About that whole “defund the police” thing….
The Senate recently approved a budget resolution calling for the worthies to set aside enough money to help local governments hire an additional 100,000 police nationwide. The vote was 95-3….
Rethinking re-enrolling in public school
One trend that developed during the wave of school closures during the depths of the coronavirus was parents enrolling their one-time public school kids in alternative education programs. The question…
Police unions balk at vaccine mandates
Some municipal governments are imposing coronavirus vaccine mandates on their employees, including local police. This hasn’t gone over well with the heads of local police unions, who are…a trifle upset:…
Michigan court to decide on Grand Rapids police fingerprinting people without probable cause
The Michigan Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of a Grand Rapids police fingerprinting initiative that civil liberties advocates say is a violation of the Fourth Amendment. The Mackinac Center…
Cuomo understated the number of COVID dead, and loses his Emmy
In a reminder of just how bad ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo really was, one of the first acts of his replacement, Kathy Hochul, was restating the number of New…
Feds plan expanded use of facial recognition technology
According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, federal agencies intend to expand their use of facial recognition technology (FRT), despite concerns over privacy, false positives, and that…
Changing the retirement rules to benefit Uncle Sam
Before we forget…the president’s big batch of proposed tax hikes is still making its making its way through Congress. As Philip DeMuth writes, there are still a lot of issues…
Congress balks at qualified immunity reform
Criminal justice reform backers who hoped Congress would take at least some steps to curb the court-created doctrine of qualified immunity are reportedly in for a huge disappointment: Police reform…
Progressives against Democracy in California
For all of their loud and repeated utterances in defense of democracy, California progressives seem to have exactly the opposite view when it comes to the recall effort against Gov….
PPP loan fraud may top $76 billion
There have many questions about how much of the tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans and other relief the federal government pushed out the door in 2020 were…