Judicial activism has been a huge problem for decades. Judges and Justices ignoring the Constitution and the law – and instead imposing their personal policy preferences. Pretending they aren’t part of the Judicial Branch – but of the Legislative. The original sin of judicial activism? The Senate has over and over and over again consented […]
Impeaching judges is serious. So am I: “Impeachment is the constitutionally specified means by which an official of the executive or judicial branch may be removed from office for misconduct. There has been considerable controversy about what constitutes an impeachable offense…. “Because ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors’ was a term of art used in English impeachments, […]
The Big Lie everyone told each other in the early 1970s – was that opening trade with Communist China would lead to their government and society becoming more open and free. Big Business wanted to avail themselves of the cost-cutting slave labor the ChiComms were offering. Screw the tens of millions of American employees they […]
Once you know the backstory – this is absolutely hilarious: Apple iPhone Sales Drop at Record Pace: “Sales of Apple’s iPhones fell at their steepest-ever rate, according to data for the three months to the end of March. “The firm said revenue from the iPhone dropped by 17%, compared with the same period a year […]
In February 2017, iMonster Apple (Market Cap: $970 billion) stopped paying Qualcomm for the patented technologies Qualcomm invented – and Apple used in their wireless devices. Please note: Apple had signed multiple contracts – in which they agreed to pay Qualcomm for permission to use the patented technologies Qualcomm invented. Please also note: Apple continued […]
The United States has spent the last half century-plus engaging in a titanic amount of very stupid policies. Plan-by-plan, decision-by-decision – we have been outsourcing our prosperity to the rest of the planet. Trade policy, tax policy, regulatory policy,… – we have spent decades going out of our way to be as dumb as possible […]
Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, I was almost certainly subjected to more frequent and intense political discussions – than the fortunate people in the likes of Peoria, Illinois or Panama City, Florida. (Ahh…Florida.) One of the recurring DC themes – was people here seriously fretting the fact that most of the rest […]
Uber-everything company Amazon (Market Cap: $865 billion) – is a monster. Heralded as a free market success – Amazon has actually engaged in a whole lot of very anti-free market practices to get to be as huge as they are. Amazon’s Anticompetitive History Amazon Has Some Serious Antitrust Issues Amazon’s No-Profit Model: Bleed Competitors to […]
Isn’t judicial activism great? I kid. I’m a kidder. But our title is not an exaggeration. Qualcomm’s Fate In Judge Koh’s Hands As FTC Trial Wraps Who is Judge Lucy Koh?: “(A) United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California…. “On January 20, 2010, President Barack Obama […]
We the People should have known better than to hand the Democrats control of the House of Representatives. To paraphrase P.J. O’Rourke: “Giving money and power to Democrats is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” Except “teenage” is too advanced – the Democrats appear to be stuck in eternal adolescence. We have […]