In withdrawing federal protection for transgendered students, the Trump administration paid tribute to our federalist system. “The president believes that this is a states’ rights issue,” said White House spokesman Sean Spicer, “We are a states’ rights party. The president in a lot of issues believes that these issues are states’ rights issues.” Yet, hours […]
Life expectancy in the U.S. fell for the second year in a row in 2016, nudged down again by a surge in fatal opioid overdoses, federal officials report Thursday. “I’m not prone to dramatic statements,” says Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics. “But I think we should […]
Countering decades of federal public land grabs, President Trump Slashes Size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Monuments. SALT LAKE CITY — President Trump sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah on Monday by some two million acres, the largest rollback of federal land protection in the nation’s history. The administration shrank Bears […]
Financial weakness is clearly cyclicle in countries that fail to restrain government encroachment into the economy. Fast growth in government spending discourages private-sector investment and hiring because it means higher future taxes. The result is a financial spiral in which businesses grow less and pay less to their governments. This worsens the fiscal crisis and […]
Fixing the Worst Law in Technology – Anatomy of CFAA On the opening day of this year’s South by Southwest festival, in Austin, an audience gathered in a giant conference hall to remember the life and tragic suicide of Aaron Swartz. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, spoke of Swartz’s curious and […]
Government by unelected experts (aka the Administrative State) isn’t all that different from the ‘royal prerogative’ of 17th-century England, argues constitutional scholar Philip Hamburger. By John Tierney June 9, 2017 3:44 p.m. ET What’s the greatest threat to liberty in America? Liberals rail at Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration and his hostility toward the […]
The irony of gun laws is that there would be no Independence Day without guns. Without guns, there would be no Independence Day. In fact, without citizens owning (and using) guns, there would be no Second Amendment – because there would be no Constitution to amend. This probably sounds pretty obvious to Conservatives. But, believe […]
Ten Thousand Commandments is the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual survey of the size, scope, and cost of federal regulations, and how the U.S. regulatory burden affects American consumers, businesses, and the economy. Authored by CEI Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr., it shines a light on the large and growing “hidden tax” of America’s regulatory […]
On April 7, 2017, the Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch, a 49-year-old federal judge who could help cement a conservative majority on the bench for decades, to the Supreme Court. In order to better understand what this could mean for future court rulings, below is an excerpt from The Heritage Foundation’s review of Judge Gorsuch. Excellent Choice for […]
Well at least one Democrat understood the value of tax cuts…and he was the party hero for decades, but his wisdom is forgotten in today’s world of tax and spend. In a 1963 message to Congress on tax reduction and reform, JFK stated: “Our tax system still siphons out of the private economy too large […]
