Writes Greg Privette: Hi Lew, I have been thinking about the current move to eliminate pennies. This discussion was in the news several years ago also. I do not remember the exact time frame but it was another period of commodity price inflation. At that time the MSM was discussing elimination of both the penny […]
Carus Michaelangelo wrote: Lew, Thanks for sharing the Ayn Rand quote Roderick Long posted. Funny, the political class is more than happy to impose ever-more controls as fast as they can have them, but we peons must be satiated by gradual Read More Article from LewRockwell
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New cert petition: Friends, it is almost entirely illegal to advertise medical marijuana in Mississippi even though the state has legalized the industry. And yet! The First Amendment protects truthful speech that proposes a […]
The Libertarian DOGE Derangement Syndrome?  National Review Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News
Ginny Garner wrote: Lew, Are you supportive of a movement that runs counter to the foreign policy of the United States? Then, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, you are a lunatic who meets Read More Article from LewRockwell
Over the past several weeks, a handful of student visa holders and other legal residents have faced deportation for nebulous allegations that they supported terrorism—often being detained and taken away by immigration officials with seemingly no due process, or even an allegation of criminal wrongdoing. Shockingly, the number of affected individuals has reached into the hundreds. […]
In the Insular Cases of the early twentieth century, the Supreme Court ruled that much of the Constitution does not apply to America’s “unincorporated” overseas territories, such as Puerto Rico. Thus, the federal government could rule the people there without being constrained by a variety of constitutional rights. In 2022, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch […]
Although President Donald Trump has been entrusted with control of the nation’s vast military might, including its nuclear weapons, he is not allowed to own a gun. He lost that right as a result of 34 state felony convictions involving falsification of business records. Whatever you think of the legally dubious case underlying those convictions, […]
I’ll have a further post next week about the First Amendment and right-to-counsel problems with some of President Trump’s Executive Orders. But in the meantime I thought I’d quote the introduction to the Complaint in Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP v. Executive Office of the President, filed by former Solicitor General Paul Clement […]
(Erin Donalson | Dreamstime.com) Earlier this week, the Federalist Society held a webinar on “The California Wildfires and America’s Housing Shortage.” I have posted the video below. The participants were M. Nolan Gray (nationally recognized housing expert and author of Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It), Jennifer Hernandez […]