Favorite Links
Dave Kopel
Note: The links below are listed because they are interesting, not because I
necessarily agree with all their content, or even have read all their content.
DK.
Newest favorite: Newspaper and
magazine articles by Barry
Fagin, Senior Fellow at the Independence Institute, and Computer Science
Professor at the Air Force Academy.
John Perry Barlow's Home Page. Essays from a pro-freedom visionary and
former Grateful Dead lyricist..
Center for Democracy and Technology. The top
electronic privacy group in the world.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
Tech
Central Station
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Australian Institute of Criminology
Bureau of Justice Statistics. From
the US Dept. of Justice.
Syracuse University Transactional
Records Clearinghouse. Independent, non-partisan statistical information on
FBI, IRS, DEA, and BATF.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
National Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers.
National Association of Treasury Agents. A legal service organization for
active and retired Treasury Department special agents. Pro-freedom.
NCJRS. A research clearinghouse for all
information coming from the many bureaus and offices of the United States
Department of Justice.
SEARCH. The National Consortium of Criminal
Justice Information Services, an organization of state criminal justice research
providers. Includes Supreme Court opinions as soon as they are released.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice
Statistics. From the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
United Nations Crime
and Justice Information Network. Vast amount of resources, including UN
reports on gun control, and much more.
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National Association of Scholars. Academics
who oppose political correctness, and who support liberal education and academic
freedom.
Separation of School and State Alliance
No Excuses.A site that tells of high
performing low income schools, eliminating the educational establishment's
whining that their miserable performance is owing to lack of funds.
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PERC. (Political Economy Research Center).
Free-market environmentalism.
Science and Environmental Policy Project.
Run by Dr. Fred Singer. Good information on the facts about global warming and
its use as a pretext for expanding government control of the economy.
Freedom to Fish
Junk science
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Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Devoted to preserving
private medicine. Information on current federal regulations, medical practice,
and how doctors can reduce risk of unfair prosecution by federal bureaucrats.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Despite recent forays into controlling "diseases" like violence, still the U.S.
government's public health authority.
Junk Science. A great site debunking
all kinds of junk science, much of it sponsored by the federal government.
Medline. National
Library of Medicine's bibliographic search program for the medical literature.
United
Seniors Association. Supports freedom for seniors and all Americans.
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Findlaw. The best starting point to find the law on the web. A superb,
multi-layered table of contents. Supreme Court decisions from 1893 to the
present. Many other legal resources too.
The U.S.
Constitution.
United States Code.
Code of Federal
Regulations.
Center for Individual Rights. Public
interest law firm that fights oppressive government.
Federalist Society.
Conservative/libertarian legal reform and scholarship group.
Fully Informed Jury Association. Educates the
public about the right and duty of jurors to vote their conscience.
How
Appealing
Institute for Justice. Public
interest law firm, with a free-market, civil liberties orientation.
Point of Law.
Legal commentary weblog from the Manhattan Institute.
Southeastern Legal Foundation.
Based in Atlanta. Advocates limited government, individual economic freedom, and
the free enterprise system in the courts of law and public opinion
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American Civil Liberties Union
Banned Books
on-line. Full-text versions of books that censors have tried to eliminate.
Carlo Stagnaro's
Homepage. Italian author.
Conservative Bookstore.
Great books, plus exclusive interviews with authors.
Digital Freedom Network. Prints materials
which a been suppressed by evil dictatorships, such as those in Cuba, Vietnam,
and Cameroon. Offers visitors an easy way to write letters demanding the release
of political prisoners.
Freedom Network. A gateway to a vast
array of other Freedom Networks concerning many different causes.
Free-market.Net. A Starting Point for
Liberty on the Internet. Includes a library of classic texts by authors such as
Bastiat and Jefferson; full-text searches of pro-freedom web pages; and lots of
links.
Ilana Mercer. Pro-freedom writer, with a wide range of topics.
James
Gomez News. The leading free-speech activist in Singapore, with lots of news
about free speech/press/internet in Southeast Asia.
