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  • Winter 2010-2011
    Regulation
    More Efficient Justice?
    … dispensing justice, but they did not put any money into the coffers of the king. Hence, the authors write, “Centralized police and courts were created to bring revenue to the state.” Whereas under Anglo‐​Saxon rule the courts demanded that …
    By George C. Leef
  • June 16, 2006
    Blog
    WWTD?
    … Article II of the Constitution.” Luckily, neither Judge Pine nor the Supremes bought it. Then there’s that minor undeclared “police action” on the Korean peninsula. Wonderfully unilateral there as well, as far as Congress goes. If, like Boot, you …
    By Gene Healy
  • August 20, 2024
    The UnPopulist
    Democrats Are Still Not Thinking Seriously About Preventing Another Jan. 6
    Democrats Are Still Not Thinking Seriously About Preventing Another Jan. 6
    … proposals to increase the penalties for attempted insurrections and strengthen both oversight and the capabilities of the U.S. Capitol Police remain sound and vital reform measures. Yet even as the Select Committee report chronicled how Trump attempted to use …
    By Patrick G. Eddington
  • March 1, 2002
    Cato.org
    A Quality Teacher in Every Classroom
    … to put 100,000 quality teachers in U.S. schools. Bill Clinton’s COPS program, which promised 100,000 new police officers on the streets, showed how wasteful such federal meddling can be. Large portions of the money from COPS …
    By David F. Salisbury
  • April 3, 2019
    Blog
    Mexican Immigration Enforcement Has Declined in Effectiveness
    … possibly other sources. It is worth noting that Mexico’s military also engages in immigration enforcement activities, and the federal police force also participates to some extent. Focusing solely on the period for which we have data, Mexico improved its …
    By David J. Bier
  • June 3, 2016
    CapX
    Good Luck and High Taxes
    … paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for…” More recently, Professor Robert Frank of Cornell University …
    By Marian L. Tupy
  • February 28, 2003
    Washington Times
    Taking the D.C. Gun Ban To Court
    … but fears arrest, prosecution, incarceration and fine because of D.C.‘s gun ban. A second plaintiff is a special police officer who carries a handgun to provide security for the Thurgood Marshall Judicial Center. But when he applied for …
    By Robert A. Levy
  • November 2, 2002
    Cato.org
    Media Bias?
    By Thomas R. DeGregori
  • July 1, 2020
    Blog
    Accounting For The COVID-19 Case Spike
    The new spike in cases of the novel coronavirus tends to confirm some previously noted patterns: outdoor events are unlikely to spread the virus, while close socializing in indoor groups tends to further it.  
    By Walter Olson
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