Costs without Benefits | Richard W. Rahn | Cato Institute: Commentary

Costs without Benefits | Richard W. Rahn | Cato Institute: Commentary: "No individual can know the vast number of laws and regulations to which he is subject, and hence, the government (if it chooses) can target anyone and almost certainly be able to find some law or rule that the targeted person has violated. According to Thomas Jefferson, the U.S. Constitution only gave Congress the power to punish criminally 'treason, counterfeiting the securities and coin of the United States, piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the laws of nations, and no other crimes whatsoever.' Yet the federal criminal code contains thousands of pages, making it impossible for individuals to know all of the violations for which they may be sent to jail."

White House Press Challenges Pols with ... Squirt Guns? | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary

White House Press Challenges Pols with ... Squirt Guns? | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary: "conservative complaints about the supposedly monolithic 'Media' are outdated and smack of a victim mentality. Fox is the top-rated cable news channel, the Wall Street Journal has the largest circulation of any U.S. paper and Glenn Beck is the new Oprah, shooting Friedrich von Hayek's Road to Serfdom to the top of the Amazon charts last week.

We don't live in the era of three networks anymore, and it's silly to pretend that conservative voices are being shut out."

Free or Compulsory Speech - Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily

Free or Compulsory Speech - Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily: "The Fifth Amendment, as we all know, prohibits the government from forcing a person to testify against himself: 'nor shall any person … be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.' Excellent. But why should an accused criminal possess a right not also granted to admittedly innocent persons? In short, by what right does a government compel someone to testify against another?"