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ICE just isn’t getting the job done. Despite the masked men swarming everywhere to arrest every Mexican-looking person in sight, the agency still can’t meet the 3,000 arrests per day quota that White House advisor Stephen Miller has stated is merely the baseline for his expectations.
The main reason for this is that we’re running out of immigrants to arrest. The pretense of ejecting “criminal”...
This is, as they say, why we can’t have nice things.
This week Senator Ron Wyden — one of the few U.S. Senators who takes public and consumer privacy seriously — attempted to pass two bills that would have expanded privacy laws that currently only apply to government employees.
S.2850, or Protecting Americans from Doxing and Political Violence Act, would have extended restrictions on the sale of...
The United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the country’s founding document, in 2026. Twenty years later, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of President George Washington’s Farewell Address, which was published on Sept. 19, 1796.
The two documents are the bookends of the American Revolution. That revolution began with the inspirational...
I’ll start with this: I am certainly not fully politically aligned with Senator Bill Cassidy, but I have typically found him to be genuine and intelligent. Points of disagreement aside, he doesn’t strike me as a grifter or psychopath, which is unfortunately quite rare amongst government these days. He is a doctor, specifically a gastroenterologist, and typically pretty good on medical issues.
But...
Automation undeniably has some useful applications. But the folks hyping modern “AI” have not only dramatically overstated its capabilities, many of them generally view these tools as a way to lazily cut corners or undermine labor. There’s also a weird innovation cult that has arisen around managers and LLM use, resulting in the mandatory use of tools that may not be helping anybody — just...
Well, that didn’t last long. Remember back in August when we reported that the UK had supposedly “backed down” from its dangerous demand that Apple create encryption backdoors? Remember how the Trump administration (mainly Tulsi Gabbard and JD Vance) went around patting themselves on the back for tough-arming the UK into acquiescence?
At the time, we highlighted that getting the UK to back down...
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God, what I wouldn’t give for another Nixon administration. Sure, it was corrupt and built from the ground up to punish the opposing party for being the opposing party. But that administration was limited and restrained by things like competent oversight, a functioning court system that wasn’t constantly undermined by five justices who want to do all of their work on the shadow docket where they’...
ABC and Disney’s attempt to please our dim idiot king by banning a critical comedian didn’t go all that well. The company managed to lose 1.7 million streaming subscribers as customers voted with their wallets to punish the company for taking a giant dump on the First Amendment. This latest effort, you’ll recall, came on the heels of ABC paying Trump a $15 million bribe to settle a lawsuit they...
Back in 2023, Trader Joe’s, the famous grocery chain, decided to sue its own employee union for trademark infringement. At issue was the merchandise that Trader Joe’s United sold on its website, which all include a logo for the union that is a modified version of the Trader Joe’s logo. Here’s an example:
Compared with a Trader Joe’s tote bag:
Sorry, none of this is either similar nor...