55 years ago, Rosa Parks helped launch the modern civil rights movement. Today, the government is bulldozing her old neighborhood. Here’s the real kicker: The homeowners are forced to pay the cost of demolition. [youtube rct8IeklcGQ] Nobel prize-winning libertarian economist
On June 5, Andrew Coulson posted a disturbing graph at Big Government: He showed that public education costs are skyrocketing while student achievement remains flat. In another graph in the same post, he showed that the public school bureaucracy is
Abbot Justin Brown and his fellow monks are being threatened with crippling fines and even jail time. Their crime? Selling caskets. Today, they are fighting back in a big way. [youtube 7NxtGzsGtJc] In 1889, a group of monks from Indiana
Julie Murphy is only seven years old, but she embodies the classic American zeal for entrepreneurship. She learned about lemonade stands after seeing one in a cartoon. She got excited and wanted to open one of her own. And so
You’ve probably heard about eminent domain abuse. That’s where the government takes your land and hands it over to another private party….one that is more politically connected. But you may not have heard about civil forfeiture. And yet, today, it
Today the Institute for Justice filed opening briefs in our fourth case to appear before the U.S. Supreme Court. IJ’s first trip to the high court came in 2002 and resulted in a landmark victory for school choice. We also
If government is serious about job creation, it should get out of the way of the entrepreneurs who actually create them. That is the message of a new campaign launched this week by the Institute for Justice–the nation’s leading legal
There’s a new site to add to your blogroll: Congress Shall Make No Law. The site, which has the address makenolaw.org, empowers grassroots activists from around the country that are standing up and saying no to unconstitutional attacks on free
Should farmers get thrown in jail for 90 days and hit with $1,000 in fines for engaging in free trade? Unfortunately, that’s the law in Lake Elmo, Minnesota. And that is why the farmers are fighting back. Tuesday they rallied
The Little Pink House that changed America still stands strong. Five years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued what would soon become one of the most despised decisions in its history. In a controversial 5-4 opinion, the Court
