advertise both the new seat belt law and his own personal devotion to ...
To See the World and Man
Post Date: 2023-01-21 06:35:45 by Charles_Byrd
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I want to begin with a word of thanks to the sponsors of this award, the trustees of the Ingersoll Foundation. It is an honor to be honored in such a fashion, and in the company of such a distinguished man of letters as Jorge Luis Borges. As you maybe aware, I have not, in any formal sense, put pen to paper for a period of time. But, clearly, the occasion calls for a few words. Click for Full Text!
Is the Weaponization of the Government a Partisan Issue?
Post Date: 2023-01-21 06:34:10 by Charles_Byrd
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If the Republicans in Congress do their job, Democrat corruption will be on full display in several House committees. This doesn’t mean the Republicans aren’t corrupt. They all are. But the Democrats, most of whom hail from Yankee dominated parts of the Union, have been running around with their treasury of virtue labeling anyone who opposed them traitors, deplorables, and insurrectionists. Click for Full Text!
How Cultivating An Internal Locus of Control Can Help You Succeed
Post Date: 2023-01-21 06:29:42 by Charles_Byrd
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In the United States today, it’s fashionable to see ourselves as victims. Commentators on the far left will tell you that skin color traps people in poverty and that people cannot determine their own fate. Commentators on the far right will tell you that immigrants are stealing jobs and that there’s nothing we can do about it. Both sets of voices tell us we’re helpless victims. But cultivating a victim complex is lethal to our ability to achieve our goals and build the life we desire. Fortunately, there’s a better way: cultivating an internal locus of control. What is an internal locus of control? Put simply, it’s the idea that you always have a choice about how ...
God’ll Cut You Down: Johnny Cash, Cato, and Triumphant Good
Post Date: 2023-01-21 06:28:15 by Charles_Byrd
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In Johnny Cash’s version of the gospel song “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” the opening chorus goes this way: “You can run on for a long time Run on for a long time Run on for a long time Sooner or later, God’ll cut you down Sooner or later, God’ll cut you down” Click for Full Text!
The Real American Dilemma
Post Date: 2023-01-21 06:25:51 by Charles_Byrd
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America is a nation of immigrants. How often is that declaration trotted out to explain why it would be immoral to do something about controlling immigration, as if every country were not a nation of immigrants. If Britain ever had an indigenous population, it was overrun by Celts, Germans, Danes, and Normans—to say nothing of the Hollanders brought over and ennobled when Dutch William drove his father-in-law from the throne. Almost any country, excepting the poor benighted Scandinavians, could tell a similar story, and the present condition of Sweden is as good an argument as I can think of against a restricted gene pool. (It is also a total refutation of the hilarious idea of Nordic ...
The FBI’s contempt for the Constitution and its continued ‘lawful’ spying
Post Date: 2023-01-20 01:13:58 by Charles_Byrd
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Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the “wall” between federal law enforcement and federal spies. The wall was erected in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which statutorily limited all federal domestic spying to that which was authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The wall was intended to prevent law enforcement from accessing and using data gathered by America’s domestic spying agencies. Click for Full Text!
The Insanity of Political ‘Moderation’
Post Date: 2023-01-20 00:30:57 by Charles_Byrd
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I find the self-anointed gatekeepers who claim to be the sole arbiters of the truth very amusing (also pathetic). Apparently if you want to accumulate unsustainable deficits, inadequately fund liabilities, print an infinite amount of money, and engage in never- ending wars, then you are a moderate, sound, sane, reasonable, and rational person. Anyone that disputes or dissents from that position must be a dangerous radical. Click for Full Text!
Can Suing the Government, Pharmaceutical Industry, and Mainstream Media, End Tyranny? Absolutely Not!
Post Date: 2023-01-18 01:29:50 by Charles_Byrd
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This subject can only be approached with extreme pessimism, because in order to gain real and honest justice in this heinous system, one must deal with the courts. It should be obvious to most, but it is not, that all courts are in fact an arm of, and an integral part of the State. In fact, the courts are government, and therefore complicit in government crime. In order to gain redress from intentional or negligent harm due to government or government controlled, funded, or sponsored entities, the arbiter in every case against government is that same government. Could any more dangerous or discriminatory contradiction or conflict of interest exist? I think not, but this system was purposely ...
Transparency is clearly a joke to the Biden White House
Post Date: 2023-01-17 23:15:15 by Charles_Byrd
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There is nothing to see behind the curtain — or anywhere across the Delaware state line. The Secret Service announced Monday that it had no logs of visitors to Biden’s White House East — his mansion in Wilmington and his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach. Click for Full Text!
How Individuals Enable Tyranny
Post Date: 2023-01-17 21:42:02 by Charles_Byrd
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It is easy to think the roots of tyranny lie outside of ourselves, but perhaps we are looking too far away. In Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a Czech refugee living in Paris joins a protest march against the 1968 Soviet invasion of her homeland. To her surprise, the refugee could not bring herself to shout with the other protesters and soon left the rally. Her French friends didn’t understand her reluctance. The refugee silently mused that her friends could never understand that “behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with ...
There’s A Reason Moving In Before Marriage Makes Divorce More Likely, But Barstool Can’t Figure It Out
Post Date: 2023-01-15 18:55:42 by Charles_Byrd
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First comes love, then comes an indeterminate period of conveniently living together to decide whether your partner’s dishwasher-loading habits are a dealbreaker, then comes marriage. Today a lot of young daters assume moving in together is a prerequisite for matrimonial success. But it actually hikes up a couple’s proclivity toward divorce compared to spouses who wed without first cohabitating — a statistic that shocked hosts Jordyn Woodruff and Alex Bennett of Barstool Sports’ “Mean Girl” podcast in Wednesday’s episode. Click for Full Text!
Killing newborn babies
Post Date: 2023-01-15 18:21:28 by Charles_Byrd
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In June of 2018, the body of a little baby was discovered floating in the ocean near an inlet in South Florida. One sheriff told NBC News that he'd thought he'd seen it all, but this corpse really tugged at his heart. And now, more than 4 years later, through DNA technology, authorities have been able to isolate the Click for Full Text!
Celebrate Life!
Post Date: 2023-01-14 04:37:35 by Charles_Byrd
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This is an exciting time for the pro-life movement. Exciting because we are reminded that, with hard work and determination, we can move mountains! When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Roe v Wade decision in 1973, Justice Byron White used his dissenting opinion to write an emphatic denunciation of the majority decision. Click for Full Text!
Embrace Dynamism: The Future and Its Enemies at 25
Post Date: 2023-01-13 02:42:51 by Charles_Byrd
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As I write in the introduction to a Southern Economic Journal symposium (commemorating the anniversaries of Ludwig von Mises’s “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth” and F.A. Hayek’s “The Use of Knowledge in Society”): “the roaring (20-)20s are a decade of anniversaries and milestones. Last year was the 60th anniversary of The Calculus of Consent by James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock. This year, for example, will be the fiftieth anniversary of Israel Kirzner’s Competition and Entrepreneurship, and we will celebrate at the Association of Private Enterprise Education conference in April. It’s also the 25th anniversary of another ...
A Government by Experts
Post Date: 2023-01-13 02:21:21 by Charles_Byrd
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I have often thought that after Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson was our worst president. By worst is meant least faithful to the Constitution and most destructive of personal liberty. With the exception of Lincoln’s dictatorship — during which the federal government used violence to crush the states’ natural right to secede from a compact they had voluntarily joined, and instead brought about the systematic murder of 750,000 persons — America from its founding to the early part of the 20th century more or less enjoyed the James Madison model for the federal government. Click for Full Text!
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