Links for 6-13-24

failure to protect the law-abiding

🎯 Admission of failure? Democratic cities stop reporting crime stats to FBI. From: Zero Hedge. “Pretty amazing what happens when left-wing cities just stop reporting crime to the FBI..."

Can Biden's new student loan program be stopped? From: Emma Camp/Reason. Several lawsuits are attempting to stop the SAVE program but with uncertain impact.

🚩 The US restaurant industry finds itself on the menu. From: Kevin O’Leary/Daily Mail. Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary reveals why restaurants are closing down across America and warns MORE closures are on the way.

Protectionists are wrong: Free trade is the path to prosperity. From: Vance Ginn/AIER. “Consumers and producers in America are better off with more domestic and international trade. As we don’t want to produce everything we consume daily, trading with others is the most efficient way to meet our needs.”

🔎 How bad economic policies drive out good entrepreneurs. From: Raushan Gross/Mises Wire. Using the political process, bad entrepreneurs can get government to regulate entrepreneurial competition out of business.

Seventh Circuit shrugs, says the odor of legal weed can justify a warrantless vehicle search. From: Tim Cushing/Techdirt. "Odor of marijuana" still remains -- even in an era of widespread legalization -- a favorite method of justifying warrantless searches.

😮 William Sitton doesn’t live here: Tracking Nevada’s dirty voter rolls. From: MD Kittle/The Federalist. Hundreds of questionable addresses remain on Nevada’s voter rolls, and elections officials appear to be doing nothing to clean up the list.

Will Texas repeat California’s bullet train debacle? From: Edward Ring/American Greatness. Texas, if you must have more passenger rail, bring in Acela trains and use existing track. Save your money. Don’t be California.

⭐️ Short vs. long-term thinking. From: Eric Peters Autos. One of the reasons why the car industry is in trouble hasn’t got to do with politics – the mortifying effect of slow, regulatory strangulation of the car industry – although that’s a big one.

‘It’s all a mess’: Internal documents reveal how DEI requirements are hamstringing Biden’s EV agenda. From: Robert Schmad/Daily Caller News. President Joe Biden’s goal of building half a million electric vehicle charging stations across the United States by 2030 is being delayed by diversity, equity and inclusion requirements.

📌 SHORT: Resistance as a Way of Life