A beginner’s introduction to natural law
Author: Timothy Sandefur Bill Whittle has an excellent video explaining the basic principles of natural law underlying the American Constitution. … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2010
The continuing fight against eminent domain abuse
Author: Damien M. Schiff Last week, PLF filed an amicus brief in support of the property owners' petition for certiorari in the United States Supreme Court in Tuck-It-Away, Inc. v. New York State Urban Development Corporation. The case is about Columbia University's … Continue reading
Saving the Polar Bear or Obama’s CO2 Agenda?
Author: Reed Hopper On October 21, the day after the first hearing on the listing challenge to the polar bear, the Pacific Legal Foundation and the Heritage Foundation co-sponsored a panel discussion on the polar bear, the Endangered Species Act, … Continue reading
Hypocrisy as a virtue
Author: R. S. Radford Writing of John Maynard Keynes's General Theory, Henry Hazlitt once opined that the book contained much that was true, and much that was original. Unfortunately, the parts that were true were not original, and the parts … Continue reading
What we teach our kids about free enterprise
Author: Timothy Sandefur Here's this week's Little-Kids'-Lemonade-Stand-Shut-Down-By-Bureaucrat-With-Nothing-Better-To-Do story. Except this time it's a Jack-O-Lantern stand instead. … Continue reading
Court of Appeals: stream buffers took private property
Author: Brian T. Hodges Earlier this year, PLF stepped in to help Kipp and Marilyn Dunlap protect themselves against an uncompensated taking of their vacant residential lot in Nooksack, Washington (located just south of the Canadian border). As you may … Continue reading
Environmental activists angry over wood stork recovery
Author: Reed Hopper Although U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists have recommended reclassifying the wood stork from endangered to threatened because the stork's range and population have doubled in recent years, activists rage over the Florida Home Builders' request that … Continue reading