October 3, 2020

 

L.A. ordered to pay NRA six figures after losing First Amendment case

fromWashingtonFreeBeacon: A federal district court judge struck down a city ordinance aimed at punishing prospective contractors with ties to the NRA as an infringement on the right to free speech and association.
 

Gavin Newsom beclowns himself finding nonsensical excuses to keep California locked down

fromAmericanThinker: Newsom, who is becoming known to Californians as Nussoloini, is really stretching to find excuses to keep businesses closed and Californians unemployed and reverting to race-pandering.
 

Crumbling case against Assange shows weakness of "hacking" charges related to whistleblowing

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: The entire computer crime case against Assange is based on a brief discussion, between a publisher and source, about cracking a password — but the cracking never actually happened.
 

VIDEO: Tucker Carlson - Masks, Science and Medical Authoritarianism

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Christians in Idaho are arrested for singing outdoor, not wearing masks. A socially-distanced mom is tasered while outdoors, watching her son play football for not wearing a mask. Alex Berenson joins Tucker Carlson to talk about the science surrounding the wearing of masks and what the future may hold.
 

Why it’s fashionable to hate your own country

fromSpiked: This is more about parading virtue than reckoning with history.
 

Prosecutor's password-cracking conspiracy theory against Assange unravels at extradition trial

fromShadowproof: It seems like payback for embarrassing the U.S. government by unraveling their password-cracking conspiracy theory with their own digital forensic expert’s testimony.

  

September 23, 2020


The next pandemic will Be caused by the national debt

fromReason: The attorney general called virus lockdowns the ‘greatest intrusion on civil liberties’ since slavery and likened career DOJ prosecutors to preschoolers.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

Barr calls coronavirus lockdowns the ‘greatest intrusion on civil liberties’ since slavery

fromPolitico: The attorney general called virus lockdowns the ‘greatest intrusion on civil liberties’ since slavery and likened career DOJ prosecutors to preschoolers.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Edward Snowden deserves a pardon

fromAIER: Under any sane standard, the country’s national security and intelligence establishment are the real traitors, selling out and betraying the American people in dangerous and misguided quests for unlimited power and knowledge about our every activity. 
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Justice sleeps and ‘We the People’ suffer: No, the U.S. Supreme Court will not save us

fromRutherfordInstitute: “The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.”—Justice William O. Douglas
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process            The Government is Not Us

Gun control puts your life at risk

fromReason: In the 20th century, far more people were murdered by genocidal governments than by armed criminals.
2nd Amendment Assaults

Inflation: Its effects and failures

fromMises: Inflation, the issue of additional paper money, and credit expansion are always intentional; they are never acts of God which strike people, like an earthquake.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market


September 21, 2020


Subpoenas authorized for Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Halper and other 'Spygate' figures

fromZeroHedge: As part of the authorization, Johnson may subpoena "the production of all records" related to the FBI's initial Russia probe.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Making an apocalypse out of a pandemic

fromZeroHedge: What the 20th-century flu pandemics reveal about our response to Covid-19.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

BLM riots are officially the most costly manmade damage to American property in history

fromBreitbart: The domestic terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter have accomplished one thing: the most costly riots in the history of our country, reports the far-left Axios.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

End the war on drugs

fromReason: Drug prohibition turns police officers into enemies to be feared rather than allies to be welcomed.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

The messed up reason age 30 is the new 20

fromTheDailyBell: No longer can you naturally transition to an adult in your teens. Society will not allow it. The government has outlawed being an adult as a teen.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery


September 17, 2020


It’s perfectly Constitutional to talk about jury nullification

fromACLU: “Juror nullification is your right to refuse to enforce bad laws and bad prosecutions. Once you know your rights and powers, you can veto bad laws and hang the jury.”
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

Abolish qualified immunity

fromReason: This court-invented doctrine shields bad cops from civil liability.
Police State America

