Oregon may finally allow people to pump their own gas (for good)
Pumping your own gas may seem like a no-brainer for most people. But in Oregon and New Jersey, you’re not allowed to do that. Why? A host of reasons, none…
Anti-health “certificate of need” laws need to be eliminated
Pandemics are massively disruptive events that can results in profound, long-term changes. And some of them are for the better, as could be the case in South Carolina: The state…
Policing for profit in Alabama
Every driver has a story about speed traps, the annoying spots on the road where cops seem to hand out speeding tickets like they were going out of style. But…
Discovering that the political class is a problem
Every now and then, the think tank apparatus will rediscover the notion that our political culture is broken, corrupt, and getting worse, and the only way to fix it is…
The exodus from high tax states
Americans have always been a mobile people, and among the reasons they pick up and move is because their current locations have gotten just too expensive. What does too expensive…
Elon Musk on the proper role of government
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is one of those rare CEO who is willing to let fly with his opinions, regardless of the consequences. And sometimes, Musk even hits the mark,…
Crypto v. Gaia
It’s a given that governments dislike things that challenge their authority. Cryptocurrency, and Bitcoin in particular, is a case in point. One of the charges thrown at crypto’s feet –…
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…
California’s Democratic Pols Want to Gut the Recall Law
Steven Greenhut writes that California “has morphed from a land of limitless opportunity to a highly regulated land of limits and control.” The change has prompted an exodus of people…
State Budgets Overflow With (Borrowed) Federal Relief Funds
A key component of the Biden Administration’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan was giving $350 billion or so to state and local governments to plug the coronavirus-related holes in their…
