Federal laws with acronyms are usually bad news. (Think the USA PATRIOT Act.) The RESTRICT Act is yet another Orwellian proposal in which the federal government assumes ignorance is strength.
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Waco Massacre in which the media and the government self-congratulated each other in absolving the FBI of any crimes. Nothing has changed since then.
Washington elites and especially their media have denounced what they once praised: leaking of official documents that show the government has been lying.
Official Washington and its Court Media are up in arms that someone has told the truth via leaking government documents. They won't rest until he is punished severely.
There is a concerted effort in the legacy press to paint a picture of Jack Teixeira as an antigovernment Trump-loving right-winger who is undeserving of whistleblower protections.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously claimed that taxes were the price people paid for civilized society. The problem is that taxes themselves are antisocial.
Not only does the Great Reset promise us better weather and happiness (while owning nothing), it also promises to transform humanity itself. Some of us are not so sure.
Sen. Lindsey Graham recently called for US military intervention in Mexico to fight the drug cartels. Someone needs to remind him that Mexico is a sovereign country.
Donald Trump legally pays hush money and prosecutors try to fashion a crime from it. However, if a president lies and thousands of people die, it is called foreign policy.