Earlier this month, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn) and Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) introduced the Untraceable Firearms Act, a bill that targets “ghost guns,” or unregistered firearms without serial numbers. Also called “kit guns” or “80% guns,” most are built at home from manufacturer-produced gun kits. Improvised weapons, also known as “pipe guns,” are another variation, … Continue reading Ghost Guns and the Deeply American Tradition of Gun Privacy
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The most widely-used metric for price inflation hit a 12-year high in mid-May, showing that prices had risen 4.2 percent over a year. But some argued this was just a one-off outlier, not indicative of a broader trend or serious problem stemming from runaway government spending and money-printing. Their case just got a lot weaker. … Continue reading We Just Got Even More Proof Inflation is On the Rise
Imagine if oil companies got together and agreed to charge consumers no less than $3.50 per gallon for gas. Let’s call it a “global minimum price.” How long—in minutes—do you think it would take for the news media to cry foul and for the Justice Department to file an antitrust suit? In recent days, President … Continue reading What Makes Biden and Yellen’s “Global Minimum Tax” Push So Hypocritical
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis announced a deal May 17 that many are calling a “cease-fire” on the multiyear dispute over U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The European Union was set to double retaliatory tariffs next month on several American products, including whiskey and wine, but agreed to forego … Continue reading Do Steel and Aluminum From Europe Still Threaten US National Security?
When President Joe Biden released his plan in February to tackle gun violence, he also announced the nomination of David Chipman to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF. Chipman’s nomination as ATF director raised immediate concerns from Second Amendment advocates, many of whom see it as a slap in the face to … Continue reading Biden’s ATF Nominee Amplifies Concerns About Stance on Second Amendment
When there’s bad news to be released in Washington, a tried-and-true tactic is to dump it on a Friday afternoon. If it’s really bad news, then make sure to release it before a long holiday weekend. President Joe Biden followed this strategy, releasing his budget proposal on the Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day holiday. … Continue reading Biden Buries Bad News of a Bloated, Reckless Budget and Hopes You Won’t Notice
Despite lumber prices soaring to a record high of $1,670.50 per thousand board feet, and the housing market booming at a 17.2% price increase from April 2020, the U.S. Commerce Department, rather than helping, plans to impose further burdens on U.S. consumers through increased taxes on imported softwood lumber. On Friday, the Department of Commerce announced its proposal to … Continue reading Steeper Tariff on Canadian Softwood Lumber Isn’t Solution
We accrued roughly $42,000 in new debt per federal taxpayer thanks to Congress’s multi-trillion-dollar COVID “stimulus” efforts. The least one could hope for is that the money was well spent. But a new ProPublica exposé reveals that one of the biggest stimulus programs sent taxpayer dollars to hundreds of fake farms. In Ocean County, New … Continue reading ‘Deely Nuts, Beefy King’: Hundreds of Fake Farms Received Fraudulent Stimulus Loans, Exposé Reveals
During Donald Trump’s presidency, many Republican lawmakers and conservative activists took steps to address perceived anti‐conservative bias in “Big Tech.” The most prominent of these efforts fit into two categories: proposed amendments to Section 230 and executive branch action. More recently, legal scholars, policy analysts, and one Supreme Court justice have considered a third option—common carriage … Continue reading Are Social Media Companies Common Carriers?
When President Barack Obama rejected a presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, he concluded that “America is now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change. … And America is prepared to show the rest of the world the way forward.” Then-Vice President Joe Biden was at his side, assenting … Continue reading Biden’s Hypocrisy on Keystone XL vs. Nord Stream 2 Pipelines
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