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The Federal Trade Commission Needs To Stay in its Lane

Recent actions by the FTC show that its officers should review the Constitution.

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Even After the Harris-Biden Substitution, the Presidential Race Still Sucks

It's still a close race between terrible, and terribly unpopular, major party candidates.

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Brickbat: Caught a Big One

The city of Memphis, Tennessee, lost $773,000 in a phishing scam in 2022, but officials did not disclose the loss until a local media outlet asked about it recently. The city was making regular payments to a local construction company. "Following a request from who they believed to be Zellner…

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Promising To Restore 'Law and Order,' Trump Falsely Claims Crime Is Rising

The most notable recent increase happened on the former president's watch, when homicides spiked.

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The Best of Reason: Congress 'Can Regulate Virtually Anything'

How legislators learned to stop worrying about the constitutionality of federal drug and gun laws by abusing the Commerce Clause.

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Cops Threaten To Take Kids From Family Terrorized by Anti-Christian Reddit Group

Online trolls weaponized child protective services against J.D. and Britney Lott and their eight children.

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The DEA Wants To Ban Scientifically 'Crucial' Psychedelics Because People Might Use Them

The agency claims DOI and DOC have "a high potential for abuse" because they resemble other drugs it has placed in Schedule I.

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New Analysis Finds Lasting Impact for Students Affected by COVID School Lockdowns

According to a new report, the average eighth-grader needs over nine months of extra school time to catch up with pre-COVID achievement levels.

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Evolution's New Narrative

Life is a decentralized, horizontal network, not merely a centralized, hierarchical tree.

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Michigan Supreme Court Rules Against Detroit's Asset Forfeiture Racket

The ruling is the second recent court decision that has curbed Detroit's aggressive vehicle forfeiture program.

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Is Joe Biden 'Brave' for Dropping Out?

Stepping aside was commendable; spending months clinging desperately to power as voters lost faith in him, not so much.

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Biden's Big Government Solutions Dismiss Customer Welfare

Sen. Rand Paul writes that repealing the Robinson-Patman Act would help bust inflation.

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Faulty Facial Recognition Tech Got Him Arrested. Now He's Getting a $300,000 Payout.

Robert Williams was arrested in 2020 after facial recognition software incorrectly identified him as the person responsible for a Detroit-area shoplifting incident.

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Harris Promises Expensive Paid Leave and Child Care Subsidies in First Campaign Speech

Both had been dropped from the Inflation Reduction Act over concerns about the bill's cost and the amount of borrowing needed to pay for them.

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Coconut Trees, Price Controls, and Demand Subsidies

Plus: Gainesville shrinks minimum lot sizes, a Colorado church can keep providing shelter to the homeless, and Berkeley considers allowing small apartments everywhere.

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Is a Parking Structure a Building, When It Comes to Ban on Gun Possession "in Any Publicly Owned Building"?

From a South Carolina Attorney General July 9 opinion: We received your letter requesting an Attorney General's opinion regarding whether section 16-23-420 of the South Carolina Code prohibits a person from carrying a firearm in a publicly owned parking lot or publicly owned parking garage…. Section 16-23-420 provides in relevant…

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The Latest in the Prosecution of eBay Managers for Cyberstalking Online Critics

From the Justice Department's Thursday press release: The former Senior Manager of Special Operations for eBay's Global Security Team was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a cyberstalking campaign targeting a Massachusetts couple. The defendant and his co-conspirators harassed and intimidated the victims in retaliation…

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Biden's Withdrawal From the Presidential Race Is Not Anti-Democratic

Among other reasons, it's actually supported by a large majority of voters, including most Democrats.

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What James C. Scott Taught Us About Liberty, Authority, Surveillance, and Resistance

Scott wrote about the ways people resist authority—and the unmapped territories where much of that resistance takes place.

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Secretive Service

Plus: Harris clinching nomination, Trump appealing N.Y. civil fraud judgment, and more...

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Chief Justice Roberts, The Judicial Supremacist in Jarkesy

The Chief Justice wavers on many issues, but never in returning power to the federal judiciary.

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Graduate Students for Academic Freedom v. Graduate Students United at UChicago

A few years ago, the graduate students at the University of Chicago, where I teach, formed a legally recognized labor union. Last year, that union expanded to include the law school, at least to the extent that law students engage in paid work such as providing research assistance. Law students…

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Brickbat: Every Breath You Take

The Los Angeles Times, citing sources close to the investigation, reports that a disciplinary board found former Los Angeles assistant police chief Alfred Labrada secretly tracked a fellow officer he was romantically involved with, lied to internal affairs detectives investigating the matter, and tried to persuade a witness not to…

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Academic Tuition and Student Loan Relief

My thoughts on this as a policy issue

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New Episode: Evil Batman

Dan Epps and I discuss Loper Bright and Corner Post on the latest episode of Divided Argument

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