Publius Awakened

The legislative battle over health care reform is over. Through procedural tricks and the purchasing of votes, the Obama Administration succeeded in passing historically intrusive legislation.
Recognizing that Congress failed to protect individual freedoms, Americans must now turn to the states and the courts to defend our Constitutional liberties.
Appropriately, 13 states filed suit against the federal [...]

For many, college is the time when they venture out on their own ideologically, discarding the beliefs of their family and friends in favor of new ideas that they either stumble upon or are exposed to in their new setting. Indeed, the way in which the college experience severs the social and geographical bonds that [...]

Being a Libertarian, a classical liberal or a political individualist is about imagination. It’s about imagining alternatives to the way we live today and these alternatives are often as foreign and impossible as living on Mars. The focus on imagination in our politics differentiates us from most political tendencies whose adherents seek incremental changes of [...]

Reading “The Stone Canal” by Ken MacLeod – a science fiction writer quickly becoming one of my favorite authors – I came upon this bit of dialogue:
“…the Western democracies are socialist! Big public sectors, big companies that plan production while officially everything’s on the market … sort of black planning, like the East had [...]

Pittsburgh City Council’s unwavering determination to make doing business in Pittsburgh more burdensome — see prevailing wage law, nonprofit baiting and even price controls for towing services – was front and center in today’s Council meeting.
At issue was the decision of Aramark – the company contracted to provide concessions at the Mellon Arena – to [...]