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.
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.
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.
