The Onion, which calls itself “America’s Finest News Source,” recently filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in defense of Anthony Novac. In 2016, the aspiring comic created a parody of the Parma, Ohio, Police Department’s Facebook page. He was subsequently arrested and charged with “disrupting police operations.” The Onion’s brief brilliantly…
An Amendment in St. Paul When voters approved one of the nation’s most draconian rent control laws, developers in St. Paul reacted exactly as had been predicted: they halted housing projects. In September, the St. Paul City Council amended the rent control ordinance to exempt properties less than twenty years old. This returns a smidgen…
In 2021, Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance blamed America’s problems on the “childless left.” He singled out Vice-President Kamala Harris, transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, Senator Cory Booker and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as examples. Despite Vance’s claim, the childless left isn’t the problem. Certainly, Harris, Buttigieg, Booker, and AOC are a part of the problem. But…
When pharmaceutical companies refused to waive their intellectual property rights to the COVID-19 vaccines, they were attacked for putting profits before people. When landlords increase rents to a level that tenants cannot afford, the property owns are condemned for putting profits before people. These attacks, and others like them, are unjust. Profits are pro-people. The…
I previously wrote that in 2024 voters in Los Angeles will decide whether the city should force hotel owners to rent vacant rooms to homeless people. This, the advocates of the initiative want us to believe, is the solution to homelessness in Los Angeles. If that is true, why delay the solution for more than…
In his concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous, we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those…
The headline for a recent article on CNBC.com declares, “The 7 most affordable U.S. states to retire—and none of them are Florida” illustrates the intellectual dishonesty that is prevalent in today’s media. The article states that Michigan is the most affordable state in which to retire according to a study issued by Bankrate. This is…
Last November, voters in St. Paul approved a measure to impose rent control on housing producers. The law went into effect on May 1, and the results are precisely what should have been expected. In March, before the law was in effect, building permits for multi-family housing were down 80 percent from November 2021 to…
Joe Biden recently condemned “far-right extremism,” calling comments made by Republican leaders, including Trump, “semi-fascism.” Biden is correct to identify the growing elements of fascism within the Republican party. However, he fails to recognize the fascist elements within his own policies. Biden and Trump are two faces of fascism. In an article titled, “The Fascist…
Government is an agency of force. Everything it does is ultimately backed by physical coercion. Government dictates how much you should pay in taxes. Refuse to do so and somebody with a gun will show up to seize your property, throw you in jail, or both. In most locales, government dictates how you can use…
Few positives have emerged from the government’s response to COVID-19. One positive is that parents discovered alternatives to government schools for their children. Many have continued to utilize these alternatives. Microschools are a promising alternative to government schools. As the name implies, microschools are small—typically serving fifteen or fewer students. Often, the students are at…
Government officials in North Las Vegas have come up with a unique solution for homelessness: kick people out of their home and then bulldoze the house. A Nevada non-profit, New Leaf Community, purchased land and erected fifty square foot structures. The tiny houses had a window and locking door. The houses allowed homeless individuals some…