Source: Quillette
by Jonathan Kay
“The New Democratic Party, which once championed the country’s unions, is now in the hands of a radicalised anti-Israel activist who wants to nationalise grocery sales and shut down oil production.” (03/30/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/03/30/the-tragicomic-death-throes-of-canadas-former-workers-party-2/
Source: Expression
by helloiamcarrie
“Imagine you are engaging in the time-honored American tradition of criticizing your local government. You air your complaints on a website you’ve set up to report on city news — and then the city threatens you with legal action and potential jail time, all because some of your comments feature the city’s seal and logos. That’s what happened to Kyle L’Hommedieu and the local watchdog group he chairs, Take Out The Trash Committee of Cape Coral.” (03/30/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/the-images-a-florida-city-says-only
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by William Harris
“On Feb. 16, students and faculty at the University of North Texas solemnly filed into the Art Building courtyard for a funeral. No person had passed, but principles had departed; the loss they mourned was their own right to speak out free from fear.” (03/30/26)
https://www.fire.org/news/art-under-attack-university-north-texas
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can’t be forced to deprive customers of Internet access on the basis of an unverified complaint about copyright violation. And can’t be held liable for refusing to kill a customer’s access. … Had the high court ruled otherwise, the consequences would have been dire.” (03/30/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/03/30/sonys-scam-scuttled/
Source: In These Times
by Rebecca Burns
“The threat of a city government shutdown loomed large in Chicago in December 2025 as the city faced an end-of-year deadline to close a projected $1.2 billion deficit. To counteract the impact of President Donald Trump’s 2025 tax law, Mayor Brandon Johnson had pitched a budget in October that would require some of the law’s biggest beneficiaries to pay more. His proposed payroll tax — on corporations with more than 1,000 employees — would, according to his administration, amount to less than 0.01% of the Trump tax cuts bestowed on companies like Google and Walmart. But a standoff ensued after a group of Chicago City Council alderpersons — led by Nicole Lee, a former United Airlines executive — announced they would refuse to cross a ’red line’: a new tax on the city’s largest corporations, including United. The group raised the specter of businesses fleeing Chicago in droves, despite a Chicago Sun-Times analysis casting doubt on this claim.” (03/31/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/slogan-inside-labors-new-strategy-tax-the-rich
Source: Independent Institute
by Kristian Fors
“Milton Friedman once famously stated that ‘inflation always and everywhere is a monetary phenomenon.’ Inflation results from an increase in the money supply and a decline in the real value of fiat currency relative to goods and services. Prices can increase for a variety of reasons unrelated to the money supply, but that is not inflation. While the Iran conflict is certainly going to cause government policy-fueled price increases, there is a technical difference between that and inflation. Military actions do not directly cause inflation; however, they can be enabled by inflation, given the government’s capacity to print money and expand the budget.” (03/30/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/30/not-everthing-is-inflation/
Source: The Heartland Institute
by Dalia Marciukaityte
“These days, most people assume that a central bank — in the United States that is the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) — is something that a country has to have. However, the declining purchasing power of our paper money makes more people realize that there is something very wrong with our monetary system, which is controlled by the Fed. Moreover, before the Fed was created in 1914, the United States prospered without experiencing prolonged recessions and depressions. Turns out that a central bank is not something that a country needs, but it is something that financially irresponsible governments and corrupt businesses desire.” (03/30/26)
https://heartland.org/opinion/why-do-we-have-the-federal-reserve-bank/
Source: Liberalism.org
by Radley Balko
“In 2017, six counties in North Carolina changed how they paid their public defenders. Previously, the counties paid private attorneys an hourly rate to represent indigent people charged with crimes. Under the new system, indigent defense would be handled with flat-fee contracts — an attorney would agree to represent a given percentage of a county’s indigent cases in exchange for a set amount of money. Five years later, a study documented the results: People represented under the flat-fee system were more likely to be convicted, far more likely to be incarcerated, and more likely to plead guilty without a trial. Flat-fee lawyers spent less time on each case and were significantly more likely to dispose of a case on the same day they met their clients. … Those outcomes were entirely predictable.” (03/30/26)
https://www.liberalism.org/p/in-criminal-justice-we-get-what-we-pay-for
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“This coming Fourth of July, when Americans will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, there will be an amusing aspect of the celebrations — the fact that Americans today hate everything our American ancestors stood for. But at least the feelings have been mutual; our American ancestors hated everything that today’s Americans stand for. No, I’m not referring to the issue of slavery. I’m referring to the issue of serfdom. Our American ancestors would never have countenanced a society in which the American people are serfs. Today’s Americans, on the other hand, wouldn’t have it any other way; they love their lives of serfdom.” (03/30/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/03/30/hating-our-american-legacy-on-the-fourth-of-july/
Source: The UnPopulist
by Andy Craig
“Both the law and the Constitution expressely ban such diversions because they nullify Congress and turn the president into a king.” (03/30/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-executive-order-diverting