[ad_1] (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Congress gets ready to pick some more lucky winners. Like it or not, this is a time when borrowing money makes sense. We are facing a severe but temporary economic disaster, and we can smooth out the damage by having the federal government offset the losses of businesses, workers, and even lower

[ad_1] Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) listens to testimony during the Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on the coronavirus response, May 12, 2020. (Toni L. Sandys/Pool via Reuters) Senator Rand Paul said Tuesday that the response to the coronavirus pandemic has been hampered by “wrong prediction after wrong prediction” as he advocated

[ad_1] President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, D.C., June 23, 2016 (Carlos Barria/Reuters ) It sure seems like an unconscionable attempt to take out a political enemy with state power. How would President Obama be reacting to the collapse of the case against Michael Flynn if Flynn were a black teen? Picture

[ad_1] Alberto Mendoza checks a website to apply for unemployment benefits outside of the Workforce Solutions for South Texas offices in Laredo, Texas, March 20, 2020. (Veronica G. Cardenas/Reuters) It makes no sense to continue to bring in so many foreign workers. When the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the April employment figures last Friday,

[ad_1] The Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) What are the constitutional limits of the state’s power to restrict fundamental rights during a pandemic? The Supreme Court has never said, at least not in a neat and tidy way, and the U.S. Constitution is silent on the matter. What the Court has done

[ad_1] Michael Flynn departs a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Department of Justice is not planning to release a declassified list of Obama administration officials who were reportedly behind the “unmasking” of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, according to multiple reports. Acting Director of National Intelligence

[ad_1] An employee checks packaged meat at a 365 by Whole Foods Market grocery store in Los Angeles in 2016. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) An Australian MP said China’s ban on Australian beef exports is punishment for the Australian prime minister’s proposed international inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus. “It’s a bastard act,’’ Liberal-Nationals MP George

[ad_1] Phil Murphy speaks after being elected Governor of New Jersey, in Asbury Park, New Jersey, U.S., November 7, 2017. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) New Jersey recently became one of the seven states (plus the District of Columbia) to legalize assisted suicide by statute. In effect, New Jersey sanctions suicide for some residents through its public policy.

[ad_1] (Larry Downing/Reuters) The libertarian economist’s body of work is much more complex and valuable than his critics imagine. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n a new piece published by American Compass, “Planning for When the Market Cannot,” Julius Krein critiques Nikki Haley’s recent unapologetic defense of capitalism. Taking aim in particular at F.A. Hayek’s case

[ad_1] Scientists work in a lab testing COVID-19 samples at New York City’s health department in New York City, April 23, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) We’re still nowhere close to herd immunity. A study of nearly 6,000 Major League Baseball employees found that just 0.7 percent tested positive for antibodies present in individuals who have recovered

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at an event in Wilmington, Del., March 12, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) A fair and thorough hearing of the facts serves the larger principle that’s at stake. Mona Charen argues that conservatives are being hypocritical in covering Tara Reade’s sexual-assault allegations against Joe Biden: “Doesn’t it matter if Biden

[ad_1] Michael Flynn at the White House, February 1, 2017. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The Flynn prosecution was a transparent attack on the rule of law. ‘There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free,” former president Barack Obama reportedly told members of the Obama Alumni

[ad_1] One week ago, a Sixth Circuit panel, in enjoining Kentucky governor Andy Beshear from enforcing pending appeal two COVID-19 social-distancing orders against a church’s drive-in religious services, allowed him to ban that church from offering in-person services. But this past Saturday, in an unpublished order published today as a precedential opinion, the panel also

[ad_1] Kari Stefansson, CEO of the Icelandic company deCODE genetics in Reykjavík, studied the spread of COVID-19 in Iceland with Iceland’s Directorate of Health and the National University Hospital. His project has tested 36,500 people; as of this writing, Iceland has 1,801 cases and ten deaths. On a per-capita basis, Iceland ranks near the very top in

[ad_1] President Barack Obama listens to a question during his last press conference at the White House, January 18, 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) A review of weekend news coverage and commentary shows that mainstream media have gone into full “Protect Obama” mode. Evidence released last week — including, but not limited to, House Intelligence Committee transcripts

