Like nearly all U.S. states, Georgia imposed a stay-at-home order in March 2020 in response to demands from public health officials claiming a stay-at-home order would lessen total deaths from COVID-19. But unlike most states, Georgia ended its stay-at-home order after only five weeks, and proceeded to lower other restrictions quickly. The legacy media responded with furious opposition. For example, an article in The Atlantic declared the end of Georgia’s lockdown to be an “experiment in human sacrifice.” The Guardian approvingly quoted one Georgian who insisted the end of the...
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News Roundup 2/16/21
US News Missouri sent letters to 46,000 residents demanding the repay money the state said it over-paid in unemployment. [Link] Ohio police arrested a mother of two for leaving her ten and two year old children home alone while she was at work. [Link] Biden has removed the petitioning system from the White House website. [Link] A newly-released James Comey email from January 12, 2017 shows the FBI Director knew he could not prove any of the Steele Dossier information was true. [Link] Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says she wants a 9/11-style commission into the Capitol riot. [Link]...
News Roundup 1/14/21
US News The House votes to impeach Trump. [Link] Thousands of people in Missouri were overpaid state unemployment benefits. The state is now asking for the money to be repaid. [Link] Eddie Lee Howard was freed after spending 26 years on death row. Howard was exonerated of rape and murder charges. [Link] NY Governor Cuomo now supports legal weed and sports betting as tax revenues in his state fall. [Link] Biden Biden picks Libya War advocate Samatha Powers to be head of USAID. [Link] Several Democratic Senators have spoken out against voting for a waiver that Gen. Lloyd Austin will need to...
Caitlin Long: What Do Wyoming’s 13 New Blockchain Laws Mean
Wyoming is leading the country in creating an innovative blockchain legal framework. Caitlin Long (follow her on twitter) has been a leader in this effort but not the only one - this year Cynthia Lummis was elected to the senate from Wyoming. She is a strong advocate of crypto and blockchain technology and has already teamed up with other senators and members of congress to oppose the new rules pushed by Steve Mnuchin targeted at self-hosted crypto wallets. There is even a new congressional blockchain caucus. While the federal government is debating ways to regulate cryptocurrencies (they...
How Privatizing the Roads Would Help Stop Police Brutality
Advocates of a free society so frequently field the objection “Who will build the roads?” or some variation thereof that it’s become a meme. Much effort has been put into answering this question, including books on the privatization of roads and highways. What has received relatively little attention is what effect road privatization would have on the role of government police, which is surprising given the existing relationship between roads, police, and drivers. Indeed, most of what police do is related to the road. According to the US Department of Justice’s most recent report on...
News Roundup 7/17/20
US News Missouri adopts a new anti-BDS law. [Link] A video surfaced of a NY police officer beating a homeless man for no reason. [Link] A Michigan judge sentenced a 15-year-old girl to juvenile detention for failing to complete online schoolwork during Covid-19. [Link] The US approves the sale of $163.3 million in Raytheon-made torpedoes to Germany and Belgium. [Link] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces the Nord Stream 2 pipeline construction will no longer receive an exemption from US sanctions. [Link] Korea White House sources say Trump wants to make a deal with North Korea. [Link]...
News Roundup 7/3/20
US News Jeffery Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested in New Hampshire by the FBI on charges related to the dead sex trafficker. [Link] Large US corporations are threatening to pull ads from Facebook in an effort to get the social network to censor more content. [Link] Kareem Johnson was exonerated from death row. For every nine executions, one person is exonerated. [Link] A WNBA start helped to free an innocent Missouri man from prison. [Link] Bodycam footage shows National Park Ranger killing an unarmed man. The officer first fired a taser at Gage Lorentz without warning...
Snitches Details Leaked Online
More than 900 Missouri residents who 'snitched' on lockdown rule-breakers fear retaliation after their details are leaked online Haha.
The Oklahoma City Bombing Archives: An Introduction & Recommended Reading List
When I began compiling material for what eventually became “The Oklahoma City Bombing Archives,” I was simply doing background research for a book. Over a period of several years I used commercial databases, libraries, and services that allowed me to scan newspaper and magazine reports, transcripts, and other sources for relevant material. In addition to standard news media sources, the scope of this research archive expanded after contacting several researchers on this subject and asking for their advice and any materials that might be useful. A number of other researchers contributed...
250th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre
You can still see the spot. If you take the Freedom Trail tour in Boston, a uniformed park ranger will let you stand right on the spot where five Americans were killed by British soldiers on the night of March 5, 1770. This bloody encounter came to be known as “The Boston Massacre.” That fateful and fatal clash happened 250 years ago today. However, the fuse that set off that powder keg was lit a couple of years before that night. Here’s the part of the story that is rarely told. For years prior to the massacre, animosity toward the British by the colonists had been growing. The British...