Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pushing for information about whether non-partisan, career officials were consulted in the creation of recent Biden administration policy pushes that appear to ignore important context about domestic terrorism and gun crime in the United States. In it’s new “violent crime strategy,” the administration … Continue reading Biden ignores domestic terrorism experts to instead target political opponents
Category: Statism
results—support for capitalism is precipitously dropping among young Republicans, too.
The Biden administration released its National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. It’s loaded with proposals based (so it seems) on premises that have been discredited or attacked when applied to various ethnic or religious minorities during the “War on Terror” era, such as the FBI’s infamous “Don’t Be A Puppet” website with its anti‐Muslim stereotypes and tropes. … Continue reading Biden’s Domestic Terrorism Strategy: A Recipe for Civil Liberties Abuses?
With one of the lowest COVID-19 case rates in the country, a 70+ percent adult vaccination rate, and widespread reopening set for June 15, the pandemic is finally on the wane in California. But Governor Gavin Newsom is still refusing to give up his “emergency powers.” “California is set to end most coronavirus restrictions on … Continue reading California Governor Gavin Newsom is Trying to Pull Off a Shocking Pandemic Power Grab
Given the Internal Revenue Service’s history of politicization, conservatives are expressing concern about the potential for abuse from President Joe Biden’s proposed doubling of the number of IRS agents. A massive information leak of private tax data has only exacerbated those concerns. Ahead of IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig’s testimony before a Senate committee Tuesday, ProPublica, … Continue reading Could Biden IRS Expansion Plan Signal Return to Politicization?
A recent study from the Urban Reform Institute is sounding an alarm about rising inequality and decreasing upward mobility in California. In fact, the report found four of the nation’s top ten worst metro areas to live in for upward mobility for African‐Americans and Latinos are in California. Those regions include Los Angeles, Stockton, San Francisco and … Continue reading California Inequality and the Limits of Redistribution
On Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a “Big Tech Bill” that he says is designed to combat Orwellian censorship by companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google. The law requires companies to publicly disclose their moderation policies (something most, if not all, already do) and to stick to those policies consistently. If they don’t—or … Continue reading DeSantis ‘Big Tech Bill’ Is Actually a Step Closer to the World Orwell Feared
“They threw me to the ground [on the police station] and, without mercy, they began to beat and insult me … [then] a man stripped me of my uniform and sexually abused me and beat me.” These are the words of a police woman from Cali, one of the largest cities in Colombia, where violent protests have rocked the … Continue reading Far-Left Groups Are Inciting Violence Across Colombia, and the Media Is Providing Cover With a Disinformation Campaign
In the mood for a depressing statistic? A new report from the financial services firm Self concludes that the average American will pay an astounding $525,037 in taxes over their lifetime—roughly 34 percent of their lifetime earnings. But the numbers aren’t uniform across the country; they vary wildly from state to state. Based on taxes … Continue reading Here Are the 10 States Where Residents Pay the Highest Lifetime Taxes
The Biden administration is making a stark departure from past administrations in how it talks about, and treats, religious freedom. In his remarks May 12 on the release of the 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom, Secretary of State Antony Blinken correctly asserted that “religious freedom is a human right,” one at the heart of what it means to be … Continue reading Biden Abandons Religious Freedom as First Among Rights
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