Virginia gun shops have been absolutely swamped ahead of Wednesday, when the state’s “assault firearm” and “large capacity” magazine ban is scheduled to take effect. A preliminary injunction blocking the state police from enforcing the law is currently in place, and plaintiffs in another lawsuit are hoping a judge in Washington County will grant an injunction against enforcement by any law enforcement agency, but I think it’s fair to say that even with one injunction in place many Virginians aren’t confident they’ll still be able to purchase a 20-round magazine or an AR-15 later this week.  …

Memorials across the country often find special ways to honor fallen veterans. The Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Frankfort makes sure veterans are honored every day. Since Veterans Day 1988, a sundial has highlighted each veteran listed at the memorial. On the anniversary of each veteran’s death, the tip of its shadow touches the engraved name of every veteran etched onto a large blue-gray granite plaza. The sundial was designed by the late Helm Roberts, who won a design contest hosted by the Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial in the late 1980s. Roberts, a veteran, received the 2003 Sawyer Dialing Prize…

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This article was originally published by Amirhossein Eshtiaghi at The Mises Institute.  Bernie Sanders is a socialist populist. His unfamiliarity with the fundamentals of economics explains why he considers Denmark to be socialist. A former Danish Prime Minister once implicitly addressed such claims, noting that Denmark’s economy is not socialist, but rather a market economy. But the truth does not matter to American leftists. He has now made headlines again with a bill that would expand state participation in the AI sector—a plan that, contrary to the claims of his supporters, could have disastrous consequences. In the following, these consequences are briefly examined.…

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett opted not to put her name on the majority’s decision as penned by Justice Alito. Instead, she wrote a concurrence.For the most part, we’ve been focused on Alito’s writing as that’s the one that has the force of law, basically, but we probably shouldn’t ignore Barrett’s contribution. Because it basically rips apart some of the more inane arguments flying based on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent. Oddly, this was pointed out via a piece at MS Now.Hawaii argued that this was a case primarily about the rights of property…