Featured · Legal Affairs · Liberty
In the wake of the celebrated shootings in Newtown, Connecticut; Aurora, Colorado; and the streets of Chicago, both parties have fallen over themselves to act “serious” about the problem of[…]
Featured · Liberty · Regulation
I was reading the Chicago Tribune online this morning and came across a short Reuters article that should make us all tremble. The article says the federal government has revoked[…]
Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics
Here is a rundown of President Obama’s gun control proposals. They are a combination of pointless letters of reminder, orders for bureaucratic assessments, counselor hires, and training offerings. But on the phone[…]
Legal Affairs · Liberty · Podcast · Politics
On Friday’s Heartland Daily Podcast, I talk with Senior Fellow for Legal Affairs Maureen Martin about the latest developments on the gun-control front. The discussion was prompted by her recent[…]
Wow, wow, wow! Where is the outrage? Where are the demands for accountability? How can this be receiving so little attention? CNN has put together a timeline of the mass[…]
To President Obama, the word “politics” means anyone who disagrees with him, as in the phrase “It is time to put politics aside.” Whenever he says that, he is really[…]
It is a natural tendency on the part of most human beings, when confronted with great evil, to want to do something about it. We want to stop the horror[…]
Economics · FIRE · Liberty · Politics · Regulation · Taxes
In the midst of state budgetary turmoil, it is not surprising that legislators are turning to unconstitutional regulatory measures in the pursuit of a few extra tax dollars. Arkansas, Connecticut,[…]
A few weeks ago Connecticut passed a budget containing $2.6 billion in tax hikes on alcohol, tobacco, hotels, sales, and estates. At that time Governor Dannel Malloy “demanded” $2 billion[…]
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