Facebook’s two sets of rules for users and content
Just in case anyone had doubts that Facebook wasn’t exactly fair, never mind consistent, in apply its own rules to users behavior and content, a series of investigative reports have…
Expanding the dole, and bankrupting the nation
The Biden administration’s push to expand the scope of federal programs really doesn’t begin to describe just how much the White House, and Congress, want to change the social contract…
More women and minorities buying firearms for the first time
New data from a national survey of gun owners shows that women are increasingly buying firearms and now make up almost half of new gun buyers. According to the Wall…
Fed to review ethics policy in light of regional presidents’ million dollar trades
Federal Reserve Board chairman Jerome Powell is asking his staff to review the central bank’s ethics rules for employees, including regional bank presidents, governing trades they make in their personal…
Crashing the grid in the name of green energy
The big push to add renewable energy sources to the nation’s already rickety electric grid could add even more instability to the system. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Robert…
The post-9/11 growth of the security state
One of the bigger changes to American life following the Sept. 11 terror attacks was a concerted effort to give local law enforcement access to military hardware and an array…
Building a cradle to grave state
Behind the drive to give the IRS expanded surveillance powers is a push from congressional Democrats and the White House for the largest expansion of the federal government since the…
Giving the IRS expansive surveillance powers is a recipe for trouble
Democrats need more tax money to fund their plans to build an even bigger government. Where are they going to find it? Just raising taxes isn’t enough – what’s needed…
Polis: ‘when you tax something you penalize it’
Even as congressional Democrats scrounge the countryside looking for things they may have forgotten to tax, there are a handful of Democrats who aren’t so keen on taxes…and may actually…
Democrats go all-in on corporate welfare
As congressional Democrats weave their plans for a cradle to grave state, the Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards gives us several reasons why we should just say “no” to all that…
Giving the Pentagon billions of additional dollars it never requested
Congress can’t help itself when it comes to spending, and that’s long been true of spending on the Department of Defense. The DoD was initially scheduled for a very modest…
Authoritarians love internet shutdowns
There’s been plenty of online squawking about social media companies “censoring” this, that, or the other edge-lordy voice, coupled with demands the government force those companies to host any type…