By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 20, 2024 The Environmental Protection Agency somewhat eased CO2 emissions requirements through 2030 from its proposal last spring while maintaining essentially the same end-point for 2032. That means gas-powered cars can make up no more than 30% of auto sales by 2032. Make no mistake: This is a coerced phase-out of gas-powered...

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – March 20, 2024 A Gallup survey released on Thursday contains both good news and bad news. First, the good news: If you’re over the age of 60, you’re probably one of the happiest people on earth. According to the pollster’s “World Happiness Report,” which evaluated relative self-reported levels of happiness in 140 countries worldwide,...

MRC researchers have found 41 times where Google interfered in elections over the last 16 years, and its impact has surged dramatically, making it evermore harmful to democracy. In every case, Google harmed the candidates–regardless of party–who threatened its left-wing candidate of choice.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 17, 2024 The Supreme Court considers if government can coerce social-media platforms to censor content it doesn’t like. In Murthy v. Missouri, states and individuals whose posts on Covid were censored sued federal officials for violating the First Amendment. Lower courts ruled for the plaintiffs based on copious evidence that government officials...

The left has a new goal: degrowth. We should “buy less stuff,” forgive debts, grow our own food, etc.

By: Jonathan Haidt – theatlantic.com – March 13, 2024 The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development. Something went suddenly and horribly wrong for adolescents in the early 2010s. By now you’ve likely seen the statistics: Rates of depression and anxiety in the United States—fairly stable in the 2000s—rose by more than 50 percent in many studies...

News Release For Immediate Release: 2.28.24 – Hulu Quickly Reverses Course, Approves Church Ad Promoting Worship Service  Law firm hopes television platform will publish advertising policy and apply it fairly to avoid future conflicts. Ft. Worth, TX—First Liberty Institute today announced that Hulu has reversed itself and accepted a Fort Worth, Texas church’s advertisement promoting its new weeknight church services....

Pro-life researchers are questioning an academic publishing company’s decision to retract studies that suggested significant health risks associated with taking chemical abortion drugs as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear a case related to the abortion pill.

Just when we thought the extent of the federal government’s censorship had been fully revealed, an entirely new industry has been exposed as a partner in burying dissent and subverting the First Amendment.

This week, I tried out the Apple Vision Pro. That’s the device you’ve been seeing on the news: the bulky, unwieldy headgear; the bizarre images of people attempting to manipulate the air in front of them; even some people driving while looking like Geordi La Forge from “Star Trek.”