Crime doesn’t matter — but compliance does. The distinction is important because it conveys something important about the true nature of the government we endure. Crime — actual harms caused to real people — goes largely unpunished because it does…
Bayer announced Thursday that it will replace all residential market products using the world’s most successful herbicide with ingredients yet to be named, but inferior. Why would it do such a thing? Oh, about 10.9 billion reasons and all of…
The press is full of how New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo supposedly killed 15,000 of his state’s most vulnerable by sending COVID-19 patients into nursing homes. Terrible as that was, Biden, Harris, and the FDA killed many times that number…
Over the next few years, Democrats will try and impose some of their worst policies through regulation. Let’s revisit a few episodes of Bureaucrats Gone Wild, a Barack Obama production, to get a sense of what Biden’s reboot of Obama-era…
The Department of Justice recently sued Google for allegedly monopolizing the market for search engines. The Department’s complaint alleges that Google took numerous actions well before 2010 that formed part of the claimed antitrust violations. I have no comment about…
Here’s a scary claim: Under Donald Trump, the EPA has ignored overwhelming scientific evidence that the pesticide Chlorpyrifos harms kids’ brains. That statement is wildly false, yet it’s the official, Democratic press corps version of the dispute underlying United Latin…
On many regulatory issues, the Trump administration moved as fast as bureaucratically possible to overturn excesses of the Obama administration. On issues from labor rules to land use to consumer protection, Trump’s team did what they could to make regulations…
Imagine if the cup of coffee you just bought contained 10 percent not-coffee. Imagine if you weren’t allowed to buy 100 percent coffee — because Starbucks was forced by federal fatwa to sell you 90 percent coffee … plus 10 percent something else. And…
Since the days of George Washington, presidents have wished they could make government employees do what they are told. Actually, that frustration is much older than America. Peter the Great once said, “People think I rule Russia, but a thousand…
