O presidente da Câmara dos Deputados, Hugo Motta (Republicanos – PB), enfrenta o desafio de manter a harmonia entre as bancadas do Partido Liberal (PL) e do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), depois de negociar a anistia aos acusados de envolvimento no 8 de janeiro com ambas as legendas. + Leia mais notícias de Política em Oeste No retorno do feriado de Páscoa, a ministra das Relações Institucionais, Gleisi Hoffmann, deve aproveitar o encontro entre o paraibano e o […]
The Supreme Court. (NA) Last night, the Supreme Court issued a very unusual order in an Alien Enemies Act deportation case. Here it is in its entirety: There is before the Court an application on behalf of a putative class of detainees seeking an injunction against their removal under the Alien Enemies Act. The matter is currently pending before the Fifth Circuit. Upon action by the Fifth Circuit, the Solicitor General is invited to file a response to […]
Caleb O. Brown I have no memory of this story, but my cousin Laura says it occurred. I was fifteen and visiting family in Rapid City, South Dakota. Laura asked me the question every young person has repeatedly heard, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I said I wanted to work at the Cato Institute. When Laura told me this story a few years ago, I asked her what she thought of my answer […]
With James J. Puplava, CFP®, CTS™, CES™, CIS™, CFS™, CAS™, CSS™, FPWM™ Apr 4, 2025 – Buckle up for a wild ride with Jim Puplava and energy guru Mark Mills at the National Center for Energy Analytics as they unpack America’s AI boom and tariff chaos! Mills drops a bombshell: a single AI data center guzzles…
Enquanto o julgamento sobre a manutenção ou não da prisão do ex-presidente Fernando Collor ocorria, nesta sexta-feira, 25, no plenário virtual do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), o ministro Gilmar Mendes pediu um destaque, e a decisão vai ser levada ao plenário físico. + Leia mais notícias de Política em Oeste Ontem à noite, o ministro Alexandre de Moraes rejeito o segundo recurso da defesa e ordenou a detenção do político, condenado a 8 anos e 10 meses, em […]
Tweet Here’s a letter to a long-time friend. Dirk: Thanks for your email in which you write that “free trade is in our best interest only if our trade partners trade freely, otherwise we are foolish to let our guard down.” Your view is widely held, but, with respect, it’s mistaken. The error springs from presuming that protective tariffs are to a nation’s economic security what military spending is to a nation’s territorial security. Just as our government […]
To live is to act (because life is conditional). To act is to choose. To choose is to prefer. To prefer is to value. To think is to act. Therefore, to think is to value. (James Ellias of Inductica calls this the “value axiom.”) Whether we like it or not, we’re immersed in the “ought” world. Hume et al. were wrong. Note the irony: “ought” is associated with choice and free will, yet as long as we are […]
Two police officers who arrested an Iowa college student for driving while intoxicated—even though a breathalyzer test showed he was completely sober—do not get qualified immunity protections for their actions, a panel of federal judges ruled Friday. In 2022, then-19-year-old Tayvin Galanakis was driving in Newton, Iowa, when two police officers—Nathan Winters and Christopher Wing—pulled him over and began asking how much alcohol he had consumed. When Galanakis denied drinking, Winters replied, “What do you mean none?” Body […]