mises.org: The Split over Epstein Tells Us Something Important about the MAGA Movement -- -- When President Trump declared the Epstein case closed, many of his supporters in MAGA objected, believing that the government is still hiding the truth. But Trump opponents claim that MAGA is a monolithic movement beholden only to Trump. This incident tells us something else. #liberty #news
reason.com: Americans Want Order, not Cruelty, at the Border -- -- Trump promised to target violent criminals. He lost support when he went after harmless immigrants. #liberty #news
reason.com: Professor Barrett Was At Home In CASA -- -- After the Supreme Court decided Trump v. CASA, the Wall Street Journal editorial page took a victory lap. The editors, who…The post Professor Barrett Was At Home In <i>CASA</i> appeared first on Reason.com. #liberty #news
reason.com: D.C. Finally Moves To Implement Ranked Choice Voting After 3–1 Voter Approval -- -- Voters overwhelmingly supported Initiative 83, but Democratic lawmakers have been hesitant to adopt it. #liberty #news
mises.org: Why Government Lands Burn -- -- Progressives blame all the recent wildfires on “climate change,” but the real culprit is government mismanagement of public forests and grasslands. The recent fire at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon is yet another example. #liberty #news
mises.org: My 46 Years of Contempt of Congress -- -- Although most political attention is focused on the US presidency, James Bovard pleads guilty to contempt of Congress. This is the Congress that is spending and borrowing the country into financial oblivion, but never taking the blame for the results. #liberty #news
reason.com: Life as an Academic Defender of the Intuitively Obvious -- -- Academics are supposed to discover nonobvious, counterintituitive truths. But, especially in recent years, much of my work involves defending positions that seem obvious to most laypeople, even though many experts deny them. #liberty #news
reason.com: Why a Trump-Appointed Judge Is Torching His Own Court’s Qualified Immunity Logic—and the Government Abuse It Enables -- -- Judge James C. Ho recently described a troubling phenomenon on the 5th Circuit and the government abuse it enables. #liberty #news
mises.org: Why Hayek Rejected “Mere Legality” -- -- A government that rules by imposing politically-oriented statutes upon its citizens cannot lay claim to governing by “rule of law.” Hayek understood that claiming “legality” to anything the state does is a sure road to tyranny. #liberty #news
mises.org: Bolivia Held Hostage: The Tyrant’s Return -- -- When socialist Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia, he received favorable press from the western media. Like most socialists, however, his government turned tyrannical. Disqualified from office, he and his followers now seek to stage a coup to return him to power. #liberty #news