06/29 -- Turkey: Regime Agrees to Support Sweden and Finland Joining NATO; Who's Murdering Immigrants? It's No Mystery.
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Turkey: Regime Agrees to Support Sweden and Finland Joining NATO
2) Aide: Disgraced former president threw tantrum when Secret Service refused to take him to Capitol riot
3) Germany: Court sentences 101-year-old Nazi camp guard to five years in jail
4) Maxwell sentenced to 20 years
5) Dog Bites Man: Whackjob authoritarian incumbent easily beats “moderate” challenger in Colorado congressional primary
6) South Korea: Yoon Seeks EU-Style Unification With Kim Regime
7) MI: Court kills Flint water charges against ex-governor, others
8) KY: ACLU Lawsuit claims abortion ban violates state constitution
9) Ethiopia: Regime denies accusation it executed Sudanese soldiers, civilian
10) Colombia: Prison riot sparks deadly fire
11) India: Regime thugs abduct Muslim journalist accused of insulting Hindus
12) WI: Democratic AG sues to block state’s abortion ban
13) NASA’s tiny CAPSTONE cubesat launches on pioneering moon mission
14) Spanish PM blames traffickers, migrants for deaths at border
15) Scotland: 19 October 2023 proposed as date for referendum on independence
16) SCOTUS sides with doctors challenging opioid convictions
17) Special counsel rules Biden’s energy secretary violated Hatch Act
18) UK: Johnson’s move to rewrite Brexit rules clears first hurdle
19) TX: Judge told to recuse himself in killer cop’s trial
20) TX: 46 dead, 16 hospitalized trying to avoid ICE gang’s depredations
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Who’s Murdering Immigrants? It’s No Mystery.
22) Dissolving the Inkblot: Privacy as Property Right
23) The Purpose of Government Lists
24) What If People Actually Controlled the Government?
25) Trump Is In Deep, Deep, Deep, Deep Trouble
26) SCOTUS decision for Maine parents paves road for school choice
27) Democrats Have Become a Serious Threat to the Republic
28) Economic Winter Has Arrived
29) The conspiratorial roots of Trumpism
30) Why Going “Hard” Is Taking the Easy Way Out
31) Big Oil, Big Profits — Big Deal?
32) Trump’s dominance might end with a whimper, not a bang
33) Poem: Holding Hands On The Precipice
34) America’s Culture of Immigration Death
35) Whatever happened to “protect and serve?”
36) America Is Losing Its Value Proposition
37) Biden Is the Economy’s Supply Chain Problem
38) Fact vs. Faith: Science in an Age of Unreason
39) St. Teresa Has Some Bad News for Republicans
40) Will Raging Liberals Cause an Anti-Democrat Backlash?
41) Samuel Alito: The 21st-Century Roger Taney
42) More Bloat For Bloated Defense Spending
43) The well-traveled road from member of Congress to foreign agent
44) Quantum Vibe, 06/28/22
45) The End of the Beginning of the Culture War
46) Troops on the Ground Prove Canada Is at War With Russia
47) A Lesson on Early Literacy from the Magnolia State
48) Blue votes, red policy
49) Teens Work, Drive & Pay Taxes, Should Be Able To Vote, Too
50) Roe Was Flawed. Dobbs Is Worse.
