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Something to Protect

Some people, enemies of drawing the curtains, say: “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide.” Doesn’t follow. Hiding is a form of protecting. We all have things to protect....

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Amazon’s Wide, Flowing, Constricted River

Under the U.S. Constitution, the federal government is prohibited from censoring speech. It often tries anyway.  One of the ways, as we’ve learned, is by pressuring social media and other companies to...

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Panic at Sea

“The passengers later told local media they feared for their lives,” Newsweek reported. Those 23 tourists, along with 11 crew members, were traveling from Taiwan’s Kinmen islands, located just six...

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Utah and the Tenth

The trouble with the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution — the last two items in the Bill of Rights — has not been lack of clarity. The Tenth, at least, is extremely clear: “The powers not...

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Did Steve Baker Commit Journalism?

The safest thing to do — politically, anyway — is plant yourself in a corner and sit still. But people tend to want to move around, live, do their jobs. Steve Baker, reporter for Blaze Media, recently...

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The Case of the Narrow Driveway

Sandy Martinez: mother of three, working hard to get by, whole life ahead of her — why would she sabotage it by failing to perfectly park her car in her narrow driveway such that two of the wheels...

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School Choice Reform at Last

How to get school choice reform? Keep fighting. Last year, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Republican, worked with families and school choice activists to pass school-choice legislation. SB1 would have...

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Monopoly vs. Monopoly

The Biden Administration makes much of its pro-consumer actions. President Sleepy Joe never tires of boasting about how his regulations favor consumers over credit card companies. Considering the...

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Richly Revealing

There is something rich in the latest gag order placed on Mr. Trump. “Former President Donald Trump on March 27 criticized the New York judge overseeing his ‘hush money’ case and criticized the...

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Awkward for Ideologues?

There’s good news about inequality? In late March, George F. Will argued that the truth about inequality in America, according to his op-ed title, is “awkward for the left and right.” He points to the...

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Eclipse

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GOP Fails on FISA

“The House appears ready to reauthorize FISA 702 — which has been abused literally hundreds of thousands of times to spy on Americans without a warrant — without requiring the government to get a...

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Supermarket Slavery

How to sue supermarkets for shutting down: One. Move to San Francisco. Two. Support a proposed ordinance “amending the Police Code to require large supermarkets to provide six months notice to their...

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Less Oversight?

There are long-standing debates among those who oppose big government. One is whether we should promote every budget cut and any tax cut, or whether we should more-or-less carefully support only some...

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Brussels Conference Squelched

What happened in Brussels? “In Brussels, in the heart of the European Union, in a western liberal democracy, we’re unable to have a conversation about identity, migration, borders, family, and...

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The CDC on Self-Defense

This April, a Nashville homeowner shot an intruder intent on burglary. Also this month, a St. Louis apartment dweller shot an intruder who threatened to kill his family. A Newport Beach homeowner...

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