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Disinformation and the State: The Aptly Named RESTRICT Act

Bureaucracy and RegulationDemocracyProgressivismThe Police State

Blog04/21/2023

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.

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Waco 30 Years Later: It Is Not an Atrocity if the Feds Do It

Media and CulturePoliticsStrategyThe Police StateU.S. History

Blog04/19/2023

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.

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Arbitrary Use of Power: Punishing Those Who Expose Not-So-Secret Government Secrets

Legal SystemMedia and CultureThe Police StateWar and Foreign Policy

Blog04/18/2023

Washington elites and especially their media have denounced what they once praised: leaking of official documents that show the government has been lying.

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It’s Not Paranoid to Worry about a Central Bank Digital Currency

Money and BanksThe Police StateMoney and Banking

Blog04/17/2023

Contrary to Krugman, DeSantis and others warning about a CBDC aren’t being paranoid: they are simply drawing the obvious conclusions from history.

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Endangering Washington's Divine Right to Deceive

The Police StateWar and Foreign Policy

Blog04/17/2023

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.

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Want to Be a Whistleblower? You Better Support the Current Thing

Big GovernmentThe Police StateWar and Foreign Policy

Blog04/15/2023

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.

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Taxes Are the Price We Pay for NOT Living in a Civilized Society

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationEconomic FreedomThe Police StateTaxes and Spending

Blog04/15/2023

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously claimed that taxes were the price people paid for civilized society. The problem is that taxes themselves are antisocial.

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Hacking Humanity: Transhumanism

Big GovernmentProgressivismSocialismThe Police State

Blog04/14/2023

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.

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Invading Mexico in the Name of the Drug War Is a Really Bad Idea

The Police StateWar and Foreign Policy

Blog04/10/2023

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.

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Presidents Are Legally Immune for Their Most Dangerous Crimes

Legal SystemThe Police StateWar and Foreign Policy

Blog04/07/2023

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.

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