Several weeks back, CNBC aired, “The Meeting of the Minds: The Future of Health Care.” As advertised, this seven member panel contained “leaders, thinkers, and visionaries.”
In a short and scripted film clip, our President Obama addressed the panel, as well his fellow Americans, with a clarion call, “When we talk about the future of health care, we are talking about the future of America.”
(What follows is a rough transcript of an opening statement I [Ward] had the opportunity to deliver at a sort of gentleman’s debate on health care reform. The subject is libertarian philosophy and its implications on the idea of socialized medicine.) Who owns you? Let’s make that a bit less metaphysical: who owns your body? [...]
The Marshall Parthenon was there last night to cover the Health Care Forum sponsered by the Marshall University Libertarians. Sadly, the College Republicans were unable to attend, but we were joined by our guests, the Young Democrats. At approximately the same time President Barack Obama delivered a critical television address to the nation on the [...]
In 1967, the Supreme Court in Keyishian v. Board of Regents summarized in its decision, “The classroom is peculiarly the marketplace of ideas.”
This construct often enough is attributed to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. His 1919 dissenting opinion in Abrams v. United States carries as far the implicit, without the explicit: “[W]hen men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths,…
