P. Gardner Goldsmith Archive
Guantanamo: A Long Train of Congressional, Executive, and Now, Judicial Abuses
In a stunning contradiction of the principles enshrined in the Unites States Constitution, the US Supreme Court on April 3 denied petitions of certiorari to two plaintiffs who have been held in legal limbo for five years at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. By doing so, the justices have added another burdensome car to the long train of abuses the federal government has sent barreling down the tracks at US citizens. FULL ARTICLE
Don't Let Government Define Marriage (Or Optimal Child-Rearing Environments)
George and Martha Washington never had a marriage license, and most Americans didn't need them until the mid-1800s. Gardner Goldsmith writes that they would be appalled by the degree to which we have gotten the government involved in a sacred religious ceremony. Why not let the people truly decide, and remove the power to define marriage from the hands of government entirely? FULL ARTICLE
An Artificial Baby Boom
In today's Daily Article, I write on a hidden effect of the (wrongly named) Earned Income Tax Credit. Developing from a tax program that rewards childbirth, that warps the marketplace, and blurs economic reality for parents, we discover a perverse outcome: more children are born into poor families. It is just the kind of thing the utopians in government wanted to try to alleviate, yet they have made it worse.[Full Article]
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