⭐️ Victor Davis Hanson: Who really are the lawless and the dictatorial? From: American Greatness. The left cries “dictatorship” while wielding the courts, agencies, and media to undermine laws, crush dissent, and call it democracy.
The steep price of declining civility. From: Barry Brownstein/Daily Economy. Alexandra Hudson’s ‘The Soul of Civility’ reminds us that our everyday moral habits shape not just personal character, but the very health of civilization.
👏 Welcoming anti-Trump liberals to the free trade club. From: Katherine Mangu-Ward/Reason. The real case for free trade is not "my enemies hate it" or "it's cheaper for me, personally" but "it makes the world richer, freer, and more peaceful."
Trump administration rounds up nearly 1,500 migrants in Massachusetts alone - the biggest ICE sweep yet. From: Emma Richter/Daily Mail. A total of 1,461 have been arrested in the state during the month of May.
🎯 Is birthright citizenship a national suicide pact? From: Frank Miele/Real Clear Politics. Trump wants to ban birthright citizenship. “Not so fast,” said attorneys for illegal aliens and their children. “Our clients snuck across the border fair and square and they want the prize promised them by the Constitution.”
How Trump is cutting off the wasteful green-energy cash spigot. From: Jonathan Lesser/NY Post. Far from being temporary, federal tax credits for green-energy projects have become a permanent crutch — while socking us with soaring electricity rates.
🤐 Marco Rubio declares war on the global censors. From: Jonathan Turley. It constitutes the first meaningful response to the growing threat of Europe to free speech in the United States.
Never forget their excuses for lockdowns. From: John Tamny/Brownstone Institute. Shamefully and tragically, some of the foremost organizations and individuals devoted to liberty sat out the tragedy and seemingly defend their inaction to this day by hiding behind medicine, science, and a lack of information.
🤬 COVID doubts made you a ‘violent extremist.’ From: Jim Bovard/Libertarian Institute. Biden administration policymakers hated you more than you knew.
Can even God wean the self-preserving machine off its addiction to tax, spend, and debt? From: Tipp Insights Editorial Board. As debates about the federal government's size, scope, and spending grow louder, it's worth asking: Who actually depends on Washington?
🥚 Egg prices have dropped 61% since Trump took office. From: Frieda Powers/American Wire. President Donald Trump’s critics have been left with egg on their faces as another one of their fearmongering narratives has imploded.
Does the working class vote against its interests? From: Justin Vassallo/Liberal Patriot. A perennially misguided question among progressives.
🔎 Black Lives Matter was an outbreak of global hysteria. From: Lionel Shriver/Spiked. Five years on, you would be hard-pressed to name a single benefit of the so-called racial reckoning.
Abolish the National Park Service. From: Eric Boehm/Reason. Revising how America's most beautiful public lands are protected would create more ways for Americans to interact with some of the best parts of the country.
👉 The Southern cause: What led to secession. From: Wnjiru Njoya/Mises Institute. The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the institution of slavery was being threatened, so they left the union. However, the real causes are more complex.
Rock star Bono twists death projections in defense of corrupt USAID. From: M D Kittle/The Federalist. The sanctimonious U2 front man claims 300,000 people have died because of the Trump administration, but that isn’t true.