The Lighthouse®
Congressional leadership has given up on a $3.5 trillion (or was it $5.5T?) “Build Back Better” spending bill and whittled it down to a much less expensive alternative. But is it that much better?
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Benjamin Powell (The Hill)
The Senate recently passed a $52 billion subsidy for U.S. semiconductor manufacturers. But there is nothing special about the semiconductor industry that justified subsidies. The bill was just wasteful pork-barrel politics as usual. No wonder it had bipartisan support on Capitol Hill.
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Álvaro Vargas Llosa (National Interest)
Russia may have paid a heavy military price for its invasion of Ukraine, but things look different on the economic front. In the first three months of the war alone, Moscow earned $100 billion in revenue from sales of fossil fuels. Sanctions-wielding Western countries, with winter coming, continue to see their economies crater. Putin has no incentive to end his war anytime time soon....
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Ivan Eland (Real Clear Policy)
The blockbuster Supreme Court cases on abortion, guns, religion, and climate change have now capped the Court’s session. A common theme? Legislatures, not courts, should legislate. The Framers would be proud.
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Volume 25, Issue 30: July 26, 2022
John C. Goodman (Forbes)
Congressional leadership has given up on a $3.5 trillion (or was it $5.5T?) “Build Back Better” spending bill and whittled it down to a much less expensive alternative. But is it that much better?
READ MORE »
Benjamin Powell (The Hill)
The Senate recently passed a $52 billion subsidy for U.S. semiconductor manufacturers. But there is nothing special about the semiconductor industry that justified subsidies. The bill was just wasteful pork-barrel politics as usual. No wonder it had bipartisan support on Capitol Hill.
READ MORE »
Álvaro Vargas Llosa (National Interest)
Russia may have paid a heavy military price for its invasion of Ukraine, but things look different on the economic front. In the first three months of the war alone, Moscow earned $100 billion in revenue from sales of fossil fuels. Sanctions-wielding Western countries, with winter coming, continue to see their economies crater. Putin has no incentive to end his war anytime time soon....
READ MORE »
Ivan Eland (Real Clear Policy)
The blockbuster Supreme Court cases on abortion, guns, religion, and climate change have now capped the Court’s session. A common theme? Legislatures, not courts, should legislate. The Framers would be proud.
READ MORE »
The Right to Bear Arms
A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class?
A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class?
By Stephen P. Halbrook
The Beacon: New Blog Posts
- The Black Phone’s Christian Themes, by Samuel R. Staley
- Entry Barriers: A Personal Disappreciation, by Caleb S. Fuller
- No Demise for Failed, Wasteful Federal Department of Education, by K. Lloyd Billingsley
- The Return of Carlos Rangel, by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Catalyst: New Articles
- Who Really Needs a Definition of Recession?, by Peter Jacobsen
- What San Francisco Restaurant Laws Say About Progressivism, by Scott Beyer
- First Time Gun Ownership Continues To Soar, by Brady Leonard
