On Thanksgiving, we rightly give thanks. And let’s be clear that, amid all the turmoil that consumes daily headlines, we Americans do indeed have a lot to be thankful for. We are still relatively free. We are also incredibly prosperousa prosperity that would be impossible without uniquely talented and driven entrepreneurs and the courageous investors […]
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The clearest sign of authoritarianism may be when people of different classes are not afforded the same rights and privileges. Do you have to have a position of political or culture power, or have a connection to someone who does, to be free? Does the state dictate what you consume, who you love, or where […]
Elon Musk’s “free speech absolutist” version of Twitter is looking more like a platform moderated with a lighter and less-partisan hand than a free-for-all, but even that is too much for critics. Some warn that free speech is dangerous. Others hint that app stores might ban Twitter to spare users from the peril of slightly […]
Mass layoffs have left dozens of major tech firms and startups hemorrhaging workers ahead of the holiday season, capping off a year of shrinkage at those companies. That leaves thousands of former employees rushing to find new work in a currently contracting industrya daunting task for U.S. citizens and a predicament with potentially life-changing consequences […]
After the Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms last June, New York legislators perversely responded by imposing sweeping new restrictions on public possession of guns, banning them from a long list of locations. The broadest of those categories was “private property,” including businesses as well as residences, where carry permit holders were forbidden […]
Some 55 million Americans are expected to pour over the nation’s roads, rails, and airports this Thanksgiving weekend. Almost none of them will thinkor careabout where the steel, concrete, and asphalt that’s taking them from place to place was made. And that’s how it should be. Unfortunately, federal law cares a lot about those thingsand […]
On Thanksgiving, we rightly give thanks. And let’s be clear that, amid all the turmoil that consumes daily headlines, we Americans do indeed have a lot to be thankful for. We are still relatively free. We are also incredibly prosperousa prosperity that would be impossible without uniquely talented and driven entrepreneurs and the courageous investors […]
Elon Musk says Twitter will offer “general amnesty” to censored accounts as long as they do not break the law or engage in “egregious” spam. He first asked Twitter users to vote in a poll about “general amnesty:” “Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law […]
Ammo Grrrll finds MOVIE CLICHES COME TO LIFE. She writes: I have never been a fan of horror movies. The few I have seen have either been horrific enough to give me nightmares for weeks or so silly and unrealistic as to put me to sleep. But even more than that, I have a visceral […]
