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Don’t Trust the Government. Not with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms
“In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”—Thomas Jefferson Public trust in the government to “do what is right” understandably remains at an all-time low. After all, how do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and […]
“Put a Walmart Bag on Her Head … to Keep the Sex Witches Away”: Court Upholds Limit on Aunt’s Access to Divorced Couple’s Children
From Styles v. Styles, decided Wednesday by the Arkansas Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Judge Kenneth Hixson, joined by Judges Stephanie Potter Barrett and Wendy Scholtens Wood: In the final order, the trial court ordered that Angela’s twin sister, Andrea, not be left alone with the children or communicate with them in any […]
California Lawmakers Think They Can Outsmart AI
Quotation compilations are filled with jabs at lawmakers, as deep thinkers complain about the cravenness, venality and opportunism of politicians. Journalist H.L. Mencken complained that a “good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly quipped that “in politics stupidity is not a handicap.” I’ve known good, honest and smart politicians, but my […]
Writers and Academics Applaud Brazil’s Censorship in Open Letter
An example of eroding support for free speech around the world can be seen in a recent public letter by academics and writers from several countries supporting Brazil’s government in its battle to ban the X social media platform and punish Brazilians who evade restrictions. It’s not that it’s surprising to see intellectuals endorse authoritarianism—many […]
I have a political grandpa who defenestrate Pinochet and praise Allende.
We live in Chile, I’m an stranger. My wife has a grandpa which has worked privately alm his life, doesn’t have a lifestyle that might say he is socialist or something. He defensa the socialist tyranny of Salvador Allende and attacks the ‘ dictatorship ‘ of Pinochet. How to have arguments against him? submitted by […]
Before Time Home Costs
This is another chapter in the Before Time series of articles (here’s the last one) written by those who experienced those times for the sake of the edification of those who are too young to have experienced them and so have no knowledge of how things were, once. My parents bought their first house in 1969 – in […]
Don’t Trust the Government. Not with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms
“In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”—Thomas Jefferson Public trust in the government to “do what is right” understandably remains at an all-time low. After all, how do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and […]
“Put a Walmart Bag on Her Head … to Keep the Sex Witches Away”: Court Upholds Limit on Aunt’s Access to Divorced Couple’s Children
From Styles v. Styles, decided Wednesday by the Arkansas Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Judge Kenneth Hixson, joined by Judges Stephanie Potter Barrett and Wendy Scholtens Wood: In the final order, the trial court ordered that Angela’s twin sister, Andrea, not be left alone with the children or communicate with them in any […]
California Lawmakers Think They Can Outsmart AI
Quotation compilations are filled with jabs at lawmakers, as deep thinkers complain about the cravenness, venality and opportunism of politicians. Journalist H.L. Mencken complained that a “good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly quipped that “in politics stupidity is not a handicap.” I’ve known good, honest and smart politicians, but my […]
Writers and Academics Applaud Brazil’s Censorship in Open Letter
An example of eroding support for free speech around the world can be seen in a recent public letter by academics and writers from several countries supporting Brazil’s government in its battle to ban the X social media platform and punish Brazilians who evade restrictions. It’s not that it’s surprising to see intellectuals endorse authoritarianism—many […]
I have a political grandpa who defenestrate Pinochet and praise Allende.
We live in Chile, I’m an stranger. My wife has a grandpa which has worked privately alm his life, doesn’t have a lifestyle that might say he is socialist or something. He defensa the socialist tyranny of Salvador Allende and attacks the ‘ dictatorship ‘ of Pinochet. How to have arguments against him? submitted by […]
Before Time Home Costs
This is another chapter in the Before Time series of articles (here’s the last one) written by those who experienced those times for the sake of the edification of those who are too young to have experienced them and so have no knowledge of how things were, once. My parents bought their first house in 1969 – in […]