Donald Trump’s opponents are trying to thwart his agenda using the courts – specifically, via nationwide injunctions that negate whole areas of federal policy, like downsizing government departments. The problem for them, explains Byron York in the Jewish World Review, is that the bureaucracy is an extension of the President’s executive authority under Article II of the Constitution – as the Supreme Court recently reaffirmed.
At Least He Paid his Losing Bet
Paul Ehrlich, author of the spectacularly incorrect 1968 best-seller The Population Bomb, recently died at 93. Despite his longevity, Ronald Bailey points out in Reason, Ehrlich did not live to see even one of his numerous apocalyptic predictions come true. The world’s population certainly grew, but not merely larger, richer and fatter too. Most famously, Ehrlich once bet economist Julian Simon that the world was approaching economic collapse – but in 1990 had to mail Simon a cheque.
