What Liberals Don't Get: Blacks Often Hurt by Government Regulation

Sept. 5, 2016
Happy Labor Day from Washington, where we've got good reads for any lulls in your holiday. When lawmakers return tomorrow, they'll face a $10 billion budget gap. Philip Wegmann breaks the news. Leah Jessen has two terrific stories, one about a nurse and a pastor who won't be coerced into participating in abortions, the other about a service that removes objectionable content from movies. Plus: Luigi Bradizza on an economist behind the rise of big government, and Walter Williams on how the regulatory state harms black Americans.
News Why a Nurse and a Pastor Object to Being Forced to Help Abort Babies "I became a nurse to help people, but not to do harm," Fe Esperanza Racpan Vinoya, a nurse of 26 years, says. Read More
News Congress Must Close New $10 Billion Gap in Government Spending, Report Says Put another way, last year's budget deal between President Barack Obama and House Republican leadership mandated spending levels that were $10 billion less than the Congressional Budget Office's new projections. Read More
Commentary How This Progressive Educator Laid the Groundwork for Big Government Richard Ely wanted the earth to be redeemed by means of social and economic improvements aimed at solving a broad range of human problems in areas such as education, housing, poverty, and employment. Read More
Commentary What Liberals Don't Get: Blacks Often Hurt by Government Regulation The president of the NAACP's St. Louis chapter, Adolphus Pruitt, has petitioned a circuit court judge to reject the St. Louis Metropolitan Taxicab Commission's conspiratorial call to issue a temporary restraining order that would force Uber to shut down. Read More
News This Company Lets You Filter Explicit Content From Movies VidAngel is a video filtering service started by four brothers who grew up in Idaho, which offers a tool to filter out bad language and graphic scenes from Hollywood productions, making video content family-friendly. Read More
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