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Why Is the U.S. Military Buying Tinder Ads in Lebanon?
Independent journalist Séamus Malekafzali, an American who lives in Beirut, wanted to make some plans for the weekend. So he opened up Tinder, the location-based dating app. But instead of interested singles, he found an apparent ad from his own government threatening to bomb his city. "The United States...
Party of COVID-19 Authoritarianism Improbably Rebrands as 'Party of Freedom'
For a while there last night, it looked like variations on the word joy had a puncher's chance of outnumbering references to freedom at the relentlessly message-disciplined day three of the Democratic National Convention. When onetime party rising star Sen. Cory Booker (D–N.J.) informed us about one-third of the way...
Trump and Harris' Economic Plans Are Depressingly Similar
As we approach another pivotal election, voters are once again being bombarded with messaging that paints the two main candidates as opposites. We're told Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump represent radically different visions for America's economic future. They don't. When it comes to economic policy, there's far less daylight between Harris and Trump than either would care to admit.
Kamala Harris' Affordability Agenda Is a Good Idea Backed by Terrible Policies
If there's one thing the last 50 years of American politics have proven, it's that voters hate inflation. If there's another, it's that politicians seeking to capitalize on that hatred will propose unproductive, unworkable, and unaffordable policies to counter rising prices. So it is with Vice President Kamala Harris. In...
The Dumb and Dumber of Kamala's 'Greedflation' Narrative
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' new call to regulate food prices and block mergers has drawn enormous flak from economists, given the poor track record of price controls. Democrats think they can make political headway with a "greedflation" narrative, blaming rising prices on business profit-seeking. There are both disreputable and...
Can't Get Case Sealed Just Because "People Ask Me About [It]"
From yesterday's decision by Magistrate Judge Patricia Cohen (E.D. Mo.) in Contejean v. Ameren:. This matter is before the Court on self-represented Plaintiff's letter to the Court requesting that her "case be removed from the internet[,]" which the Court interprets as a motion to seal the "case." On July 22, 2024, Plaintiff filed a complaint bringing claims of race and age discrimination and retaliation under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.
Democrats Aren't the Freedom Party
Party of freedom? Democrats make it hard for me to own a gun. They make it hard for me to get a gas stove or use the dishwasher I want to. Last year, the Democrats in my city tried to implement a tax on every single Amazon delivery that makes it to my doorstep. They keep legalizing weed, then failing to permit dispensaries so that they can operate within the bounds of the law, so I still buy on the black market. During COVID-19, they made gathering for Mass essentially illegal, forcing capacity and distancing restrictions on people who simply wanted to worship. Don't get me started on the taxes I'm forced to pay—money I earned, but can't direct as I see fit—or the fact that, once I start homeschooling my son, I'll have to ask for permission from the state.
First Amendment Doesn't Protect Speech That Solicits a Specific Crime
Calling for the burning of a particular mosque, for instance, or the bombing of a particular police station, or the killing of a particular person (politician, police officer, activist, or anyone else) may be constitutionally unprotected solicitation.
"All the Craziness … Needs to Stop Totally"
The heading of the post comes from a 2019 Wisconsin restraining order case. The judge there ordered a woman "to cease posting any information about your parents on social media referencing indirectly or directly reference either one of them"—not just defamatory speech, or threatening speech, or otherwise constitutionally protected speech, but any information about the woman's parents. And the court added, "Court informs the respondent that all the craziness described in these petitions needs to stop totally."
Who Is the Real Kamala Harris? A Big Government Liberal.
She won't take questions from reporters. Instead, she reads from a teleprompter and gives the same speech again and again. So, as she gets the nomination, my new video looks at who Harris really is. She's eager to spend other people's money. As the Biden administration spent America further into...
Brickbat: Don't Even Look
In Belfast, Northern Ireland, Judge Francis Rafferty says he will deny bail to everyone arrested near a riot, even if they did not take part in violence or property damage and were there only as a "curious observer." "Anybody involving themselves in this type of behaviour, this type of disorder, as an active participant or a curious observer can expect to be, save for the most exceptional circumstances, remanded into custody," he said when denying bail to Cameron Armstrong, who claimed to have been at a riot in east Belfast only to "have a look" and left when explosives were thrown.
Thursday Open Thread
Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law. Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any institution.
An Over-Orchestrated Rebellion: Dispatch From the DNC
William Langewiesche, a writer and pilot, once told me that flying a plane was "90 percent boredom, 10 percent terror." I might say the same for the "Make it great like '68! Shut down the [Democratic National Convention] for Gaza!" protest that took place in front of the Israeli consulate in downtown Chicago on Tuesday night. The event was organized by Behind Enemy Lines, and as might be expected from a group whose tagline is "The empire is the enemy. From the belly of the beast, we choose to resist it," participants arrived carrying resistance-ready banners, flags, and bullhorns.
America Is Ready To Party
If you were either viewing or attending the second day of the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, and decided to skip out on the traditional hour-long state-by-state roll call to grab some dinner between the speeches of private pension bailout advocate Kenneth Stribling and professional anti-Trump Republican Ana Navarro, you missed one entertaining and potentially even meaningful spectacle.
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