Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s newsletter takes an extended look at the surprise passage of a “downzoning” ban in North Carolina that effectively prevents local governments from tightening zoning restrictions on your property unless you provide express written consent for them to do so. North Carolina’s Surprise Ban […]
Last month, Washington was in a tizzy about whether President Trump could use the adjournment power as a means to create a recess, and then make recess appointments for his cabinet member. That frenzy seems to have died down, but scholars continue to investigate the issue. There are two primary legal questions to consider about […]
REMINDER: For 35 years, you all have kept us going with your generous (tax-deductible) donations. We need your generous end-of-year support for the coming year. I hope we have earned your confidence and your support with our hard-hitting, principled, uncompromising approach toward advancing liberty. You can help us out by donating here. ************ Yesterday the […]
REMINDER: For 35 years, you all have kept us going with your generous (tax-deductible) donations. We need your generous end-of-year support for the coming year. I hope we have earned your confidence and your support with our hard-hitting, principled, uncompromising approach toward advancing liberty. You can help us out by donating here. ************ During the […]
REMINDER: For 35 years, you all have kept us going with your generous (tax-deductible) donations. We need your generous end-of-year support for the coming year. I hope we have earned your confidence and your support with our hard-hitting, principled, uncompromising approach toward advancing liberty. You can help us out by donating here. ************ The federal […]
REMINDER: For 35 years, you all have kept us going with your generous (tax-deductible) donations. We need your generous end-of-year support for the coming year. I hope we have earned your confidence and your support with our hard-hitting, principled, uncompromising approach toward advancing liberty. You can help us out by donating here. ************ Last month, […]
Having watched the great drug-war Netflix documentaries Narcos and Narcos Mexico and the excellent drug-war drama La Reina del Sur, I wasn’t too interested in watching another drug-war-related series. But when I realized that the Apple TV+ documentary “Cowboy Cartel” revolved around my hometown of Laredo, Texas, where I lived almost half my life and […]
After I saw Oliver Stone’s movie JFK, which posited that the JFK assassination was a highly sophisticated regime-change operation on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment, I read a multitude of books along those lines. Over time, I became convinced that Stone’s thesis was correct. But my conviction was never “beyond a reasonable doubt,” […]
It’s no surprise to me that so many people who live on or near the U.S.-Mexico border, including Democrats, voted for Donald Trump for president. Whenever there is ongoing, never-ending chaos and crisis, people look to “the man on the white horse” — that is, the dictatorial “strongman” — to bring “law and order” and […]
There is an important thing to note about South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s recent declaration of martial law: It’s really no different in principle from President-elect Trump’s plans to declare a “national emergency.” The only difference is the extent of power. Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial-law declaration, much like Hitler’s Enabling Act, enabled him to […]