“stadium subsidies are a bad deal for the cities and states that make them. “Studies conclusively show subsidies create little to no new jobs and open gaping wounds to public finances,” Americans for Prosperity wrote last year. “The fancy new stadiums might be a good deal for the teams and politicians who voted for the funding, but they are a terrible deal for taxpayers.”
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Trump is not opposing subsidies for the Commanders’ new stadium because he has wised up to the economic case against public funding for private projects.
No, Trump opposes the project—in his telling—because the Commanders dared defy his wishes by switching the team’s name to one he doesn’t like as much.”
“Alexander Ledvina was convicted of violating a federal law that bars illegal drug users from owning guns. Exactly a year later, President Joe Biden, whose administration had zealously defended that law in court, pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for committing the same crime.
Ledvina, a marijuana user who was 26 when he was arrested, was sentenced to four years and three months in federal prison. Hunter Biden, a middle-aged former crack user, faced up to 25 years in prison after he was convicted of illegal gun possession and two related firearm offenses. But thanks to his father’s intervention, he did not suffer any criminal punishment at all.
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Under 18 USC 922(g)(3), “an unlawful user” of “any controlled substance” who receives or possesses a firearm is committing a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.”
Don’t spoil your daughters so that you can benefit society’s fertility rates.
Women tend to marry and have children based on their father’s, or the fathers’ around them when they grew up, income and wealth. So if daughters are spoiled, they are less likely to have children because less men will seem good enough to them.
Supporters of textualism act like it is a simple way of reading the law, but judges who practice textualism often claim a clear text is ambiguous or an ambiguous text is clear based on what fits their political or ideological bias.