Big government
A Michigan woman got a permit for her chickens. She’s now being fined $80,000.
The city of Douglas, Michigan, is determined to take the "free" out of "free range." In 2023, Kathryn Sarkisian, a resident of the Lake Michigan tourist town, wanted to do something that seemed simple…
Restoring the Navajo-Churro sheep population
The course of Lyle McNeal's life changed in 1972. Then a professor in California Polytechnic State University's Animal Science Department, McNeal led the college's Boots and Spurs club on a weeklong trip to the…
Brad Pitt’s ‘F1’ is a perfect summer blockbuster movie
F1 is not the best movie I have seen this year. It is formulaic, predictable, frequently absurd, and more than a little bit shameless. But while it is not the best, it is the most roaringly entertaining, a nearly perfect…
Riots and assassinations are signs that government is too powerful
As should be obvious to anybody following news about riots, assassinations, and arson attacks, politics have become far too important in America. With government large, growing, and reaching into every nook and cranny of our…
Parades are great, but we shouldn’t venerate the military
As military parades go, the celebration in Washington, D.C. turned out to be an innocuous affair and not the triumph of fascist pageantry its loudest critics feared. Soldiers paraded in period uniforms and old and modern…
How the Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau reduced its staff and got more efficient
With the Department of Government Efficiency aiming to reduce the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy, the Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) has not been immune. The agency recently reported a 13 percent reduction in…
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