The bipartisan proposal to ban ex-Congressmen from lobbying their colleagues is bad and unconstitutional. I wrote about why today at The Federalist.
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China’s Bloody Anniversary
StandardToday is the thirtieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square. The anti-communist revolutions we celebrate in the West have their evil twin in the East, where mass demonstrations did not lead to a freer China, but only to decades more of repression.
China made peace with capitalism since then, but their war on liberty continues unabated. We saw that in the arrests of Christian ministers late last year. In a greater enormity this year, we have seen the morally backward socialist government recreate the worst crimes of the twentieth century as they locked up more than a million Uighurs in concentration camps.
There should be a greater outcry against concentration camps! But maybe because the people there are Muslims from an ethnic group that is relatively unknown in the West, or maybe because our governments care more about the business we do with Red China than the human rights of their citizens, we hear little.
- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a fairly blistering statement against the Chinese government. It’s a good start.
- Helen Raleigh writes for National Review about how China has tried to censor everything about the 1989 uprising.
- She also writes for The Federalist about why the still-anonymous Tank Man was a hero.
- Meanwhile, Silicon Valley shows where its loyalties lie: as Anthony Ha writes for TechCrunch, Twitter engaged in mass suppression of Chinese accounts in the days leading up to the anniversary.
More blogging
StandardWhen I started this site, I intended to do more blogging, but also link to published work. Since then, the published stuff has taken up more and more of my time. This summer, I’d like to try to add some shorter stuff here, like an old-fashioned blog, and to invite more community engagement in the comments. So watch this space for more of the kind of ideas I can’t get anybody to pay me for!
Enough with Everest
StandardToday at The Federalist, I wrote about why no one should climb Mount Everest anymore.
State-Sponsored Tax Evasion
StandardAfter 2017’s federal tax reform, high-tax states are trying everything to hide their taxing habit (everything except cutting taxes, that is). My latest at The Federalist.
$100 Billion-Dollar Man
StandardCory Booker disagrees with Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to break up Facebook. Wonder why? I wrote about it today at The Federalist.
Nobody Needs Postal Banking
StandardPostal banking is a century-old answer to a question that no one is asking. My latest at The Federalist.
Rigging the vote
StandardCalifornia wants to exclude Donald Trump from the 2020 ballot and has joined the unconstitutional pact to require all electors to vote for the popular vote winner. Together, these acts make it near impossible for any Republican to win. I wrote about it today at The Federalist.
5 Things We Learned From Amy Klobuchar’s Town Hall On Fox
StandardI watched Amy Klobuchar’s town hall on FOX so you don’t have to! I wrote up five takeaways from the event for The Federalist.
Where Does the Money Go?
StandardIt’s Tax Day! Today at The Federalist, I wrote about how the government should better inform us about where our money goes each year.