Defining the Right of Self-Defense by Gun
by Thomas A. Bowden
(March 15, 2008)
A proper legal system recognizes and protects the right to self defense, by permitting private ownership of handguns under appropriate limits.
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Dr. Jack Kevorkian and The Right to Assisted Suicide
by Thomas A. Bowden
(May 31, 2007)
Here's a quiz: During the eight years Dr. Jack Kevorkian languished in a Michigan prison, how many state legislatures reformed their laws against physician-assisted suicide?
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Rights Before Religion: The Individual's Right to Commit Suicide
by Thomas A. Bowden
(October 5, 2005)
Only the Supreme Court can thwart the designs of conservatives who, by injecting religion into the bloodstream of American law, seek to assist in our own national suicide.
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Assisted Suicide: A Moral Right
by Thomas A. Bowden
(March 27, 2005)
Supreme Court should rise above legal technicalities and affirm the individual's right to commit suicide.
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Assisted Suicide: A Moral Right
by Thomas A. Bowden
(June 1, 2004)
In upholding Oregon's assisted-suicide law, the federal appeals court in California has reached the right result for the wrong reasons.
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Conservativism vs. Individual Rights
by Nicholas Provenzo
(May 27, 2004)
Those who support the detention of American citizens without a trial turn the principle of individual rights up upon its head. If a foreign threat exists against America, it ought to be dealt with at its source by our military, and not at the price of destroying checks that protect the individual from the abuse of government power.
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Amnesty International: More Than Just Bad Manners
by Carter Laren
(May 26, 2004)
Would it hurt Amnesty International's political agenda too much to include a simple 'thank you' to America?
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Tis the Season...to Understand Individual Rights
by Andrew Bernstein
(December 25, 2002)
Why object to voluntary employment but remain silent regarding slavery? It looks like a terrible inconsistency. But is it? A closer look shows that liberals consistently endorse the violation of the rights of the very people they profess to protect.
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Rights vs. Wishes
by Walter Williams
(October 27, 2002)
We hear so much about "rights" -- a right to this and a righealth care, food and a decent job, and more recently, senior citizens have a right to prescription drugs. In a free society, do people have these rights? Let's look at it.
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Freedom of Association
by Walter Williams
(September 27, 2002)
Do Americans really cherish freedom of association? Are there any justifiable restrictions on freedom of association?
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