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Long before a single shot was fired at Lexington or Concord, a revolution was already underway. It was waged with ink rather than arms. As America prepares to mark the 250th anniversary of its independence, it is worth honoring the force that made that independence imaginable: the colonial press. Long before the Declaration of Independence was signed, the concept of American independence had to be imagined, argued, circulated, and defended. That did not occur in hushed conversations. It took place in newspapers and pamphlets, broadsides and printed sermons that transported ideas from town to town and colony to colony. The…
Yesterday, in Make the Road New York v. Mullin, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated a district court’s stay blocking the Department of Homeland Security from applying “expedited removal” processes more broadly. Judge Walker wrote the opinion for the court. Judge Rao concurred in part and concurred in the judgment. Judge Wilkins concurred in part and dissented in part. Given the subject matter of this case, and the panel’s composition, I suspect Make the Road will seek en banc review, and that there’s a strong chance such a petition will be granted, as…
Polish President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a bill to implement MiCA for the third time, just weeks before the end of the EU crypto framework’s transitional period. Polish President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a cryptocurrency regulatory bill for the third time, which sought to implement Europe’s Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) in the country. Nawrocki said Thursday he supports regulating the cryptocurrency market but argued that the government incorporated only one of 16 key amendments proposed by his office. He said that the text was nearly identical to the previous two drafts he refused. The third veto of the bill delays Poland’s alignment…
Andy Burnham Has a Story. He Must Also Have a Plan Source link
It remains to be seen whether such far-Left candidates could appeal to more moderate voters outside the major cities. Source link
Image by Arnaud Mariat. Fatal physics Astrophysicists analyzed light and energy into their components, and figured out how they work together to form stars, black holes, supernovas. Observation of a red shift showed them that galaxies are moving away from us faster than previously thought. If all objects started from the same point, the universe is 13.58 billion years old and will probably exist for another 19 or 20 billion years when star formation will have ceased and galaxies will have burned out. It will continue expanding indefinitely, collapse into a hot nuclear state like the one that preceded the…
Brad Lander, the former city comptroller who made an alliance with Mamdani when they were both running for mayor, took down two-term Rep. Dan Goldman in a landslide victory. Source link
What’s It Your Business, Voter? Source link
Neither Genius Nor Villain, Greenspan Was Merely Human Source link
Two years ago, Illinois passed crowd-pleasing restrictions on credit card interchange fees, which are better known as “swipe fees.” The ban on charging fees on processing payments for tips and taxes has now been delayed twice by skeptical federal judges and lawmakers worried that they’ve crafted a financial mess. These interventions may be saving the state from itself, as a new report points out that the law threatens to hurt consumers, small retailers, and local financial institutions. You are reading The Rattler from J.D. Tuccille and Reason. Get more of J.D.’s commentary on government overreach and threats to everyday liberty.…