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Relevance: 41% Posted on: June 3, 2018
The biggest story of the week, of the month, perhaps of the year. And, so far, it has gotten no coverage. Except at Townhall this Monday, courtesy of your own Humble . . . Paul Jacob. Click on over. Then come back here to drill down further into this most amazing…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: August 25, 2023
A perennial bill in the California Assembly, Constitutional Amendment 1, would make it harder for voters to block local tax increases in accordance with the provisions of Proposition 13, which voters passed in 1978. ACA 1 would shrink the percentage of voters who must approve certain tax increases from two…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: October 15, 2013
The war on democracy is ongoing. One of the ironies some folks note is that the biggest opponents of citizens’ direct say in government tend to be sitting Democratic politicians. But Democrats who earnestly support democracy can take heart, for not only can they remind Republicans of recent GOP-led jihads…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: March 3, 2012
Venture capitalist Eric X. Li, in an op-ed for The New York Times, “Why China’s Political Model Is Superior,” credits the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre with producing the “stability” that “ushered in a generation of growth and prosperity.” No question about the growth: China’s economy has been experiencing double-digit expansion…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: December 30, 2021
When politicians seeking to stay in power use distortionary policies to force out their political opponents, the more elastic response renders bad policies more, rather than less, attractive.Edward L. Glaeser and Andrei Schleifer, "The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the Electorate,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 21 (1):…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: May 3, 2021
The watchdog group Judicial Watch has obtained evidence that the government of California and the Biden camp violated the First Amendment rights of Americans during the 2020 presidential campaign. In at least a couple dozen cases, social media companies complied with governmental requests to delete posts containing “misinformation,” the new…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: January 29, 2018
How much should we fine waiters who destroy our planet? For how long should they go to jail? I don’t know where you would hold such an evildoer after the earth has been destroyed. Or where he’d go when released. But we’re speaking hypothetically. Assume that planet-destroyers can be imprisoned…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: May 22, 2016
On May 22, 1995, in the case U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Arkansas’s congressional term limits law, 5-4, overturning the congressional term limits then the law in 23 states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: November 29, 2023
When bad outcomes are obvious, we can no longer call them “unintended consequences,” can we? Take the case of California’s double-barreled attack upon “fast food”: last year’s push through the legislature of Assembly Bill 102 and Assembly Bill 1228. These regulatory schemes would have introduced collective bargaining into fast food franchises and…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: July 29, 2015
“Propaganda in favor of action that is consonant with enlightened self-interest appeals to reason by means of logical arguments based upon the best available evidence fully and honestly set forth. Propaganda in favor of action dictated by the impulses that are below self-interest offers false, garbled or incomplete evidence, avoids…