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51) Free Talk Live, 06/28/22
52) Dave DeCamp on The Scott Horton Show
53) Hubwonk, 06/28/22
54) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 06/28/22
55) Rising, 06/28/22
56) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/28/22
57) Cyberlaw Podcast, 06/28/22
58) FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcat, 06/27/22
59) Year Zero with Tommy Salmons, 06/27/22
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1) Turkey: Regime Agrees to Support Sweden and Finland Joining NATO
Source: Time
“Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, a breakthrough in an impasse clouding a leaders’ summit in Madrid amid Europe’s worst security crisis in decades triggered by the war in Ukraine. … Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had blocked the move, insisting the Nordic pair change their stance on Kurdish rebel groups that Turkey considers terrorists. Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said the three countries’ leaders signed a joint agreement after talks on Tuesday.” (06/28/22)
https://time.com/6192023/turkey-finland-sweden-nato/
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2) Aide: Disgraced former president threw tantrum when Secret Service refused to take him to Capitol riot
Source: CNBC
“Former President Donald Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent in a rage in the presidential limousine when told he could not be taken to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a former White House aide testified Tuesday. ‘I’m the ‘effing’ president, take me up to the Capitol now!’ Trump insisted, according to the aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, describing what she was told had happened in the limo that day. Trump also grabbed the steering wheel of the limo in a fury after learning he would not be taken there, Hutchinson said. Hutchinson, who had served as a top aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, revealed the dramatic incident for the first time at an abruptly scheduled hearing of the select House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. … Trump denied Hutchinson’s account and criticized her in a series of posts on his social media site.” (06/28/22)
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/28/trump-lunged-at-secret-service-agent-in-rage-when-told-he-couldnt-go-to-capitol-on-jan-6-aide-testifies.html
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3) Germany: Court sentences 101-year-old Nazi camp guard to five years in jail
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatar state media]
“A German court has handed a five-year jail sentence to a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person so far to go on trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust. Josef Schuetz was found guilty of being an accessory to murder while working as a prison guard at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945 …. The pensioner, who now lives in Brandenburg state, had pleaded innocent, saying he did ‘absolutely nothing’ and was not aware of the gruesome crimes being carried out at the camp. ‘I don’t know why I am here,’ he said at the close of his trial on Monday. But prosecutors said he ‘knowingly and willingly’ participated in the murders of 3,518 prisoners at the camp and called for him to be punished with five years behind bars.” (06/28/22)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/28/germany-sentences-101-year-old-nazi-camp-guard-to-5-years-in-jail-2
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4) Maxwell sentenced to 20 years
Source: Politico
“Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls. The stiff sentence was the punctuation mark on a trial that explored the sordid rituals of a predator power couple who courted the rich and famous as they lured vulnerable girls as young as 14, and then exploited them. Prosecutors said Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial, sexually abused children hundreds of times over more than a decade, and couldn’t have done so without the help of Maxwell, his longtime companion and onetime girlfriend. In December, a jury convicted Maxwell of sex trafficking, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts and two conspiracy charges.” (06/28/22)
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/28/ghislaine-maxwell-prison-jeffrey-epstein-00042874
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5) Dog Bites Man: Whackjob authoritarian incumbent easily beats “moderate” challenger in Colorado congressional primary
Source: Colorado Sun
“U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert on Tuesday took a major step toward securing a second term when she easily defeated her Republican primary challenger, state Sen. Don Coram, in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. The Associated Press called the race for Boebert at 7:36 p.m. Boebert was leading Coram with 64% of the vote compared to his 36%. Coram promised to be a drama-free, get-it-done replacement to Boebert in Washington. But 3rd District GOP voters decided instead by what appeared to be a commanding margin to stay the course with the Garfield County congresswoman, despite all of her controversies, which have helped make Boebert a national Republican figure.” (06/28/22)
https://coloradosun.com/2022/06/28/lauren-boebert-don-coram-primary-results/
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6) South Korea: Yoon Seeks EU-Style Unification With Kim Regime
Source: Newsweek
“South Korea’s new leader has opted for a tougher approach toward North Korea than his predecessor, but a plan put forth by his administration envisions a path to a peaceful future for the two rivals and their shared peninsula. Published this month and seen by Newsweek, the framework, conceived under South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, imagines a three-phase roadmap first involving reconciliation and cooperation, then the creation of a Korean Union and, finally, a unified Korea. … This provisional union would include the creation of a single economic zone and freedom of movement and residence between the two Koreas, officially known as the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).” (06/28/22)
