Arizona Poised to Join Growing List of States Reforming Civil Asset Forfeiture
Despite the objections and lobbying of law enforcement, the Arizona Legislature approved a bill that would require a person be convicted of a crime before cops could seize property through…
Alaska’s Don Young Backs Bill to Protect Legal Marijuana Users Second Amendment Rights
And now for a little bit of good news (hopefully) coming out of Congress. Alaska Rep. Don Young is backing legislation that would protect the Second Amendment rights of marijuana…
Biden Plans to Draft Banks Into the Hunt for More Tax Money
The details on how President Joe Biden intends to pay for the $6 trillion in new spending he’s proposed are coming to light. One of those details: requiring banks to…
Newsom Recall Effort Takes Critical Step Toward Ballot
The California Secretary of State’s office says organizers of a petition drive to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom filed enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot: California Secretary of State…
Afghan War Costs Estimated at More Than $2 trillion
The Biden administration has said it intends to pull the remaining U.S. armed forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11. Setting aside the fact this will keep troops in country well…
Sen. Tim Scott Makes a Move to Reform Qualified Immunity
Federal efforts to reform qualified immunity, the court-created doctrine that shields law enforcement and other government officials from accountability when they violate an individual’s constitutional rights, have gone nowhere. But…
Nation’s Fiscal Health got $10 Trillion Worse in 2020
It’s no secret the federal government’s spending binge during the coronavirus pandemic was one for the record books. But now that some of the fiscal dust has settled, and before…
Progressives Still Pushing for Student Loan Debt Cancellation
Progressives haven’t given up on their push for the White House to cancel up to $50,000 in student loan debt, demanding the proposal get included in the next round of…
The $6 Trillion Man
President Joe Biden likes to talk up his working-class roots, and his desire to champion various forgotten men who’ve been left out, marginalized and victimized in recent years. As campaign…
Biden Capital Gains Tax Would be Biggest Since the 1920s
The White House proposal to raise the capital gains tax is being framed as a way to get the idle rich to pay their fair share of taxes in support…