Libertarian News
Tax Cuts Without Spending Cuts Won’t Reduce the Taxpayers’ Burden
As this election cycle has demonstrated yet again, Democrats are not shy about calling for tax increases. In every election cycle they call for more taxes, whether through corporate taxes or through taxes on unrealized capital gains. Donald Trump, meanwhile, has pledged to cut some taxes. I say “some” because Trump has also pledged to raise […]
Australian Prime Minister Proposes Total Social Media Ban for Anyone Under 16
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced plans to ban social media for all Australians under the age of 16. Social media companies would be responsible for imposing restriction technologies to ban new early-teen users. But similar proposals, including those in the U.S., have shown that such prescriptive bans do little to protect young teens […]
Dallas Voters Nix an All-Purpose Excuse for Police Harassment: ‘I Smelled Marijuana’
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a case involving a Texas police officer, Roberto Felix Jr., who shot and killed a motorist, Ashtian Barnes, after stopping him for toll violations tied to the rental car he was driving. The issue in Barnes v. Felix is whether that use of deadly force, which happened […]
Body Cam Footage Shows Atlanta Cop Knew Felony Charges Against Cop City Protesters Were ‘a Reach’
Authorities in Georgia have dropped felony charges against protesters as bodycam footage apparently shows officers admitting, at the time, that there was no justification for the tougher charge. As Reason has documented, activists oppose the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center in a forested area outside the city limits; protesters call the project […]
Trumpquake
Fasten your seatbelts: whatever happens, Trumpquake is bound to be a bumpy ride. On the political Richter scale, that was a killer – literally. What was supposed to be a Liberal Totalitarian Show was brutally, unceremoniously, swept out of the park – any park. Even before Election Day, critical thinking was aware of the stakes. […]
Smoking the Copium
Prominent Democrats appear to be learning all the wrong lessons: Right now, political commentators are a study in contrasts. Consider this: It is 1933. Hitler is in power. No time for a fucking seminar on Democrats messaging errors — Jen Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) November 8, 2024 But also, this, from Julie Roginsky on CNN, excerpted at […]
Want To Lower the Political Temperature? Make the Presidency Less Important
Over the past decade pundits have written much about how to reduce the polarization and rancor in America, and now after the re-election of Donald Trump we’re sure to hear even more about civility and finding common ground. But there’s one solution to partisan political sectarianism that doesn’t require listening to your uncle’s opinions about […]
Tax Cuts Without Spending Cuts Won’t Reduce the Taxpayers’ Burden
As this election cycle has demonstrated yet again, Democrats are not shy about calling for tax increases. In every election cycle they call for more taxes, whether through corporate taxes or through taxes on unrealized capital gains. Donald Trump, meanwhile, has pledged to cut some taxes. I say “some” because Trump has also pledged to raise […]
Australian Prime Minister Proposes Total Social Media Ban for Anyone Under 16
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced plans to ban social media for all Australians under the age of 16. Social media companies would be responsible for imposing restriction technologies to ban new early-teen users. But similar proposals, including those in the U.S., have shown that such prescriptive bans do little to protect young teens […]
Dallas Voters Nix an All-Purpose Excuse for Police Harassment: ‘I Smelled Marijuana’
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a case involving a Texas police officer, Roberto Felix Jr., who shot and killed a motorist, Ashtian Barnes, after stopping him for toll violations tied to the rental car he was driving. The issue in Barnes v. Felix is whether that use of deadly force, which happened […]
Body Cam Footage Shows Atlanta Cop Knew Felony Charges Against Cop City Protesters Were ‘a Reach’
Authorities in Georgia have dropped felony charges against protesters as bodycam footage apparently shows officers admitting, at the time, that there was no justification for the tougher charge. As Reason has documented, activists oppose the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center in a forested area outside the city limits; protesters call the project […]
Trumpquake
Fasten your seatbelts: whatever happens, Trumpquake is bound to be a bumpy ride. On the political Richter scale, that was a killer – literally. What was supposed to be a Liberal Totalitarian Show was brutally, unceremoniously, swept out of the park – any park. Even before Election Day, critical thinking was aware of the stakes. […]
Smoking the Copium
Prominent Democrats appear to be learning all the wrong lessons: Right now, political commentators are a study in contrasts. Consider this: It is 1933. Hitler is in power. No time for a fucking seminar on Democrats messaging errors — Jen Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) November 8, 2024 But also, this, from Julie Roginsky on CNN, excerpted at […]
Want To Lower the Political Temperature? Make the Presidency Less Important
Over the past decade pundits have written much about how to reduce the polarization and rancor in America, and now after the re-election of Donald Trump we’re sure to hear even more about civility and finding common ground. But there’s one solution to partisan political sectarianism that doesn’t require listening to your uncle’s opinions about […]