reason.com: Brickbats: January 2025 -- https://tinyurl.com/23mpqdro -- News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world. #liberty #news
reason.com: Today in Supreme Court History: December 14, 1964 -- https://tinyurl.com/2bq9h9r9 -- 12/14/1964: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S. and Katzenbach v. McClung are decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: December 14, 1964 appeared first on Reason.com. #liberty #news
reason.com: Sheldon Gilbert: The New President of the Federalist Society -- https://tinyurl.com/23ogcr4m -- A brilliant fusionist who has done remarkable work for the Chamber of Commerce, the Institute for Justice, the National Constitution Center, and as a senior counsel at Walmart. #liberty #news
mises.org: Legalizing Drugs: How to Make America Great Again -- https://tinyurl.com/28zqxcue -- Is marijuana the magic elixir for economic performance and a cure for the Fed’s inflation? #liberty #news
reason.com: Supreme Court Adds Two Potentially Significant Cases to OT2024 Docket -- https://tinyurl.com/268qxgkw -- December certiorari grants on standing and religion are early holiday gifts for Court watchers. #liberty #news
mises.org: Trump’s Economic Policies: The Good, The Bad, and the Uncertain -- https://tinyurl.com/26jvlfc4 -- President-elect Trump has promised changes in economic policies. How well they work and how they will affect us remains to be seen. Here is a look at proposals that have promise—and proposals that are likely to cause harm. #liberty #news
mises.org: Real Democracy Can Only Be Freedom -- https://tinyurl.com/2yfx2pwy -- Democracy is the watchword with the ruling classes, yet a democratic political system does not protect individual freedoms. Indeed, democracy often has become the main road to socialism. It‘s time for some honest discussion. #liberty #news
reason.com: Hospitals Are Giving Pregnant Women Drugs, Then Reporting Them to CPS When They Test Positive -- https://tinyurl.com/2cpfaoou -- One 2022 study found that 91 percent of women given fentanyl in their epidurals later tested positive for the drug. #liberty #news
reason.com: 5 Years After Giving Birth, a Mississippi Mother Was Arrested for a Felony Based on a Postnatal Drug Test -- https://tinyurl.com/2292zau5 -- Brandy Moore, who stopped using meth midway through her pregnancy, was charged with aggravated domestic violence because she decided not to have an abortion. #liberty #news
reason.com: The Death and Life of New York Outdoor Dining -- https://tinyurl.com/29m625t3 -- What began as a vibrant, organic solution to a crisis has been stifled by overregulation. #liberty #news
mises.org: Slavery—Cronyism, Opportunity Cost, & Deadweight Loss -- https://tinyurl.com/2bzov39c -- A modern misconception of antebellum slavery is that it “built the country.” Actually, the institution of slavery, economically speaking, was a deadweight loss to the US economy. #liberty #news
mises.org: The US Is Now on Track for a $3.5 Trillion Deficit in 2025 -- https://tinyurl.com/2dxpdcnm -- With the two-month total at over $620 billion, the year-end total is likely to be over $3.5 trillion by the end of the year. That would make the next annual deficit even larger than 2020’s. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Missing Secret -- https://tinyurl.com/2askx576 -- Modern academics are relentless in trying to find any nuances they can from the works of Karl Marx, but they miss the larger issues with his work. Marx was alive and active when the marginalists logically took apart his value theory, but hope springs eternal for Marx‘s supporters. #liberty #news
reason.com: The War in Gaza Is Far Worse Than You Thought -- https://tinyurl.com/28lcbysr -- Researchers went back to check Palestinian casualty reports from October 2023. They found a deadlier month for civilians—and children—than any other chapter of the war on terror. #liberty #news
reason.com: New York City Should Not Run a Grocery Store -- https://tinyurl.com/28sayohk -- If you think “everything-bagel liberalism” makes transit and affordable housing projects expensive, wait till you see what it does to the price of literal everything bagels. #liberty #news
reason.com: Biden Issues More Pardons and Commutations Under Pressure From Criminal Justice Groups -- https://tinyurl.com/2739am2n -- Biden commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 federal offenders who had been serving the remainder of their sentences on home confinement after being released from prison during COVID-19. #liberty #news
reason.com: Brianna Wu and TafTaj: How Have Trans Issues Scrambled Our Politics? -- https://tinyurl.com/2btmbmfu -- Brianna Wu and TafTaj discuss the role of transgender issues in the 2024 election, centrist trans politics, and their own personal stories. #liberty #news
mises.org: Economists and the State: From Enemies to Friends -- https://tinyurl.com/266ntm7f -- The state and its friends reject the scarcity principle and uphold its polar opposite, the Santa Claus principle. #liberty #news
reason.com: He Was Convicted of a Felony for Holding a Gun on the Sidewalk in Front of His House -- https://tinyurl.com/28jvbq85 -- Gabriel Metcalf argues that his prosecution under the Gun-Free School Zones Act violated his constitutional right to keep and bear arms. #liberty #news
reason.com: Congress Passes Legislation to Create Needed Judgeships, but Biden May Veto -- https://tinyurl.com/2y4xmost -- There was bipartisan support for the JUDGES Act, but the election results appear to have changed that. #liberty #news