Robert Willmann: Michael Flynn Seeks to Withdraw his Guilty Plea
"The procedural context of the case now shifts initially to Flynn to show a "fair and just reason" for his request to withdraw his plea."
17 January 2020
Virginia Bills Seek to Force All Schools to Create Universal Transgender “Equality” Policies
"These bills, introduced in the House and Senate, respectively, seek to “protect” transgender students by decimating the issue of compelled use of preferred pronouns, bathroom and locker room use, sports team participation, and alteration of records to reflect “gender identity” in one fell swoop."
16 January 2020
Rentable Facial Recognition Robots Coming to a Conference Near You
"No amount of trust, can hide the fact that biometric identification is about knowing who you are and where you are at all times. It is not too late to tell corporations and governments that we no longer believe their lies."
16 January 2020
Patrick Armstrong: Russian Reshuffle
"Dmitri Medvedev was replaced by somebody that no one (other than Russian tax specialists) had ever heard of: Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin."
16 January 2020
Fishing, Dodgy Warrants, and the Status of Electronic Privacy in Hong Kong: An Exclusive Interview with Charles Mok
"Reflecting on the scale of police evidence collection, and the manner in which a warrant was obtained and phones were searched, Mok is in no doubt that it amounted to a ‘fishing’ operation, and that failure of legal protection in this instance may well point to broader abuse of existing legal protections."
16 January 2020
A Michigan County Health Department Is Trying to Force Amish Families to Violate Beliefs, Update Homes or Face Demolition
"Despite the fact that the Amish community’s choice to live in traditional ways causes no harm to themselves or anyone else, the Lenawee County Health Department has condemned their homes and is now asking a court to authorize the demolition of their property, unless the Amish community abandons its religious beliefs."
16 January 2020
Mapped: The Anatomy of Land Use in America
"The U.S. population is set to grow by 100 million more people over the coming decades, raising the pressure on limited U.S. land and natural resources. This pressure will be felt everywhere, from dense urban land to agricultural farmland."
16 January 2020
Seven Major Earth Changes that Are Happening Right Now that Everyone Needs to Know About
"On top of everything else, the Earth’s magnetic field has been steadily weakening over time, and this has some experts extremely concerned…"
16 January 2020
The Rise of the New Trade Unions
"A return towards communitarianism among conservative-minded theorists has caused other strands of conservative thinking to re-evaluate the approach to trade unions."
16 January 2020
Basij Militia Continues Brutal Suppression of Iranian Demonstrators
The courage of ordinary Iranians in protesting the regime is truly inspirational.
15 January 2020
The Virginia Gun Rights Conflict: The Best and Worst Case Scenarios
"Internal division among the public is designed to keep us at each other's throats while losing focus on the real enemies."
15 January 2020
Boris’s Masterstroke? The Demise of the Tory Ultra-Remainers
"The real catalyst for change, however, came on 3 September. Twenty-one ultra-Remainer Conservative rebels supported an emergency motion taking control of the Commons timetable, to pass a bill blocking a no-deal Brexit on 31 October. ... Johnson promptly responded by withdrawing the Conservative whip from the twenty-one."
15 January 2020
Michael Snyder: Eighteen Signs that the Social Decay in America Is Worse than It Has Ever Been Before
"In one recent year, 17 million more American adults were diagnosed as having “a major depressive disorder”."
15 January 2020
John Whitehead: Sin Taxes and Other Orwellian Methods of Compliance That Feed the Government’s Greed
"When our own government no longer sees us as human beings with dignity and worth but as things to be manipulated, maneuvered, mined for data, manhandled by police, conned into believing it has our best interests at heart, mistreated, and then jails us if we dare step out of line, punishes us unjustly without remorse, and refuses to own up to its failings, we are no longer operating under a constitutional republic."
15 January 2020
“A Prophet Is Not without Honour Save in His Own Country”: Sir Roger Scruton, 1944-2020
"When, after eighteen years, Roger stopped being Editor, he recalled in a Spectator article the sacrifices he had made for going against the grain: the constant harassment, death threats and unpleasantness from academic colleagues. And of course, in normal times, an Oxbridge chair would have surely been his. But he concluded it was worth it."
15 January 2020
DHS Secretary: Allowing Citizens to Get Regular Drivers Licenses ‘Puts People at Risk’
"Sue Fulton, the MVC Chief Administrator said "in order to be able to get a standard license, all applicants will be required to present multiple forms of identification as well as utility bills and bank statements to establish proof of residency.""
15 January 2020
Male Rape Victims Would Be Harmed by ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban
"Now would be the right time for the Bishop of Manchester, along with all his fellow bishops, to reconsider this deeply misguided approach."
15 January 2020
Killers and Child Abusers Can Walk Free in New York Thanks to Bail Reform
"The reforms, touted by Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo, are meant to mimic those passed recently in New Jersey. They fail, however, to note the fact that New Jersey’s bail reform maintained a key element: the discretion of the judge to consider public safety in determining whether or not an alleged perpetrator can be released without bail."
15 January 2020
Brexit Done, Bar the Shouting?
"So, Boris Johnson has now won the election with a very comfortable majority ... Corbyn has lost decisively, and Jo Swinson was not even re-elected."
14 January 2020
The Robots Are Coming, and They Are Going to Take Over Millions of Jobs
"The good news is that the full extent of this ominous scenario is not likely to completely play out. The bad news is that this is because our society is rapidly moving toward complete and utter collapse."
14 January 2020
‘Growth without Earnings, Now That Is a Problem!’
"Everybody knows stocks are overvalued, but the market is going up because the market is going up."
14 January 2020
Cartelization Is Leading the United States Down the Road of Economic Oblivion
"Cartels operate by using the law and the policing power of the state (i) to cause the public to pay more than they should for services, or (ii) to force the public to take services they do not need, do not want, or cannot afford."
14 January 2020
Seventeen-Year-Old Gets Sixty-Five Years in Prison for Killing Girlfriend and the Unborn Child She Refused to Abort
Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Hurley noted that many teenagers feel the same way about an unplanned pregnancy but do not commit violent crimes as a result. "It became apparent," she told Trejo, "you had so many other options."
14 January 2020
The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns
And although the broad commodity market finished up 17.6% on the year, the performances of individual commodities were all over the map. For those familiar with the sector, that’s pretty much par for the course.
14 January 2020