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Newsom Signs Laws Banning Shock Gloves And Taxing Immigration Detention Centers Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 21 bills on Sept. 29 aimed at limiting federal immigration enforcement in the state, including a ban on officers using shock gloves and a new 25 percent tax on private detention centers. California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in Los Angeles on Sep. 25, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times"California is taking action to strengthen transparency, accountability, and oversight around immigration enforcement in our state," Newsom said in a statement. "This...

Regulation: Protecting Incumbents And Suppressing Competition Authored by Hal Snarr via Mises Institute, A previous article attributed widespread airline service failures not to individual carriers but to government interventions sold as consumer protections. Through a web of intricate regulations and controls, the state restricts entry, grants shared monopoly privileges to approved carriers, and creates what Rothbard calls a state-enforced cartel. The result is an illusion of competition that allows poor service to persist without attracting better alternatives. This article examines how the same pattern protects incumbents and suppresses competition across other...

The Men Who Own The Ukraine War Now Run It Authored by Thomas S. Karat via AntiWar.com There was a time when the arms dealer waited in the corridor. He financed the campaign, endowed the think tank, took the general to dinner, and hoped the man inside the office would remember him when the contract came up. The wall between the money and the decision was thin, often corrupt, but it was there. Someone held the public trust, and someone else tried to buy it, and you could at least tell...