A “surveillance state” doesn’t just snag those who are overtly criminal, and it can affect a society most profoundly by adding risk to creativity.
Some policy strategists on the right are looking to behavioral science for ways to use government to encourage preferred behavior, but conceding the appropriate role of government to manipulate has an intolerable cost.
A professor of “religion in public life,” by his flawed analysis of regional religious affiliation and same-sex marriage, nonetheless raises some interesting points.
Video (and one-paragraph summary) of Justin’s appearance on WPRI 12’s Newsmakers show about same-sex marriage.
The urge to be normal has been exploited in the push for same-sex marriage, and it won’t stop there.
Amendments to Rhode Island’s proposed same-sex marriage law will give its religious freedom provisions roughly the same scope as the laws in most other states that have authorized SSM by statute — except Rhode Island will still be the only state that dictates to “religious institutions” what they must do to retain “exclusive control” of their religious teachings. What would Roger Williams think of that?
The language added to the RI Senate’s same-sex marriage legislation, which passed out of committee today, is far from a “technical fix,” and it may present unexpected challenges for advancing the bill the final few steps to being law.
The World Bank’s deadline for solving global “extreme poverty” echoes a charity proposed by Herman Melville’s Devil, with a lesson that applies the world over.
A short story from December 2001 is once again (or still) relevant, in the wake of the Boston Marathon terrorist bombing.
The RI General Assembly will be taking up same-sex marriage legislation this week, and the bills on the table vary substantially with regard to the religious protections afforded those who disagree with the move
The father of Governor Chafee’s preferred “three Ts” strategy for economic development is beginning to see the limitations and damages of it. A strategy of freedom first would better serve the people of Rhode Island.
An article not about what it’s about; sequester demagoguery; softening kids for “effort shock”; and the rise of grassroots fascism.
Libertarians and moderates should beware that the relatively rapid move to change the definition of marriage could provide a template for issues on which they agree with social conservatives.
Government control of Americans’ lives brings to mind Daffy Duck’s quest for found wealth.
Perspective from on high; the empathetic view from my soap box; cover-up as economic development; what happens when that which can’t go on forever doesn’t.
Feeling hopeful, RI?; “top priority” is shown, not stated; RI gets fatherless children first; surviving sans regulation; surviving sans net income; and surviving sans a documented framework for working together.
A joint interview with RI’s three most powerful politicians highlights the error in their shared vision.
A bout of pre-New Year’s philosophizing raises the possibility that the political Right doesn’t require “rebranding” so much as reaffirmation of principle.
The lesson of current events and history; what the 2nd Amendment means; what that means for change; government control and healthcare insecurity; government control and economic stagnation; a couple positive notes.
Horrific acts like the school shooting in Connecticut are increasingly characterized by the youth of the perpetrators, and America should look to the deeper causes before forcing its citizens to disarm.
A family’s Christmas display shows that the push for removing Christianity from the public sphere in the name of tolerance and separation of church and state is getting to a dangerous point for freedom.
Harmful tweaks to ObamaCare point the way to less and less freedom (and less and less prosperity).
What subsidizes green?; what the unions want the pension law to say; First Family Holiday Fame; America, the Special.
Evading the progressive ideology snatchers; under surveillance; the not-employed young; and growing up, one way or another.
National results and local controversies point to the problems that have eroded Americans’ sense and taste for self governance.
Threats to the economy (cliffs and debts); RI lagging again (yawn); dependors and dependees; Social Security a problem; and a civil right to the war zone frat party.
Healthcare and what you get for free; making a living trying to fix the dying (state); the dictator prescription; and unhealthily sexist (female) teachers.
Taft-Carter takes the Iannazzi mantle; RI back to pre-democracy; the ascendance of unaccountable bureaucracies; and America gone mad (with the Big Blue Bug)
Debate around the Internet is beginning to make the city-suburb divide look like a festering battle along ideological lines.
On the politics (and policy) of exit polls, social issues, statism, and hugging.