The Biden administration’s recently released budget request would significantly expand the federal footprint on education through a greatly accelerated education spending spree. The administration requested nearly $103 billion for K-12 and higher education—a 41% funding increase—for the Department of Education. The president’s budget request includes significant funding increases for: School districts with students from low-income households, increasing Title I … Continue reading Biden’s Proposed Education Spending Spree Is Untenable, Unaffordable
A federal judge on Monday upheld $30,000 in fines against a Florida retiree who failed to cut his grass while attending to a dying relative out of state. As Carey Wedler reported for FEE in 2019, the defendant, Jim Ficken, was fined $500 a day over code violations on his Dunedin home. Ficken’s first “violation” … Continue reading Federal Court Rules Against Florida Man Fined $30k Over Tall Grass
A great benefit of immigration is that it allows people to escape all kinds of tyranny. As George Mason University’s Ilya Somin has written in his excellent Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom, “Empowering more people to vote with their feet can save millions from lives of poverty and oppression, and expand opportunities … Continue reading 187 Million Immigrants Have Moved to Freer Countries
Editor’s Note: This article was written for the Instytut Misesa in Poland and published in Polish on May 7, 2021. Below is the English version. (The Polish version is here). The Law and Justice Party of the Polish government is borrowing an old name from American history as a label for a new program of … Continue reading Repeating the New Deal’s Old Mistakes
At last week’s climate summit, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai underscored that “trade policy can be a powerful tool to create incentives for positive competition” as countries explored domestic measures for how best to handle environmental challenges. Indeed, advancing free trade is a key policy action for effectively facilitating a healthy environment. The proven, right way to ensure … Continue reading Why Advancing Trade Freedom Is Key to Cleaner Environment
Vickie Phillips received an unpleasant surprise when she stopped in for a fill-up at the Pop Shoppe in Greensboro, North Carolina on Monday. There was no fuel. “I can’t believe that we’re here and can’t even get gas,” Phillips told a local TV station. “People are tired of sitting in the house and they just … Continue reading The Government’s War on Pipelines Made Us Vulnerable to Attacks on Our Infrastructure
The Major Cities Chiefs Association (“MCCA”) is an organization of 79 police chiefs, commissioners, and sheriffs representing the largest cities in the United States and Canada. Last year, I wrote about how the MCCA put out a misleading “Law Enforcement Reform Policy Statement,” which said that the organization “opposes repealing or amending the qualified immunity statute” (even though, of course, there is no qualified … Continue reading Major Police Organization Comes Out in Support of Qualified Immunity Reform
In a recent debate, the five Democrats seeking their party's nomination for Virginia governor voiced their positions on various financial issues facing the state. Sadly, though not surprisingly, the debate was not so much about whether to spend taxpayer dollars as it was about how and where to spend them. Lee J. Carter was particularly … Continue reading Gubernatorial Candidates in Virginia Are Debating How Best to Spend Other People’s Money
Almost 250 years ago, America’s Founding Fathers drafted the Declaration of Independence, cataloging the ways that King George III had infringed upon American liberties. King George’s offenses included “Transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended Offences.” Back then, the king presumed to have the authority to seize American colonists and prosecute them … Continue reading Biden Must Protect US Citizens From International Criminal Court
In a move that sent shockwaves throughout the tech sector, Apple recently unveiled a new feature that allows users to opt out of apps tracking them across their devices. Facebook’s feathers were particularly ruffled, which was to be expected—tracking users across apps and using that data to place targeted ads in consumers’ feeds is of … Continue reading Apple Just Proved Privacy Is Still Popular—the US Government Should Pay Attention
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