The Supreme Court just ruled in the case of Murthy v. Missouri, in which plaintiffs (including Jay Bhattacharya, who wrote the foreword to my Diary of a Psychosis) argued that the federal government unconstitutionally outsourced restrictions on speech to third...
Happy Dependence Day, Helots. The Declaration of Independence continues to be a masterwork of brevity and directness in its promise to sever ties and formalize a divorce. There is no sizable sector of America today that would even have the temerity to sign it much...
Since the start of the COVID pandemic, many Americans have been appalled at the tidal wave of dictatorial and futile decrees that sought to vanquish a virus. Even more shocking was the craven response by many citizens who believed that groveling to officialdom was the...
The US Postal Service (USPS) has been spying on thousands of Americans’ mail every year for a decade, including letters and parcels, and provided citizens’ information to police and elements of the national security apparatus, a Washington Post investigation found....
Government bureaus have interests, and these always lay in more power and more money for their budgets. Here’s a case study to illustrate the general principle that the leadership of administrative agencies are best understood as political partisans. Over the last few...
After a day of travel across Eurasia, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived in the US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands for a court date. Assange was forced to plead guilty to secure his freedom after over 10 years of confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and the UK’s Belmarsh prison.
While many Americans know that an Electoral College tie sends presidential and vice presidential elections into the House of Representatives and Senate, few realize there’s a constitutional crisis lurking in the incomplete rules for resolving such draws. In 2024,...
I made the decision to join the United States Armed Forces twice in my life. First, in the early 1990s after school when I enlisted and trained as a U.S. Marine. Then, following the 9/11 attacks, I signed up for the Idaho National Guard and was later deployed to...
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