Last week, the Detroit City Council narrowly approved an expansion of the city's controversial ShotSpotter surveillance technology. But instead of using COVID stimulus money as initially planned, the funding will come out of the police department's own budget.
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With more calls - yet again - to ban so-called “assault weapons,” it’s important to point out that even IF one could call these “weapons of war,” the founders wanted the people to be armed with the “terrible implements of the soldier.”
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Too many people today are loyal to individual politicians or parties. Even as a young man, Samuel Adams understood the danger of personality worship. And he warned against it.
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As the antifederalist write Brutus wrote, a national debt that can never be discharged is "a calamity."
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Thousands of executive branch employees stand to gain financially on actions of the agency they work at? Say it ain’t so! But it is. And we were warned this would happen too.
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And it would demonstrate that originalist judging is not (as some have charged) just a cover for a conservative agenda.
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So, not only are these regulatory bureaucrats eating out our substance with their tens of thousands of rules and regulations and taxation, they are also financially profiting from their regulatory corruption.
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The general welfare clause does not mean "whatever they want." But that's how most people treat it today.
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What many Americans do not realize, however, is that the federal government’s Cuban embargo is also an attack on the fundamental rights and liberties of the American people.
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Going from the largest government in history - to a true “land of the free” isn’t going to be easy. And it definitely won’t happen overnight. But we’ve got the tools - thanks to the founders and old revolutionaries. The essential principles underlying our philosophy and strategy.
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