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Relevance: 22% Posted on: March 15, 2023
I don’t gawk at car crashes. I did not watch the ISIS beheadings. Bloody slasher movies aren’t my thing. And neither was the recent hearing held by the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. It was so hard to watch I could hardly take more than a…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: November 8, 2022
The Bill of Rights was originally understood as curbing the power only of the federal government. This began to change with the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits states from depriving persons “of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Thanks to the “incorporation doctrine” interpretation of this amendment, provisions…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: March 2, 2014
The Sacramento stadium subsidy scandal, touched upon on Thursday, should be a bigger story in the news and with the commentariat. So click on over to Townhall, and share. Then come back here for some more reading: Sacramento Bee: Judge tosses out STOP arena lawsuit Merced Sun-Star: Why agribusinessman is…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: October 27, 2022
How to tell if you are part of the favored ruling class? If it is easy for you, but not most others, to obtain a concealed carry permit in your gun-controlling state. It’s extremely difficult to carry firearms for protection in states like Illinois, California, New Jersey and New York…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: December 28, 2011
Promises, promises. Politicians love to make ’em. But who has to fulfill those promises, and how? The tendency to rely upon political assurances without establishing workable, reasonable plans and follow-through has to be high on the irresponsibility list. Our politicians may promise us the stars, but what we wind up…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: December 19, 2022
With Twitter in the news, and revelation after revelation coming out about how governments and politicians used the social media giant to skew public opinion with algorithmic fiddling and outright bans, let’s not forget Facebook. Adam Schiff hasn’t. Last week, the Democrat Congressman from California, together with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: June 2, 2017
Freedom of speech isn’t a free pass to avoid the consequences of what one says. Or does. Tell that to three members of the Homer, Alaska, city council — Donna Aderhold, David Lewis and Catriona Reynolds — who are the subject of a recall petition. Well, a superior court judge…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: April 27, 2022
Two years into the pandemic, we in America are now mostly arguing about masks. We’ve suffered pretty repressive measures, here. But we haven’t had to cope with: ● Being literally imprisoned in your home. Stopped from going out even to get food. ● Having fences erected around your home. “What…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: July 21, 2023
In this increasingly complex technological world, what can our school systems do to help students excel in advanced math? Well, here’s a novel approach: “Cambridge Public Schools no longer offers advanced math in middle school,” The Boston Globe reports. Hmmm. Rather counterintuitive: Take access away from students. Silly me, helping…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: July 17, 2018
“Term limits,” said Daniel McCarthy, editor of The Modern Age, in a recent podcast conversation with historian Tom Woods, “was one of the dorkiest ideas of the 1994 so-called Newt Gingrich revolution.” He characterized it as not having really gone anywhere. Huh? Granted, Congress is still not term-limited. But Americans…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: April 12, 2018
In 2013, Tacoma Park, Maryland, became the first place in the U.S. to allow 16-year-olds to vote in local elections.* Now, Washington, D.C., Councilman Charles Allen, “inspired by the high-schoolers who are campaigning for gun control and filled D.C. streets last month in a massive protest that mesmerized the country,”…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: May 26, 2021
In just weeks, the Pentagon will report to Congress on the matter of UFOs. Though the subject appears vast, beginning before World War II’s “foo fighters” and extending right up to Colorado’s ongoing (?) “drone” mystery, the impetus for much of the recent interest comes from one source: a declassified…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: February 26, 2021
Saturday is Term Limits Day. Boy, this holiday season really sneaked up on me. No excuse, though, because Term Limits Day falls on February 27th every year. On that date in 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, limiting the president to two terms in office. Call it…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: January 27, 2024
Government agencies that “fight crime” too often engage in criminal behavior to do so. In June of 2021, Common Sense with Paul Jacob reported on an FBI operation that raided safe deposit boxes. In March, the federal government conducted a raid of a safe deposit box company called U.S. Privacy…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: February 20, 2017
People have a right to defend themselves. Right? Especially against rape and murder. “This is not about free speech,” Yvette Felarca yelled to the crowd at the University of California-Berkeley, gathered weeks ago to “shut down” a scheduled speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, the controversial Breitbart editor. Felarca, a national organizer…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: January 23, 2017
Last year, Americans — everywhere from Montgomery County, Maryland, bordering the nation’s capital on the east coast, to sunny Santa Clara, California, on the west coast — voted to impose term limits on their elected officials. There were 40 separate local votes to enact term limits or, conversely, measures put…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: April 3, 2019
Reid Wilson’s very welcome reporting in The Hill, recently, was headlined, “GOP legislators clamping down on voter initiatives.” This disrespect for the people and their basic, democratic check on legislative power is far too common, and something about which people need to know. For instance, ballot measures in Florida already…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: March 9, 2020
In The Graduate (1967), the young man played by Dustin Hoffman gets advice from an elder. “Just one word: plastics.” “Exactly how do you mean, sir?” “There’s a great future in plastics.” When the world bans all plastic in 2021, that will be the end of that market opportunity. Other…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: July 18, 2022
Criminal courts provide an old kind of justice, where individuals’ specific acts are judged and individuals, if found guilty, are punished. “Social justice” is something else again — a daring, socialistic attempt to correct for all the ills “of society” or, more widely, “the cosmos.” That’s a huge agenda to…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: October 13, 2021
“Southwest Airlines crews are walking out and so are FAA air traffic controllers,” Buzz Patterson tweeted on Sunday. “This is just the beginning.” Buzz’s running for a House seat in California’s Seventh District. But I saw the tweet as quoted on Facebook by Erin Leigh, who wrote “Exactly what needs…