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Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) Heather Swanson felt the calling to be a midwife as early as junior high, when her mother was a group leader with La Leche League—an organization of women dedicated to helping and supporting breastfeeding mothers. Women would gather in one of their living rooms once a month—the second Tuesday—for support and  ...

In the days since a Pennsylvania man attempted to assassinate Donald Trump, barrels of ink have been spilled lamenting the heat of political rhetoric, entreating restraint from all sides. The precise motivation of the would-be assassin is unknown, but the rapidly forming consensus is that our overheated election rhetoric makes political violence li ...

The meaning of the word “villain” is ingrained in most of us from the first time we hear the phrase “Once upon a time.” And in storybooks, like Frank L. Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the line between hero and villain is clear.  Readers never once question that Dorothy is our heroine and the … ...

Just after his victory in the ring at UFC 300, Brazilian-born fighter Renato Moicano exclaimed, “I love America, I love the Constitution…I want to carry…guns. I love private property. Let me tell you something. If you care about your…country, read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian economic school.” T ...

Does free speech have age restrictions? The Supreme Court says no. But one California judge ignored the Court’s landmark decisions and upheld a public school’s decision to punish a first-grader over a picture she drew in class. The student’s mother is now fighting back to protect her daughter’s right to free speech. An innoc ...

There comes a time in a politician’s campaign when the most he can muster is to throw candy into the crowd. President Biden has reached that time. The candy, in this case, is the daft proposal unveiled by the president during a speech this week to foist federal rent control on the country. Like most … ...

In recent decades, the scope of federal law has grown massively. And with that growth has come the risk that Americans will be ensnared in criminal or civil proceedings for activities they had no idea were illegal.   It is often said that ignorance of the law is no excuse, and in general that is … ...

Lawmakers across the country are proposing reparations to black Americans for slavery and America’s history of racial discrimination. Proposals have included direct cash payments, grants, formal apologies from the government, and government programs with race-based eligibility.  Because certain reparations proposals would inevitably advantag ...

When Jamie Leach got the news that the Consumer Product Safety Commission was coming after her business, she imagined a years-long legal battle in the Commission’s in-house tribunal, enormous legal fees, and a devastating blow to her company’s otherwise-sterling reputation. Even if she managed to win, the ordeal could have buried her bu ...