The Protean Progressive Free Speech Clause
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Progressives spent many decades expanding the Free Speech Clause. Are they starting to reverse course?
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Can Big Government Fend Off Human Extinction?
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World to end; experts hardest hit.,
(Still) Against Degrowth
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Was anyone smarter than Freeman Dyson? In 1965 a Nobel Prize was awarded to three physicists who developed the field of quantum electrodynamics; but it was Dyson who made these men’s disparate theories cohere with one another. Many mind-bending concepts bear his name. In the “Dyson Scenario,” for instance, an immortal society uses a finite … Continued
A Word For Business As Usual: Now As Ever, Corporate Success Is American Success
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Yamamoto Tsunetomo was a rōnin and monk of the mid-Edo period. After his death in 1719, one of his students compiled his sayings into a treatise on Bushido called Hagakure (“In the Shadow of Leaves”). Tsunetomo believed that a samurai must be quiet, selfless, rigorous, and fanatically devoted to service and duty. The highest good, … Continued
Teen Vaping Is Bad. So Are Many Ad Campaigns Against Teen Vaping.
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Bright children are often skeptical of authority. They spot early on that many adults are stupid, and that the self-righteous ones are reliably the stupidest of all. The most strenuous posturing, they quickly realize, is usually the most spurious as well. The young’s awareness that the old don’t know what they’re doing is a central … Continued
Doubting The AI Mystics: Dramatic Predictions About AI Obscure Its Concrete Benefits
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Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly. In a few decades machines will achieve superintelligence and become self-improving. Soon after that happens we will launch a thousand ships into space. These probes will land on distant planets, moons, asteroids, and comets. Using AI and terabytes of code, they will then nano‑assemble local particles into living organisms. Each … Continued
EPA Finally Flexes Some Preemption Muscle
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Lawrence S. Ebner is founder of Capital Appellate Advocacy PLLC, a boutique law firm in Washington, DC that provides independent appellate advocacy for businesses and industries throughout the United States. The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the federal pesticide statute, gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exclusive authority to regulate the content of … Continued
The Qualcomm Antitrust Case: A Window on Our Vast, Dysfunctional Federal Government
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By Corbin K. Barthold, Senior Litigation Counsel at Washington Legal Foundation. In 2017 the Federal Trade Commission sued Qualcomm for antitrust violations. In May a federal trial judge in San Jose ruled for the FTC and imposed broad restrictions on how Qualcomm may sell its technology and its products. Qualcomm’s appeal is pending before the … Continued
Business lobby prods 9th Circuit to revisit decision curbing consumer arbitration
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Qualcomm Can’t Put ‘Blinders’ On 9th Circ., Cell Buyers Say
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