White House will cancel racial sensitivity training for all federal employees

fromDailyMail: Trump blasts classes on 'critical race theory' and 'white privilege' as a 'sickness in our country'.
Indoctrination and Censorship             Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

House will vote on federal marijuana legalization for the first time, bill's future in Senate uncertain

fromUSAToday: The House's vote comes as views of marijuana have changed in Washington and increased numbers of Americans support the legalization of the drug, whether for recreational or medicinal purposes.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

VIDEO: Tucker Carlson - Facebook, COVID and the End of Free Speech

fromSpiked: The social media giants are morphing into a state media that will ban all media that contradicts statist doctrine and, in effect, abolish the First Amendment.  Tucker explains in brilliant detail. 
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

People must have the right to mock Muhammad

fromSpiked: In America, freedom trumps archaic religious demands.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

September 4, 2020


The social fabric of the U.S. is fraying severely, if not unravelling

fromTheIntercept: Why, in the world’s richest country, is every metric of mental health pathology rapidly worsening?
The Pursuit of Happiness

Here’s how a cashless society would affect day to day life

fromOrganicPrepper: There is an alarming amount of power in access. In a cashless society, you will NOT be able to access your money at will.
The Government is Not Us          Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

New York is dead forever ... here's why

fromJamesAltucher: This article explains SF and many other cities as well.
The Government is Not Us          Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

I stand with Tucker Carlson

fromCreators: He is one of us.
Indoctrination and Censorship           Individual Liberty: America's First Principle           Media Bias on Parade

Walter E Williams: Institutional racism

fromCreators: Most institutional racism is practiced by the nation's institutions of higher learning.
Indoctrination and Censorship

The lockdown has been a bonanza for billionaires

fromSpiked: While ordinary people have been plunged into economic turmoil, the world’s richest are cleaning up.
The Government is Not Us          Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

July 31, 2020


Don't force schools to reopen, but don't force families to pay for closed schools either

fromReason: We should fund students instead of systems.
Indoctrination and Censorship              Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

Soros pours record $50 million into 2020 election

fromWashingtonFreeBeacon: Liberal billionaire spends $30 million more than in 2016 with months left to go before the elections.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell/Black Wisdom Matters - Slavery, Guilt and Reparations

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: The judicially invented license for police abuse undermines the rule of law and the separation of powers.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

Safety first is a bad ideology

fromAIER: In the last several decades, public tolerance of risk has shifted towards lower socially acceptable levels of risk-taking and in the long run, these changes may leave us all worse off.  
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

Fedcoin: A new scheme for tyranny and poverty

fromRonPaulInstitute: If some Congress members get their way, the Federal Reserve may soon be able to track many of your purchases in real time and share that information with government agencies. 
The Government is Not Us

Qualified immunity is a test for conservatives

fromReason: The judicially invented license for police abuse undermines the rule of law and the separation of powers.
Police State America

July 6, 2020


America's long-term debt crisis is now a short-term problem

fromReason: Even in a healthy economy, rising debt and deficits posed challenges. The current crisis has magnified those problems.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

Rand Paul's exchange with Fauci was exactly what America needed

fromTheHill: One thing is for certain. We either believe in liberty in times of crisis, or we don’t believe in liberty at all.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle              The Government is Not Us

Redskins to undergo 'thorough review' of nickname

fromESPN: Washington Tyrants would be a fitting replacement.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

We must end the war on drugs

fromTheReview: "What drug prohibition did do is exactly what alcohol prohibition did a hundred years ago: increase conflict between police and citizens."
The War On Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

1 million dead people received federal bailout checks

fromTheDailyBell: The total amount of money which was sent to dead people came to about $1.4 billion, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.
The Government is Not Us

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom”

fromTheActivistPost: The following published is a letter penned by a young Benjamin Franklin. No truer words were ever spoken.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

July 4, 2020



A look back at sacrifices made by our founders to develop the first nation by the people and for the people.



The rise and fall of American freedom.

