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Government & Liberty
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Combatting Classroom Chaos
Opinion -Restoring order to America’s classrooms requires reversing years of misguided federal policies that focused on racial quotas and therapeutic interventions. -
Feds ignore their research on windmills killing eagles
Opinion -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. -
Freedom and Nationalism
Opinion -America was the first nation founded on idea, and that idea was freedom. -
Life, Liberty, Property #108: Supreme Court Affirms Constitutional Limit on Courts’ Authority
Opinion -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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #107: Eminent Domain Case Tests Our Understanding of Federalism
Opinion -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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #106: Inflation Report Belies Tariff-Inflation Predictions
Opinion -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. -
University Abuse of Taxpayers Must End
Opinion -Editorial -There is no constitutional principle that requires the government to provide funding to any private schools. -
Life, Liberty, Property #105: The Political Tide Against a Fiscal Rescue
Opinion -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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #104: There Is No Possible Bailout for the Federal Government
Opinion -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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #103: ‘Big and Beautiful’ but Not Nearly Enough of Either
Opinion -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. -
Who Do Those Congressmen Think They Are?
Opinion -Editorial -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. -
California’s Doom Loop Is in Full Swing
Opinion -Editorial -The mountains are majestic, the seashore is splendid, but Golden State politics are pathetic. -
Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: Democrats Hope China Beats America in Trade War, Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Socialism
Opinion -Press Release -32% of Democratic voters say they “hope” that China “wins the tariff war” with the Trump administration. -
Misinformation About the Arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan
Opinion -The broadsides of Booker and the other high-profile progressives bear no resemblance to the facts of this case. -
Executive Action’s Shifting Sands – and the Power of Cronyism
Opinion -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. -
Fully DOGE Big Gov’s Financial Regulatory Regime – From The Fed on Down
Opinion -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. -
Media Perpetuates Fraud at the Root of ‘Black Lives Matter’ Plaza
Opinion -The Black Lives Matter mural and plaza in Washington D.C. are rooted in a brazen fraud committed against Trump. -
Why Is DC Being So Helpful to Communist China?
Opinion -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. -
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Remembering Milton J. Rosenberg on the Centennial of His Birth
Opinion -One of the more remarkable figures in Chicago history, the late Milton J. Rosenberg, was born 100 years ago today, on April 15, 1925. -
PRESS RELEASE: Free-Market Coalition Urges Trump Administration, Congress to Counter Economically Ruinous European Union Law
Opinion -Press Release -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.’ -
New Heartland Study: European Union Is on the Verge of Vassalizing America Through New Global ESG Law
Opinion -Press Release -The CSDDD is the greatest threat to America’s sovereignty since the fall of the Soviet Union. -
Unnecessary Section 230 Grants Bigger Amnesty Than Biden’s Bogus Family-J6 ‘Pardons’
Opinion -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. -
Zombies That Can Never Be Killed
Opinion -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. -
PRESS RELEASE: New Study Details the Green Scam That Is the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’
Opinion -Press Release -“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