There are plenty of bad ideas in politics. But Kamala Harris’s plan to control prices as part of an effort to deflect blame for her own role in hiking the cost of living is among the worst. nationalpost.com/opinion/j-d-tu… via National Post

Every time I watch Kamala Harris speak, I have the feeling I'm watching an alien coached, poorly, to simulate a human.

This makes a terrible sort of sense.

The European Union is an engine of global control-freakery. reason.com/2024/08/23/fre… via reason

"Telling a U.S. citizen based in Texas that his social media posts are subject to European content rules may have been a step too far even for Breton's E.U. colleagues."

New York Times: Am I right that you’re a libertarian? Vince Vaughn: Yes, I definitely am a believer more in allowing individuals to make choices. So I think that drugs should be legal and people should have guns. But I realized that you have different cultures that would feel

Bastiat with a banger

Your regular reminder that the TSA should be abolished, its high officials treated as pariahs with whom nobody will associate, and its regular staff forced to find honest employment.

Really good take on efforts to rewrite the history of Covid craziness.

A world in which people need the permission of bureaucrats to come and go creates dangerous tools for authoritarians. reason.com/2024/08/26/res… via reason

For unclear reasons, these buffer-zone laws have popped up around the country: Ariz., Ind., Fl., now, La. They do nothing to keep police safer; it's already a crime to interfere with police. These laws seem intent on chilling speech and recording police. route-fifty.com/management/202…

Pavel Durov's Durov's arrest stands as less of a one-off than as part of a concerted effort by governments, including those of nominally free countries, to control speech. reason.com/2024/08/28/tel… via reason

They ruined this man’s life and are robbing him of his freedom because he allowed escorts to publish classified ads. If you ever wondered how we ended up in a place where tech CEOs are threatened for allowing “bad” speech on their platforms, it all started here.

Since when do government officials get to decide that a market is "oversaturated" so no more competitors are welcome? reason.com/2024/08/30/hai… via reason

What's important to note is that while Robert Reich would happily muzzle anybody who disagrees with him, in a free society even a totalitarian piece of shit like him enjoys protection for his free speech rights.

Americans have a right to own and carry weapons, whatever forms they may take now and in the future. reason.com/2024/09/02/mas… via reason

If you’re looking for good tax and spending policy in this year’s presidential campaign, it’s not being offered by either major candidate. But Kamala Harris threatens to inflict a world of tax pain. nationalpost.com/opinion/j-d-tu… via National Post

J.D. Tuccille 🎯 "[A]s illiberalism rises across the political spectrum, Democrats are leapfrogging authoritarianism to embrace a soft totalitarianism enforced by unofficial pressure and foreign allies subject to minimal restraints on their power." reason.com/2024/09/04/the…

If liberty has a future in this country, it will be despite the best efforts of the political class. reason.com/2024/09/04/the… via reason

I support taxing both realized and unrealized capital gains at the same rate. That rate is 0%.