July 3, 2020


Revolutionary spirit of individual liberty with minimal government embraced America in 1776

fromWashingtonTimes: What once was a government that needed the consent of the governed not only to exist but also to do anything is now one that requires of us its permission to do nearly everything.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle              The Government is Not Us

VIDEO: Tucker Carlson - The Fight for Inequality: Racial Division by Design

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Tucker Carlson explains how the concept of equal rights under the law is now openly and blatantly under assault by the left. Discrimination and racial division is now the demand of the mob.
Indoctrination and Censorship

As delayed tax day approaches, consider what you get for your money

fromReason: Do you appreciate the incompetence, in-fighting, obstructionism, authoritarianism, and waste that you pay for?
The Government is Not Us                 Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

VIDEO: Black Wisdom Matters - The State of Racism in America

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Thoughtful black commentators look at the state of racism in today's America. Thomas Sowell, Walter E Williams, Jason Riley, Shelby Steele, Larry Elder, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Lil Wayne.
Indoctrination and Censorship

Want to kill the economy again? Keep threatening more lockdowns.

fromMises: After a period of only one month of "reopening," governments are already enacting new business shutdowns and claiming the authority to engage in these shutdowns indefinitely.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

Walter E Williams: An underappreciated American scholar

fromCreators: Thomas Sowell may be underappreciated by the masses, but LibertyPen considers him among the greatest scholars and thinkers of all time.
The Pursuit of Happiness

June 27, 2020


Venezuelans take extraordinary steps to beat water shortage

fromAP: Critics of the socialist government blame chronic infrastructure failures on years of corruption and mismanagement that have also left the electrical grid fragile and destroyed Venezuela’s once-thriving oil industry.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

Will government mandate COVID-19 vaccinations?

fromTheHill: Government mandated vaccinations for adults would be a major and controversial step. But then government has taken a number of major and controversial steps recently, such as shutting down the economy.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

California agency blocks release of police use of force and surveillance training, claiming copyright

fromActivistPost:Our elected officials can pass laws regulating the police, and watchdog bodies can review law enforcement policies, but if training materials are kept secret, it provides a back door for manufacturers of surveillance technology and private organizations to influence police practices without oversight or accountability.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make        Police State America         Regulation Nation

Walter E Williams: Insults to black history

fromCreators: Both blacks and whites can benefit from a better appreciation of black history.
Indoctrination and Censorship

The pandemic's economic carnage looks worse than expected

fromReason: If you thought the economic toll wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic was only going to be horrendous, you may have been overly optimistic.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

VIDEO: Black Wisdom Matters - Good Intentions of the Welfare State

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Thomas Sowell, Walter E Williams, Star Parker, Jason Riley, Bob Woodson and Larry Elder share their insights on how a half century of the welfare state has changed America and the American family.
The Welfare State: Promoting Dependency

June 25, 2020


What the data do and don't say about policing and race

fromVolokhConspiracy: Harvard's Roland Fryer argues both Left and Right misunderstand or misrepresent the empirical evidence.
Police State America

The triumph of the country mouse

fromNationalReview: A column by the very excellent Victor Davis Hanson. Cities lose their charms when they’re engulfed in chaos, crime, and mobs — and run by virtue-signaling appeasers.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Andrew Napolitano: The afterlife of America's original sin

fromCreators: You can escape reality. But you cannot escape the consequences of escaping reality. Those consequences will be the inevitable repetition of a past we should never forget.
Indoctrination and Censorship

VIDEO: Black Wisdom Matters - The Promise of Black Politicians

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Thomas Sowell, Jason Riley, Bob Woodson, Walter E Williams and Shelby Steele look at the promises and delivery of politicians representing the ethnic grievance industry.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Was the search warrant for the drug raid that killed Breonna Taylor illegal?

fromReason: The information in the no-knock warrant application was based purely on guilt by association.
Police State America

College to remove word “freedom” from ID cards after petition says it’s offensive to some minorities

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: The students passing around the petition believe “freedom” is offensive to black students who may have had relatives who were slaves 160 years ago. When freedom is vilified, only the state wins.
Indoctrination and Censorship

