In response to 9/11, President George W. Bush created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), bringing the country’s myriad airport security protocols under one central authority. Two decades later, the results of this experiment are a complete disaster. The agency has not made air travel safer. The agency has merely made it costlier and more time-consuming […]
Citizens surely expect the government to be on watch against terrorist attacks like 9/11, against destabilizing aggression like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and against clandestine efforts to steal military secrets or undermine our elections. Those are the explicit goals of the 18 secret intelligence agencies in the federal government, but the leading ones are the Central Intelligence […]
Love or hate the Project 2025 blueprint for the next conservative president, it has done at least one good thing: revive discussion of ending the U.S. Department of Education. That department has no constitutional business existing. But eliminating the programs it administers, many of which predate the department, is just as important. In the early 1970s, the […]
Over the past decade I’ve submitted hundreds of records requests to federal agencies through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). I’ve written extensively about the law, taught college students how to file requests, and evangelized the importance of having a statutory right to inspect public records. I love FOIA. And I hate it. The federal […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have a typical origin story. Congress did not create it by enacting a statute; President Richard Nixon created it by presidential edict. Perhaps that explains why it’s hard to reconcile what the EPA actually does with a robust theory of the federal government’s role in environmental protection. Nixon […]
The idea that the federal minimum wage should exist in some form may sound beyond debate to most Americans, the vast majority of whom have not lived in a time when it wasn’t a political reality. The debate is arguably settled, but maybe not in the way most think. “There’s a virtual consensus among economists that the […]
RFK Jr., who dropped out of presidential race in August, received more votes in Alabama than Green Party, Libertarian Party combined  Yahoo! Voices Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News In The NewsVarious articles mentioning Libertarians, libertarian thought or the Libertarian Party.
It is dangerous for Trump supporters to think that the battle is over with the election victory. The battle has not begun, and it never will if Trump cannot put together a fighting administration. There are about 4,000 political appointees in the Executive branch, 1,200 of which have to be confirmed in office by the […]
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A grand jury in Hamilton County, Tennessee has indicted school bus driver Brandy Renee Smith for reckless driving, four counts of child abuse, and nine counts of reckless endangerment. When students on Smith’s bus were being too loud, she reportedly slammed the brakes while driving, causing some to hit their heads. At least three students […]