https://www.newsweek.com/south-koreas-new-leader-seeks-eu-style-unification-kim-jong-un-1719591
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7) MI: Court kills Flint water charges against ex-governor, others
Source: ABC News
“Charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder and others in the Flint water scandal must be dismissed after the Michigan Supreme Court said Tuesday that a judge had no power to issue indictments under a century-old, rarely used law. … State laws ‘authorize a judge to investigate, subpoena witnesses, and issue arrest warrants’ as a one-person grand jury, the Supreme Court said. ‘But they do not authorize the judge to issue indictments,’ the court said in a 6-0 opinion written by Chief Justice Bridget McCormack. … Separately, the state has agreed to pay $600 million as part of a $626 million settlement with Flint residents and property owners who were harmed by lead-tainted water. Most of the money is going to children.” (06/28/22)
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/court-indictments-invalid-flint-water-scandal-85850486
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8) KY: ACLU Lawsuit claims abortion ban violates state constitution
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
“Kentucky’s new abortion ban is being challenged by abortion-rights supporters, who filed a lawsuit Monday that says women are being ‘forced to remain pregnant against their will’ in violation of the state’s constitution. The state’s Republican attorney general, Daniel Cameron, responded by vowing to fight any ‘baseless claim’ made against enforcing the abortion ban. The suit takes aim at a 2019 Kentucky law that called for an immediate halt to nearly all abortions in the event that the Roe v. Wade ruling were to be overturned. The state law went into effect Friday (and abortions ended abruptly in Kentucky) when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to end federal constitutional protections for abortions. Filed in a state court, the suit asks a judge to temporarily block Kentucky’s so-called trigger law along with another state law that attempted to prevent abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.” (06/28/22)
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/article262939673.html
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9) Ethiopia: Regime denies accusation it executed Sudanese soldiers, civilian
Source: Reuters
“Ethiopia on Monday denied Sudan’s accusation that its army had captured and executed seven Sudanese soldiers and a civilian, instead blaming the killings on a local militia. Skirmishes between the neighbouring countries have erupted in recent years over the contested and fertile al-Fashqa border region. Sudan’s foreign ministry said on Monday the men had been seized on Sudanese territory on June 22 and taken into Ethiopia where they were killed. In a statement on Monday, Ethiopia’s foreign ministry said the facts of the incident were misrepresented and that the deaths were a result of a skirmish between Sudanese soldiers, who they said had staged an incursion into Ethiopian land, and a local militia.” (06/28/22)
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sudan-accuses-ethiopia-executing-7-sudanese-soldiers-civilian-2022-06-26/
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10) Colombia: Prison riot sparks deadly fire
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A fire during a prison riot in south-west Colombia has killed 49 inmates and injured at least 30 other people, including prison warders. The national prison authority said the fire in Tuluá, in Valle del Cauca, was started by prisoners in the early hours of Tuesday morning. According to officials, the inmates set fire to mattresses in a bid to stop guards breaking up the riot. They say the blaze has now been controlled, and no prisoners escaped. The fire broke out at about 01:00 local time (06:00GMT) on Tuesday morning in one of the prison blocks, which normally houses about 180 inmates. Residents of the city reported seeing smoke and flames inside the jail after the fire got out of control and engulfed the prison block. Firefighters and ambulance services were alerted, with some of the injured being taken to hospital.” (06/28/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-61970093
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11) India: Regime thugs abduct Muslim journalist accused of insulting Hindus
Source: CNN
“Delhi police have arrested a prominent Muslim journalist, accusing him of insulting religious beliefs on social media, in a move condemned by free speech advocates. Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of fact-checking website Alt News, which debunks misinformation in the Indian media, was arrested Monday and remanded overnight in police custody, said KPS Malhotra, a deputy commissioner in Delhi’s Cyber Crime Unit. … Among Zubair’s recent social media posts are videos he claims show Hindu extremists giving hate-speeches against Islam, a minority religion in India where nearly 80% of people are Hindu.” (06/28/22)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/india/mohammed-zubair-india-arrest-journalist-intl-hnk/index.html
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12) WI: Democratic AG sues to block state’s abortion ban
