An Essay Inspired by the Happy News that the Human Population Has Reached Eight Billion
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes The late, great Julian SimonJulian Simon spent decades battling intellectually against biologists and zoologists who were convinced that human population growth, if governments did not hold it in check with draconian measures, would spell doom for multitudes of humans. (I might as well have used the present tense above, because […]
Latest Trump Indictment Proves Deep State Is Trying To Rig Yet Another Election
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Democrats are dead set on indicting Trump because they know they can’t beat him fair and square. The same institutions that tormented former President Donald Trump for years with false accusations of collusion with Russia are making yet another brazen attempt to rig the next presidential election against the […]
Popular Genetic Testing Pits Unborn Siblings Against Each Other, And The Highest Scorer Gets To Live
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Technology that replaces the inherent value of life with a numeric placeholder makes the precious gift of living seem expendable. What would you say if you discovered that your parents chose to birth and raise you over any of your other siblings because they believed your genes to be […]
Federal Judge Blocks ATF From Arresting Millions Of Pistol Brace Owners
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Millions of law-abiding gun owners who were turned into criminals overnight under the Biden administration’s new pistol brace ban have temporary relief after a federal judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction preventing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives from enforcing it. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled on Wednesday […]
President Biden Must Resign, or Be Impeached
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes President Biden’s duty to the American people is to “faithfully execute” his office. As a public trustee, Biden took an oath to do what is right. He is a trustee of powers bestowed upon him by the Constitution in return for his promise to be dutiful. Like every agent and […]
On Comparative Advantage and International Capital Mobility
Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes Editors Note: We recently ran an article by Oren Cass, questioning the validity of free trade. To balance that view, and provoke thinking, we offer this rejoinder. We will have our own take on this issue forthcoming. Two decades ago, economist Paul Craig Roberts joined forces with Sen. Chuck […]
Ruben Gallego Ad Features Sheriff Who Likened Border Agents to Nazi Secret Police
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Santa Cruz County sheriff David Hathaway has repeatedly insulted border agents as ‘goons,’ argued for ‘porous’ borders Arizona Senate candidate’s (D.) latest effort to rebrand himself as a border hawk is a campaign ad that features an Arizona sheriff who supports “porous” borders and has compared federal immigration agents […]
Supreme Court Upholds ‘Absolute Immunity’ for Presidents in Trump Case
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Donald Trump’s favor in the presidential immunity case, complicating at least two prosecutions against the 45th president. “Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of presidential power entitles a former president to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive […]
SCOTUS Opinions Indicate The Death Of The Administrative State Is Just Beginning
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Editors’ Note: Because of the concern about the mental competence of the current President, several momentous Supreme Court decisions are not getting sufficient attention. The end of the “Chevron deference” is arguably the most important. This can influence almost every overstepping agency from the ATF to the EPA. Agencies will […]
Are We Near the End of the Road to Serfdom? Part 1
Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes Recently I was drawn to reread Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. Passages I previously overlooked leaped from the pages as if in bold print, signaling imminent danger to human progress. Hayek’s message never seemed more prescient and timeless: The descent into totalitarianism can happen anywhere. Astonishing progress has been made […]