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Facebook, the FBI’s Snitch

Relevance: 15%      Posted on: September 19, 2022

All we have is the word of Department of Justice whistleblowers. They told the New York Post that over the last 19 months, Facebook has been cooperating with the FBI to spy on “private” messages of users “outside the legal process and without probable cause.” The targets were gun enthusiasts…

Smash the Duopoly

Relevance: 15%      Posted on: August 16, 2016

When Donald Trump called our country’s electoral process a “rigged system,” he was not wrong. The system is a legally secured duopoly. I’ve discussed a number of the elements of this system previously. But one I may not have explored enough is the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). The League…

Motown Bully

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: January 18, 2023

Is the republican form of government unnatural? People in government tend to balk at republican imperatives, anyway. You know, like transparency. Citizen control sure seems unnatural to politicians. Case in point: Detroit. “The Rochester Community School district is determined to keep the sun from shining on its operations,” writes Kaitlyn…

A Package Deal

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: April 10, 2023

Suppose suggested legislation outlaws both murder and walking. How could you oppose it? Are you, a dedicated perambulator-peripatetic, also a murder-supporter? Obviously, this would be an attempt to foist a package deal consisting of unrelated or mutually contradictory elements. Consider a more true-to-life example. In the Wall Street Journal, Philip…

Rebranding the Odious?

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: March 30, 2016

Being a clever person is hard work. Many of the truly clever things about everyday life have already been said. New and innovative cleverness? A rare thing indeed. But if you are in the business of being clever, that puts you in a pickle, if “being relevant” and “worth our…

Disbar the Disbarrers?

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: February 20, 2023

After Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton legally challenged how several states conducted the 2020 election, dozens of lawyers submitted complaints.  To the state bar.  Their idea: disbar the Republican officeholder for daring to oppose the current Democratic narrative about “election denialism.”  The Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel dismissed those initial…

Good-​bye, Google

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: July 6, 2021

Is Google working for the Chinese government? The group Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights believes that pro-Chinazi partisans have been targeting its YouTube videos, triggering sanctions against Atajurt’s channel. Many of its thousands of videos provide testimony about how family members have been hauled off to internment camps in China’s Xinjiang…

The Ultimate SuperPAC

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: November 2, 2015

Sen. Marco Rubio’s charge in last week’s presidential debate, that the mainstream media functions as a SuperPAC for Democrats, was not only accurate, I wrote at Townhall, it has deeper implications. Consider the relentless media drumbeat for restrictive campaign finance regulations. If the Federal Elections Commission mutes, at Congress’s instruction,…

Crime: Police or Re-define?

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: February 14, 2024

Can crime be defined out of existence? “Attorney Ben Crump proposed a solution to the issue of high crime that is plaguing the black community,” YouTube commentator Anthony Brian Logan reports on a story that an aging white fellow like myself was not apt to spot. “He said it is…