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Law and Government
Malaria reported in Maryland near Washington, DC
A Maryland resident recently came down with malaria without ever traveling abroad. The Maryland Department of Health announced on August…
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Law and Government
Civil liberties group sues to stop California from forcing professors to parrot left-wing ideology about DEI
The California Community Colleges are requiring their tens of thousands of instructors to promote left-wing “anti-racist” ideology, under new state…
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Law and Government
State Department turns over some records about Global Disinformation Index
The Bader Family Foundation sued the State Department for various documents about the Global Disinformation Index on April 20. The…
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Science and Technology
Federal agencies sued over Biden administration guidance on indigenous knowledge; records released
In December, the Biden administration released guidance designed to promote the use of indigenous knowledge and beliefs in federal agencies’…
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Law and Government
ACLU of Virginia approvingly quotes totalitarian communist, promotes false idea we live on ‘stolen land’
The communist activist Angela Davis advocated abolishing prisons in the U.S., while supporting the incarceration of political prisoners in totalitarian…
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Unyielding
Government increases the cost of housing by promoting low productivity in construction
In most industries, productivity has risen enormously since 1947. But not in construction, where productivity has not increased at all…
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Politics
Bad vs. Good Libertarians
I don’t claim to be a libertarian, although I worked for a libertarian think-tank for more than a dozen years,…
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Law and Government
U.S. Credit Rating Downgraded Due to Rising Debt
The world’s third largest credit agency lowered America’s credit rating from “AAA” to “AA+” yesterday, citing rapidly rising debt and…
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Law and Government
FDA is likely killing man with squamous cell carcinoma
Jake Selliger describes how he is “dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and the treatments that might save [him] are just…
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Law and Government
California may sentence criminals based on their race, violating the Constitution
“A Democrat-backed bill making its way through the California Legislature would require judges in the state to consider a convicted…
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Education
Biden to cancel $39 billion in student loans, costing each American $120
“The Biden administration is canceling $39 billion in student loan debt for more than 804,000 borrowers, just weeks after the…
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Law and Government
Alleged serial killer arrested, will be eligible for parole under recent New York legislation
Some advocates of “decarceration” — reducing prison populations — claim that long prison sentences aren’t necessary because people age out…
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Economy
Radical Chicago mayor backs policies that will shrink the amount of housing in his city
Cutting the supply of housing increases homelessness. But radical Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is backing policies that will shrink the…
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Law and Government
California to spend $5.1 billion bailing out inefficient transit routes few people ever use
Why should you pay for a mass transit system that doesn’t transport masses of people — but rather consists of…
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Unyielding
Court allows ‘collegiality’ to be used as a pretext for punishing professor’s non-woke viewpoint
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that it was OK for North Carolina State University to punish a professor for…
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Economy
Due to inflation, Fourth of July cookouts cost a record amount, rising by 11 percent since 2022
Inflation is causing Fourth of July cookouts to cost a record amount in 2023, rising by 11% from 2022, reports…
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Education
Civil rights complaint challenges legacy admissions at Harvard
Progressive groups have filed a complaint against “legacy admissions” at Harvard University, challenging its practice of considering family ties to…
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Law and Government
Progressive Supreme Court justices advocate endless use of race in college admissions based on false claims about racial gaps
Last week, the Supreme Court found that two universities had engaged in illegal racial discrimination in admissions, against Asian and…
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Law and Government
Biden to revive student loan forgiveness declared illegal by the Supreme Court
Today, the Supreme Court stopped the Biden administration from writing off $500 billion in student loans at taxpayer expense, in…
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Education
Colleges falsely claim Juneteenth was ‘the day slavery ended in the U.S.’
Many colleges and progressives are claiming that Juneteenth — June 19, 1865 — was “the day slavery ended” in the…
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Education
Progressive judge: School can ban T-shirt saying ‘there are only two genders’
The First Amendment has long been understood to protect messages on kids’ T-shirts in school, as long as they weren’t…
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Education
Teenager loses government job after saying there are only two genders; Free speech violated
An Idaho teenager has lost a job with the U.S. Forest Service for telling classmates at his high school that…
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Foreign Affairs
Legal scholars want UN to order America to pay trillions of dollars in reparations to blacks
African-American law professors and critical race theorists are urging the United Nations to order America to pay millions of dollars…
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Education
Generation Z was wrongly taught that Native Americans lived in peace and harmony before whites arrived
The Iroquois exterminated a neighboring tribe, the Huron, killing almost all of its 30,000 men, women, and children. Torture was…
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Education
Biden administration seeks to eradicate corporal punishment in schools, exceeding its authority
The Supreme Court upheld corporal punishment in the schools in Ingraham v. Wright (1977). But the Biden administration is trying…
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Law and Government
Biden wants to fund wasteful transit project that would use up more energy and harm buses
The Biden administration wants to spend another $500 million on a $9.3 billion project to expand the Bay Area Rapid…
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Education
Education Department implies that school policy debates can create hostile environment for students
Recently, the Biden administration was reported to have ruled that a school district’s “banning several pornographic books last year was…
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Unyielding
Feds want to spend $8.8 billion to expand a rail station operating at less than half of its existing capacity
Washington’s Union Station is operating at less than half of its existing capacity. But the Biden administration wants to expand…
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Politics
Republicans lose control of two of the few big cities they run
Given a choice between Democrats they see as too far to the left, and Republicans they see as too far…
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Economy
Legalizing kidney sales would end America’s lethal kidney shortage
In a recent article in Regulation, economist Frank McCormick and medical school professor Philip Held describe how America could solve…
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Law and Government
Biden can’t invoke 14th Amendment to keep spending money
If Congress doesn’t lift the national debt limit — because President Biden won’t agree to Republican demands to reduce the…
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Law and Government
Justice Department: Crime Statistics Are Racist, Shouldn’t Be Used to Focus Resources on High-Crime Areas
A draft Justice Department policy would forbid federal law enforcement officers from taking into account crime rates in “making decisions…
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Education
University of Texas features high-paid speaker who bashes capitalism and defends Communist mass incarceration of dissenters
The College Fix reports that a “prominent communist activist typically paid between $25,000 and $38,000 per speech used a recent…
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Law and Government
California reparations task force recommends paying black residents up to $1.2 million based on their race
The reparations task force set up by California’s legislature has proposed paying each black California resident up to $1.2 million.…
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Law and Government
Food stamps make recipients fatter and less healthy, according to studies
It’s not clear why, but receiving food stamps appears to make recipients less healthy and more obese. If there are…
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Education
Colorado teachers union passes resolution wrongly claiming capitalism inherently exploits children, harms education
The Colorado Education Association passed a Marxist resolution declaring that capitalism inherently exploits children and harms education. The resolution declares…
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