The best part is when they start defending illegal immigration because we need cheap labor to harvest our food. Essentially saying the illegals they claim they support are needed to work for slave wages while none of the protections they always demand for blue collar work apply. Otherwise, hiring legal workers would be no more expensive.

The loophole was never meant for mass direct to consumer imports. It was created in the brick and mortar days when the only direct shipments were usually between people or samples being sent for inspection. Imports sold through stores were imported in bulk and paid customs. The Internet and cheap shipping made the loophole exploitable. Vendors started bypassing importers and selling direct. Good for the consumer, but bad for US business and employees.

This won't move a bunch of the cheap junk to US manufacturing, but it will help domestic sellers like Amazon, Target and Walmart. Bulk shipments to US warehouses will be easier and cheaper. This will lead to more US employment (until the robots take over warehouse work)

It's the actual regulations that are preventing new providers. The issue is over regulation which protects the incumbents.

The Roe ruling was so convoluted and had no real basis in law. All Dobbs did was throw out a politically contrived decision and sent the matter back to politicians in every state. Putting the moral decision of abortion in the hands of voters. Something that's actually about democracy which I'd expect the party that keeps screaming about democracy being at risk to be all for.

Most regulation does not accomplish what you think it does. Most government regulation of industry helps protect the existing, large incumbents and places hefty barriers of entry to new comers. While the regulation has some benefits to consumers, it ultimately serves to protect the entrenched, slows innovation, and ultimately stagnates or increases prices because new competition does not enter the market and create either surplus or price pressures.

I'm not wanting zero regulation, but there's a turning point of negative return. Light regulations that promote safety and prevent fraud can be good. But once companies have to hire entire teams of lawyers and accountants to understand and audit regulations, they've gone too far. When large, incumbent corporations start supporting regulations (and send campaign dollars to the politicians pushing them), you know they've become a protectionist racket, not a consumer protection policy.

They followed the same process Musk has employed at Tesla for years. Eliminate a bunch of positions and see if something breaks. If it breaks, add back small amounts until it works again. If it doesn't break, eliminate more. It might be a heartless process, but it's effective and quick.

The bureaucracy is part of the Executive branch. The President is the only elected person in the Executive branch. Bureaucrats do not exist to keep the President's power in check. They exist to do the President's work. Any person in the bureaucracy actively attempting to stop the President's agenda is not doing their job. They are not elected. They're hired employees. They have no power in a democracy. Every four years the voters choose a President and their agenda. The bureaucracy is obliged to follow that elected President's agenda. The only 'check' to that power should be informing Congress if they're being directed to do something illegal.

Keeping the President's power in check is the job of the other two branches - Congress and the Supreme Court. And beyond that, the voters. who elect both Congress and the President.

More along the lines well before they know what transgender actually means, they've been told it's a great thing. So adolescents that should be left as adolescents are suddenly talking about gender well before puberty and even longer before they have the maturity to understand such things. All kids go through periods of doubt and questioning who they are. Fantasizing about being someone or something different. It's normal. What isn't normal is adults jumping on that questioning and deciding a kid figuring out who they are should now be something they're not for the rest of their lives. If a kid spends a week pretending to be a dog, should we start treating them like one?

We need to just go back to letting kids be kids, growing and learning, and stop pushing the current political trends on them. They'll have plenty of time when they're adults to make their own choices when they have more maturity and are far less impressionable.

In other words, money is confiscated from industry that actually does things people need and is then given to the well connected green groups that peddle 'solutions' that don't really do anything. Cap and trade is a farce. No different than many of the carbon offset programs. Most environmental legislation is a racket that deeply funds leftist politicians in return for feeding more tax money in to their pockets.

Yes, there are some legitimate and useful environmental things that get done. But the vast majority are just enriching a small group of people that in turn make large donations to politicians that then pass through legislation written by those people to mandate more money flows to them. The green economy is just a cesspool of graft and corruption.

And just eight years prior, the Obama campaign was being praised for how innovative they were for doing the exact same thing. Then, because a conservative won an election utilizing the techniques that were prior greatly celebrated by liberals, it was suddenly a bad thing.

Having your credit card linked to be paid in full from your checking account is stupid. If you have a fraudulent charge, your bank account could be drained before you have a chance to dispute it and get it removed. The best use case for using a credit card is fraud protection so that your liquid funds are isolated and protected. It's one thing if my credit card gets temporarily maxed out from fraud. It's another if my checking account is temporally empty due to fraud.

Don't forget the government's capability in the student loan mess. When they federalized student loans and made it easy for everyone to get loans, colleges figured out that the government was creating a surplus of money to be spent and tuition rates skyrocketed. Most of that additional tuition going to a growing bureaucracy in colleges, not to improved education. So the government made money easy to get, leading to higher tuition costs, leading to young adults having more debt. Many of those loans used to finance degrees that don't have the earning potential to pay them off comfortably. Good intentions led to dour consequences.

This is useless propaganda/back patting. First, the vast majority are level 2 chargers. They're not equivalent to gas pumps. Although they do help reduce the need for gas pump replacements as local travel can be recharged over night if the chargers counted are residential. Secondly, a one to one replacement of gas pumps with level 3 chargers is not sufficient. You need to account for volume in the replacement count. If a level 3 charger takes 5 times longer to recharge a car than a gas pump does to refill a car, then you really need a 5 to 1 replacement rate along highway corridors.

Because the political winds have changed and people are starting to feel like they can speak up without fear or censorship and professional reprisal? There was a very concerted effort in both the US and Europe to label anything not adhering to the official state narrative as 'misinformation' and consequences for those that dared express opposing views.

Because scientists are not people that inherently have biases? If you follow your bias in research, you can usually find something to back up your hypothesis while ignoring the several things that do not. Meanwhile, the spy agencies were listening to and watching the Chinese government. Rather than guessing and looking for evidence to support a pre-ordained political viewpoint, the spies were looking at first hand responses at the epicenter of the outbreak.