Nikki Haley's Crazy Plan to Require Verification on Social Media
The 2024 GOP candidate has proposed something blatantly unconstitutional.
The 2024 GOP candidate has proposed something blatantly unconstitutional.
The change came after concerns were raised about "potential personal liability for university actors who deactivate the student registered organization," according to state officials.
Plus: A listener asks the editors why the Libertarian Party waits until election year to nominate its presidential candidate.
This week's debate was the first signal that the party's next presidential nominee might actually understand the entitlement crisis.
"Is there any way to stop this from happening tomorrow?" Ron DeSantis' former chief of staff asked about a Christmas-themed drag show on tour in Florida.
Sen. Tim Scott: "You actually have to cut off the head of the snake, and the head of the snake is Iran and not simply their proxies."
It's unlikely to stop would-be shooters, but it certainly would allow more innocent people to be locked up with little recourse.
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Florida's order to shut down National Students for Justice in Palestine is clearly unconstitutional.
Their proposal raises obvious free speech concerns.
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DeSantis says that all Gazans are anti-Semitic, while Haley feels that refugees should only go to "Hamas-sympathetic countries."
Following reports that the Iranian government aided in Hamas terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, the governor plans to expand restrictions on business with Iran.
Conflating these issues only serves to make the debate over U.S. immigration policy more toxic and stupid than it already is.
Trump is still a runaway favorite, even when using a vote-counting technique that's meant to make it more difficult for unpopular candidates to win elections.
If Facebook et al. are pushing a "radical leftist narrative," why don’t they have a constitutional right to do that?
Away from the speeches of the party's presidential candidates, the Republican Huntington Beach city attorney talked up his efforts to thwart state zoning reforms.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to weigh in on a hypothetical executive order to establish an American Climate Corps.
The culprit is prohibition, not lax border policing.
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DeSantis has already removed two reform prosecutors from office in Florida. A federal judge ruled he violated the First Amendment in one of those cases.
The former president is right to worry that supporting restrictions on abortion could hurt him in the general election.
People should be free to choose how cautious to be. Mask mandates, lockdowns, and closing schools won't stop the virus.
Plus: A listener question about the continued absurdity of sports stadium subsidies
In last night's Republican presidential debate, candidates floated various forms of military action against drug cartels.
Only Vivek Ramaswamy and Gov. Ron DeSantis said they wouldn't support additional aid to Ukraine. But both argued we should be more militarily engaged against China and Mexico.
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.
Though an improvement over his obsession with wokeness and culture wars, DeSantis can't seem to ditch the populist demagoguery.
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 crowd at the socially conservative FAMiLY Leadership Summit was not receptive, and Glenn Beck likened the Arkansas governor's performance to the crash of the Hindenburg.
Plus: A listener questions last week’s discussion of the Supreme Court's decision involving same-sex wedding websites and free expression.
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.
The wildly popular podcaster is still "politically homeless" but says leaving California and having a kid have improved her life immensely.
It's wrong to use human beings as pawns in an apparent political stunt.
His bloody rhetoric undermines his defense of the sentencing reforms he proudly embraced as president.
The 2024 hopeful has put together a platform full of big-government action.
The ruling is the latest in a series of legal defeats for anti-drag laws.
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.
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.