In Mr. Obama’s last year in office, he set a record. His administration added over 95,894 pages to the Federal Register. In 2017 Mr. Trump added 61,308. The lowest number since Bill Clinton. In 2018, The Donald’s team added 68,082. Still a record low. But why so many? Didn’t Mr. Trump promise that for every new regulation the pencil pushers had to get rid of two?
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Free Speech Win! IRS Will No Longer Require Certain Donor Lists Up Front
Swamp Rats inside the IRS can’t leak what they don’t have. And thanks to a new rule the IRS will no longer be collecting personal donor data upfront from organizations that include (for our triggered progressive “friends”) unions and Planned Parenthood.
The Treasury Department said the policy change will maintain donor disclosure requirements for traditional charity groups organized under section 501(c)(3) of tax law. But it frees labor unions, advocacy groups, veterans organizations and other nonprofits such as Planned Parenthood that do not receive tax-exempt money from complying with the decades-old confidential disclosure requirements.
Did the NFL Fumble the New Pledge Policy?
If you listen to sports talk radio, you’ll know that the NFL’s recent announcement about the National Anthem has more than a few detractors. I’ve heard everything from it’s a free speech issue, to Goodell muffed it, to the owners were not unanimous (some abstained), to the players union knew nothing about it, to why would we care?
Here’s what I think because that is, after all, why you are here.
Not So Easy
Staples, the Office Supply chain, has denied a local gun store its application to participate in a contest for small businesses. Yes, I know. A Town of about 
9 square miles with the population of Merrimack New Hampshire (Fremont Nebraska), happens to have (a least one) gun store in it run by two Army veterans; sounds like a small business to me. So why can’t this small business participate in a contest for small businesses?
Staples has rules for its contests and their bureaucracy appears to be as intellectually agile as any other. That is to say, not at all. In a denial letter to the gun shop, from staples, (excerpted here) we find the fly in the ointment.
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But Staples not only sells “weapons”…it allows them to get into the hands of convicted criminals.
Payback is a female canine
It’s only an outrage when Dems don’t like it: