Photo: Adam Fagen Defenders of the administrative state have long contended that the Government runs much more smoothly when professional bureaucrats are granted free rein to act in “the public interest,” unconstrained by political forces that they fear are, all too often, dominated by “special interests.” That belief led in 2010 to creation of the…

So, she is gone. The Minister of Disinformation has resigned. Whether any factor alone could have done her in – what apparatchik could survive being lampooned as both a Goebbelsesque Mary Poppins and a feminine Big Brother – the combination did the trick. The Open Society has, to use Karl Popper’s term, one less enemy.…

  When did it become acceptable to ask people about their race, gender identification, and sexual preferences when determining their qualifications to do a job? If the SEC—and the stock exchange it supervises, Nasdaq—have their way, the answer is quickly forthcoming: in the retrograde year 2021 when selecting people to serve on boards of directors…

  In its decision earlier this month in Wooden v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 1063 (2022), the Supreme Court had little difficulty rejecting the Solicitor General’s expansive interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). That statute mandates a 15-year minimum sentence for felons who violate firearms-possession bans and who have at least three…

  In December 200,8 Marine Corps General James Jones (Ret) wrote in a Wall Street Journal article that “You can’t use the word energy independence. It is not a valid phrase. It is designed to excite people. But it is simply not going to happen.” At the time that Mr. Jones made this pronouncement, the…

Photo: Plaintiffs in Schemel v. Marco Island: Stephen Overman, Michael Tschida, and Shannon Schemel. NCLA filed a lawsuit against the City of San Marco, Florida, on February 7, 2022, challenging the use of Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) to track all drivers within city limits. This marks NCLA’s second lawsuit against a Florida municipality’s use of ALPR…