Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason, a monthly magazine that covers politics and culture from a libertarian perspective. During two decades in journalism, he has relentlessly skewered authoritarians of the left and the right, making the case for shrinking the realm of politics and expanding the realm of individual choice. Jacobs’ work appears here at AmmoLand News through a license with Creators Syndicate.
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Home distilling, the government argued, “substantially affects interstate commerce in the aggregate” …to justify regulation of noncommercial activity. That law is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Texas ruled!
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Critics say the Supreme Court’s current approach toward the 2nd Amendment is unworkable, it has been undeniably effective at defeating constitutionally dubious gun regulations…
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The Supreme Court ruled that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives exceeded its statutory authority when it tried to ban bump stocks. Nothing to do with 2A!?
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Resident Biden, citing old-timey “gateway drug” concerns, has steadfastly resisted attempts to resolve this conflict by repealing the federal ban on marijuana.
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The Biden Administration’s social media meddling went far beyond ‘information’ or ‘advice’ straight to censorship and constitutional violations of 1st amendment rights.
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The lawlessness fostered by the Chevron doctrine, enables an administrative state that has usurped the judicial power to interpret the statutes under which it operates.
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In January, we learned that President Joe Biden, who had slammed Trump’s “totally irresponsible” handling of classified records, also had retained sensitive material he was not supposed to have.
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O’Connor’s parting dissents at least pointed us in the right direction by explaining why these putatively conservative principles deserve a defense across the political spectrum.
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On Dec. 26, 2018, every American who owned a bump stock, a rifle accessory that facilitates rapid firing, was suddenly guilty of a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison
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Trump cannot call Jack Smith “deranged” or refer to his staff as “thugs” & “political sleazebags.” Such insults, Chutkan worries, are apt to “encourage violence.”
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Israel’s defenders have long argued that it could rightly claim land won in defensive wars. Palestinians should suck it up and start over somewhere else…
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Politicians assert that Facebook et al. are pursuing a left-wing agenda while simultaneously denying that the First Amendment protects their right to do so.
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Eliminating criminal penalties for drug possession, does not require tolerating conduct that offends or alarms people with equal right to use sidewalks and parks.
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Although the HHS-recommended change would benefit researchers and the cannabis industry, it would not resolve the conflict between state and federal marijuana laws.