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Wisconsin’s Democratic attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the state’s 173-year-old abortion ban, arguing that statutes passed in the 1980s supersede the ban and it’s so old that modern generations never consented to it. Wisconsin passed a law in 1849, the year after the territory became a state, banning abortions in every instance except to save the mother’s life. The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling, which essentially legalized abortion nationwide, nullified the ban. The court’s decision on Friday to reverse Roe vs. Wade has created questions about whether the ban is back in effect. Anti-abortion advocates insist it is. Abortion providers in the state stopped offering procedures on Friday out of fear of prosecution. Attorney General Josh Kaul had hinted before the Supreme Court’s decision reversing Roe vs. Wade that he would challenge the ban’s validity.” (06/28/22)
https://www.startribune.com/wisconsins-democratic-ag-sues-to-block-states-abortion-ban/600185933/
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13) NASA’s tiny CAPSTONE cubesat launches on pioneering moon mission
Source: Space.com
“NASA’s tiny CAPSTONE spacecraft has begun its long, history-making journey to the moon. The 55-pound (25 kilograms) cubesat launched today (June 28) atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster, which lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand at 5:55 a.m. EDT (0955 GMT; 9:55 p.m. local time in New Zealand). … CAPSTONE is headed for the moon, where it will test the stability of the orbit that NASA plans to use for its Gateway space outpost.” (06/28/22)
https://www.space.com/nasa-capstone-cubesat-moon-launch-success-rocket-lab
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14) Spanish PM blames traffickers, migrants for deaths at border
Source: Spectrum News 1
“Spain’s prime minister has defended the way Moroccan and Spanish police repelled migrants last week as they tried to cross the shared border into the north African enclave of Melilla, depicting the attempt in which at least 23 people died as ‘an attack on Spain’s borders.’ ‘We must remember that many of these migrants attacked Spain’s borders with axes and hooks,’ Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said during an interview Monday with The Associated Press. ‘We are talking about an attempt to assault the fence that was evidently carried out in an aggressive way, and therefore what Spain’s state security forces and Moroccan guards did was defend Spain’s borders.’ Authorities in Morocco have blamed the deaths on a ‘stampede’ of people that formed early Friday as hundreds attempted to scale or break through the 12-meter (29-feet) iron double fence.” (06/28/22)
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triangle-sandhills/ap-online/2022/06/28/spanish-pm-blames-traffickers-migrants-for-deaths-at-border
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15) Scotland: 19 October 2023 proposed as date for referendum on independence
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Scotland’s first minister has proposed 19 October 2023 as the date for another referendum on independence. Nicola Sturgeon said the question would be the same as in the last referendum in 2014: ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’ Ms Sturgeon has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask for formal consent for the vote to be held. She said she would press on with her plan if this was not granted by the UK government. But she stressed that any referendum would need to be ‘indisputably lawful’ and constitutional — with the Supreme Court being asked to rule on whether the Scottish government has the power to hold a vote without UK government approval. The UK government said it would examine the first minister’s proposals, but stressed that its position that ‘now is not the time’ for another referendum had not changed.” (06/28/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-61968607
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16) SCOTUS sides with doctors challenging opioid convictions
Source: Reuters
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave two doctors found guilty of misusing their licenses in the midst of the U.S. opioid epidemic to write thousands of prescriptions for addictive pain medications another chance to challenge their convictions. The justices ruled 9-0 in favor of Xiulu Ruan and Shakeel Kahn, who had argued in appealing their convictions that their trials were unfair because jurors were not required to consider whether the two physicians had ‘good faith’ reasons to believe their numerous opioid prescriptions were medically valid. Liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the court, said that once defendants produce evidence that they were authorized to dispense controlled substances like opioids, prosecutors must prove they knew they were acting in an unauthorized manner.” (06/27/22)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-sides-with-doctors-challenging-opioid-convictions-2022-06-27/
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17) Special counsel rules Biden’s energy secretary violated Hatch Act
Source: Fox News
“The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) determined that Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm violated the Hatch Act during a late 2021 interview. The OSC said Granholm explicitly endorsed Democratic Party candidates during an Oct. 6 interview in her official capacity with media outlet Marie Clare, according to a response letter sent to the Foundation for Accountability & Civic Trust (FACT) on June 9. FACT requested that the OSC investigate the matter shortly after the interview was published. During the interview, Granholm remarked that it was ‘good news’ voters gave Democrats majority control of the House and Senate in 2020. ‘”OSC has concluded that Secretary Granholm engaged in political activity when she gave this response promoting the electoral success of the Democratic Party,’ Erica Hamrick, the deputy chief of the OSC’s Hatch Act Unit, wrote to FACT.” (06/28/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/special-counsel-biden-energy-secretary-violated-hatch-act
