On May 11, the Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld a life sentence without parole for 38-year-old Allen Russell, sustaining his 2019 guilty conviction for possessing marijuana in an amount over 30 grams (1.05 ounces). “Upon review of the case before us, and in accordance with precedent, we find that Russell’s sentencing as a habitual offender … Continue reading How 1.5 Ounces of Marijuana Landed This Man a Life-Long Prison Sentence
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
The latest target of the public health bureaucracy's regulatory efforts is flavored tobacco products, in particular, flavored vaping products that are often popular among young people. Bans on such products are cropping up around the country, but a new study shows that these restrictions can backfire—to deadly consequence. Yale University Public Health Professor Abigail S. … Continue reading Deadly Mistake: Ban on Flavored Nicotine Products Led Teenagers to Smoke More Cigarettes, Study Finds
Corporate wokeness increasingly is part of American society. Justin Danhof, general counsel for the National Center for Public Policy Research, argues that Americans can and should stand up to woke ideology. “The shareholder base of even large companies that are woke, like Facebook, Alphabet, Nike, they’re not monolithically left, but that’s what the vote looks … Continue reading What Conservatives Can Do to Fight Corporate Wokeness
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) gained notoriety with Howard R. Bowen’s 1953 publication Social Responsibilities of the Businessman, and although times have since changed and CSR has taken on various forms, a constant question remains unchanged. What is the role of business in society? Some claim that a greater focus on corporate social performance over corporate … Continue reading A Brief History of Corporate Social Responsibility
Ronald D. Fricker Jr., Virginia Tech When the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington released its estimate that COVID-19 had killed 912,345 people in the U.S. by May 6, 2021, many were shocked. That’s 60% higher than the 578,555 coronavirus-related deaths officially reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control … Continue reading 578,555 people have died from COVID-19 in the US, or maybe it’s 912,345 – here’s why it’s hard to count
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
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer made a name for herself early in the COVID-19 pandemic by enacting particularly harsh restrictions in her state and making full use of her expansive “emergency powers.” But she now finds herself joining the long list of lockdown-happy politicians caught violating their own orders. “Gov. Gretchen Whitmer apologized Sunday after a … Continue reading Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Gets Exposed for Lockdown Hypocrisy (Again!
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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