Liberty
Iowa Governor Establishing State-Level DOGE
Ward Clark writes for RedState.com about a rare case in which a state government leader is adopting a good idea from federal counterparts. There’s an old military saying about a…
Santa Claus
legendary figure said to deliver gifts to people on Christmas Eve
Liberty
Squad Member Bowman Showed True Colors as Principal
Meghan Blonder of the Washington Free Beacon reports on a disturbing piece of one congressman’s past. As a middle school principal, New York Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman advised against teaching…
Liberty
Adding Names to Santa’s Naughty List
Shawn Fleetwood of the Federalist selects people who deserve a lump of coal this Christmas from the big guy. If one of Santa’s elves went rogue and ruined Christmas for…
Liberty
A Brief History of Santagrams
Recently, when looking through the North Carolina State Archive’s digital collection (a thing I do from time-to-time), I ran across a couple of so-called “Santagrams” from Western Union. I immediately…
Liberty
There’s no free lunch: Trump edition
Ben Shapiro writes at National Review Online that President Trump ought to stop promising free stuff for his supporters. Democratic politics is riven by a central conflict: the conflict between…
Liberty
See? Babies are little socialists. And you heard it here first.
“Science Says Your Baby Is a Socialist” — Mother Jones headline, Nov. 18, 2014. But if you’ve been reading the Locker Room for the last decade, you already knew that.…
Liberty
Devil’s Food Cake
Woops! The Downtown Improvement District changed its name again. It is now the Downtown Improvement District. The pursuit group does not want anybody to Google into rational negative publicity. Not…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Williams explores the numbers behind Tax Freedom Day
The Tax Foundation tells us American taxpayers reached Tax Freedom Day April 17. The concept is that if you had to work to pay your tax bills before spending money…
Liberty
What’s another $56 million when we’re trillions in debt?
The $56 million in question is money the Agriculture Department is lavishing on wine producers this year. Read about it in this Cato@Liberty post by Tad DeHaven. When government loses…
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Further proof that America’s dumbest people are school administrators
Multiculturalism and the imagined rights that come with it are ruining the country: A Massachusetts school system is embroiled in a war on Christmas debate after Santa Claus was initially…
Liberty
Despicable? Yes. A Criminal Offense? No.
From the LA Times comes the ruling on a fascinating free-speech case: “Saints may always tell the truth, but for mortals living means lying.” Those were the words of…
Liberty
Yes, Santa Claus, There Is a Virginia
A federal judge ruled in favor of Virginia in its lawsuit against ObamaCare, declaring, the individual mandate, “‘exceeds the Constitutional boundaries of congressional power.” I’m glad something finally does. It…