Laissez Faire Books. Mail order
catalogue of free-market, pro-freedom books and tapes. Includes book reviews.
Pierre Lemieux. Libertarian
philosopher and academic in Canada. Site has French and English versions.
NYC Surveillance Project. NYC
Civil Liberties Union volunteers
maintain a list of surveillance cameras in Manhattan.
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Andrew Sullivan's weblog.
Chuck Asay Editorial
cartoons. Cartoons from the nation's best pro-freedom cartoonist, featured
in the Colorado Springs Gazette.
Asia Times.
Center-Right. A free weekly
newsletter of "centrist, conservative, and libertarian ideas." Typically
features reprints of important articles from other publications. Edited by UCLA
Law Professor Eugene Volokh. Consistent high quality. One or two articles per
issue, consistent very high quality. The website has all back issues available,
indexed by topic.
Colorado Freedom Report. Commentary on
Colorado and national issues.
The Drudge Report. Breaking news, and an excellent collection of links.
ECOLA. Links to newspapers all over the U.S. and the World.
FrontPageMag. Run by David Horowitz.
Human
Events
Insight Magazine. National newsweekly.
Instapundit.com.
Great commentary from Glenn Harlan Reynolds.
Liberty magazine.
Media
Minded
Men's News
Daily
Newsmax.
New York Sun
PostWatch
Reason
The Report
Newsmagazine. Canada.
spiked
Strategy Page. One of the top source of military news. Run by Jim Dunnigan.
Talk America Radio Network. Live feed.
Washington
Post.
WashPost Watch
Washington
Times.
WorldNet Daily. One of the largest
daily newspapers in the U.S. (daily readership over 2 million), but entirely
on-line.
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Roll Call. Weekly newspaper edited by Morton Kondracke. Inside-the-beltway
coverage of Congress and Congressional elections.
U.S. Congress, Thomas Server
FedStats. One-stop shopping for federal
government statistics.
Canadian Parliament.
Political Calendar.
Click any date and important political events that occurred on this day are
displayed.
FactCheck.
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Foreign Countries
Global:
World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting
Activities.
IANSA.
Small
Arms Survey.
Australia: Sporting Shooters
Association of Australia.
Sporting Shooters Association of Western
Australia.
Firearms confiscation instructions,
from the Australian government. Over half a million guns surrendered so far.
The Great Australian Gun Law Con.
Extensive information on the Howard government's gun confiscation, and fabric of
deceit supporting it.
Brazil: Armaria. Gun rights
group. Written in Portuguese. If you know Spanish, you can get by.
Canada: National Firearms Association.
Canadian Firearms
Digest
Canadian Firearms
Centre. Canadian federal government's gun regulation administration.
Canadian
Shooting Sports. Research and public education on firearms issues in Canada.
France:
Armes a Feu.
Germany:
Forum Waffenrecht.
India:
Arms & the Man, Abhijeet
Singh.
Indians
for Guns, discussion group.
New Zealand: Sporting Shooters Association of
New Zealand.
Council of
Licensed Firearms Owners.
Russia:
Samooborona.ru
South Africa: SAGA. South African Gun
Owners Association.
Spain:
Asociación Nacional del Arma (A.N.A.).
Switzerland: The
Swiss militia. Official website for the Swiss Armed Forces.
Pro Tell. Switzerland's arms rights group. In German, French, and Italian.
Swiss Gun Collectors
Association.
United Kingdom:
Gunbancon.com.
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Organizations
AWARE. Armed Women Against Rape and
Endangerment.
Bloomfield Press. Outstanding
books detailing the gun laws of the United States, and of various individual
states.
Brady Campaign. The world's leading
anti-gun organization.
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and
Bear Arms
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and
Educational Fund to End Handgun Violence (educational arm of CSGV).
Direct Action. Maryland.
Feminists 4 Firearms.
Gun Owners Action League Massachusetts.
Gun Owners of America.
Handgun
Epidemic Lowering Program Network. Medical prohibitionists.
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
Join Together Online. Brings together
resources from 15 local and national anti-gun organizations, and provides
original content. Very slick site with frequent updates.
Marathon USA. Long distance phone company
that donates a large share of its revenue to Second Amendment organizations.
Mike's Corner. A grass roots
organization involved in preserving 2nd amendment rights.
Montana Shooting
Sports Association
National Rifle Association.
PAX: Real
Solutions to Gun Violence.
Physicians for
Social Responsibility.
Pikes Peak Firearms Coalition. A grass roots
organization in Colorado Springs fighting for 2nd Amendment rights.
Second Amendment Foundation
Second Amendment Sisters. Mothers marching on Washington to defend the
Constitution and protect their children. A counterpoint to the misguided Million
Mom March.
Stonewall Shooting Sports
of Utah. Pro-gay Utah Gun Rights Activists.
Tennessee
Firearms Association
Texas State Rifle Association. Includes links
to other state Rifle & Pistol associations.
United States Knife
and Tool Association.
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Research Resources
Taylor Buckner. Canadian
sociologist who writes about gun control attitudes, and other issues. Full text
of his research papers.
Jeff Cooper's commentaries.
Observations from the founder of modern pistol shooting.
Clayton Cramer home page. Historian
with numerous publications on firearms, the Civil War, and other topics. Note
especially Cramer's expose of the fraudulent book by Michael Bellesisles
Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture (New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 2000).
Florida
Department of State. Statistics on concealed carry.
Guncite. Excellent summaries of the facts
on a wide variety of firearms issues.
David Hardy's home page. Historian and
litigator. Contains Hardy's brief for Sheriff Mack in the Brady Act case in the
Supreme Court.
FirearmNews.com Covering the Pulse of the Pro Rights Community with Daily Gun
News.
Gun Scholar list. A comprehensive list
of Gun Policy Scholars and Second Amendment Scholars compiled by Prof. Eugene
Volokh.
NFA and other gun law related info and cases. Excellent collection of
federal and state gun cases.
Origin of the Second Amendment.
A site promoting David Young's excellent book "The Origin of the Second
Amendment," which contains all known original documents from the 1787-1791
dealing with the creation of the Second Amendment.
Paul Revere Network. Retired police
officer Leroy Pyle's collection of a great deal of gun-related research and
links.
J. Neil Schulman. Award-winning
science fiction author, who has written extensively on gun control. The page
allows free downloads of chapters from his books.
Shade's Landing.
Huge, excellent archive.
Soldier of Fortune magazine.
Sources
on the Second Amendment and Right to Bear Arms in State Constitutions. Original
sources compiled by UCLA Law Prof. Eugene Volokh.
Whisker Militia Treatises.
James B. Whisker, Professor of Political Science at WestVirginia University, has
given permission for this site to put online his five-volume set of treatises on
The American Colonial Militia.
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National Firearms Act of 1934
NFA Owners' Association
Bardwell NFA Law
Industry and Sport
Aceros de Hispania. Spanish
company selling collectible edged weapons and firearms.
American Firearms Industry. Home page of
magazine and organization of the same name.
Hole in the Wall Firearms & Sporting Goods. Excellent FFL, with a focus on
special orders and hard-to-find items.
Hunter's
Shooting Association. Promotes target-shooting competitions that improve
ethical hunting skills.
National Shooting Sports Foundation.
North American Arms. Innovative small
handguns, both modern and blackpowder, for protection and sport.
Shooters. Huge site with information from
many companies.
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Center for Equal Opportunity. Promotes a color-blind society. Run by Linda
Chavez.
Colorado Welfare Reform
Clearinghouse.
Consumer
Freedom
Research site on genocide,
by R.J. Rummel, Political Science professor, University of Hawaii. Details the
close connection between political freedom and freedom from mass murder by
government.
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feminists
Independent Gay Forum. A new site of
an association of writers and thinkers seeking to broaden the debate about
homosexuality by giving voice to centrist, conservative and libertarian ideas.
Independent Women's
Forum
Center for
Consumer Freedom. Fights against restrictions on what you can eat and
drink.
American Coalition
for Fathers & Children. Home of the father's rights movement.
