In 1761, lawyer James Otis delivered a five-hour speech in a packed Boston courthouse in which he dismantled Parliament’s claim that general search warrants known as writs-of-assistance were constitutionally valid.
It has been The Project That Will Not Die. What began as a California statewide voter referendum in 2008 to approve initial funding for a high-speed rail system between San Francisco and Los Angeles has become a financial black hole with no railroad to show for it.
President Donald Trump is proposing an executive order to levy fines of up to $1.5 million per port call on Chinese-built ships arriving at US ports, effective in 2025. A majority of cargo ships globally in use were built in Chinese shipyards.
Amidst the Trump administration’s mounting efforts to collect swaths of sensitive data on American citizens—with the help of big-tech crony Peter Theil and his tax-funded spyware company, Palantir—the Federal Trade Commission is valiantly pursuing their mission of “protecting America’s consumers” by cracking down on… Fortnite?
