Explore the paradoxical enforcement of laws in cities like San Francisco, where parking violations are strictly punished while dangerous property damage from outdoor fires goes unaddressed.
Category: Economics
Pork Farm Supreme Court Decision May Allow State Legislatures to Regulate Moral Behavior In Other States
This article explores the impact Supreme Court’s recent decision in National Pork Producers Council et al v. Ross.
Exploring the Potential Risks of CBDC – Privacy, Freedom and Economy Impacts
As countries around the world pursue the potential advantages of a CBDC, citizens must remain vigilant and ensure their rights to privacy and freedom are protected.
As the prospect of central bank digital currency (CBDC) rises, citizens must be aware of its potential impacts on their privacy and freedom. Governments must ensure that citizens’ rights are respected so the benefits of CBDC don’t come at the expense of citizens’ control of their own finances.
Op-Ed: People need to help each other during COVID-19 crisis
My initial reaction to the news about this virus was that it was an overblown story. I was quite annoyed with the mainstream media reporting every new case and every death. The result seemed to be nothing other than mass hysteria.
Pope’s Speech at U.N. coincides with launch of United Nations’ “new universal Agenda” for humanity
On Friday, September 25, 2015, the World Summit opened at the United Nations in New York City with a keynote address delivered by Pope Francis in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which was adopted by the member states later in the day.
The Theology of the Tax Exemption
By Jason Hines, PhD, JD – Has Christianity in America become so materialistic that we conflate our freedom to worship with our ability to save a dollar?
7th Cir. to Decide Whether Ministerial Housing Exemption is Constitutional
By Michael Peabody – Last November, a federal judge stuck a stick in a beehive when she found that a long-standing tax-exemption for clergy housing was unconstitutional. The case, Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) vs. Lew, is currently on appeal to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and religious organizations are out in force defending the exemption.
The New Benjamin Still Trusts in God
By Loren Seibold – [dc]P[/dc]erhaps you’ve seen reports of the new United States $100 bill, with new and improved anti-counterfeiting features. I like it. I’ve been surprised at the number of people who’ve objected to it’s colorfulness. “It looks too much like the Euro” many comment. Anything having to do with US currency brings out…
Opinion: Social Justice – Popular Piety or Modern Mania?
By Gerry Wagoner – In spite of the efforts of social justice proponents to explain away its historical relationship to totalitarianism, we cannot escape the fact that authoritarian brutality is the not-merely-possible-but-inevitable outworking of the nature of “social justice” itself.
Black Friday and Blue Laws: Renewed Calls for Uniform Rest Days
In a world of religious diversity coupled with a common system of of commerce, the institution of a common day of rest and its enforcement would necessarily require coercive methods to prevent individuals from carrying out interpersonal business activities, and place greater pressure on observers of other days of rest to violate their conscience by working on their rest days.