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Second Amendment Roundup: ATF’s Wish to Trace More Firearms Doesn’t Justify Redefining “Firearm”
ATF declares that its Final Rule at issue before the Supreme Court in Garland v. VanDerStok “will enhance public safety by helping to ensure that more firearms may be traced by law enforcement to solve crime and arrest the perpetrators.” Radically expanding the definition of “firearm” from what Congress enacted is allegedly justified by the […]
Brickbat: Sticky Fingers
Saahir Irby, who works at the U.S. Postal Service’s Philadelphia Processing and Distribution Center, has been charged with mail theft for taking government checks. Officials said Irby was seen on surveillance video taking mail from bins while on the job, totaling 112 checks during a single work shift. The distribution center processes both outbound U.S. […]
Ahead Lies Ruin: The Decay of Social Trust
Loss of social trust has consequences. There are three solvents of social trust: 1) the self-aggrandizement of insiders; 2) decay of competence, and 3) precarity, generated by soaring inequality / cost of living and the decay of social mobility, all of which erode confidence in the social contract, i.e. our confidence that the system isn’t rigged […]
Walz and Vance Dodge the Question on Bombing Iran
The vice presidential debate on Tuesday night opened with a question that might as well have been a pitch for war with Iran. Both Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz nor Sen. J.D. Vance (R–Ohio) dodged it, attacking each other’s foreign policy records as weak while refusing to commit to any concrete action on Iran. “Earlier today, […]
Second Amendment Roundup: ATF’s Wish to Trace More Firearms Doesn’t Justify Redefining “Firearm”
ATF declares that its Final Rule at issue before the Supreme Court in Garland v. VanDerStok “will enhance public safety by helping to ensure that more firearms may be traced by law enforcement to solve crime and arrest the perpetrators.” Radically expanding the definition of “firearm” from what Congress enacted is allegedly justified by the […]
Brickbat: Sticky Fingers
Saahir Irby, who works at the U.S. Postal Service’s Philadelphia Processing and Distribution Center, has been charged with mail theft for taking government checks. Officials said Irby was seen on surveillance video taking mail from bins while on the job, totaling 112 checks during a single work shift. The distribution center processes both outbound U.S. […]
Ahead Lies Ruin: The Decay of Social Trust
Loss of social trust has consequences. There are three solvents of social trust: 1) the self-aggrandizement of insiders; 2) decay of competence, and 3) precarity, generated by soaring inequality / cost of living and the decay of social mobility, all of which erode confidence in the social contract, i.e. our confidence that the system isn’t rigged […]
Walz and Vance Dodge the Question on Bombing Iran
The vice presidential debate on Tuesday night opened with a question that might as well have been a pitch for war with Iran. Both Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz nor Sen. J.D. Vance (R–Ohio) dodged it, attacking each other’s foreign policy records as weak while refusing to commit to any concrete action on Iran. “Earlier today, […]