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My intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy exposes an atrocious shake-down operation run by the U.S. Department of Labor.

I’m very glad that John Tamny responded to Michael Lind’s weak recent essay in the Wall Street Journal. A slice:

Except that what’s really “snobbish” is the belief that workers shouldn’t “move to opportunity.” It’s snobblish because it insults the very people who made the U.S. great by risking everything (including their lives) on the way to crossing borders and oceans in order to taste personal and economic freedom in the United States. These intrepid individuals were of course promised nothing if they were lucky enough to reach the U.S., but made the ultimate leap on the assumption that freedom to achieve would be all they would need to better themselves economically.

Merrill Matthews isn’t among those who credit the currently strong U.S. economy to Trump’s tariffs punitive taxes on Americans who buy imports.

What is partly responsible for today’s strong economy is the (relative) deregulation that has so far occurred under Trump.

David Harsanyi is dismayed, rightly so, at Democrats’ detachment from economic reality.

When it comes to global-warming alarmism, David Simon says ‘Don’t be like Paul Krugman!

Ronald Radosh writes about the fake historian Howard Zinn.

Chris Edwards compares bureaucracy in New York to bureaucracy in Florida.

As I do nearly every day, Pierre Lemieux wonders what Mencken would say were he still alive.

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