Source: Independent Institute
by Tarnell Brown

“Trump’s latest tariff gambits manage to defy economic logic, statutory limits, and constitutional structure all at once, and that makes them unusually useful as case studies in how not to govern trade. His maneuvers under IEEPA to suspend the de minimis exemption, and under Section 122 of the Trade Act to float a blanket 10 percent tariff on the world, are not just bad policies; they are abuses of delegated power that strip away the very constraints a liberal trading order depends on. They weaponize emergency statutes and obscure balance‑of‑payments language to deliver short‑run political optics while shoving the real costs — economic, legal, and institutional — onto a temporally distant and politically voiceless set of future losers.” (02/23/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/02/23/tariffs-constitution/

Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Robert Corn-Revere

“The president doesn’t like it when late-night TV talk show hosts make fun of him. That undeniable fact is the common denominator for a series of actions that have kept the Federal Communications Commission in the news this past year and why Brendan Carr, its chairman, has been talking lately about the FCC’s ‘equal time’ rule. … There are many reasons why the FCC’s equal time rule is obsolete (and likely unconstitutional in today’s technological environment) and why Carr’s reliance on it to squelch television talk show interviews is wildly inappropriate.” (02/23/26)

https://www.fire.org/news/bad-cop

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Roman Kireev

“The real scandal of our time is not that artificial intelligence is replacing human labor. The scandal is that so much of that labor was misallocated to begin with. AI is not the killer — it is the coroner. For decades, vast portions of the workforce have been diverted away from productive enterprise into roles sustained not by consumer demand, but by the state: subsidized credit, regulatory protection, government contracts, and legal coercion. Entire departments and job functions endured not because they created value, but because they were politically entrenched and institutionally shielded from market forces. This was never sustainable.” (02/23/26)

https://mises.org/power-market/end-artificial-employment

Source: The Dispatch
by Ilya Somin

“The framers of the Constitution wanted to ensure the president would not be able to repeat the abuses of English kings, who imposed taxes without legislative authorization. Under Trump’s interpretation of the law, the president would have virtually unlimited tariff authority, similar to that of an absolute monarch of the kind King Charles I aspired to be. The court decisively rejected this aspiration to unconstrained presidential power. … But the judiciary’s future ability to constrain dangerous presidential power grabs depends in large part on an issue the court managed to avoid in the IEEPA case: whether and to what extent to defer to presidential assertions that an extraordinary situation exists justifying the invocation of sweeping emergency powers.” (02/23/26)

https://archive.is/Vkroh

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“I can’t help but laugh every time I read an account in the mainstream press about how a big drug kingpin has just been killed or captured. Mainstream-press reporters and editorial writers get so excited over the death or capture that they become almost giddy. Their mindset is: ‘Finally — finally! — we are making progress in the drug war!’ Why do I laugh when I see that? Because it is so dumb — so idiotic. How can anyone really buy into this nonsense? I figure it’s a real testament to public schooling’s ability to adversely affect people’s minds. … No killing or capture of any drug lord ever means — or will ever mean — the end of the drug war. It will just keep going on and on.” (02/23/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/02/23/another-drug-lord-killed-is-the-drug-war-now-over/