[ad_1] (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) The Justice Department on Monday announced it was considering pressing federal hate crimes charges in the killing of African-American Georgia resident Ahmaud Arbery. “The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia have been supporting and will continue to fully

[ad_1] The U.S. Capitol, after Congress agreed to an economic stimulus package created in response to the economic fallout from the coronavirus in Washington, D.C., March 25, 2020 (Tom Brenner/Reuters) A group of 18 Republican state attorneys general on Monday called on congressional leaders to hold hearings on China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. In

[ad_1] Margaret Hildebrandt, 93, poses for a photo while in self-quarantine due to the coronavirus, Sunderland, Md., March 18, 2020. (Linda So/Reuters) On the menu today: a deep dive into how different state governments are handling nursing home lockdowns and reopenings, and note about South Korea’s handling of the pandemic. Stop Yelling at Beachgoers and

[ad_1] High-school athletes Selina Soule and Alanna Smith (Photo courtesy Alliance Defending Freedom) Attorneys representing three female high school track athletes in their effort to bar biological males from competing against them filed a motion on Saturday calling for the presiding judge to recuse himself after he forbid the attorneys from referring to the transgender

[ad_1] (Leah Millis/Reuters) The two major tribes of American life cannot achieve widespread consent to a policy consensus during a time of acute national emergency. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W ithout consensus, there is no consent — that’s almost a redundancy: The two words come from the same Latin root meaning “agree,” but each has its

[ad_1] German troops in Russia, 1941. (National Archives) The problem is greater than just a few moments of panic. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE E ighty years ago, on May 10, 1940, Winston Churchill took over as Britain’s prime minister and Hitler launched his attack on Holland, Belgium, and France. The Blitzkrieg, as it became known, was

[ad_1] President Barack Obama, FBI director James Comey, and deputy attorney general Sally Yates in the Oval Office, June 13, 2016 (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Obama officials and FBI collaborated to invent the ‘Russian collusion’ narrative The FBI coordinated very closely with the Obama White House on the investigation of Michael Flynn, while the Obama Justice Department

[ad_1] Michael Flynn arrives at a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017. (Reuters photo: Jonathan Ernst) The Justice Department’s dismissal of its case against Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, is a warning that countries who claim to follow the rule of law must constantly protect it. Last September, Flynn’s

[ad_1] Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention in San Francisco, June 1, 2019. (Gage Skidmore) California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that he had signed an executive order to mail ballots to the state’s 20.6 million registered voters, citing potential health risks due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “There’s

[ad_1] Home-care nurse Flora Ajayi is thanked by a client’s daughter as she departs from a home during the coronavirus outbreak, New York City, April 22, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The Washington Post reports that nursing homes may account for a majority of all COVID-19 deaths:  States are still collecting data, but so far six have

[ad_1] A pharmacy worker shows pills of hydroxychloroquine used to treat the coronavirus at the CHR Centre Hospitalier Regional de la Citadelle Hospital in Liege, Belgium, April 22, 2020. (Yves Herman/Reuters) Federal agency the Office of Special Counsel on Friday stayed the removal of a whistleblower who alleged he was fired over resistance to promote

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden participates in a CNN townhall in Los Angeles, Calif., October 10, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Sufficient evidence that Joe Biden somehow mistreated Tara Reade has emerged for the double standard to become obvious. There aren’t a ton of synonyms for the word “hypocrisy.” I’ve become aware of this problem ever

[ad_1] Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn departs U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Flynn case should never have been brought and was properly disposed of. Judgments and rules are two different things. Rules are, or should be, clear bright lines that can produce yes-or-no answers. Judgments are more

[ad_1] Attorney General William Barr in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., April 1, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Attorney General Bill Barr explained that the FBI did not conduct “a bonafide counterintelligence investigation” in the case that led former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn to plead guilty to federal investigators in

[ad_1] A white and orange cross with an “A” on it stands at the entrance of the Satilla Shores neighbourhood where Ahmaud Arbery was shot after being chased by a former law enforcement officer and his son, at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga., May 8, 2020. (Dustin Chambers/Reuters) Glynn County district attorney Jackie