Biden's New Industrial Policy Will Fail, Just Like Industrial Policy Always Fails
While campaigning for the midterm election, the president is promoting a disastrous and expensive form of economic protectionism.
While campaigning for the midterm election, the president is promoting a disastrous and expensive form of economic protectionism.
That seemingly large number represents a tiny share of simple possession cases, which are rarely prosecuted under federal law.
From immigration to drug reform, there is plenty of potential for productive compromise.
The president supports the law that could send his son to prison for lying about his personal habits while buying a firearm.
As the election approaches, the President sharpens his criticism of the Supreme Court.
Even as he pardons thousands of marijuana users, the president stubbornly resists legalization.
The administration's draft regulations expand and complicate who the federal government considers an "employee."
If you aren't a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, you're out of luck.
Cannabis has long been classified as having "high potential for abuse" and "no currently accepted medical use." That makes it harder to study and, therefore, harder to reclassify.
No new, interesting, or helpful food policies are coming from this administration.
Given widespread public support for legalization, he could easily go further.
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The president's mass pardon does not extend to pot suppliers, and his rescheduling plans won't make marijuana a legal medicine.
Pardoning possession offenders is nice. Taking his boot off the necks of cannabis sellers would be even better.
Warnings of inflation and rising interest rates have long been tied to high and rising debt levels.
His administration has expanded deficits by $400 billion more than expected, even before we count recent spending.
Saudi Arabia snubs Biden by advocating OPEC cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day.
A new petition seeks a posthumous pardon for Callie House.
A federal judge denied PLF's motion to block implementation of the policy. But denial is "without prejudice," and PLF can quickly refile the case.
The lawsuit has a more conventional - and stronger - basis for standing than that filed yesterday by the Pacific Legal Foundation.
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Amidst official hysteria over “misinformation,” the president continues to willfully misrepresent the facts on firearms.
It was filed by Pacific Legal Foundation public interest lawyer Frank Garrison, and includes a novel strategy for getting around the problem of standing.
"This isn't how laws are supposed to be made," says Caleb Kruckenberg, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation.
GOP governors' ploy highlights the value of giving states the power to issue their own migration visas. It can simultaneously ease labor shortages, reduce disorder at the border, enable more migrants to escape poverty and oppression, and help restore the original meaning of the Constitution.
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Plus: The editors have gripes with Biden’s recent interview on 60 Minutes.
If the pandemic is over, then how is the supposed emergency move justified?
Until he won the Republican nomination in New Hampshire, Don Bolduc insisted that the presidential election was stolen.
The narrowly averted strike would have been an economic catastrophe. The story of how we reached the brink of that disaster is an illustrative one.
The president’s Philadelphia “threats” speech gets thumbs-down from the public.
A new Cato report sheds light on "jawboning," or attempts by state actors "to sway the decisions of private platforms and limit the publication of disfavored speech."
James Taylor croons while the stock market burns after another ugly report on inflation.
New Hampshire Republican candidates get a leg up from expensive Democratic ad buys.
Green activists have some good points. But the pursuit of a chemical-free world hurts vulnerable people the most.
Biden says Republicans are plotting a repeat of 2020 in 2024. Maybe Congress should do something to prevent that?
The current and former presidents offer dueling but equally apocalyptic takes on this fall’s elections.
Plus: The editors answer a question from a U.S. House candidate.
The likely answer is "yes." There are three types of potential litigants who probably qualify.
The current president becomes what he criticizes by delegitimizing opposition.
Who does he think ultimately pays those taxes?
Relying on Section 432(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as some propose, has many of the same flaws as the Administration's emergency powers theory.
Like Trump's policy, it's an illegal usurpation of Congress' power of the purse under a dubious emergency power pretext.
The president's attack on the "extreme ideology" of "MAGA Republicans" elides the tension between majority rule and individual freedom.
Plus: Backpage appeal hits the 9th Circuit today, E.U. petition would ban anyone born after 2010 from ever buying nicotine products, and more...
From student debt cancellation to green subsidies, the White House is giving handouts paid for by hardworking lower-wage Americans.
Unionization helps some. But it hurts more.
The administration is creating a system where everyone involved in higher education has an incentive to fleece the American people.
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