Fumes of a Failed System: Bolivia’s Gasoline Crisis
Bolivians are finding out the hard way that socialist ene Read More Article from Mises Institute
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Elite Arrogance, Incompetence and Willful Ignorance Leading to Unintended Consequences
Robert Barnes has often spoken of how today’s perilous geopolitical situation is reminiscent of that on the eve of the Great War (World War I). Cloistered and insular political elites are displaying the same willful ignorance and haughty arrogance, the same incompetence and destructive disdain for future unintended consequences, as those earlier pompous leaders of […]
Criminal Justice Reformers Should Welcome Pam Bondi’s Gun Rights Restoration Initiative
The Justice Department is proceeding with plans to revive a moribund relief process for people who have lost their Second Amendment rights as a result of criminal convictions. The department’s FY 2026 budget proposal, published earlier this month, includes funds for a Firearm Rights Restoration Initiative within the Office of the Pardon Attorney. That is […]
How DHS Facial Recognition Tech Spread to ICE Enforcement
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a smartphone app to identify people based on an image of their fingerprints or face, 404 Media reported Thursday, based on a review of internal ICE emails. The expanding and repurposing of this sophisticated technology, ordinarily used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) when people are entering […]
Judge Dismisses Case Against Trans Woman Who Tried To Challenge Florida’s Bathroom Law
The first case of a person being arrested for attempting to challenge Florida’s antitrans bathroom law has been tossed out of court after state prosecutors missed filing deadlines. Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old transgender college student, was arrested in March for washing her hands in the women’s restroom of the Florida Statehouse in Tallahassee. She was […]
Today’s Porn Age Verification Decision Doesn’t Consider Minors’ First Amendment Rights More Broadly
What are the First Amendment rights of minors? You might imagine two extreme positions: Minors have the same rights as adults. Friendly amendment: Restrictions on their rights have to be judged under the same tests (such as “strict scrutiny”) applicable to restrictions on adults’ rights, even if the tests might sometimes practically play out slightly […]
Federal Judge Recognizes the Right To Train AI on Copyrighted Works
Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Monday that Anthropic did not violate the Copyright Act by training its large language model (LLM) on copyrighted books so long as those books were legally acquired. This case is one of many filed against artificial intelligence (AI) companies for […]
RFK Jr. Addresses Libertarian National Convention – Rev
RFK Jr. Addresses Libertarian National Convention Rev Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News
The Fed’s favorite inflation measure increased again
May PCE inflation rises to 2.3% Read More Article from Mises Institute
How Should Courts Analyze Age Verification Requirements for Porn That’s Illegal for Minors?
The majority in today’s Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton began with the established principle (see Justice Brennan’s majority opinion in Ginsberg v. N.Y. (1968)) that certain material may be constitutionally protected for adults but unprotected when distributed to minors: When regulating minors’ access to sexual content, the State may broaden Miller‘s “definition of obscenity” to […]
Elite Arrogance, Incompetence and Willful Ignorance Leading to Unintended Consequences
Robert Barnes has often spoken of how today’s perilous geopolitical situation is reminiscent of that on the eve of the Great War (World War I). Cloistered and insular political elites are displaying the same willful ignorance and haughty arrogance, the same incompetence and destructive disdain for future unintended consequences, as those earlier pompous leaders of […]
Criminal Justice Reformers Should Welcome Pam Bondi’s Gun Rights Restoration Initiative
The Justice Department is proceeding with plans to revive a moribund relief process for people who have lost their Second Amendment rights as a result of criminal convictions. The department’s FY 2026 budget proposal, published earlier this month, includes funds for a Firearm Rights Restoration Initiative within the Office of the Pardon Attorney. That is […]
How DHS Facial Recognition Tech Spread to ICE Enforcement
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a smartphone app to identify people based on an image of their fingerprints or face, 404 Media reported Thursday, based on a review of internal ICE emails. The expanding and repurposing of this sophisticated technology, ordinarily used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) when people are entering […]
Judge Dismisses Case Against Trans Woman Who Tried To Challenge Florida’s Bathroom Law
The first case of a person being arrested for attempting to challenge Florida’s antitrans bathroom law has been tossed out of court after state prosecutors missed filing deadlines. Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old transgender college student, was arrested in March for washing her hands in the women’s restroom of the Florida Statehouse in Tallahassee. She was […]
Today’s Porn Age Verification Decision Doesn’t Consider Minors’ First Amendment Rights More Broadly
What are the First Amendment rights of minors? You might imagine two extreme positions: Minors have the same rights as adults. Friendly amendment: Restrictions on their rights have to be judged under the same tests (such as “strict scrutiny”) applicable to restrictions on adults’ rights, even if the tests might sometimes practically play out slightly […]
Federal Judge Recognizes the Right To Train AI on Copyrighted Works
Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Monday that Anthropic did not violate the Copyright Act by training its large language model (LLM) on copyrighted books so long as those books were legally acquired. This case is one of many filed against artificial intelligence (AI) companies for […]
RFK Jr. Addresses Libertarian National Convention – Rev
RFK Jr. Addresses Libertarian National Convention Rev Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News
The Fed’s favorite inflation measure increased again
May PCE inflation rises to 2.3% Read More Article from Mises Institute
How Should Courts Analyze Age Verification Requirements for Porn That’s Illegal for Minors?
The majority in today’s Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton began with the established principle (see Justice Brennan’s majority opinion in Ginsberg v. N.Y. (1968)) that certain material may be constitutionally protected for adults but unprotected when distributed to minors: When regulating minors’ access to sexual content, the State may broaden Miller‘s “definition of obscenity” to […]