By Robert E. Wright It is becoming increasingly difficult to reject the hypothesis that California lawmakers are trying to solve their state’s notorious housing crisis by driving out everyone who isn’t a lover of earthquakes, fires, to-die-for weather, and arbitrary government. Their latest Constitutional faux pas is AB5, which, among many other things, limits California … [Read more...] about California’s Contractor Law Violates Free Speech
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Why America’s Founders Didn’t Want a Democracy
By Gary M. Galles When I took history and government in school, many critical issues were misrepresented, given short shrift, or even ignored entirely. And those lacunae undermined my ability to adequately understand many things. Randall Holcombe’s new book, Liberty in Peril: Democracy and Power in American History, fills in some very substantial gaps, particularly with … [Read more...] about Why America’s Founders Didn’t Want a Democracy
How to Avoid Civil War: Decentralization, Nullification, Secession
Op-Ed by Ryan McMaken It's becoming more and more apparent that the United States will not be going back to "business as usual" after Donald Trump leaves office, and it is easy to imagine that the anti-Trump parties will use their return to power as an opportunity to settle scores against the hated rubes and "deplorables" who dared attempt to oppose their betters in … [Read more...] about How to Avoid Civil War: Decentralization, Nullification, Secession
Proposed Federal Vaping Ban Is Bigger Than Vaping
By John Michaels The Trump administration is aggressively pushing an unconstitutional ban on all flavored vape products after reports that over 1,000 people have become ill and roughly two-dozen people have died, supposedly from “vaping.” Vaping has been called an “epidemic” even though vaping has been around for over 10 years with no prior reports of anything like this … [Read more...] about Proposed Federal Vaping Ban Is Bigger Than Vaping
With Gun Ban, Pittsburgh Lawmakers Virtue Signal on Taxpayers’ Dime
By Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan Most people know that politicians of all stripes are rarely sincere. Case in point: the Pittsburgh City Council’s recent industrial-strength gun-control nonsense. This law was so tempting to those who posture for a living that even Mayor Bill Peduto and Gov. Tom Wolf had to get in on the act. In the wake of the Tree of Life shooting, … [Read more...] about With Gun Ban, Pittsburgh Lawmakers Virtue Signal on Taxpayers’ Dime