by Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University and the author of Anarchy, State, and Utopia and other books. This article is excerpted from his essay “Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?” which originally appeared in The Future [...]

Two bills have been introduced in the Texas state legislature, HB 1893 filed in the House, and SB 1164 in the Senate that would allow students who have a concealed carry license to carry on campus. This has stemmed from previous campus massacres and is thought to be one of the solutions to prevent such [...]

Currently there are two bills under consideration by the Texas Legislature, SB 1845 and its House version, HB 4277, which would require that all dogs and cats older than 6 months be spayed or neutered, with the exception of service animals and purebred pets that participate in competition. Failure to comply with the proposed law [...]

Los Angeles Times – All right, tell me this doesn’t sound a little strange:
I’m sitting in Costa Mesa with a silver-haired gent who once ran for Congress as a Republican and used to lock up drug dealers as a federal prosecutor, a man who served as an Orange County judge for 25 years. And what [...]

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Board of Elections voted Wednesday to remove Libertarian congressional candidate Eric Sundwall from the ballot in the March 31 special election to fill the vacant 20th congressional district seat, citing a technicality that voided many of Sundwall’s ballot access petition signatures.
The Sundwall campaign will not pursue legal efforts [...]

A 14 year old girl from New Jersey has been charged with possessing and distributing child pornography after she posted 30 nude pictures of herself on myspace. She was arrested by police who questioned her, and told them that she wanted her boyfriend to see the pictures. She was released back to her mother and [...]

DALLAS — Racing to see his dying mother-in-law at a Plano hospital, an NFL player found himself delayed by a Dallas officer as her life ebbed away. It’s a story that has sparked outrage across North Texas and generated interest around the country.
With his wife and another woman in the car, Ryan Moats — a [...]

Under Armour Chief Executive Officer Kevin Plank took home a base salary of just $26,000 last year after the Baltimore-based sports apparel company he founded did not meet revenue goals.
Plank voluntarily cut his salary from $500,000 to $26,000 last year, saying he thought he should be paid based on the performance of the company, according [...]

With booming deficits and expected budget shortfalls projected in the trillions, congress has managed to dig up yet another expensive program that puts even further strain on our budgets, and is quite frankly a program that congress has no business establishing. The United States Public Service Academy, located at http://www.uspublicserviceacademy.org/ proposes a plan to build [...]

El Paso, TX — On Tuesday the El Paso City Council voted, 4-4, to sustain the mayor’s veto of a resolution calling for a national debate on drug legalization as a solution to the cartel violence problem plaguing sister city Cuidad Juarez, just across the Mexico border.
Three of the four council members voting to [...]

SEATTLE, WA — A Mountlake Terrace police sergeant who was fired after publicly criticizing the “war on drugs” has reached an $812,500 settlement in a lawsuit he filed against the city and police department, among others. Under the settlement, Sergeant Jonathan Wender has been reinstated on the force and is eligible to receive back pay [...]

(CNN) — The Vermont Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday to legalize
same-sex marriage, potentially setting the stage for a high-profile legislative
showdown and breaking a new political barrier in the state that made history in
2000 by becoming the first to approve civil unions for gay and lesbian couples.If the bill becomes law, Vermont will become the first state [...]

Fox News – If you’re an anti-abortion activist, or if you display political paraphernalia supporting a third-party candidate or a certain Republican member of Congress, if you possess subversive literature, you very well might be a member of a domestic paramilitary group.That’s according [...]

Fox News – Angelo Monderoy, 18, and Matthew Cooper, 17, allegedly broke into a vacant apartment in Brooklyn, N.Y., on or around Oct. 7, 2008. Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes said the pair held the cat down as they poured charcoal lighter fluid on it.Hynes said they then set the animal on fire, [...]

The Pope and Nancy Pelosi are on the same stage in front of a huge
crowd.
The speaker and His Holiness, however, have seen it all before. To
make it a little more interesting, the speaker says to the Pope,
“Did You know that with just one little wave of my hand I can make
every Democrat in the crowd [...]