Don't Bring Back COVID Authoritarianism
People should be free to choose how cautious to be. Mask mandates, lockdowns, and closing schools won't stop the virus.
People should be free to choose how cautious to be. Mask mandates, lockdowns, and closing schools won't stop the virus.
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In an attempt to make the student body more conservative, Christopher Rufo says the school is actively "rebalancing" the ratio of male and female students.
It was never a principled fight against special privileges granted to a private company.
How Florida prison officials let a man's prostate cancer progress until he was paralyzed and terminally ill.
Though an improvement over his obsession with wokeness and culture wars, DeSantis can't seem to ditch the populist demagoguery.
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"Government in general does a lot of things that aren't necessary," says Jared Polis.
After firing the staffer blamed for a video that borrowed Nazi imagery, is Ron DeSantis finally backing away from the authoritarian edgelords?
Plus: Should libertarians consider employing noble lies when pitching themselves to new potential voters?
DeSantis talks a lot about freedom but increasingly only applies it to those who agree with him.
He'd be a stronger candidate if he applied that thinking to situations that don't involve former President Donald Trump.
The 11th Circuit rejected Sosa's constitutional claims, and he is asking the Supreme Court to intervene.
Casey DeSantis' "Mamas for DeSantis" ad goes all in on the culture war instead of focusing on Ron DeSantis' strong record on school choice and COVID policy.
Some patients, especially those with opioid addictions, could actually benefit from access to medical marijuana.
If you can't force a web designer to serve a gay wedding, can you force a web platform to serve a politician?
It's wrong to use human beings as pawns in an apparent political stunt.
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The ruling is the latest in a series of legal defeats for anti-drag laws.
The answer's more complicated than you might think.
Automobile dealers say the law will preserve and protect the "competitive nature" of the business, by removing their competitors.
If the Florida governor wants better behavior, he should model better behavior.
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But Chris Rufo bragged about breaking the law anyway.
The feds allege the former president was keeping classified documents on America's nuclear program and defense capabilities in his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Plus: A listener question considers the pros and cons of the libertarian focus on political processes rather than political results.
The Rubin Report host makes the case for the Florida governor, who courageously defied lockdowns but is quick to use the state to punish corporations he doesn't like.
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Whether the putative target is the "biomedical security state," wokeness, "Big Tech censors," or Chinese Communists, the presidential candidate’s grandstanding poses a clear threat to individual rights.
A lawyer for the family speculates that jail officials balked at the medication's high price.
Sometimes he calls for freedom, and sometimes he preaches something darker.
In a federal lawsuit on behalf of legal U.S. residents from China, the ACLU argues that "Florida's New Alien Land Law" is unconstitutional.
He either doesn't understand or won't admit why this violates the First Amendment.
"If you don't trust central authority, then you should see this immediately as something that is very problematic," says the Florida governor.
Backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, the measures will punish peaceful migrants and the Floridians who interact with them.
The lawsuit says Disney has been subject to "a targeted campaign of government retaliation—orchestrated at every step by Governor DeSantis as punishment for Disney's protected speech."
Florida will now only require an 8–4 majority for a jury to recommend a death sentence. Alabama is the only other state that allows split juries to recommend death sentences.
What happened to the claim that this was just about protecting young children?
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone was unimpressed by the Biden administration's argument that marijuana users are too "dangerous" to own guns.
There are some jarring contradictions in the Florida governor's pitch to voters.
S.B. 1718 would make it a third-degree felony to “harbor” or “transport” undocumented immigrants. Some Florida faith leaders say it could threaten their church activities.
New bill makes a mockery of parents’ rights, school choice, and educational freedom.
The new law would allow developers to build housing on commercially zoned lots provided they include affordable units.
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