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Enacting climate change policies in quasi-authoritarian fashion will almost certainly prove self-defeating.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
What Might a Climate Change Class Action Lawsuit Look Like?
by Christopher Garbacz May 26, 2022How do you turn the Green Agenda on its head? Say “Class action lawsuits will save the planet.”
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Which side will Colorado be on this time? Will its officials defend its water, or knuckle under to federal control?
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Should the government compel the harvesting of organs from the deceased? I think that paying donors provides a great solution to the shortage.
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FeaturedGovernment
Exit Leahy: One of the Worst Men for the US in US History
by Seton Motley November 19, 2021Senator Leahy is finally leaving office – leaving a legacy of damage to judicial appointments and intellectual property rights.
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Government
North Carolina Federal Judge Cites ‘Disinformation’ to Ratify State Censorship
by Seton Motley August 26, 2021Government censorship destroys individual liberty, as seen in North Carolina.
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Constitution
Nicotine Flavor Ban: A Lesson in Why a Bill Should Not Become a Law
by Jeff Stier June 7, 2021A bill so ill-conceived is now being introduced by a member of the New York State Assembly who lives in my Upper West Side neighborhood.
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America is much less the land of the free than it is the land where everything is illegal, where, as John Stossel pointed out in 2012, “No one can know what is legal.”
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FeaturedGovernmentPolitics
Yes, Mr. President, You Must Enforce the Laws You Don’t Like
by Rob Natelson January 9, 2017Must the president enforce all laws, even those he disapproves of?
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Budgets/TaxesGovernmentLegal Affairs
Property Rights: The Root of Freedom
by David S. D'Amato November 23, 2016A man’s home, as the saying goes, is his castle. For socialists and even many progressives, however, private property is an obstacle to be overcome, the source of the capitalist’s power to exploit, a privilege that must yield to broader social justice concerns.
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Health CarePodcast
In The Tank (ep59) – History of CON Laws, Improving Health Care in Your State, and More
by Donald Kendal October 7, 2016Donny is joined by Michael Hamilton in episode #59 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Mercatus Center and the John Locke Foundation.
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Environment/EnergyPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Bill Kovacs: Unfunded Mandates Undermine the Constitution, State Autonomy and Our Economic Well-Being
by H. Sterling Burnett October 4, 2016A recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce study shows the Obama administration is ignoring the law by imposing an increasing number of unfunded mandates on the states without first assessing their economic impact or carrying out a required cost benefit analysis.
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Six days ago, in Poland, the President reacted to two fatal shootings of young black men by police, one in Louisiana and another in Minnesota, by saying, “these fatal shootings are not isolated incidents.” The message was clear enough. Two days later, an African American took revenge on a police force in Texas that, the way he saw things, was part of a system of law enforcement that was murdering young black men.