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Relevance: 19% Posted on: July 18, 2016
Requiring government transparency is as necessary in those areas where governments can grant special favors as in those where governments can inflict direct harm. That is, it’s as important regarding government worker pensions as it is of the abuse of police power. In Nevada, the legal requirement for the state’s…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: June 5, 2013
Apple is on trial for refusing to pretend that the company has done something wrong. In 2009, Apple invited five major publishers to sell e-books through the forthcoming iPad, on the basis of the “agency model.” The publishers would set the prices, Apple would take a 30% cut. Apple also…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: December 2, 2014
Could it be? We do not live under the Constitution of the United States. The document has been a dead letter for a century, maybe longer. Ours is a Post-Constitutional America. Surely, there have been great moments of executive usurpation. Andrew Jackson, in defiance of the Supreme Court, and against…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: May 2, 2024
Paul Jacob on a big win for gun rights.
Relevance: 18% Posted on: March 5, 2013
One way marijuana legalization was pushed, politically, in Colorado and Washington, was with the “let’s tax this weed!” agenda. Indeed, the “tax and regulate” approach proved a convenient way for marijuana users to get non-marijuana users “on board” the legalization bandwagon, basically buying off those who were most sympathetic to…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: October 6, 2011
The key to success in business? Profitably serve as wide a customer base as possible. Mass production is the lynchpin. And it’s also at the heart of why many intellectuals hate capitalism: Serving the mass of mankind is “beneath” them. They have a higher calling. They serve Justice, or The…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: January 6, 2022
One in three Americans claim that “violence against government can be justified,” The Washington Post warned last weekend. The Post-University of Maryland public opinion poll, done in anticipation of today’s one-year anniversary of the January 6th Capitol Riot, was heralded as “a window into the country’s psyche at a tumultuous…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: September 27, 2021
Sometimes things are complicated. Many factors matter when deciding whether it makes sense to wear a mask to fend off infection. Let alone whether it’s okay to compel others to do so. Now add another question: whether it is ever okay to deliberately suppress discussion of these subjects. I’ve talked…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: September 2, 2021
As corrupting as political power may be, not everyone is corrupted by it, at least not to the same grievous extent. Yet, even if one starts out with some measure of integrity and good intentions, the longer one is entrenched in power, the more likely one is to lose one’s…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: June 10, 2013
You don’t trust President Barack Obama? No faith in the massive federal bureaucracy? Do you lack confidence in Congress representing your interests? How much do you trust the federal courts that handle secret requests from the Department of Justice . . .and then issue secret decisions based on the judge’s…