When Courts adhere to the Constitution, the right to keep and bear arms can be restored.
This decision comes at a time when members of both parties are trying to increase the ability of the IRS to harass individual Americans, businesses, and organizations.
Karl Smith at Bloomberg thinks America should become a nation of renters. Homeownership made sense, he says, when ownership costs were low relative to rent. But now, due to something he calls “financialization,” homeownership is too expensive, and so we should abandon the American dream of high levels of homeownership. It may be self‐serving for them … Continue reading A Nation of Homeowners or Renters?
GOA will continue to champion the common-sense decision from the appellate panel that a bump stock is not a machine gun.
Free individuals, companies, and communities, knowing their own wants and needs in infinitely greater detail than any centralized authority, are in a far better position than government officials to make such decisions.
Every penny wasted is one that could have been used to support our troops. America’s military deserves a clean audit that would give them potential savings, allocate resources more efficiently, and bring accountability to the Department.
Just because decisions are made by a central government body, it doesn't mean they're the right decisions. The long phase of lockdowns in Germany may now be coming to an end, but it doesn't look like it's fully catching up to America's progress on reopening and vaccination any time soon. And one can be pretty confident that many Texans or Floridians are probably not too keen on switching places with a German.
Some have dismissed last week’s Supreme Court ruling in Fulton v. Philadelphia as small ball. I don’t agree. To begin with, as I observed last week, the line‐up indicated that there is now a majority on the Court, if not yet a working majority, to replace the Employment Division v. Smith standard with a standard more favorable to accommodation of religious believers’ convictions. While … Continue reading Fulton v. City of Philadelphia: Yes, It Was a Big Deal
TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, decided by the Supreme Court today by a 5–4 margin, has been classed among the term’s leading business cases, and it is certainly that. The high court gratified commercial defendants by ruling that class action lawyers may sue credit reporting service TransUnion only on behalf of customers concretely injured by its actions … Continue reading Congress Isn’t Free To Create Rights To Sue Without Injury
The laws of economics don’t care about the politics of who is in charge of the federal government at the moment. As politically inconvenient as it may be for some, we just got even more confirmation that profligate federal policy is contributing to rising prices for American consumers.