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18) UK: Johnson’s move to rewrite Brexit rules clears first hurdle
Source: ABC News
“British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bid to rip up parts of the post-Brexit trade deal he signed with the European Union has cleared its first hurdle in Parliament, despite warnings from opponents that the move is illegal. Lawmakers voted 295 to 221 late Monday to give initial approval to a bill allowing U.K. officials to rewrite trade rules for [occupied] Ireland. The vote clears the way for the bill to undergo detailed scrutiny in coming weeks. If approved, the legislation would remove checks on goods entering [occupied] Ireland from the … U.K., thereby scrapping parts of a trade treaty that Johnson signed before Britain left the EU in 2020.” (06/28/22)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/johnsons-move-rewrite-brexit-rules-clears-1st-hurdle-85840258
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19) TX: Judge told to recuse himself in killer cop’s trial
Source: SFGate
“A new judge must be assigned to oversee the murder case against a former Texas police officer after defense attorneys successfully argued that the initial judge must recuse himself. Retired Second Court of Appeals Justice Lee Gabriel issued the decision Tuesday after hearing arguments last week. Attorneys for the former Fort Worth officer, Aaron Dean, argued that Judge David Hagerman’s pre-trial decisions raised questions about his objectivity. Dean is accused of shooting Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old [b]lack woman, through a window of her home while responding to a call reporting the front door was open. The 2019 killing heightened mistrust between the city’s [b]lack community and the police department.” [editor’s note: He’s not “accused of shooting” the victim. There’s no doubt he did. He’s accused of ILLEGALLY shooting the victim – TLK] (06/28/22)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Judge-told-to-recuse-himself-in-former-Texas-17272069.php
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20) TX: 46 dead, 16 hospitalized trying to avoid ICE gang’s depredations
Source: Desert Sun
“Forty-six people were found dead and 16 others were taken to hospitals Monday after a tractor-trailer containing suspected migrants was found abandoned in a remote area of San Antonio amid soaring temperatures in Texas, officials said. … Monday’s deaths are the most recent incident officials believe to be related to [the ICE gang’s attempts to thwart] border crossings.” (06/27/22)
https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation/2022/06/27/san-antonio-semi-truck-migrants-texas-victims/7752843001/
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21) Who’s Murdering Immigrants? It’s No Mystery.
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“It’s a grisly affair: Dozens of immigrants locked in a semi-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, apparently abandoned by those attempting to smuggle them into the United States. After their cries for help were heard and rescuers arrived, 48 were found dead at the scene, four more died shortly thereafter, and 16 were hospitalized. … if the US government pursued the ‘open borders’ policy mandated in its Constitution, those immigrants wouldn’t have been locked in a semi-trailer in the first place, nor would their drivers have abandoned them …. American politicians know that supporting government lawlessness on immigration gets them votes. A vote for a non-‘open borders’ politician — these days, that means pretty much any Republican or Democrat — is a vote for mass murder.” (06/28/22)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/16913
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22) Dissolving the Inkblot: Privacy as Property Right
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“The dominant liberal and conservative approaches to privacy are unsatisfactory because they are essentially unprincipled. Liberals, such as Laurence Tribe, envision a right of privacy radiating from express provisions of the Constitution, but that right is so narrow that it is self‐subverting. Conservatives, such as Robert Bork, reject that vision of a right to privacy because they believe that the method used to find it will allow judges to invent rights. Conservatives seem to assume that there is no alternative vision. But there is an alternative vision, one that derives privacy rights from a Lockean framework based on each person’s property in his own life, liberty, and estate.” (originally published in the 1990s; posted 06/28/22)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/06/dissolving-inkblot-privacy-as-property.html
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23) The Purpose of Government Lists
Source: A Geek With Guns
by Christopher Burg
“Statists tend to believe that government lists are beneficial or at worst benign. They tend to believe that government has good cause for creating lists. That part is true. Government does have good cause for creating lists. But that cause is neither beneficial or benign. It’s to inflict ill on those they deem worthy of punishment. The Attorney General of California just demonstrated this by publishing the name and home address of every carry permit holder in the state …. The Attorney General claims this is to improve transparency, but it’s obviously retaliation for the Supreme Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, which found that requiring carry permit applicants to provide proper cause violated the Second Amendment.” (06/28/22)
https://blog.christopherburg.com/2022/06/28/the-purpose-of-government-lists/
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24) What If People Actually Controlled the Government?
