Bob Menendez Is a Symptom
“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the Legislature is in session,” is an old saw of American politics. It’s even truer for Congress.
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We Need Term Limits Precisely Because So Many Like Their Congressman
Congress is widely loathed by Americans who continue to overwhelmingly re-elect their own representative. This paradox speaks to the importance of strict term limits.
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Matt Gaetz Beat Kevin McCarthy, But Hasn’t Yet Won the Debate
The problem with government can’t be found in how the funds it wastes are extracted, rather the problem can be found in the extraction. Eventually deficit hawks will realize this truth, that the real “burden on the grandchildren” is the size of the government they’ll inherit, not the debt.
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No, There’s No Near-Term ‘Sugar High’ From Government Spending
Governments can only centrally plan the direction of resources insofar as they’ve taken them from us first, and they can only offer tax incentives insofar as they’ve overtaxed us first. The economic damage from their meddling is immediate.
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To See the Problem, the Freedom Caucus Must Look In the Mirror
Good arguments gradually win. The Freedom Caucus lacks them. It will never succeed so long as it doesn’t understand its argument.
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TikTok Faces Suffocating Government Authoritarianism…In the U.S.
If we’re free-speech absolutists, we’re by definition absolutists about the sources of speech. What’s being done to TikTok is embarrassing, and it won’t redound to its political critics in the U.S.
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If the Economy ‘Collapses,’ Biden Should Go To Bed, Trump Should Golf
If voters really want to avoid a future “financial crisis,” they would vote for Biden if he promises to go to bed after the next financial institution failure, and Trump if he promises to play golf.
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The Experts Were the Whole Problem
That’s the case because “the thing that matters most to any man” is “the saving of his own skin.” That this needs to even be said speaks to how wrongheaded the Post’s editorial board’s approach to the virus was, and still is. It implies we have dead because government didn’t act properly, as though free people
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