Controlled Substances
Civil Liberties Monitoring Project.
Keeps track of abuses resulting from the military marijuana eradication campaign
in northern California.
Drug Reform Coordination Network.
Drug Sense. Drug war skeptics.
Forces
International Homepage. Smokers' rights.
Marijuana Policy Project.
Media Awareness Project. Excellent news archive
Modern Drunkard.
National Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws.
The United Pro Choice Smokers Rights Newsletter
Immigration/Americanization
Center for Immigration Studies.
English First.
English Language Advocates. Promotes
continued use of English as the common American tongue.
Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform.
VDare. Named for Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America.
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Taxation,
Spending, Economics
Citizens for a Sound Economy
Foundation for Economic Education
National Taxpayers Union
Regulatory Policy Center. Property
rights
Foreign
European Human Rights Centre.
Centre for Independent Studies. Australia.
Montreal Economic Institute. Free Market think tank in Montreal, Canada.
"La Politica de la Libertad. Chile.
English Version.
Institut de Libre Empresa (Institute for
Free Enterprise). A site for the defense of capitalism, individual rights and
liberty in Peru
Markedscentret. Denmark.
Liberty
Institute. India.
Edmund Burke Foundation.
The Netherlands.
Policy Exchange. Great
Britain.
Libertarian Alliance. Great Britain.
Sean Gabb.
Great Britain.
National
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and
Liberty.
American Enterprise Institute. Home of John
Lott, Ben Wattenberg and other smart guys.
American Legislative Exchange Council.
Atlas Economic Research Foundation.
Includes an excellent virtual phonebook of pro-freedom organizations and
individuals.
Cato Institute. The premier
pro-freedom public policy research organization.
Clemson
Institute for the Study of Capitalism.
Commonwealth Foundation.
Pennsylvania Free Market advocate.
Capital Research Center. Reports
on various leftist charitable organizations.
Competitive Enterprise Institute. Specializes
in environmental and business regulation issues.
Frontiers of Freedom. Chaired by former Senator
Malcolm Wallop.
Future of Freedom Foundation.
Very strong no-compromise libertarian group.
Heritage's Townhall. Huge,
excellent site. Includes material from a very wide variety of sources.
Independent Institute. A scholarly
pro-freedom think tank.
Institute for Policy Innovation.
National Center for Policy Analysis.
Based in Dallas, and featuring top-level researchers such as Morgan Reynolds.
Reason Foundation. A top-notch libertarian
site.
Statistical Assessment Service. Analyzes and
debunks statistical factoids from the right and the left.
State and local
Allegheny Institute for Public
Policy Research. Pennsylvania.
Cascade Policy Institute. Oregon. Leading for fight for allowing states to
opt out of the federal social security system.
Center for the American Experiment.
Minnesota.
Claremont Institute. California
Ethan Allen Institute. Vermont.
Evergreen Freedom Foundation. Washington state.
Georgia Public Policy Foundation.
Heartland Institute. Illinois
Hudson Institute. New York
John Locke Foundation. North Carolina.
Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Michigan.
The Manhattan Institute and its
Magazine the City Journal, based in
New York City.
Nevada Policy Research Institute.
Pacific Research Institute.
California.
Pioneer Institute.
Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Sutherland Institute. Utah.
Virginia Institute.
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Anonymous Remailer
resources at Berkeley
On-Line Books. A
University of Pennsylvania site with 11,000 texts
( blogdex
)
Daypop - a
current events-weblog-news search engine
The Internet
Archive
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Andrews'
America
Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. At the
University of Michigan. The world's largest database of social science research.
Michael Reagan's Information Exchange
The Ad Graveyard. A humorous link
at some advertisements that almost ran.
History News Network
Mid-east
ArabNews
Arutz Sheva - Israel
National News
Daniel Pipes
DEBKAfile
Ha'aretz -
English
Israel Daily
Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces
Israel Hasbara Committee
Israel Insider
Jerusalem Post
Tal G. in
Jerusalem
Israpundit
GlennFrazier.com Iranian
Liberty Index
Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran
Africa
SW Radio
Africa Home Page
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