Kevin Bae
Non-Social in a Socially Networked World
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Trump’s deportation attempt of Khalil may not be an overstep after all
On March 10, I wrote about how Trump’s attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil might be overreach. Punishing someone for speech is not allowed in this country… on most occasions. I knew Khalil was a green card holder and assumed he had the same free speech rights as citizens. I didn’t know he agreed to and…
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Trump may have just stepped over the totalitarian line
The First Amendment isn’t a suggestion. Why do so many people in power think it is? I read an article in The Wall Street Journal about ICE agents raiding an apartment near Columbia University, arresting Mahmoud Khalil, and starting the process of revoking his green card. His supposed crime is pro-Palestinian activism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Americanism.…
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California’s Experiment with Tariffs on Wages Backfires
Talk of tariffs is all over the news, with President Trump slapping them on imports from Canada, Mexico, the EU, and China. Most Americans understand that tariffs can drive up prices. But what they don’t see is that a tariff isn’t just a tax on foreign goods, it’s any artificial cost imposed on a market,…
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Biden’s Housing Bubble Worse than Obama’s
Why didn’t we hear a peep about the massive housing bubble President Biden’s policies quietly inflated? The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has been handing out guaranteed loans like candy, letting borrowers take on mortgages they can barely afford, often with debt-to-income ratios topping 43%, sometimes even 64% in recent years. It started with loosened underwriting…
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Congress Created the Imperial Presidency, Enjoy
Why does Congress even exist anymore? They’re supposed to write laws, not dodge them. But here’s the dirty secret: they’re too scared of losing elections to do their jobs. Take the FCC. Congress knows it can’t pass a law stomping on free speech. So they create an agency under the executive branch, hand it a…
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The federal government is 99.975% unelected
The next time you hear anyone rant that Elon Musk is not elected show them this chart (numbers provided by ChatGPT). There are only 542 elected federal officials. Here is the breakdown. That’s it. The rest are either appointed or hired. The argument is absurd and meant to reframe Musk’s efforts as beyond or above…
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