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July 16, 2019

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Marching to a Federal Debt Crisis ([link removed] )

Canada escaped a debt spiral in the 1990s as a left-of-center government imposed and sustained sharp spending cuts. We can and should do that here, now, yet virtually all members of Congress appear uninterested in reform.

- “Marching to a Federal Debt Crisis ([link removed] ) ,” by Chris Edwards

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Whichever Way You Slice It, Courts Have Made a Mess in Applying the ADA to Websites ([link removed] )

This is what happens when Congress declines to legislate clear rules for the business world.

- “Whichever Way You Slice It, Courts Have Made a Mess in Applying the ADA to Websites ([link removed] ) ,” by Ilya Shapiro and Sam Spiegelman

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Are Free Trade’s Best Days Behind Us? ([link removed] )

What exactly went wrong with U.S. leadership of a rules-based trading system?

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Eleventh Circuit Grants Immunity to Officer Who Shot Child Lying on the Ground ([link removed] )

Without even deciding the constitutional question, a majority of the Eleventh Circuit panel granted qualified immunity to a police officer to accidentally shot a child, simply because there was no case with this particular set of facts as precedent.

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Misleading Project Veritas Accusations of Google “Bias” Could Prompt Bad Law ([link removed] )

Public policy must rest on firm factual grounds, not aspersions and the deliberate misreading of existing statutes. Unfortunately, some members of Congress seem poised to legislate on the basis of misleading propaganda, instead of taking the time to understand how algorithms actually work.

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