Links for 12-8-24

Elon & Vivek target gov’t nitwittery

🔎 10 outrageous taxpayer-funded higher ed research projects DOGE can investigate. From: Emily Sturge/Campus Reform. DOGE chiefs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can push Congress to launch a thorough investigation into these questionable expenditures, particularly federally funded research projects that push far-left ideologies.

Can sanctuary cities resist? It may come at a high cost. From: Jonathan Turley/USA Today. The doubling down on sanctuary city promises will likely draw more migrants to those communities, which some mayors have welcomed despite the heavy costs.

⭐️ The man who fought Fauci—and won. From: Tunku Varadarajan/Wall Street Journal. Karmic justice strikes as Jay Bhattacharya, a dissenting physician who was made a pariah during Covid, is nominated as director of the National Institutes of Health.

War of the media words. From: Becket Adams/Washington Examiner. It’s a curiosity of the modern era that one is likelier to encounter political propaganda in a news report than in any other aspect of daily life.

👉 Trump must break up the college cartel. From: Giancarlo Sopo/American Mind. Perhaps no sector better exemplifies the economic recklessness, inflation, and elitism that Americans rejected last month than academia.

The DOJ finally decides there’s something wrong with the DEA’s cash grabs at airports. From: Tech Dirt. Civil asset forfeiture has never been about dismantling criminal operations. It has always been about immediately enriching those who directly benefit.

👏 Politics of economic redistribution, RIP. From: Michael Barone/Creators. Whatever happened to the Democrats' reputation as the party favoring the working man?

The state of student loan forgiveness. From: Andrew Gillen/CATO. Mass student loan forgiveness is terrible policy, but that hasn’t stopped the Biden administration from trying to forge ahead.

🇨🇦 Gun grab in Canada. From: Louis Bloudin & Darren Major/CBC. Canada is expanding its federal ban on firearms, adding 324 makes and models of guns to the prohibited weapons list, effective immediately.

Canadian government wants to send guns it just banned to Ukraine. From: Dave DeCamp/AntiWar. The Canadian government announced on Thursday that it was working to send the newly banned guns to Ukraine.

🪓 Trump’s efficiency commission may go after loan given to EV maker. From: Kevin Bessler/The Center Square. A commission created to cut government spending may have its sights on a recent loan to electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian.

Why are family farms in trouble? From: Kathleen Willcox/Modern Farmer. In 2012, the USDA forecast that most (70 percent) family farms would transfer hands over the next 20 years. What are farmers doing now to ensure their farms' survival?

🎯 Bye, Joe: evaluating the Biden presidency. From: Katherine Mangu-Ward/Reason. From the war in Afghanistan to the war on drugs, Reason writers offer performance reviews of Joe Biden's single term as president.

Pop art: The value of Hunter Biden’s art expected to collapse with the end of his father’s influence. From: Jonathan Turley. While Biden allies hyped the sales to show that Hunter was a legitimate artist, Bergès admitted that Hunter’s “sugar bro”, Kevin Morris, actually purchased most of the art.

📌 VIDEO: Glenn Greenwald - Privacy: Why It Matters