Government is growing ever more intrusive and arrogant, George Will argues in an important new article. And judges have enabled it to do so.

“…all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” Photo: Wikimedia “States don’t have rights,” Stephen Green reminds us. “Individuals do. It’s time we went about the business of restoring those rights, without alienating a huge constituency which suffered too long without them.” Green rightly argues that conservatives’ […]

Secretary of Defense Gates criticizes European governments for failing to provide adequately for their own defense. But it’s little wonder that they don’t manage these things themselves when the United States has for so long offered a security guarantee. There’s a major flaw in carbon-​​​​trading schemes, Jeremy Warner argues: no wealth is actually being created […]

Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from September 4^th to September 5^th.