March 24, 2025

PUBLIUS:

Imagine for a second that an organization existed that carefully and deliberately planned and executed the firebombing and destruction of a certain brand of automobiles and its dealerships, and the support infrastructure for that brand, with the purpose of such attacks being to extort others into silence and submission.

Back in the day we would have considered that a criminal conspiracy (in all likelihood under RICO laws), and we would have arrested and prosecuted the leaders of that rogue, terrorist organization.

Guess what? You don’t have to imagine. That organization exists today and it’s called the “Democrat Party.”

It’s (D)ifferent when they do it.

Posted at 2:49 pm by Stephen Green 88

FORWARD THIS TO YOUR CONGRESSCRITTER:

Full text:

Have you heard about the so-called Argentinian economic miracle? I have news: there is no miracle. This is a lie.

I am the chairman of President Milei’s council of advisors, and I want you to know that there is no miracle here at all.

You read that correctly. No miracle whatsoever.

What you are witnessing is the most impressive turnaround in the country’s history.

We slashed wasteful spending that once enriched the few at the expense of the many.

We brought down inflation—a tax that disproportionately burdens the poor. As a result, we lowered poverty rates by more than 11% and lifted millions out of poverty

We eliminated the thousands of pickets that made travel across the country a nightmare. Imagine the relief of breathing in fresh air after years of suffocating congestion.

Welfare programs? The left’s favorite: they mostly served politicians. They even stole food from the poor. Yes. They stole food from the poor.

Now, welfare flows directly to those who need it most.

At the core of our strategy, we eradicated the source of the macroeconomic instability that had plagued our nation for so long: we eliminated the fiscal deficit. We now run a fiscal surplus, which has dramatically reduced our country risk—from the 3000s to the 700s.

A miracle, some say? How dare they!

This is not a miracle. This is hard work. This is putting the country first, not politicians.

Why is the opposition protesting so fervently? Not because they care for the people or the nation, but because they fear the truth—that they have been the problem all along. Their time is over.

Again, this is not a miracle.

This is hard work. This is having a vision, formulating a plan, and executing it without fear. This is having the guts to do what is right. This is president
@JMilei
leadership.

The jig is up for the left. They have nothing, and they never did. They do not love the poor. They love poverty.

Now, tell me again that this is a miracle.

We didn’t know it was impossible—so we did it.

Viva la libertad, carajo!

Once more, with feeling: This is no time to go wobbly.

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green 67

OBAMACARE MADE EVERYTHING WORSE EXCEPT FOR THE WELL-CONNECTED:

Posted at 1:56 pm by Stephen Green 152

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

“While calling for maximum transparency from DOGE,” Winters replied.

Posted at 1:44 pm by Stephen Green 51

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Pam Bondi Warns Jasmine Crockett to ‘Tread Carefully’ After Threat to ‘Take Down’ Elon, Crockett Responds.

Crockett swiftly ran to MSNBC’s Alex Witt to “set the record straight,” dismissing Bondi’s threat with a defense suggesting she wasn’t being literal when she told rabid followers to take down Musk. It was the Tesla stock she was referencing.

“I wasn’t calling for violence,” she said. “It’s ridiculous that I even have to say something like that. But because they are trying to twist our words, one of the things that I told people to do is make sure you are adhering to the laws in your area.”

In her usual dismissive attitude, Crockett reiterated her explanation for the “slow people listening,” which was a reference to Bondi but likely more appropriate to anyone watching MSNBC.

“I just want to say that I have never promoted violence whatsoever,” she claimed without evidence.

Her track record, however, betrays the slow congresswoman, as Crockett has repeatedly made incendiary remarks that could be construed as a call to violence against Trump administration officials.

And other Republicans:

Related: Crockett and “code-switching:” You Should Learn to Code. “Apparently, for Crockett, code-switching from proper English down to the vulgate is important to reach out to her voters — because, apparently, speaking like an educated person just puts them all off.”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll 109

GOOD ADVICE FROM MY CONGRESSMAN:

Though it’s really advice for Mike Johnson and John Thune.

Related: Voter ID law and election integrity should be top priority in new Congress. Voters want it, and with good reason.

UPDATE: From the comments: “It would be interesting for Johnson and Thune to prepare and circulate the aforementioned list of five things I got done last week. From this distance we can’t see anything happening and it is disconcerting.”

Posted at 1:25 pm by Glenn Reynolds 66

FEDS TELL MED SCHOOLS TO STOP DISCRIMINATING. Seriously, can all these institutions please just stop engaging in racial discrimination? Just judge people as individuals. You have admission and hiring processes to allow for precisely that. Until they can make this happen, nobody has any reason to believe anything they say.

Posted at 1:23 pm by Robert Shibley 23

MONOPOLY ROUND-UP: The Democrats’ Corporate Lawyers Get the Humiliation They Deserve.

Lots of monopoly related news, as usual. But I want to start with an important moment in the Democratic Party establishment. Donald Trump got a major corporate law firm, pretty much the shadow Kamala Harris administration in waiting, to bend the knee. At the same time, there were massive outpourings of popular anger towards oligarchs at rallies held by Bernie Sanders, as well as rage from Democratic voters towards their own leaders at town halls. The Democratic Party is in chaos.

Let’s dive in.

For a long time, I’ve discussed a secret center of power in America, what is known as “Big Law,” a network of law firms who serve as a shadow government for the out-of-power party.

Lawyers have always had a special place in America. They must maintain a dual loyalty, serving clients with advice and court representation, but serving the public as officers of the court. There’s a dense ethical code lawyers must maintain. For instance, they can’t help their clients break the law, and they can’t switch sides in a dispute.

In 1931, Robert Jackson, who later served on the Supreme Court, gave a speech to the American Bar Association making that point. “We believe in an independent bar, free not only from government control, but intellectually independent of client control,” he said. “In the client-and-attorney relation the client is not a master, the lawyer is not a mere hired hand. He is an officer of the Court, with a duty of independent judgment in the performance of his professional service and under a duty to serve all sorts and conditions of men.”

But Jackson, along with men he admired such as Louis Brandeis, did not feel that lawyers, especially those in New York working for financial firms, lived up to their billing, instead seeking to twist the law on behalf of the powerful. And the problem is much worse in modern America, dominated as it is by oligarchs. This is especially true in cloistered specialities, like antitrust.

A few years ago, I spoke at the American Bar Association Antitrust Section, and observed the rage the gathered corporate lawyers felt towards anti-monopolists for barging into their club. While I noted at the time the legal elements of the disagreement, there’s a political element as well. These lawyers are the Democratic establishment, the real thinkers and operatives behind the frontmen like Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer and candidates like Kamala Harris and Barack Obama. And it’s been this way for decades, such that it’s systematized. Young ambitious liberals have to get their few years at one of these firms and then they can be considered a real lawyer.

Exit quote: “You can’t understand the Democrats without understanding big law. Paul Weiss is the Dem establishment. Hakeem Jeffries worked there for six years. Schumer’s brother is a partner there, as are two Obama cabinet members. Sotomayor, Kagan, and RBG were all summer associates there.”

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll 27

RIP: Former Congresswoman Mia Love Dies at 49.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I interviewed her a couple of times and quite liked her. I also remember that her favorite economist was Frederic Bastiat, which was surely unique for the House of Representatives.

Posted at 1:13 pm by Stephen Green 34