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Virtue Compelling Devices

President* Biden has declared that he is ‘going to try to get rid of assault weapons.’ Of course, there isn’t really any such thing as an ‘assault weapon.’  There are assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons, but the term assault weapon doesn’t really mean anything other than a weapon that certain people find frightening for reasons they … Read more

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While We’re Breaking up Monopolies…

A bunch of people had trouble getting tickets for Taylor Swift’s upcoming concert tour, and the United States Senate has decided that it has to spring into action to address the cause of the problem:  a lack of competition.

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What Government Should Learn from Sports

Major League Baseball (MLB) recently announced some changes to the Rules of Baseball.  Setting aside for the moment the particular details of the changes, or the wisdom of making them, I’d like to take this opportunity to remind people of how the process they went through is a valuable demonstration of how separation of powers should work in government.

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Are Owners and Employees Equals?

The Knead pizza chain in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, recently decided to close for good.

This may have been in response to an effort by its employees to form a union.  The owners aren’t saying.  (They did say that the closure would happen regardless of how the vote to unionize came out.)

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$10,000 Is the Going Rate for a Vote

H.L. Mencken said that ‘every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods’.

As you process news of the (First) Great Student Loan Giveaway over the next few days, keep that in mind.  Along with this:

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Judge Reinhart’s Jedi Mind Trick

I’m reading an article on the deliberations being undertaken by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart over how much of the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago can be released to the public.

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A Nation of Outlaws

There is an idea that many people — but especially constitutional law students, who then go on to be public officials — have not been exposed to, which is that there is a proper order to the questions that should be asked when formulating public policy.

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The Baldwin Defense

The FBI has now confirmed what everyone familiar with guns knew anyway:  The only way that the gun used by Alec Baldwin to kill Halyna Hutchins could have fired was for him to cock the gun and pull the trigger.

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Moby Trump

I just saw this headline on a news aggregator:

“Volatile Fallout After Angry Reactions To Court-Approved Search Warrant For Trump’s Florida Estate”

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