Big Brother wants your picture
The welcome news that the IRS will drop its creepy facial recognition program (and any biometric data it currently has will be deleted), is good news. But that’s just one…
Oil politics: Biden administration seeks to thaw relationship with Venezuela
The search for new sources of oil to replace the millions of barrels Russian firms produced and sold each day is leading the Biden administrations to extremes. No, Camp Biden…
Local governments against entrepreneurs
It’s no secret that local politicians are a unique breed that is arguably more of a threat to personal liberty and economic freedom than any Congress or president has ever…
Mask mandates weren’t all they were cracked up to be
Newsflash: mask mandates may have been useless in preventing the spread of coronavirus variants. As Faye Flam writes, most of the masks people wore – loose fitting cloth or paper…
How the Jones Act enriches Russia
It came as a shock to some folks to learn that the U.S. imports oil from Russia. How could this be? It must be Joe Biden’s fault, right? One of…
Woke investment strategists were investing in…Russia
A growing fad among institutional investors is something called ESG – a strategy where customers’ money is put to work only in companies exhibiting a firm commitment to proper environmental,…
The no-knock warrant is a deadly drug war relic that needs to be abolished
We’ve written before about the dangers no-knock warrants pose to the rights, and lives, of law abiding citizens like Amir Locke, who was shot and killed during a no-knock raid…
Johns Hopkins researchers: lockdowns were a failure
Just two years ago, the nation was about to plunge into an unprecedented series of actions in response to a global pandemic. The most sweeping were a series of lockdowns…
The CIA’s domestic spying problem
The Central Intelligence Agency is not supposed to spy on U.S. citizens. But according to recently released documents, the CIA is actively spying on U.S. citizens, without warrants or outside…
State pension funds wrestle with Russian investments
Several U.S. public-sector pension funds are being asked to get rid of whatever holdings they may have in Russia – from stocks and bonds to property and other investments. The…