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Trump Wasting Time in NYC While Biden Winning over Battleground States

Gov. Kathy Hockle, a New York Democrat, said Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead” that former President Donald Trump is wasting his time in New York, which is “solidly supporting Joe Biden,” while Biden is “failing to win the remaining battleground states.” “Donald Trump, former President Trump, will be holding an event in the Bronx soon […]

EPA shoots down Alabama coal ash regulation proposal

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday rejected Alabama’s proposal to take over coal ash regulations, saying the state’s plan doesn’t do enough to protect residents and waterways. The agency said the state proposal provides “significantly less protective measures” than those required by federal regulations and “fails to adequately address groundwater contamination during the closure […]

Ukraine war briefing: US-supplied glide bombs struggle against Russian jamming | Ukraine

Russian interference Ukraine’s newer Prevents long-range GLSDB bombs from hitting their targetsThe ground-launched small diameter bombs made by Boeing and Saab have a range of 100 miles (161 kilometers). They are launched by a rocket engine and have wings that extend their range, but their guidance systems have been a target of Russian sabotage, leaving […]

We argue about campus free speech because we forget what the university is for

The combination of highly visible protests combined with the varying university responses has lately reignited the debate over free speech on campus. Longstanding opponents of free speech have suddenly declared its importance, and have noticed how recent ideas about how to erode cultural and jurisprudential free speech norms might actually be used for ill — […]

ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI: House COVID Committee Confirms What We Have Long Suspected — The Feds Really Hate Transparency

Last week details emerged from the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, confirming what government transparency advocates long suspected: Federal bureaucrats are purposefully stonewalling the American people’s right to know about their government. Republican Kentucky Rep. James Comer, who chairs the full House Oversight and Accountability Committee, read from an email that Dr. David Morens, a top aide […]

MMT Is Dead. It Must Now Be Buried for Good

In the late 1960s Milton Friedman clarified his famous quip by stating that “In one sense, we are all Keynesians now; in another, nobody is any longer a Keynesian.” In the first part, we are all Keynesians because the government’s out of control spending has forced us to be. In the latter sense, we are […]

NCAA agrees to settlement; universities to pay players

In a major win announced by the NCAA today, all major conferences, as well as the NCAA, have agreed to allow universities to directly compensate athletes for the first time in NCAA history. According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel and Dan Murphy: The NCAA settled three major federal antitrust lawsuits and plans to pay $2.7 billion […]