June 20, 2020


Op-Ed: Those who exercise free speech should also defend it — even when it’s offensive

fromLATimes: As we rise up to remake America, free speech must be not only something we rely upon, but also part of what we fight for.
Indoctrination and Censorship

How Federal courts gave us qualified immunity and forced it on all 50 states

fromActivistPost: A legal doctrine first created out of thin air by judicial fiat went unchallenged – and the court did what it does so well, it eventually forced that same doctrine on all 50 states.
Police State America

Police violence, COVID-19 lies, and the end of legitimate authority

fromReason: Our leaders and institutions are failing us spectacularly. It's up to us to reboot society.
The Government is Not Us

San Francisco police were ordered to turn off body cameras in raid on journalist's home

fromReason: Their illegal search was not recorded. If police were actually public servants, and not merely state agents, this would not happen.
Police State America

PG&E pleads guilty to 84 counts of manslaughter tied to deadliest wildfire In California history

fromZeroHedge: An investigation eventually found that PG&E inadvertently started the fire when a transmission line broke from a nearly-100-year-old Pacific Gas & Electric Tower after years of neglect.
Regulation Nation                      The Government is Not Us

Business licensing makes it too easy for politicians to punish people they don't like

fromReason: Making a living is a right, not a privilege, and should be respected as such.
Regulation Nation

June 17, 2020


Engineering a race war: Will this be the American police state’s Reichstag fire?

fromRutherfordInstitute: The Deep State, the powers-that-be, want us to turn this into a race war, but this is about so much more than systemic racism. This is the oldest con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand.
The Government is Not Us                  Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Democrats clarify that black lives will only matter until November

fromBabylonBee: History indicates that the Democrats only interest in blacks has been to keep them dependent on government and rise to power on their backs.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Why economists are so often accused of being indifferent to social problems

fromMises: "The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

Walter E Williams: Now what?

fromCreators: "Poor people are more dependent on law and order than anyone else. In the face of high crime or social disorder, wealthier people can afford to purchase alarm systems, buy guard dogs, hire guards and, if things get too bad, move to a gated community. Their only protection is an orderly society."
The Government is Not Us

Vermont principal put on leave for not agreeing with Black Lives Matter

fromJonathanTurley: We have never had any organization treated as so inviolate that it cannot be challenged by anyone in their private or personal discourse.
Indoctrination and Censorship

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - How to Cure Marxism

fromRutherfordInstitute: From Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, Thomas Sowell tells how he was enticed by Marxism as a youth and how the real world cured that notion.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

June 13, 2020


The year gun control died

fromReason: Gun opponents would leave predatory cops armed and their victims helpless. So much for that idea.
2nd Amendment Assaults

It turns out you can spot a bad apple. You just can’t remove one.

fromJonathanTurley: Around the country, the percentage of civilian complaints that result in disciplinary action is astonishingly low. And the rate at which offending officers are severely disciplined is effectively zero.
Police State America

Sen. Rand Paul: Slapping someone could get you 10 years in prison under federal 'anti-lynching' bill

fromInformationLiberation: Senator Paul is "single-handedly" holding this atrocious bill up as the GOP-controlled senate is too cowardly to stand against it, lest they be perceived as "pro-lynching." 
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Seattle "Autonomous Zone" now has a "heavily-armed" warlord as crime spikes 300%

fromZeroHedge: "Anarchists just took over Seattle and the Liberal Democrat Governor just said he knows “nothing about that”. -- Donald Trump
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

The extraordinary hypocrisy of public health experts

fromSpiked: They support BLM marchers but wanted to deny medical care to lockdown protesters.
Regulation Nation

Devouring its own: How many on the left fostered the violent movement now rioting across the country

fromJonathanTurley: Despite its violent history, some Democratic leaders have been enablers or outright supporters of the Antifa movement, insisting that such groups cannot be compared to extreme right wing groups.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