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“Imagine, if you will, the following system. Government is managed by elected representatives who are in turn elected by the people. Government is further restrained by checks and balances between three branches, each of which is accountable ultimately to the people who live under the laws. Unlike the ancient system of government in which the only people who were truly free were the aristocracy, under this new system, every adult citizen has political rights. No one rules over anyone without accountability. … Sounds dreamy? A bit. We haven’t had that system in the US for a very long time, even if what I just mapped out seems more or less like what the US Constitution set up.” (06/28/22)
https://brownstone.org/articles/what-if-people-actually-controlled-the-government/
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25) Trump Is In Deep, Deep, Deep, Deep Trouble
Source: Commentary
by John Podhoretz
“The testimony this afternoon of Cassidy Hutchinson, the aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, cannot be dismissed. If what she has testified to, sworn under oath, is not countered or contradicted by Meadows or Trump’s White House counsel Pat Cippolone — either under oath themselves or eventually before a grand jury — then there is a credible criminal case that Trump violated the law in ways not dealt with by the second impeachment, and from which he would not be shielded by executive privilege. … I did not think this day would come. I have said as much on our podcast many times. But as a result of the bombshells today, there’s no question now that Donald Trump is staring down the barrel of an indictment for seditious conspiracy against the government of the United States.” (06/28/22)
https://www.commentary.org/john-podhoretz/trump-is-in-deep-deep-deep-deep-trouble/
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26) SCOTUS decision for Maine parents paves road for school choice
Source: Fox News
by David McIntosh
“Students should never be denied the benefit of their education tax dollars simply on account of religion. But that’s precisely what had been happening. Tuition assistance to attend private institutions had been available to Maine school children, but the state program excluded those attending religious schools. … The Supreme Court agreed with Maine’s parents in its 6-3 decision, delivering an undeniable victory for religious liberty. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the court’s opinion in Carson v. Maykin: ‘Regardless of how the benefit and restriction are described, the program operates to identify and exclude otherwise eligible schools on the basis of their religious exercise.’ The ruling for the parents also represents a huge victory for the parental school choice movement.” (06/28/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/supreme-court-decision-maine-parents-paves-road-school-choice
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27) Democrats Have Become a Serious Threat to the Republic
Source: The Federalist
by David Harsanyi
“Those who seek to destroy or delegitimize the Supreme Court for upholding the Constitution are no better than those who desire to overturn or delegitimize presidential elections. In fact, they probably pose a greater long-term threat to American ‘democracy.’ Now, if you believe the above contention is hyperbole, consider that many leftists aren’t merely advocating for court-packing or nullification of the Dobbs decision; they justify those attacks with a litany of other grievances about the constitutional order. Even as the Supreme Court relinquished its power, and threw the abortion issue–unmentioned anywhere in the Constitution–back to the voters, a horde of j-school graduates and politicians, either ignorant of basic civics or contemptuous of them, descended with panic-stricken warnings about the demise of ‘democracy.'” [editor’s note: As if Republicans give a tinker’s damn about the Constitution when it gets in their way – TLK] (06/27/22)
https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/27/democrats-have-become-a-serious-threat-to-the-republic/
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28) Economic Winter Has Arrived
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Doug French
“The average card-carrying Austrian would say that the Federal Reserve is creating money by the bale, with evidence being Consumer Price Index prints of 8.6 percent per the Bureau of Labor Statistics or over 15 percent per John Williams’s shadowstats.com computation based on the way the government calculated CPI back in 1980. Surely, at best, the US dollar is only the cleanest dirty shirt in the currency laundry basket. But Uncle Sam’s dollar continues to strengthen (vis-a-vis other government fiat), with the result being market crashes in … everything.” (06/28/22)
https://mises.org/wire/economic-winter-has-arrived
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29) The conspiratorial roots of Trumpism
Source: The Hill
by John Kenneth White
“It’s easy to see the comparisons between [George] Wallace and [Donald] Trump. Both endorsed political violence: Wallace threatened to run over demonstrators with his limousine; Trump said he would like to personally punch protestors in the face. Both were viewed by many as racists. But conspiracy-minded thinking energize Trump and his followers most. … Trump’s promotion of conspiracy theories is reminiscent of the late Robert Welch. Welch, heir to a vast candy fortune, founded the John Birch Society in 1958. Welch claimed without evidence that Dwight Eisenhower was a ‘dedicated, conscious agent of the communist conspiracy;’ that the United Nations was ‘the instrument of communist global conquest;’ that the civil rights movement sought to tear the country asunder and establish an ‘independent Negro-Socialist Republic;’ and that the fluoridation of public drinking water was ‘a method of Red Warfare.’ … And they were a powerful force in Republican politics.” (06/28/22)
