Free Republic

One reason that Roe v. Wade is still with us is that legal scholars and jurists argue about the wrong issue. The question isn’t whether the Constitution contains any reference to a right to privacy. Let’s assume it does. Let’s assume that the Ninth Amendment, as argued in Griswold v. Connecticut and some other cases, implicitly refers to the right to privacy every human being has. Why would this be relevant? Some might argue that if one has the right to privacy, a woman who has an abortion is doing something private, something no one else has the authority to...

It is very dismaying, but not beyond grasp, why some folks do not understand the viciousness of terrorism. The bottom line is always the same: tribalism. It is also called collectivism — socialist, fascist, communitarian, or any other type of irrational lumping of human beings into groups they have never chosen to join. Any time a terrorist attack occurs, a great many people wring their hands trying to figure out just what is amiss with such barbaric conduct. Be it an IRA, Palestinian, or radical Muslim (suicide) attack, there is the usual acknowledgement that terrorism is horrible and the people...