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“Metro is dangling from a fiscal cliff,” hollers last Saturday’s Washington Post editorial headline. The “transit system faces a ‘death spiral’ starting next summer,” according to “the usually stolid...
View ArticleAmerica’s Mayor Celebrates Communism
The American political tradition is not communist. It is anti-totalitarian. So we don’t expect our political leaders to cozy up to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). One would never want the mayor of...
View ArticleThe Homeschooling Surge
Although homeschooling had once been common in the United States, by the 1970s few families taught their kids at home. This began to change in the 1980s and 1990s. Researcher Brian Day estimates that...
View ArticleDisagreeing With Päivi Räsänen
In 2019, Finnish politician Päivi Räsänen cited the Bible in her Twitter account in order to express her views about sex and Christianity. “How does the doctrinal foundation of the Church fit in with...
View ArticleThe Censorship Industrial Complex
“Many people insist that governments aren’t involved in censorship,” tweeted Michael Shellenberger on Tuesday, “but they are. And now, a whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of...
View ArticleTo End the Great Declension
“Today begins a new era in Argentina,” said Javier Milei in his inaugural address as the new president of Argentina. “Today we end a long and sad history of decadence and decline and begin the road to...
View ArticleCold Climate in Hong Kong
“There is no ‘red line,’” says an anonymous thirty-something Hong Kong humanities professor. “If they want to come after you, everything can be used as an excuse.” Grace Tsoi, writing for the BBC,...
View ArticleMostly Peaceful Indo-Pacific
“Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.” — Patrick Henry The 2023 Chicago Council Survey shows 58 percent of us view China as “a critical threat” and a “plurality of Americans (46%)...
View ArticleDivision, Exclusion, Indoctrination
Wisconsin has decided to stop using tax dollars to subsidize ideological assaults on academic freedom. Under the leadership of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the Wisconsin legislature struck a blow...
View ArticleThere Ought Not Be a Law
Not everything that we dislike should be illegal. Not everything that we like or want should be made mandatory. To most of us, this is common sense. We lack the totalitarian impulse. But every day,...
View ArticleGoods, Services, and Other Crimes
The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, has announced a lawsuit against bus companies for providing bus services. The bus companies are selling transportation not to gangs of thieves that the...
View ArticleThe S-Word in California
Frédéric Bastiat called it “spoliation”; California’s Democratic politicians call it social justice. A bill went into effect last week, offering complete medical coverage to an estimated 700,000...
View ArticleDangerous Neighbor
“Are you a journalist?” asked the woman in an overflow crowd of thousands, who, like me, couldn’t fit into the packed stadium for a Democratic Progressive Party rally on the eve of Taiwan’s election....
View ArticleFree to Petition
In December 2020, True the Vote helped Georgians to file elector challenges “based on data showing over 364,000 voters appeared to be ineligible to vote due to change in residency.” Section 21-2-230...
View ArticleComic-Book Isms
“This is crazy,” says Reardon Sullivan, former chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Party. He means the way Montgomery County has been selling vendor space at a comics convention, MoComCon,...
View ArticleGOP, ACLU, and NRA Together Again
Occasionally, the stars align and adversaries become allies. So it is that dozens of Republican congressmen have filed an amicus brief to support an NRA lawsuit against Maria Vullo, a former New York...
View ArticleMarket Rents Work in Argentina
Markets work and markets for housing work. This is what the new president of Argentina, Javier Milei, has sought to confirm by means of radically free-market economic policies. He is going as far as...
View ArticleMilei Defends Capitalism
Capitalism is better than socialism. The new libertarian president of Argentina, Javier Milei, recently explained the virtues of the free market to attendees of the annual World Economic Forum in...
View ArticleUnlimited Limits
Do politicians understand limits? They seem to have this notion that they may limit us every which way . . . with no natural or civilized limit set upon the limits they may impose. Take California...
View ArticleThe Vaxxers’ War on Truckers
It’s always good when a federal court tells a federal government that it shouldn’t have done some horrible autocratic thing. Much better had it never been done in the first place — but at least now...
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