Author: nick

[ad_1] Nassau County’s Religious Safety Act “makes it unlawful for any person to,” “from one hour before to one hour after ‘any religious service, community meeting, ceremony, or other congregational, educational or organizational meeting or event,'” demonstrate, picket, protest, distribute literature, display signs, engage in oral advocacy, or other forms of expressive or symbolic conduct, whether conducted individually or in groups, within thirty-five (35) feet of the Entrance Area or Driveway of a Place of Religious Worship. As Judge Sanket Bulsara (E.D.N.Y.) noted Thursday in Borecky v. County of Nassau, this covers (among other things) “wearing a t-shirt that contains…

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[ad_1] ‘The Federalist’ editor in chief Mollie Hemingway, Friday with FNC’s John Roberts, comments on the Democratic Party embracing what has been called “Democratic Socialism.”ZOHRAN MAMDANI: That old way of thinking will lose on Tuesday. And frankly, it will lose in South Carolina and New Hampshire. It will fall short of 270 electoral votes.JOHN ROBERTS: These candidates on the far left, they’re not just in it to get elected. They’re in it to boot out the establishment.MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: What Mamdani is talking about there is a very real thing that the Democratic Party went through, really when they decided in…

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[ad_1] Like his progressive comrades, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has an ambitious big-government agenda he proposes to fund by forcing “rich” people to pay their “fair share.” While the word billionaires is often thrown around, smart people understand that wealth will have to be defined generously to pay for everything proposed, and that “fair share” always means more. Even so, lots of Americans are on board with the idea of forcing people they consider rich to pay higher taxes. What they don’t understand, and what progressives won’t acknowledge, is that the U.S. already puts a heavier burden on…

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[ad_1] This week was the first meeting under new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh of the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee (FOMC). Warsh has promised to restructure the Fed, but it is still not clear he means by this. Donald Trump very explicitly picked Warsh because he expected that he would lower interest rates. That goes against Warsh’s past history of being an inflation hawk. In his earlier tenure as a Fed governor during the Great Recession, Warsh was arguing against expansionary monetary policy even when the unemployment rate was close to 10%. And he was concerned about hyperinflation when…

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[ad_1] In my last Brownstone article: The Rise of the Meme Disease, I cast the healthcare profession that I have devoted my life to in a very unfavorable light. However, before everyone writes off the healthcare industry as a total fraud, let me assure you that there are instances where medical advancements have been of great value. In fact, the reason I have outlived close members of my family by 20-30+ years is almost certainly due to treatments available to me that were not available to them.  During the 1970s, when I attended medical school and did my residency training, engineering…

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