Negative Space: reigning in bad laws
- ACLU Encourages Police State
- By arguing against a right of effective self-defense, and by encouraging people to rely on the police for their protection, the ACLU ensures that voters will clamor for a police state.
- The curse of modern legislation
- What would happen if our representatives actually read bills before voting on them?
- Driving laws too complicated for DMV
- It appears that California’s driving laws are so complicated that even the DMV and the California Highway Patrol get confused.
- Everyone Votes!
- The best way to ensure that bad laws get fixed is to ensure that the victims of bad laws retain the right to vote.
- Five Million Times Easier!
- I’ve got a way to make the IRS’ job five million times easier. And your tax forms half as difficult.
- Has welfare failed us?
- Has welfare failed us, or have we overwhelmed the welfare system through other policies that encourage dependance and discourage economic development?
- Health care for prisoners
- Our criminal justice system must account for the possibility that it is wrong. Decent health care is one of the most obvious ways it should do this.
- Justice conjured is justice denied
- Blunting criticism of bad laws by exempting nice people.
- Maintaining Educational Diversity
- A state-run education is ever a danger to a liberal, free country. At any time, demagogues can take control over the education of nearly every child in the country.
- Misplaced compassion: more deaths, less dignity
- I fear that a successful “death with dignity” movement will only exacerbate the bad laws and choices that result in excessive pain, and will result in a slippery slope towards more and more assisted suicides.
- Necessary to the Security of a Free State
- We cannot have a free state when citizens are not encouraged to be responsible for their own defense.
- Proposition 75 and the California prison system
- Public-employee unions today are a money-laundering service for the state government and for perpetuating government programs.
- Speeding and budgets: Conflict of Interest
- Obviously, the money generated by speed laws creates a conflict of interest for state lawmakers, who will need more “lawbreakers” in order to meet budget numbers. But the conflict of interest doesn’t always stop there.
- Term limits
- Term limit proposals avoid real problems. They’re a superficial solution at best. Efforts directed towards enacting term limits waste time and money that could be spent solving the underlying problems: a lack of new ideas and an ability to hide legislative bribery.
- The Trial of Bill Clinton
- Bill Clinton deserves a fair trial: or at least, as fair as any of us would get under similar circumstances.
- We’re all Scooter Libby now
- The justice system is out of control for everyone, not just for highly-placed politicians. Fixing it involves more than a presidential pardon.
