Brickbat: Fly Away
For some 20 years, Susan McKee has cultivated a pollinator garden for monarch butterflies at her London, Ontario, home. But she recently returned from vacation to find that the city …
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L.A.’s Eternal Eviction Moratorium
By this spring, nearly all the eviction moratoriums imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic had ended, either because courts blocked them or because legislators repealed them or allowed them to expire. …
Brickbat: Up for Rent
The British government is set to unveil a law that would force landlords to rent out empty retail spaces. The law would let local councils mandate that owners place shops …
Forward Party announces “data as a property right” policy
Not everyone in the US is preoccupied with how using Facebook and social media provided by other massive tech corporations affects user happiness – there are those who are, or …
Benjamin Franklin Quotes: The Words of The First American
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. The most popular Benjamin Franklin quotes are short witticisms – lessons about the rewards for healthy sleeping habits and …
How Massachusetts Annihilated Private Property Rights In The Name Of COVID Restrictions
Upholding draconian restrictions, the Massachusetts Supreme Court took away its citizens’ essential private property rights and gave them to the governor. The FederalistThe Federalist is an American conservative online magazine …
Meet the Property Owner Who Created a Toilet Garden to Protest Local Officials
Hank Robar just turned 80, and he’s a happy man. The toilet gardens he erected around his hometown of Potsdam, New York, were declared protected by the First Amendment this …
Gov’t Threatening to Go After Family for Child’s Tree House, Built on Their Own Property
A family is fighting for the right to keep their tree house built by their children on their own property after a neighbor sicced the code enforcers on them. Free …
Supreme Court Says Private Property Rights and Separation of Powers Do Still Exist in U.S.
The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the Biden administration’s eviction moratorium extension. In a 6–3 ruling, the Court held that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) doesn’t …
Frédéric Bastiat Quotes You Can Legally Plunder
Before you read Frédéric Bastiat quotes, you might wonder: Who is Frédéric Bastiat? Before the Austrian School arose to extol the virtues of the free market, there was Claude-Frédéric Bastiat …