President Donald Trump imposed steep duties on America’s three largest trading partners on Tuesday. Imports from Mexico and Canada will be subject to a 25 percent tariff (10 percent for Canadian energy), while levies on Chinese products will jump from 10 percent to 20 percent. Combined, these tariffs will affect roughly $1.5 trillion in annual […]
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s stories include: One major victory (and one defeat) for private property rights in Montana. DOGE-inspired termination of federal grants to fair housing groups. A new report on the promise of single-stair reforms. In Montana, One Victory for Private Property Rights… On Monday, a […]
An interesting post by Jacob Mchangama (Vanderbilt) and Jeff Kosseff (US Naval Academy). A brief excerpt: In 2019, Dias Toffoli, then-Chief Justice of Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court, appointed fellow judge Alexandre de Moraes to lead an inquiry to investigate “fake news, false reports of crimes, slanderous reports, threats, and other infractions” that “affect the honor and security […]
Aid to Ukraine paused: Following his clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump has decided to pause all military aid to Ukraine. “President Trump has been clear that he is focused on peace,” a White House official told Reuters, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “We need our partners to be committed to that […]
From Creal v. Nasiri, decided Thursday by California Court of Appeal Justice Victor Viramontes, joined by Justices Maria Stratton and Elizabeth Grimes: Creal is a certified public accountant (CPA). He has been a practicing CPA since 1978 and operates an accountancy firm in Torrance under the name Creal & Creal, An Accountancy Corporation. Creal’s business […]
Last week, I started blogging (and yesterday, I continued blogging) about my new article Expressive Discrimination: Universities’ First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action, just published by the Florida Law Review. In these days of federal attacks on private DEI, maybe some private universities might find this useful as a strategy for fighting back against the […]
In an editorial this week, the conservative Wall Street Journal chided Jeff Bezos, the owner of the liberal Washington Post, for Bezos’s announcement that henceforth the Post would be standing for “personal liberties and free markets.” The Journal pointed out that Bezos’s phraseology is remarkably similar to that employed by the Journal, which is “free […]
During his recent campaign for president, Donald Trump repeatedly stated that he had a secret plan for settling the war in Ukraine. He suggested that he would be able to resolve the conflict within a day of so of taking office. That obviously was political hyperbole because the war is still going on. Trump and […]
The LNC will hold its monthly special e-meeting on March 2, 2025 at 7:00pm Eastern. Advance registration is required at least one hour ahead of time. You are invited to a Zoom meeting.When: Mar 2, 2025 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/UyI3-RYvRXOpMhpUh4uocg After Read More Article from Libertarian […]
On this anniversary of one of America’s darkest domestic policies, we reflect on the forced internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Under the leadership of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the federal government carried out Executive Order 9066, which forcibly relocated over 120,000 individuals of Japanese descent—many of them U.S. citizens—to internment camps for […]