Early in 2017, Senator Chuck Schumer stated that then-newly elected President Donald Trump was dumb to be antagonizing the intelligence community because “they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you.” Senator Schumer seems to have been onto something, given the...
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TGIF: Shame on Government for Censoring Us
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 4, 2023 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Alas, federal District Judge Terry A. Doughty's preliminary injunction against government censorship of us on social media has been put on hold. So rules three members of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. But this stay of the injunction in State of Missouri et al....
An Open Letter to RFK Jr. on Israel/Palestine
by Scott Horton | Jul 31, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
This article was originally written as a private letter addressed to Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his campaign manager, former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). Unanswered since it was sent in early June 2023, it is now published as an open...
TGIF: What about Politicians?
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 28, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The best-selling social scientist and, it so happens, libertarian Bryan Caplan thinks politicians are immoral. Sounds promising. He's discussed this online and in one of his published blog-post collections, How Evil Are Politicians?: Essays on Demagoguery. What are we...
Boosted by COVID: The Improbable Rise of Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
by Jonathan Franklin | Jul 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sipped coffee inside the historic New Hampshire State House as he chit-chats with a gaggle of the state’s political leaders about the travails of being dad to seven children. Kennedy described his shock upon finding credit card receipts that...
TGIF: Paternalists Cross the Free-Speech Line
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 21, 2023 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Some pundits are puzzled that respectable mainstream Democrats and "progressives" are no longer free-speech absolutists but rather are enthusiastic defenders of the government's massive effort to squelch expression on the social media platforms. (Glenn Greenwald is...
TGIF: Free Speech Upsets Powers that Be
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 14, 2023 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The Biden administration, along with mainstream politicians and journalists, are really upset that U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty has forbidden the executive branch of the central government from communicating with social-media platforms for the purpose of...
TGIF: Good News on Free Speech — for Now
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 7, 2023 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Occasionally, the news makes one cheer. That's the case with a preliminary injunction granted this week (July 4) to stop the federal government from suppressing lawful speech on social media. U.S. District Court Judge Terry A. Doughty took the action in the case of...