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The Texas Abortion Ban Is a Roadmap to Privatized Oppression: Even Justices Who Take a Dim View of Roe v. Wade Recognize the Law's Chilling Implications Nov. 03, 2021
Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone this week told the Supreme Court that people who object to his st... Read More
Why Martin Luther King Couldn't Get a Carry Permit: Several Groups Urging the Supreme Court to Overturn New York's Virtual Ban on Bearing Arms Emphasize the Policy's Racist Roots and Impact Oct. 27, 2021
After his home was bombed in 1956, Martin Luther King Jr. applied for a permit to carry a gun. Despi... Read More
Abbot's Vaccine Order Is Just as Oppressive as Biden's: Neither Political Is Willing To Tolerate Deviation From the One Business Policy He Thinks Is Best Oct. 20, 2021
As recently as late August, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said private businesses in his state were free to... Read More
Without Roe v. Wade, Abortion Will Remain Legal in Most States: The Experience With the Texas Heartbeat Act Offers a Preview of What That Means Oct. 13, 2021
Texas Right to Life says S.B. 8, the state law that prohibits abortion after fetal cardiac activity ... Read More
The Vain Search For Marijuana in Trick-or-Treat Bags: Police Are Still Pushing This Discredited Scare, but It Seems Fewer People Are Falling For It Oct. 06, 2021
It's October, which means it's time for concerned cops and their credulous collaborators in the news... Read More
The Texas Social Media Law Is Blatantly Unconstitutional: Government Restrictions On Private Editorial Discretion Violate the First Amendment Sep. 29, 2021
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who this month signed a bill that aims to restrict the editorial discretion ... Read More
Bureaucrats and Politicians Seem Determined to Cripple a Lifesaving Alternative to Smoking: E-Cigarette Regulations and Taxes Threaten an Industry That Could Prevent Millions of Premature Deaths Sep. 22, 2021
Electronic cigarettes, which deliver nicotine without tobacco or combustion, are the most important ... Read More
Can Biden's Vaccination Rule for Private Employers Survive Judicial Scrutiny? A Broad Standard With No Exceptions Better Serves His Goals, but It Will Be Harder To Defend in Court Sep. 15, 2021
The White House says a COVID-19 vaccine mandate that President Joe Biden plans to impose on private ... Read More
The Texas Abortion Ban Violates Conservative Principles: S.B. 8 Relies on Litigation Tricks That Conservatives Have Long Condemned as a Threat to the Rule of Law Sep. 08, 2021
The Texas "heartbeat" bill that the Supreme Court declined to block last week is almost as restricti... Read More
Biden Keeps Pushing Dubious Arguments for CDC Supremacy: The President Seems Determined to Anoint the Agency's Director as the Nation's COVID-19 Dictator, Despite What the Law Says Sep. 01, 2021
The Supreme Court last week rejected the idea that Congress gave the Centers for Disease Control and... Read More
The Evidence Supporting Mask Mandates in Schools Is Weaker Than Biden Pretends: The Studies Cited by the CDC Do Not Show That Preventing COVID-19 Outbreaks Requires Forcing Students to Cover Their Faces Aug. 25, 2021
Wading into the bitter debate about face mask mandates in schools, President Joe Biden is threatenin... Read More
Is Face Mask Skepticism Beyond the Pale? A Rational Debate Requires Acknowledging Both the Strengths and the Weaknesses of the Scientific Evidence Aug. 18, 2021
Like many Americans, I do not like wearing a face mask that hurts my ears, steams up my glasses and ... Read More
Biden's Eviction Moratorium Defies the Rule of Law: The Administration Issued the Order Even While Conceding That It Lacked the Authority To Do So Aug. 11, 2021
The day before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention imposed a new eviction moratorium last... Read More
The Biden Administration's Mixed COVID-19 Messages Discourage Vaccination: Federal Officials Invited Alarmist Press Coverage of Breakthrough Infections Aug. 04, 2021
If you want more Americans to be vaccinated against COVID-19, emphasizing that they could still catc... Read More
How Drug Warriors Made the 'Opioid Epidemic' Deadlier: Restricting Access to Pain Medication Drove Nonmedical Users Toward Black-Market Substitutes Jul. 28, 2021
According to the lawsuits that four drug companies agreed to settle last week, the "opioid epidemic"... Read More
This Woman Faces $165,000 in Fines for Three Trivial Code Violations: Sandy Martinez Is Challenging the Exorbitant Penalty for Driveway Cracks, a Storm-Damaged Fence and Cars Parked in an 'Unapproved' Manner on Her Own Property Jul. 14, 2021
The town of Lantana, Florida, is demanding that Sandy Martinez pay $165,000 in fines, which is nearl... Read More
