In what is being described as “one of the biggest abdications of power we have seen on the part of our government in modern time,” the United States Senate is now three years into their failure to do their most basic legal responsibility: passing …

I have argued numerous times that the left’s policies—incessant marketing to the contrary notwithstanding—don’t actually help the poor. I have also argued at length that conservatives, Republicans, and free-marketeers everywhere should go on offense on that very point.

One of the many exhibits in evidence …

Perhaps human nature leaders inexorably to centralization. When something bad happens, everyone says, “Something ought to be done” or “There oughta be a law!” And humans, being what we are, look to the biggest figure—the president, and/or the federal government—as the one who ought to be doing something. And the media just make all this …