Day: May 9, 2026
Government making things worse
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – It’s almost a reflex reaction. Whenever someone sees a problem, they want a government program to fix it. Sadly, when governments get involved, things usually get worse, not better. Take, for example, healthcare. As the government has become more involved in the delivery and payment of healthcare services, quality has declined, and costs have risen…
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Defensive Gun Uses Occur About Five Times More Often Than Criminals Use Gun in Crime
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) estimates there were approximately 330,000 violent victimizations involving a firearm in 2021. That same year there were estimated 1.67 million defensive gun uses. That is defensive gun uses are 5.06 times more than firearms used in crime.
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Mamdani’s Tax Day Vid Backfires as Businesses Look to Escape New York
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is already having success in redistributing wealth, right out of his city. It seems the socialist mayor’s creepy video celebrating Tax Day and directly calling out billionaire CEO Ken Griffin as a target for a new pied-à-terre tax may have backfired. While the slickly produced video—where he gleefully spoke about taxing…
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Dispute erupts over California bill nicknamed ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’…
After Republican lawmakers in California’s Legislature nicknamed her immigration bill the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” Assemblymember Mia Bonta stressed the legislation aims to protect workers of immigrant service organizations, not silence journalists.
“Sharing the name and address of a front desk worker of a legal aid clinic to intimidate them out of doing their job isn’t journalism, no matter who does it,” Bonta, D-Oakland, told The Center Square through a spokesperson, who shared the lawmaker’s comments in a text.