- June 5, 2017
David Burress
Last Thursday for the first time in the 21st century the Kansas legislature showed a tiny glimmering of common sense on gun control. They agreed to outlaw guns in hospitals and insane asylums, without requiring an estimated $24M in security systems.
No such luck for universities. Costly security systems being utterly out of reach on a ...
- June 5, 2017
David Burress
As such, the work you do is beautiful and admirable. GMOs may ultimately provide a large net positive benefit to humankind.
As applied, your outputs fully deserve the antagonism they receive in Europe and the third world. Here’s why.
1. In the first place, you (most of you at least) are in it for the money. For ...
- June 5, 2017
David Burress
On matters of real substance, the Constitution for all practical purposes is no longer subject to amendment. (Any amendment can be blocked by 14 states that total as little as 4.4% of the population.) We sometimes have to work around that fact if we want either to have a thorough-going democracy, or respond in a ...
- May 31, 2017
David Burress
There are three main arguments against hate crime laws. I think the two most commonly used by civil libertarians are just plain wrong. I think a third argument has more weight.
1. Hate crime laws are said to outlaw hate speech, which ought to be protected.
Nonsense. A hate crime refers to a violent act with ...
