Government & Liberty

Restoring order to America’s classrooms requires reversing years of misguided federal policies that focused on racial quotas and therapeutic interventions.

The U.S. Energy Department (DOE) has an ongoing research program on detecting and deterring the killing of eagles and other flying critters by wind turbines. The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issues eagle killing permits to wind facilities, which are supposed to incorporate technologies that minimize deaths.

America was the first nation founded on idea, and that idea was freedom.

Within a flurry of highly consequential and groundbreaking U.S. Supreme Court decisions, Friday’s ruling in Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Casa, Inc., et al. stands out as a truly historic event.

A New Jersey township’s plan to use eminent domain to seize a 175-year-old family farm has caught the Trump administration’s attention. It is an important case with critical implications about the purpose and conduct of government.

The consensus prediction about President Donald Trump’s massive program of tariffs was that it would cause rapid and highly damaging price inflation. The Wall Street Journal was prominent in conveying those claims, and the Federal Reserve (Fed), the U.S. central bank, concurred, forecasting that the tariffs would cause inflation.

There is no constitutional principle that requires the government to provide funding to any private schools.

Last week I noted that even the U.S. economy, the best in the world, cannot support the current and upcoming federal debt. Here I explain the dismal political reasons why a reversal is so unlikely.

The government long ago became extremely comfortable with the fact that the American people have always been able to bail them out. Bailouts, however, notoriously lead to further bailouts and then to bankruptcies.

Once again, the federal government’s malignant effect on the economy is our top story. Now it’s a debate over whether to raise the debt ceiling.

The Congressional Review Act process is nothing more than Congress reasserting its authority to make laws. Vastly unpopular Energy Department rules banning gas water heaters, and imposing stringent appliance requirements, for example, have been overturned through this process, along with four regulations at the Interior Department, five at Labor, and three at EPA.

The mountains are majestic, the seashore is splendid, but Golden State politics are pathetic.

32% of Democratic voters say they “hope” that China “wins the tariff war” with the Trump administration.

The broadsides of Booker and the other high-profile progressives bear no resemblance to the facts of this case.

This style of unilateral policy-making is built upon shifting sands. Even if you can get this or that judge to allow it? The next opposing-party administration can reverse most or all of it. And it undoubtedly will.

More government? Costs the private sector more money. In compliance costs, etc. Which does more damage to small business than it does to Big Business.

The Black Lives Matter mural and plaza in Washington D.C. are rooted in a brazen fraud committed against Trump.

The last time the China relationship received a little scrutiny was in 2020 when the China Virus reminded us that we rely way too much on China for the manufacture of pretty much everything that really matters.

One of the more remarkable figures in Chicago history, the late Milton J. Rosenberg, was born 100 years ago today, on April 15, 1925.

The European Union’s recently enacted Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) would ‘impose foreign ideological mandates on U.S. businesses, and erode national sovereignty.’

The CSDDD is the greatest threat to America’s sovereignty since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Big Gov grants Big Tech blanket amnesty. And then Big Gov colludes with Big Tech to censor us. And we can’t sue. Because Big Gov granted Big Tech blanket amnesty.

Nowadays, the Congressional Budget Office issues annual reports on “expired and expiring authorizations,” and the number and scope of such programs – now called “zombie programs” – is stunning.

“The Inflation Reduction Act is a robbery of such magnitude that it makes the Lufthansa heist look like child’s play over chump change.” - Tim Benson