Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has long positioned himself as a champion of “parents’ rights,” and that pitch is a huge part of his broad appeal to the public. But the Florida Republican just signed a bill into law that betrays those promises. The new law is supposed to protect children from the alleged harms of […]
BUTLER, Pennsylvania — Sometimes political pushback works. Seven days after Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro sent a forceful letter to Shalanda Young of the White House Office of Management and Budget, expressing his serious concern that her draft rule under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act went too far too quickly, the Department of Energy reversed […]
Part of California’s decay can be attributed to the corrupt governance and legislating that comes from the Democratic Party’s single-party rule, and that continues to be on display with the state’s new fast food regulations. California approved exemptions from its fast food minimum wage and oversight board law on Monday for locations in places including […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) may have dropped out of the presidential race, but he is once again blazing a trail of conservative governance in the Sunshine State by signing legislation to protect children online. On Monday, DeSantis signed HB 3, which prohibits children under the age of 14 from making accounts on social media websites […]
There are two key takeaways from the ISIS terrorist attack on a Russian concert hall near Moscow last Friday. First, that the attack was brutal in both intent and form. It was another manifestation of ISIS’s particularly pernicious interpretation of Salafi-Jihadist ideology: the belief that innocent blood and gratuitous suffering are the purest pathways to […]
Despite tons of research on drug use and drug side effects, too many Republicans have been fooled into thinking of marijuana as an exception. A poll released Tuesday showed that most Republican voters in Missouri, Wyoming, and Ohio support making marijuana regulation a state topic rather than a federal one. However, if marijuana regulation went […]
One of the most distressing things about the Donald Trump movement is seeing putative “conservatives” make excuses for the 2021 Capitol rioters. The same people who usually defend police and castigate rowdy protesters suddenly jettison their law-and-order pretensions and join former President Donald Trump in describing rioters as “hostages” and “patriots.” Progressive journalist Bill Lueders […]
Laws protecting “squatters’ rights” are some of the most backward, least civilized things in our society, and they should be abolished in every city and state that has them. Several high-profile incidents of squatting are in the news, and each story is more despicable than the last. One man in Seattle is being forced to […]
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signed the so-called "strippers bill of rights" into law on Tuesday, the most comprehensive legal protections for the adult entertainment industry in the nation. Proponents held up the measure as critical for providing the often-overlooked industry with adequate worker protections. “Strippers are workers, and they should be given the same...