July 14, 2025, by Centre Square, TJ Martinelli.
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Washington state is facing deficit spending by 2028 as lawmakers just clash with taxpayers with the state’s biggest combined tax increase.
Washington state spent about $80 billion on its 2013-15 budget, but is expected to spend more than $173 billion in 2025-27, up over 116% in that time. US inflation since 2015 made me laugh [sic] Only 35.63%.
Jeffrey A. Singer, Kato of Liberty, July 16, 2025.
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A study published this week in the chronicle of internal medicine at the University of New South Wales found that nicotine E-charest is more effective than nicotine lozenges and gum, and is effective in helping people smoke. This study strengthens the 2021 systematic review of previous studies, followers, and seven randomized controlled trials in the 2023 comprehensive review and meta-analysis of Cochrane.
Today, the Filter article highlights Italian studies showing that people who stopped smoking using nicotine E-cartes or heated tobacco products experienced a significant increase in VO2max. A 12-week randomized controlled trial found that “Quitters showed the greatest improvement in VO2max both at 4 and 12 weeks.” They do not observe any significant differences between those who stopped using e-cigarettes and those who used heated tobacco products.
DRH Note: This discovery is not so surprising. Nicotine e-cigarettes are Manos, which is closer to cigarette replacement than nicotine lozen and gum.
Damon Root, Reason, July 17, 2025.
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There are fundamental principles of freedom of speech that censors seem to always forget. In other words, the act of sobbing speech tends to add fuel to the speaker’s fire.
Don’t believe it? Ask Karl Marx.
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Take the case of Great Salmon P. Chase. In the summer of 1836, Chase was successful in a young lawyer living in Cincinnati, Ohio. On July 12, a slave crowd pushed the way into the local abolitionist newspaper office, left behind by philanthropists and smashed the press. Two weeks later, the mob went to search for abolitionist James G. Bernie, the editor of the paper.
“I heard with disgust about Cincinnati’s anti-slavery reporting and mob violence directed at anti-slavery men in 1836,” Chase wrote. “I was opposed to the views of the abolitionists at this point, but I have now picked the power of slavery as the great enemy of freedom of speech. [and] Freedom of the press and freedom of people. I played an open role to the mob. “
So he began Chase’s foreign anti-slavery career, including refuting Chase’s escape slavery law. Opposing the U.S. Supreme Court’s Fugitive Slave Act found the Free Soil Party of Slavery (the catchy motto: “Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, Free Men.”
It all began with Chase’s rage at the sigh of slavery thugs against the rampaging abolitionist speech. “From this time,” Chase recalls the violent summer of 1836.
DRH Notes: One of the printed matters about Chase is that as the Supreme Court’s Supreme Court, I have established a measure that I previously started as a secretary to the Ministry of Finance. I think it’s about whether the banknotes he introduced were legal tender. Hepburnv. In Griswold he was part of the Supreme Court majority that held that the bill was not fiat currency.
Steven Greenhut, Reason, July 18, 2025.
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Everything in this world is specifically looking at issues of land cover regulation and California’s efforts (led by Progressive). Meanwhile, many heirs dug leopard heels as a rule in the defensive hamfist progressive era, which is our dislike of freedom. He is very curious and curious.
You are a conservative and act as if the founder approves a system in which the bureaucrats decide to use all the plots within the community in order to determine in the smallest detail what the owner can do with the land of the eye. The owner must then have a tail between his legs and lobby an elected official seeking discretionary approval of the building project. They act like a right to use the government to control what other furs do near you.
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Zoning is a government-created force, so it’s strange that opposition to regulation behaves as if they have fundamental rights. So the government can change the rules when it chooses. Let freedom and markets work in all aspects of land use and society for a better approach.
Note: Karl Marx’s image was created by ChatGpt.
