Enjoy the fully archived Orientation. This tone-setting event was held January 29-30 and February 3-4, 2003, in Austin, Texas, and features speeches by the Governor, Lt. Gov., House Speaker, Attorney General, Supreme Court Chief Justice, Agriculture Commissioner, and House and Senate committee chairman, as well as numerous policy experts.
Property Rights
Oakland fined this couple $915,000 for preventing fires. That’s 18 times the penalty for actual arson
Imagine buying a piece of property, being ordered by the government to clear it of fire hazards, and then being handed a near-million-dollar bill by that same government for doing exactly what it asked. It sounds like a dystopian satire of bureaucratic overreach, but for Matthew Bernard and Lynn Warner, it is a harrowing legal...
August 19, 2026