Jaw-dropping in its seemingly limitless capacity to be inefficient, there’s nothing quite like the state to tell others how to “cut back on waste”. Yet that is what three US bureaucracies are doing, right now.
As Baylen Linnekin reports for Reason:
Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Food and Drug Administration announced a joint…
As if on cue, ready with scripted and pre-packaged (which, undoubtedly, many were) statements, numerous federal-level Democrats’ have called for further federal-level gun restrictions mere hours after the murders of eleven people at a Pittsburg, PA, synagogue.
Seriously. Just half a day after the event, and without a shred of information as to whether any existing gun statutes were broken by…
The political backfire is almost complete.
Indeed, just as the dinosaur media members pushed, and saw backfire, the “fake news” narrative, it appears that leftist political big-wigs in the United Kingdom have begun to realize it’s come ‘round to bite them in the heels.
On October 23, The Telegraph reported that the UK Parliament has banned the use of the term in government discourse and…
Leave it to the Bezos-owned Washington Post to publish even more fake news when it comes to Brett Kavanaugh.
As Amber Athey notes for The Daily Caller, the WaPo’s Emily Heil reported on October 18 that Kavanaugh’s alma mater, Georgetown Prep, was hiring a “director of alumni relations” and that the school posted the ad for the position that week.
The article further suggested that the school…
How long will this go on?
Americans have seen Hobby Lobby fight in the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) to assert the right to not comply with a federal Obamacare mandate that the “closely held” corporation buy health insurance covering contraceptives and abortifascients.
Americans have witnessed the sad spectacle of the folks behind the Colorado-based Masterpiece Cakeshop fight in the…
On October 8, well-known attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz did something that will likely increase the invective directed at him by collectivists who dislike him appearing on FoxNews in opposition to the ever-expanding, often groundless, Mueller “Russia” probe. This time, he wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Examiner, a piece in which he correctly excoriates the American…
One of the most entertaining Youtube channels in recent years is “The Outer Light”, created and run by the smart, insightful, and very funny, Esoteric ED (the “ED” standing for “Esoteric Detective”). ED comments on all kinds of stories, some of which lead to mere speculation, some of which he dissects like a scalpel-wielding researcher over a pithed frog. And one of ED’s best known sayings when…
When I lecture on political philosophy, I often begin with Plato and Socrates. Plato was the man who claimed he chronicled Socrates’ “paripatetic” lectures, in which he’d walk about Athens and bug people to engage him in straw man philosophical debates that would make him look really bright. Sometimes Socrates was on the ball, and other times (many) he was off base. One of those was his argument…
This is one of the most delightful, yet ethically challenging, follow-ups I’ve ever had the chance to write.
Recall the piece and video I wrote and shot in June, entitled, “Social Psych Report: Frisky Dogs in Parks Are Part of America’s ‘Rape Culture’”? It was the story about a self-described “serious” academic journal called “Gender, Place, and Culture,” that published a “social psychology…
The Supreme Court of the United States opened its spectacular new session by hearing a case so absurd, many people might wonder why it’s a matter for the courts.
It’s a matter for the courts because the Fish and Wildlife Service exists, and repeatedly infringes on private property rights, contrary to the supposed raison d’etre of government itself.
Of course, many perspicacious thinkers will…
