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Signed as Law: New Jersey Bans State and Local Participation in Immigration Detention

In practice, the law prohibits any state or local government agency from entering into, renewing, or extending a contract, agreement, intergovernmental service agreement, or memorandum of understanding that authorizes a state or local government agency, or a private correctional detention facility to house or detain individuals for federal civil immigration violations.

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First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opens in South Dakota

Last month, the first legal medical marijuana business opened in South Dakota, but it wasn’t in a place you might expect.

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Biden Isn’t the Only One Eager to Expand the National Police State

All of this federal money has a huge impact on local policing, creating, in effect, a national police force.

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Using the Financial System as a Foreign Policy Weapon

The U.S. doesn’t only project power across the globe through its massive military. It also weaponizes the U.S. dollar, using its economic dominance as both a carrot and a stick.

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A Better Direction Entails Fundamental Change

A national-security state needs official enemies to justify its existence, power, influence, and ever-increasing budgets. That’s how the United States got the Cold War after winning World War II. A new official enemy was needed to justify the conversion of the federal government to a national-security state. That official enemy became “godless communism,” the Soviet Union (i.e., Russia), Red China, North Korea, North Vietnam, and the rest of the communist world.

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Central Planning Always Fails: Afghanistan Edition

Central planners simply can not accrue all the knowledge necessary to centrally plan effectively. James Madison warned us.

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The Power to Declare War: An Introduction

Only Congress has the power to “declare war.” But how it’s used today has almost no resemblance to the original, legal meaning in the Constitution.

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Blame Biden for Losing Afghanistan?

It is becoming increasingly clear that the strategy of interventionist dead-enders is to blame President Biden for losing Afghanistan to the Taliban. If only he had kept U.S. troops there a bit longer or even indefinitely, their argument goes, the crooked and corrupt U.S.-installed Afghan puppet regime could have won the war and finally brought “enduring freedom” to Afghanistan.

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