🎯 The government is better at picking losers than winners. From Reason. It's taxpayers who lose when politicians give gifts, grants, and loans to private companies.
The Labor Department wants to decide how and when you work. From: David McGarry/Washington Examiner. Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su seems to believe that independent contractors need protection from themselves.
👉 Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Government by experts. From Creators. Without the threat of nullification and secession, there is no effective restraint on the feds.
The only real way to track government spending is to audit The Fed. From: Sen. Rand Paul/The Federalist. The Federal Reserve’s ‘independence’ has become synonymous with ‘secrecy.’ It’s time to lift the veil.
👍 Parental pursuit of school choice is skyrocketing. From: Keri D. Ingraham/Real Clear Education. A January parent survey revealed that 72% of parents “considered new schools for their children last year–a 35% increase over 2022.”
Javier Milei’s message to collectivists in Davos: you are the problem. From: Jon Miltimore/FEE. ‘Today I’m here to tell you that the Western world is in danger,’ Milei said in his prepared remarks. ‘And it is in danger because those who are supposed to have to defend the values of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism, and thereby to poverty.'”
🔎 The AR-15: a common and usual American choice. From: Mike McDaniel/American Thinker. In the military, newly minted officers are taught never to issue an order they know won’t be obeyed.
New tires every 7,000 miles? Electric cars save gas but tire wear shocks some Florida drivers. From: Miami Herald. “If somebody looked at me and said, Mr. Semel, you are going to love this car but in about 7,000 miles you will have to pay 1,400 or 1,500 dollars to replace the tires, I wouldn’t have bought the car.”
🔮 Bill O’Reilly says Michelle Obama “only Democrat” who could beat Trump. From: New York Post. “Bill O’Reilly said it was ‘almost inconceivable’ that the Democrats would renominate President Biden, claiming that he has ‘dementia’ and that the only hope for the party is to tap Michelle Obama to run for the White House.
Gender-appropriation ‘good'; cultural-appropriation ‘bad.’ From: Roger Simon/Epoch Times. Many men are appropriating women, actually becoming them, in a new form of left-wing misogyny you would think would alarm "feminists"... Somehow, it doesn’t...