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Business
‘Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions’
Shoplifting is out of control, reports the center-left news source Axios, reaching “crisis proportions”: Shoplifting has gotten so bad nationally…
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Law and Government
CIA is still conducting broad surveillance of Americans
The CIA is still conducting broad surveillance of Americans’ phone calls and internet use. On the one hand, maybe this…
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Law and Government
Many criminals don’t age out of crime, and quickly return to crime
Supporters of releasing criminals from prison make misleading claims. They say criminals age out of crime, and usually don’t return…
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Law and Government
Court says cops can be sued for arresting man for vulgarity and ‘Fuck the Police’ T-shirt
Sheriff’s deputies in Clark County, Ohio wrongly arrested a man for shouting vulgarities at them and sporting a t-shirt that…
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Law and Government
Mother handcuffed, jailed for letting her 14-year-old daughter babysit
Back in the 1980s, it was common for 11-year-old girls to babysit children in the neighborhood. The kids turned out…
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Foreign Affairs
Canadian court attempts to silence truckers’ Freedom Convoy, at least temporarily
Yesterday, a Canadian judge issued a temporary injunction against the protesting truckers’ Freedom Convoy, prohibiting further honking of Freedom Convoy…
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Education
Colleges’ admissions policies are illogical and echo past antisemitism
Progressives claim affirmative action is justified based on past discrimination against black people by whites. But the affirmative-action policies they…
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Economy
Biden’s solar panel tariffs are obstructing his own climate-change goals
Reason Magazine notes that “The Biden administration’s plans to address climate change faces a serious obstacle: the Biden administration’s protectionist…
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Law and Government
Public housing projects destroyed rising black neighborhoods, replaced them with slums
Public housing projects promoted by progressive “reformers” often destroyed prosperous black neighborhoods, or neighborhoods which, while not wealthy, were at…
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Law and Government
Memphis Black Lives Matter founder sentenced to 6 years for illegally voting
Last week, a Black Lives Matter organizer was sentenced to six years and one day in prison after being convicted…
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Education
Elite college drops segregated antiracism training after federal civil-rights complaint
“Carleton College in Minnesota will no longer host mandatory racially-segregated ‘anti-racist training’ after a federal complaint,” reports The College Fix.…
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Education
Anti-white activists equate productivity and good manners with whiteness
The “anti-racism” movement is ironic. Antiracist activists equate whiteness with the very characteristics needed for success, such as timeliness, planning…
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Law and Government
Bill to release inmates — even murderers — moves forward in Virginia legislature
A subcommittee of the Virginia legislature voted 4-to-3 to recommend a bill that would let inmates — even serial killers and…
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Law and Government
DHS won’t deport illegal alien career criminal who covered train station in Swastikas
Thanks to Biden administration policies, the Department of Homeland Security won’t deport a career criminal illegal alien who covered Washington,…
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Law and Government
EPA blocks home for 15 years, calling landlocked lot ‘waters of the United States’
The Environmental Protection Agency blocked a couple from building a home on their landlocked lot for 15 years, claiming it…
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Law and Government
Biden administration rescinds deportation of illegal immigrant who killed young woman while drunk
The Department of Homeland Security has rescinded a deportation order that had been issued against an illegal immigrant who killed…
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Education
Studies fail to show masks reduce coronavirus transmission much in the schools
Do masks reduce transmission of the coronavirus in school? Syndicated columnist Jacob Sullum says there is little evidence they do:…
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Economy
National Debt Hits $30 Trillion
“The United States’s national debt exceeded $30 trillion for the first time, according to Treasury Department figures released on Tuesday.…
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Education
‘Hispanic Students Were Forced To Learn Critical Race Theory. They Hated It.’
That’s the title of an interesting article by Robby Soave in Reason Magazine, about how Hispanic kids were given an…
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Law and Government
Most Americans disagree with Biden decision to not consider non-black judges for Supreme Court
Three-quarters of Americans want Joe Biden to consider ‘all possible nominees’ for the Supreme Court vacancy, regardless of their race…
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Law and Government
Violent 26-year-old child molester placed in juvenile facility thanks to left-wing Los Angeles district attorney
A 26-year-old convicted of violently sexually assaulting a 10-year-old child will be placed in a juvenile facility, despite being an…
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Law and Government
Dark money heavily favored Democrats in 2020
In the 2020 election, “dark money” was spent overwhelmingly to elect Democrats, not Republicans. Millions of dollars were spent to…
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Education
New York State fails to teach kids to read despite spending $30K per student
New York State spends over $30,000 per student, yet still fails to teach students to read, notes journalist Nick Gillespie. …
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Education
Study: State-funded pre-K makes kids dumber
State-funded pre-kindergarten makes kids dumber by sixth grade, a major study found. As Peter Suderman notes, “Over and over again,…
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Law and Government
Justice Stephen Breyer to retire; he is part of Supreme Court’s liberal bloc
Justice Stephen Breyer has announced that he will retire at the end of the Supreme Court’s current term, early this…
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Law and Government
Masks likely required by disabilities laws, divided appeals court rules
An appeals court ruled 2-to-1 that federal disabilities-rights laws likely require that schools mandate masks when they have disabled students…
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Education
Los Angeles schools will require nose-wire masks and vaccination
Los Angeles Unified School District will soon force students to wear non-cloth masks with a nose wire, even while they…
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Law and Government
Supreme Court ruling against vaccine mandate may imperil climate-change regulations
Law professor Jonathan Adler says that the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for private…
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Foreign Affairs
Rising border crossings result in new record in December — by 100,000
Border apprehensions by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol set a new record last month, exceeding the prior record by 100,000.…
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Law and Government
Supreme Court to hear challenges to affirmative action in college admissions
The Supreme Court has just agreed to review a pair of cases that challenge the use of race-based affirmative action…
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Education
Virginia school superintendent rejects ban on school mask mandates, and sues the governor
The school superintendent in Virginia’s most populous county is refusing to go along with the Virginia governor’s executive order banning…
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Education
Judge orders schools to require masks, citing disabilities-rights laws
In Pennsylvania, one judge has ordered a school district to require students to wear masks, citing the federal disabilities-rights laws.…
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Law and Government
‘Safe streets worker’ (police replacement) shot to death in Baltimore
Supporters of abolishing the police say they can be replaced by unarmed “community safety” workers. Instead of arresting or incarcerating…
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Law and Government
Judges say coronavirus excuse for shutting down gun stores was invalid
A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled unconstitutional a California county’s shutdown of gun stores…
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Foreign Affairs
TSA now accepting arrest warrants as proof of ID for illegal immigrants boarding flights
As Hot Air notes, “This story is so insane that it sounds like an urban legend, a claim you’d stumble…
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Law and Government
Berkeley professor suggests slapping Senator who opposed ending filibuster
A professor at the University of California Berkeley suggested slapping Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema for not voting to get rid…
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