January 21, 2020


Fiscal analysis of Colorado's 'red flag' law assumes gun confiscation orders will be granted 95% of the time

fromReason: Such a high approval rate reflects the threat these laws pose to due process and the Second Amendment.
2nd Amendment Assaults

Tulsi Gabbard endorses legalizing drugs

fromForbes: The Democratic candidate joins Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, Carl Sagan, William F. Buckley and others in their understanding that the war on drugs is a war on you.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

Virginia gun sales soar as Dems consider draconian "assault weapons" ban

fromZeroHedge: Ever since Virginia's Democrats retook the state assembly and Senate in November, Democratic Gov. Ralph "blackface" Northam and the legislature have been gearing up to pass a draconian gun control bill.
2nd Amendment Assaults

California energy policies are fueling the housing crisis and homelessness

fromWattsUpWithThat: Prices for electricity in California are already fifty percent higher than the national average for residents, and double the national average for commercial, and are projected to go even higher. 
Economic Policy: Statism Versus the Free Market                 Regulation Nation

Senators propose limits on police use of facial recognition

fromReason: Some privacy activists say the bill still falls short.
Police State America          Government is Watching Every Move You Make

Warren and Sanders and the wealth tax folly

fromCreators: You don't need to be the sort of person whose weeping could fill a mug to have strong doubts about a wealth tax. It has scant support among economists on either the right or the left.

January 20, 2020


Why laws against hate speech are dangerous

fromGatestoneInstitute: Pending legislation seeks to bar all kinds of large cash payments to "fight crime and money laundering." Banning cash will allow the government to monitor all citizen transactions for approval.
Indoctrination and Censorship            Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

Top priority for California voters heading into 2020 primary? Homelessness

fromSacBee: Candidates visiting California will likely need to focus more of their energy on explaining how they’d tackle homelessness and work to make housing cheaper.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Michelle Obama’s school lunch program faces new cuts on former first lady’s birthday

fromImpact2020: The proposed rule announced Friday would increase “flexibility” for vegetable requirements and allow schools to change fruit servings during breakfast in favor of meats or meat alternatives.
Regulation Nation 

Trump and Comey are united against encrypted communications

fromReason: Don’t worry—America’s ruling factions still disagree over who should be in charge of the snooping.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make

Australia aims to ban cash spending

fromAsiaTimes: Pending legislation seeks to bar all kinds of large cash payments to "fight crime and money laundering." Banning cash will allow the government to monitor all citizen transactions for approval.
Regulation Nation               The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

Proposed bill to make cellphone use under 21 a crime punishable by 1 year in prison

fromAsiaTimes: Pending legislation seeks to bar all kinds of large cash payments to "fight crime and money laundering." Banning cash will allow the government to monitor all citizen transactions for approval.

January 17, 2020


The woke primary is over and everyone lost

fromReason: Maybe now would be a good time for Democrats to recognize that identity-politics signaling doesn't translate into votes.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Black America before LBJ: How the welfare state inadvertently helped ruin black communities

fromDailyBell: “We waged a war on poverty and poverty won.”  -President Ronald Reagan, 1988 State of the Union Address
The Welfare State: Promoting Dependency

DoJ begins second probe Into Comey's history of leaking classified intel

fromZeroHedge: It could be the straw that finally wrecks whatever is left of Comey's credibility in the eyes of the liberal press.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption     The Government is Not Us

Vermont lawmaker: Decriminalizing prostitution will keep sex workers safe

fromWCAX3: Decriminalization means there will be no arrests made or charges brought if someone is caught engaging in prostitution-- but there will be no law on the books proclaiming that prostitution is legal.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

VIDEO: War, What is it good for?

fromLearnLiberty/YouTube: Absolutely nothing.
Defense Versus The War Machine

Robots takeover Domino's new supply chain center

fromReason: To fend off soaring labor costs, Dominos has opted to introduce automation and the elimination of humans from its supply chains to keep pizza prices low.