Politics & Policy

Florida’s Vocational Deregulation

By Robert A. Levy April 13, 2011

If there’s one economic principle that Democrats, Republicans, and libertarians agree on, it’s that competition is generally good and government-supported private monopoly power is reliably bad. That principle is the driving ...

Slow News Day?

By Robert A. Levy December 22, 2010

There were 67 amicus briefs (a record number) filed in the Heller case. Forty-seven of those supported our side. Many of our supporters addressed, and rebutted, Pauline Maier’s historical account ...

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The Taxing Power of Obamacare

By Robert A. Levy April 20, 2010

The litigation battle has begun. While the legal arguments are technical, the basic issue is straightforward: Can the federal government force people to buy a product — in this instance, ...

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Be Judicial in Your Compassion

By Robert A. Levy April 29, 2008

What ever happened to the sanctity of private contracts? Consider the bill now pending in Congress that would essentially wipe out existing mortgages — allowing their terms to be rewritten ...

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Individual Ruling

By Robert A. Levy March 13, 2007

In a blockbuster opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Senior Judge Laurence H. Silberman, joined by Judge Thomas B. Griffith, ruled that “the ...

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A Second Amendment Strategy

By Robert A. Levy October 1, 2004

The House of Representatives, this week, has passed the D.C. Personal Protection Act (H.R. 3193), which would overturn a 28-year ban on handguns in the nation’s capital. The Senate version ...

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Beaches & Buttheads

By Robert A. Levy June 24, 2004

Here we go again. First it was the health police in Santa Monica, Los Angeles and Malibu. Then the buttheads in Los Angeles County. Now it’s the ...

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Win-Win

By Michael I. Krauss & Robert A. Levy March 22, 2004

In a dramatic, almost wacky turn of events, the Senate overwhelmingly rejected S. 1805, a bill earlier this month that would have immunized firearm manufacturers and dealers against many forms ...

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Turn The Ringer Off

By Robert A. Levy October 2, 2003

Congress and the president were quick to read the political tealeaves when 51 million Americans took a stand against telemarketing. With lightning speed, President Bush signed a bill authorizing the ...

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Discriminate But Obfuscate

By Robert A. Levy June 27, 2003

When the Constitution says that no state may “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws,” ...