In short, no, although the reader of Charles Murray’s new book might come away with that conclusion. In By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission (Crown Forum, 2015), Murray paints a dispiriting picture of the modern American state. The U.S. Constitution established a limited federal government within a federal system. The 10th Amendment encapsulates their […]
Congress Looks to Reduce the Regulatory ...
The Code of Federal Regulations is more than 170,000 pages long. How did it become such a behemoth? Simple: every year, about 4,000 new regulations are proposed, and each new rule can run anywhere from one to hundreds of pages in length. Far fewer regulations are scraped from the books each year. This is the […]
Patrick Dorismond: Remembering a Victim ...
President Barack Obama has wielded his executive authority to reduce the amount of military equipment flowing to local cops. His action comes in response to demonstrations of force by policy during the civil disturbances in Ferguson and Baltimore. Congressmen on the right and left also have been up in arms about this matter, albeit for […]
Congress Should Vote to Override Obama’s
Congress returns from its two-week break today. If it has any respect for itself, it will promptly schedule a vote on President Obama’s most recent veto. The nixed bill was a resolution to strike down new regulations issued by the National Labor Relations Board in mid-December. These new rules, which run 180 pages and are […]
Resisting Bureaucracy: Republicans Redis...
The third time will apparently be the charm for the Federal Communications Commission’s “net neutrality” regulations. Having been shot down twice by the courts in earlier attempts to regulate broadband, members of the commission—enterprising bureaucrats that they are—found new legal authority for their power grab. However one feels about the new rules, it is inarguable […]
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