June 6, 2020


From 9/11 to COVID-19, it’s been a perpetual state of emergency

fromTheRutherfordInstitute: "Freedom from servitude comes not from violent action, but from the refusal to serve. Tyrants fall when the people withdraw their support.” —Étienne De La Boétie, The Politics Of Obedience
Police State America

Joe Biden basically admits libertarians were right all along: cops shouldn't have military gear

fromReason: Biden voted for the 1997 bill that created the Pentagon's 1033 program, which allows surplus military gear to be passed along to local cops. It took 23 years, but he finally changed his opinion.
Police State America           Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Policing for profit: How civil asset forfeiture has perverted American law enforcement

fromAmmo: Asset forfeiture is having devastating consequences: In 2014 alone, law enforcement took more stuff from American citizens than burglars did.
Police State America

The state’s priority is protecting itself, not you

fromLibertarianInstitute: The state is far more punitive against those that threaten the comfort and authority of government institutions and workers than they are against crimes against citizens.
Police State America

The lockdowns are now a scandal

fromNationalReview: Last week, the media, politicians, and many experts decided that every argument they made for destroying the lives of millions of people in America could be deferred to advance a preferred political cause.
The Government is Not Us

Lockdown supporters embraced wildly wrong COVID-19 projections that fit their preconceptions

fromReason: The episode illustrates the perils of confirmation bias on both sides of the debate about disease control measures.
Police State America           Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

June 4, 2020


How to curb police abuses—and how not to

fromTheVolokhConspiracy: Much can and must be done to curb police brutality. The task is difficult, but far from hopeless. But riots and looting are both wrong in themselves, and likely to have counterproductive results. 
Police State America

Models can’t predict next week’s weather, so why should we trust them to predict climate change?

fromWattsUpWithThat: No one “knew” the weather would cancel the SpaceX flight, but rather scientists used data to make the best educated guess which is part of the scientific method we learned about in third grade.  
Indoctrination and Censorship

Where did policing go wrong?

fromMattTaibee: "We have two systems of enforcement in America, a minimalist one for people with political clout, and an intrusive one for everyone else." 
Police State America

It’s past time to examine how police unions protect bad cops

fromNationalReview: The issue of rogue police officers who routinely violate constitutional rights and their superiors and unions who protect them is no longer a right-versus-left issue. 
Police State America

Gun stocks soar as riots, looting erupt across America

fromFoxNews: Nothing has demonstrated the citizen's need for self-protection guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment after watching days of looters having free  reign, holding private property owners at their mercy. 
2nd Amendment Assaults

Walter E Williams: Some facts worth knowing

fromCreators: After accounting for income, charity and noncash welfare benefits, "the poorest 20% of Americans consume more goods and services than the national averages for all people in the world's most affluent countries." 
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

June 1, 2020


The Supreme Court has a chance to end qualified immunity and prevent cases like George Floyd's

fromReason: The Supreme Court could announce as early as Monday that it's revisiting qualified immunity, a doctrine that shields rotten cops from civil rights lawsuits. 
Police State America

The officers who killed George Floyd have done this before — many times

fromRefinery29: The Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd had a history of misconduct. In 2006, he had been placed on leave after using lethal force, but prosecutor Amy Klobuchar refused to press charges.
Police State America

Why did it take so long to arrest Derek Chauvin?

fromNationalReview: The claim that the prosecutor had to wait to authorize an arrest until the investigators nailed down all the evidence is nonsense.
Police State America

Cops kill because we gave them the legal framework to do it

fromAmericanConservative: Rather than burning and looting, protesters should turn their ire on lawmakers and judges who facilitate police immunity.
Police State America

For whom the COVID-19 bell tolls

fromReason: What big-government, fascist, left-wing indoctrinationists never thought would happen: homeschooling, the end of doctoring, reliance on self-care and vitamin pills in place of vaccines.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

Police act like laws don't apply to them because of 'qualified immunity.' They're right.

