Good morning and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! I hope your team’s “arm barn” is holding up alright. It’s NFL Draft week, and if you’re heavily invested in this, it’s probably a sign your team sucks and needs the help. We’ll talk about how NFL Draft picks are getting screwed, and you’ll view […]
Battle heats up:Â Earlier this month, the Trump administration, which has declared war on elite universities and threatened to pull their funding, “sent Harvard a list of demands that included auditing professors for plagiarism, reporting to the federal government any international students accused of misconduct, and appointing an outside overseer to make sure that academic departments […]
The Techno-Libertarian Pivot: How Separation Of Tech And State Can Save Innovation  Forbes Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News
I remember distinctly the day Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope. Working for a diocese, I was in the middle of a meeting with an older woman and a deacon. They wanted to know if they could start a support group for families with members who were same-sex attracted. The woman’s son was a practicing homosexual, […]
Trump pardons founder of drug marketplace whose case was championed by libertarians  Politico Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News
“…the great error of this age [is] that a regard for religion should be held as an indifferent matter, and that all religions are alike. This manner of reasoning is calculated to bring about the ruin of all forms of religion, and especially of the Catholic religion, which, as it is the only one that […]
From yesterday’s opinion in the case formerly known as A.A.R.P. v. Trump, but now W.M.M. v. Trump: The AARP, a nonprofit entirely unrelated to this case, seek leave to intervene to request that the petitioner A.A.R.P.’s pseudonym be changed to A.R.P. and that the case caption be styled as W.M.M., et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et. […]
An excellent April 14 article by Jacob Mchangama and Hirad Marami (The Bedrock Principle); here’s an excerpt: The Department of Homeland Security recently announced that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services would begin screening the social media posts of “aliens applying for lawful permanent resident status,” as well as foreign students and others affiliated with educational institutions deemed […]
1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times, by Ross Benes, University Press of Kansas, 296 pages, $32.99 In 1982, Prince first sang that he planned to party “like it’s 1999.” But on New Year’s Eve of 1998, as MTV counted down to the actual year 1999, it wasn’t the Purple […]