Biden asks for more government spending
Because the federal government just can’t seem to get by on the trillions it spent in the FY 2022 budget, the Biden administration is asking Congress for billions more: President…
Imposing 70s-era restrictions to cut oil use
The rising price of gas and diesel, coupled with supply shocks owing to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has bureaucrats scrambling to find ways to ease the pain. Not to be…
Cutting off Putin’s cash
The West’s sanctions on the Putin regime are said to be the most restrictive ever imposed. That’s the marketing. The reality as Sen. Pat Toomey writes in the Wall Street…
COVID emergencies revealed the sweeping power given to state executives
Small government backers got a rude awakening during the pandemics’ darkest days: state codes and constitutions gave governors and health officials sweeping powers over all sorts of activities, with only…
Big government research AWOL for COVID
One might expect that when a global pandemic strikes, the federal government’s vast, and well-funded, research lab complex would drop (just about) everything and focus on the health crisis at…
Closing a critical loophole cops use to enlist your car to help them snoop on your phone
Law enforcement is always looking for a way around that pesky Fourth Amendment, and its requirement that if cops want to conduct a search of your person or effects –…
Elizabeth Warren doubles down on authoritarian economic policy
Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s crusade against the private sector continues apace, with a new proposal to give the federal government the power to block and break-up mergers without first…
More reasons to sink the Jones Act
For politicians looking at new and innovative ways to both combat high gas prices and lower inflation (while doing a solid for infrastructure and the environment, too), they should take…
Progressives embrace rule by decree rather than Congress
Worried that their programs and policies to transform America into a progressive paradise are going nowhere, fast, some congressional Democrats are asking Joe Biden to pick up his pen, and…
Politicians’ answer to high gas prices: send voters checks
High gasoline prices have a tendency to make politicians worried about their re-election chances do the darndest things. Consider the wave of pols who think the best way to help…