fromUSAToday: There's a legal obstacle that's nearly impossible to overcome when police officers and government officials violate our constitutional and civil rights. 
Police State America

May 29, 2020


Why Joe Biden can do no wrong

fromJonathanTurley: One columnist declared that former Vice President Joe Biden could boil babies and she would still vote for him. Feminist leaders have said they believe Biden raped a Senate staffer but they still endorse him. 
Media Bias on Parade

Three ways lockdowns are costing human lives

fromMises: It is easier to see the deaths caused by COVID-19 than to see the deaths caused by lockdowns.
Regulation Nation

Washington health officials: Gunshot victims counted as COVID-19 deaths

fromFreedomFoundation: Today, officials at the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) confirmed that the state is counting in its COVID-19 death total, persons who tested positive for the virus but died from other causes.
Indoctrination and Censorship

The general election scenario that Democrats are dreading

fromPolitico: "We are about to see the best economic data we’ve seen in the history of this country," says a top former economic adviser to Obama.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Why conservatives and liberals are responding to COVID-19 in vastly different ways

fromFreeThoughtProject: The disagreement is over whether efforts to protect individuals from COVID-19 should be balanced against other considerations—including constitutional and economic ones—at all.
Regulation Nation

Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, then failed to protect property owners from riots

fromReason: Police departments exist to protect people's persons and property. The Minneapolis Police Department has failed to do either.
Police State America

May 25, 2020


This sucker's going down: The destruction of demand

fromCharlesHughSmith: Scapegoating savings is the last desperate propaganda ploy of an exploitive system that was never sustainable.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

The CDC's new 'best estimate' implies a COVID-19 infection fatality rate below 0.3%

fromReason: That rate is much lower than the numbers used in the horrifying projections that shaped the government response to the epidemic. 
Indoctrination and Censorship

Washington State loses "hundreds of millions" to Nigerian unemployment claims fraud scheme

fromZeroHedge: The disclosure came as the state was already struggling to process an unprecedented wave of legitimate jobless claims amid one of the worst economic crises in U.S. history. 
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

The drones were ready for this moment

fromDNYUZ: New Yorkers glanced up to see an unsettling sight: a mysterious drone claiming to represent something called the “Anti-Covid-19 Volunteer Drone Task Force” barking orders to pedestrians below.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make

Why did Arizona Democrats kill a bill protecting citizens from police overreach?

fromReason: It’s all about the revenue. Civil forfeiture brings in money, and lawmakers are more worried about their budgets than residents’ due process and property rights. 
Police State America              The Government is Not Us

Lindsey Graham seeks broad authority to subpoena former Obama officials

fromPolitico: Those who could be targeted include Loretta Lynch, James Clapper and John Brennan, among others. 
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

May 23, 2020


68% of unemployed workers in the U.S. “are eligible for payments greater than their lost earnings”

fromTownhall: Can anyone explain how we are going to motivate unemployed workers to go back to work when most of them can actually make more money camped on their sofas watching Netflix? 
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

The real climate science deniers

fromWattsUpWithThat: Manmade climate crisis promoters reject inconvenient evidence of natural climate change.
Indoctrination and Censorship

The railroading of Michael Flynn

fromCommentaryMagazine: Excellent. Compelling. Complete. 
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

In Michael Flynn case, Judge Sullivan's gross overreach turns justice into mob rule

fromUSAToday: The case against Micheal Flynn is abusive and should be dismissed, as the Justice Department requests. But Judge Emmet Sullivan has other ideas. 
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

Democrats have abandoned civil liberties

fromNationAndState: Democrats clearly believe constituents will forgive them for abandoning constitutional principles, so long as the targets of official inquiry are figures like Flynn or Paul Manafort or Trump himself.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

COVID-19 patients’ right to privacy against quarantine surveillance

fromEFF: Automated location tracking is a grave intrusion on personal liberty, including by means of a GPS ankle shackle or compelled download of a surveillance app. 
Government is Watching Every Move You Make