ATF Pistol Brace Rule: An “Experiment of your Disposition”
By: Michael Boldin With an enforcement deadline looming at the end of May, potentially affecting millions of stabilizing braces, the new ATF rule is – as the founders told us – ...
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Loper Bright —Chevron Needs a Gravestone, Not Another Exception, by Isaiah McKinney
by Isaiah McKinney The Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, a case where commercial fishers are challenging an agency’s statutory authority to issue a regulation requiring the ...
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Unlimited Debt Leads to National Bankruptcy
By: Jacob Hornberger During the current debt-ceiling crisis, one thing should be painfully clear to everyone: For those people who are advocating an increase in the debt ceiling, there is no ...
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Fight for Freedom: The Anthony Burns Affair
By: Mike Maharrey On May 24, 1854, federal marshals arrested Anthony Burns, kicking off one of the most famous fugitive slave – and nullification – cases in U.S. history. Burns ultimately ...
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Lessons from Birmingham Jail
by Richard Gunderman Just four months before Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, he ...
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The Militia vs. The Standing Army: Does the Distinction Matter?
By: TJ Martinell Within the debate over the meaning of the Second Amendment, a lot of attention gets paid to the phrase “well-regulated militia.” Most of the time, the focus is ...
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The Constitution, Congress and Government Debt
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano What would you do if you were driving a vehicle and came upon a traffic light that had both red and green lights on? Most rational folks ...
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REAL ID: 15 Years On and Still Not in Full Effect
By: Mike Maharrey On this date in 2008, the REAL ID Act was supposed to go into effect. It didn’t. And it still isn’t in full effect to this day. Last ...
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The FDIC: Another Dark Legacy of FDR
By: Jacob Hornberger In 1933, the Franklin Roosevelt Administration brought into existence the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Along with FDR’s nationalization of gold, his adoption of a paper-money system, his enactment ...
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: Vattel and the Law of Nations
By: Rob Natelson Within the Constitution’s text are meanings most purported constitutional experts never see. They fail to see those meanings because they don’t take the trouble to learn enough about ...
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