Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: property rights

property rights stories: 5 news summaries

Brazilian Busted in Murder of US Nun Nabbed on Slavery Charges

Dorothy Stang's slaying was subject of movie

Dec 31, 08 8:15 AM CST
(Newser) - A Brazilian rancher facing charges in the death of a 73-year-old American nun has been arrested again for fraud and slavery in the same Amazon region where the nun was shot three years ago, reports CNN. Evidence supporting the latest charges will be used at his murder trial. Four others... More »

MORE ABOUT:
property rights • Brazil • murder • nuns • slavery • jungle • Amazon rainforest • Amazon • Dorothy Stang

OPINION

NRA Guilty of Poor Aim in
Fla. Guns-at-Work Case

Second Amendment does not trump property rights for private companies

Aug 25, 08 10:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Florida’s "take your guns to work” law seems like it’s upholding the right to bear arms (which is what the National Rifle Association wants us to believe), but in fact it’s a violation of property rights, Steve Chapman argues in Reason. The law allows permit-holders to... More »

MORE ABOUT:
property rights • gun control • employers • Second Amendment • National Rifle Association • firearms • workplace safety • guns

OPINION

 Why It's Time to Sell the Moon 

Lunar property rights can save the space program

May 22, 08 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - The moon isn't up for sale—but it should be, argues Glenn Harlan Reynolds in Popular Mechanics. Dishing out lunar property rights would boost the stagnating government space program, and the interest is proven: One enterprising American has already sold 500 million "novelty" acres of the moon at about... More »

MORE ABOUT:
property rights • space • moon • space race

Students Sue for Homework

Apr 10, 07 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Four teenage students are suing an antiplagiarism website for the rights to their schoolwork, arguing that they were forced to turn over original work without compensation, the Christian Science Monitor reports. When their school adopted an antiplagiarism service called Turnitin, students were required to submit essays to be stored and... More »

MORE ABOUT:
education • property rights • Turnitin • plagiarism • intellectual property • school • lawsuit

China Embraces Private Property

Bill reassures urban middle class, decried by advocates of the poor

Mar 9, 07 8:57 PM CST
(Newser) - China's burgeoning middle class will be feeling a little more secure next week, when the National People's Congress is expected to pass the country's first property-rights bill. The measure has become a lightening rod for criticism of China’s leadership, with communists using it as evidence that the government is... More »

MORE ABOUT:
China • property rights • communism • privatization • National People's Congress • economic reform • land • private property • US economy • farmer

5 Stories


from our news partners