Had this week’s California recall election succeeded, millions of Democrats would have inadvertently helped to get Republican radio host Larry Elder elected governor. How? By choosing to reject alternatives to Gov. Gavin Newsom. There’s a lesson here in how Democrats and Republicans treat third-party voters and others who reject the options the two big parties […]
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom will likely serve out the remainder of his first term as voters rebuff a recall effort. As of 8:45 p.m., 59 percent of the vote has been counted and by a 67-32 margin, Newsom is on pace to keep his seat. Here’s the Los Angeles Times live election results for […]
It’s Election Day in California, where voters will be deciding whether they want Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to finish out his first term, which ends in 2022, or be replaced by one of the 46 replacement candidates. The latest polls are favorable to Newsom, with 53 percent of voters opting to keep Newsom and 45 […]
The evidence increasingly indicates that a U.S. drone strike that took place outside Kabul as America withdrew from Afghanistan killed not a terrorist but an aid worker, along with nine other civilians, including several children. On August 29, the U.S. military launched a strike on what Central Command said was a vehicle transporting explosives on […]
Australia’s highest court has upheld a controversial and potentially destructive ruling that media outlets are legally liable for defamatory statements posted by online commenters on Facebook, a decision that could result in massive amounts of online censorship out of fear of lawsuits. The case revolves around a television program from 2016 on Australia’s ABC TV […]
In less than two months after terrorists brought down the Twin Towers, Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act, granting federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies expanded authorities to engage in surveillance to hunt down suspected terrorists. The bill sailed through Congress. The House of Representatives voted 357-66 to pass it. Then-Rep. Ron Paul (R–Texas) was […]
A controversial plan by Apple to scan users’ photos for the possible presence of child pornography has been shelved (for now) after tech privacy advocates warned of a future of oppressive government surveillance. In early August, Apple announced it was rolling out a tool that would scan everybody’s iPhone and iPad photos when they were […]
China’s latest round of authoritarian fearmongering isn’t just targeting gamers. The government is going after celebrity culture and in particular young men they deem to be too effeminate. The Associated Press reports: China’s government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters Thursday to promote “revolutionary culture,” broadening a campaign to tighten control over business […]
In an attempt to push back at the anger over violent police conduct and efforts to reform policing in America, we’ve been warned that all this outrage is damaging police morale, causing officers to quit and recruiting to plunge, possibly contributing to 2020’s spike in homicides and gun violence. A survey released in July by […]
U.S. military officials said Sunday that they had launched a drone strike destroying a car full of explosives and killing ISIS-K suicide bombers headed toward the international airport in Kabul. Also on Sunday, a family living in Khwaja Burgha, a neighborhood west of Kabul, said a drone missile struck the car of Ezmari Ahmadi, a […]
