Links for 2–5-24

keep spending, squeeze taxpayers

IRS to boost enforcement workforce by 40 percent by year-end 2024. From: Epoch Times. Rather than cut spending, the feds want to further squeeze taxpayers.

👉 Democracy in decline: The subversion of rule of law. From: Roger Kimball/American Greatness. There are many signs and portents that signal the guttering of the rule of law and its replacement: rule by law. It is an autumnal sign—a sign of civilization at the end of its tether.

Defenders of ‘democracy’ want Voter ID off ballot. From: Las Vegas Review-Journal. Why are progressives — particularly an “immigrant advocacy group” — so insistent on opposing Voter ID requirements?

🎯 Drug war delusion: Exposing a futile charade. From: Karl Dickey/Palm Beach Examiner. “The federal government has spent $1 trillion of our treasure on the War on Drugs, and we are worse off today than when we started.

Schumer and McConnell want senators to pass their $106B border bill without reading it? Hell no. From: The Federalist. Under no circumstances should this bill — which would make massive, permanent changes to immigration law — be passed next week.

🚩 It’s not just students. Forcing responsible citizens to pay off deadbeat debt is catching on. From: WTNH Hartford. Gov. Ned Lamont touts canceling $1 billion in medical debt for Connecticut residents.

Bordering on insanity. From: Bill O’Reilly. For the past three years, Biden has watched his unlawful policy create havoc.

🛻 Why are pickup trucks ridiculously huge? Blame government. From: Steven Greenhut/Reason. Regulations, tariffs, and other government-imposed hurdles reward American car companies for building bigger, more expensive trucks and keep out any potential competitors.

Robot racism: Pittsburgh professor sounds alarm over “interacting with white robots.” From: Jonathan Turley. Of course, making black robots as “servile” would seem to raise other concerns.

⭐️ Unsafe at any speed. From: Eric Peters Autos. Where is Ralph Nader when he might actually be useful? It’s fascinating that the self-appointed “safety” advocate has had nothing to say about the numerous safety problems that attend the pushing of battery powered devices – EVs – onto the roads.

Bay Area elementary school where just 4% of students are proficient in math and 12% in English spent $250K on 'Woke Kindergarten' program where third-grade teacher was told to 'disrupt whiteness', and whose non-binary creator wants to abolish police. From: Daily Mail.

📌 SHORT: Russel Brand - The Nature of Government