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PositionLibertarian views

20

YEARS AGO

March 2001

Whatever one may think of the Florida high court's handling of the election cases, there's no disputing that when it comes to lack of judicial restraint, it's the U.S. Supreme Court that takes the prize.

MIKE GODWIN

Election 2000

Adults who enlist in the anti-television crusade always insist that it is 'impressionable youths' whom they wish to protect. In the guise of shielding youths, however, adults are trying to contain and control them.

JIB FOWLES

The Whipping Boy

Punditry rests on a foundation of easy stereotypes, cliches that make it easier to fit one's ideas into a short op-ed or even shorter soundbite. So when social conservatives and liberal social engineers team up against speech that both find distasteful--be it pornography, South Park, or video games--the combination is inevitably labeled an 'unusual alliance,' even if those allegedly unusual allies have been snuggling for years.

JESSE WALKER

Intolerant Alliance

25

YEARS AGO

March 1996

In the law journals if not yet in media of mass circulation, the Second Amendment has captured the attention of scholars, including some of the most eminent and respectable in the field, who find, somewhat to their own surprise as they reflect upon the matter for the first time, that the private right to keep and bear arms is very much in character with the Bill of Rights as a whole and with the thinking of the Framers of the Constitution.

DANIEL POLSBY

Second Reading

40

YEARS AGO

March 1981

So, while Ronald Reagan is certainly no libertarian, he has in the past occasionally demonstrated healthy attitudes toward reducing taxation. No doubt this has something to do with his almost constant struggle with IRS harassment since the end of World War II, not to mention his experience of having been in the 91 percent tax bracket during the late 1940s.

TIMOTHY CONDON

What Will Reagan Do About Taxes?

Mr. Reagan should reconsider the grey areas he has accepted as warranting compromise of the principle of individual liberty. He should take to heart his very own words that 'libertarianism and conservatism are traveling the same path,' and he should make this into a policy, not just a bland wish. The world and this country today need far more human liberty than anything else conservatives have to offer.

TIBOR MACHAN

Some Thoughts for the New President

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