Unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced on Friday for falsifying business records to cover up his 2016 hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. But although a New York jury convicted Trump of 34 felonies in that case last May, Judge Juan Merchan has indicated that he plans to […]
Judge rejects Libertarian Party of Colorado’s lawsuit against Secretary of State Griswold  Denver 7 Colorado News Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News In The NewsVarious articles mentioning Libertarians, libertarian thought or the Libertarian Party.
From Friday’s decision by Fulton County (Ga.) Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney in Judicial Watch v. Willis: Plaintiff submitted an Open Records Act (ORA) request to Defendant on 22 August 2023 by way of Fulton County’s ORA on-line “portal.” That same day, Plaintiff received confirmation that its request had been delivered and would be channeled […]
Fact-checkers, assemble! The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) held an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss a recent setback: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is cutting off the gravy train. Zuckerberg announced earlier this week that his platforms would part ways with the third-party fact-checking organizations he had employed to police speech on Facebook and Instagram. “The […]
With governments cracking down on free speech and even cri Read More Article from Mises Institute Mises InstituteThe Mises Institute’s website is a treasure trove for enthusiasts of Austrian economics, libertarian philosophy, and classical liberalism. Serving as both an educational platform and a research resource, the site offers a vast array of articles, academic papers, […]
Earlier this week, my longtime coauthor Dr. Joanne D. Eisen passed away. In this post, I’d like to describe one part of her admirable life: her scholarship and writing in support of human rights, particularly self-defense. Joanne Dale Eisen was a wife, a mother, and a dentist. For most of her career, she lived in […]
In Judge Wendy Beetlestone’s opinion today in León v. Hanoch, the parties were attorney coworkers; León had been sexually involved with Hanoch’s friend Goodman, who was also a coworker. “Throughout the relationship, Goodman told Hanoch that León was stalking, threatening, and harassing her; that he was hazing her at work; and, that she was scared […]
In the December 29, 2024, issue of the conservative Wall Street Journal, the paper’s longtime columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady, who also serves on the Journal’s editorial board, wrote an article harshly criticizing the dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela. Quoting a State Department statement issued in January 2021, she points out that the Cuban communist regime […]
Wildfires continue to burn in California: Overnight, the fires in and around Los Angeles continued to worsen. Five people have died, 2,000 structures have been destroyed, and 27,000 acres have been consumed so far. The Palisades fire is not yet under control, and 37,000 people have evacuated from that fire alone. But the Eaton fire […]
From Silver’s Substack newsletter yesterday: So, the news is that Facebook is eliminating a partnership that began in December 2016 with independent fact-checking organizations and replacing them with a Twitter/X style Community Notes program. To which I say: that sounds fine, actually…. My impression is that journalists who label themselves as misinformation experts or fact-checkers have a relatively […]