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3538633-the-conspiratorial-roots-of-trumpism/
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30) Why Going “Hard” Is Taking the Easy Way Out
Source: TomDispatch
by William J Astore
“American schools are soft, you say? I know what you mean. I taught college for 15 years, so I’ve dealt with my share of still-teenagers fresh out of high school. Many of them inspired me, but some had clearly earned high marks too easily and needed remedial help in math, English, or other subjects. School discipline had been too lax perhaps and standards too slack, because Johnny and Janey often couldn’t or wouldn’t read a book, though they sure could text, tweet, take selfies, and make videos. Oh, wait a sec, that’s not what you meant by ‘soft,’ is it? You meant soft as in ‘soft target’ in the context of mass school shootings, the most recent being in Uvalde, Texas.” (06/24/22)
https://tomdispatch.com/why-going-hard-is-taking-the-easy-way-out/
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31) Big Oil, Big Profits — Big Deal?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“When President Joe Biden accused oil companies of excessive profiteering, and those profits as a cause of inflation, reactions were … mixed. Democrats love that kind of talk. Ronald Reagan, back in his Democrat days, pitched precisely that sort of rhetoric when he campaigned for Truman’s re-election. Republicans, along with most other Americans, are skeptical. Or just plain incredulous.” (06/28/22)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2022/06/28/big-oil-big-profits/
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32) Trump’s dominance might end with a whimper, not a bang
Source: Washington Post
by Jennifer Rubin
“Pollsters, pundits and Republican operatives have long insisted that the House Jan. 6 committee’s hearings won’t change voters’ minds, largely because Republican voters deep in the right-wing media cocoon are ignoring the hearings. But there’s evidence the ‘nothing matters’ crowd is wrong. … Of course, swindled people do not like to admit they were swindled. Most Republicans are not going to tell pollsters they now disapprove of Trump or that the Democrats were right about 2020. They are not going to finally acknowledge that the ‘big lie’ was just that — a lie. But many more Republicans might be amenable to finding someone who does not appear unhinged and did not try to use the presidency to reverse an election outcome.” (06/28/22)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/28/january-6-hearings-desantis-trump-may-end-with-whimper-not-bang/
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33) Poem: Holding Hands On The Precipice
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“From our perch here on the edge of armageddon / we are safe to gush out our love over everything, / because we’ve got nothing left to save it for / and nothing left to lose. / I place slippery wet YES kisses on the black crows in your stomach / and on the glowing red cardinal birds who fill the night sky. / I hold your precious heart in my hands and my eyeballs grow vines into it / and I weep round sloppy joy while telling you that you are perfect. / There is great beauty to be found in the oceans choked with garbage, / in the coughing poverty streets filled with schizophrenic prophets and opioid eyes, / in the Sauron eye of Google, / and in the pounding of the war drums as the ICBMs are readied. / It is not hard to see. / It is not even hidden.” (06/28/22)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/06/28/holding-hands-on-the-precipice/
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34) America’s Culture of Immigration Death
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“The latest example of America’s culture of immigration death involves 46 immigrants in San Antonio. Their bodies were found in the back of a tractor-trailer. They had died of dehydration in the blistering South Texas heat. … The official anger will be directed to the driver of the tractor-trailer and everyone else who was involved in the transportation of those people. Federal officials will go after them with all guns blazing. … in the process of punishing those drivers, supporters of America’s system of immigration controls block out of their minds a critically important point: The deaths of all those people are a direct consequence of America’s system of immigration controls.” (06/28/22)
https://www.fff.org/2022/06/28/americas-culture-of-immigration-death/
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35) Whatever happened to “protect and serve?”
Source: spiked
by Kevin Yuill
“The disastrous response of Uvalde’s cops to the Robb Elementary School shooting sheds light on the terrible impact of certain cultural changes on and within the police. It is clear that the police are now more risk-averse than they ever used to be. It is also clear that individual officers are less willing or simply unable to respond to situations using their own judgement. Indeed, many police departments in cities across America are now using predictive algorithms, based on arrest data and police records, to make policing decisions for them. Above all, it is clear that Uvalde police failed to display qualities that were once deemed virtuous, but are now more likely to be damned as signs of toxic masculinity. Those officers on duty that horrible day should have shown courage. They should have been willing to act and take responsibility for their decisions.” (06/28/22)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/06/28/whatever-happened-to-protect-and-serve/
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36) America Is Losing Its Value Proposition
Source: Foreign Policy
by Howard W French
“Politics is a rough game everywhere, but when all principles fall away, as appears to be happening in the United States, beware of a hard fall. The future will not be pretty for the United States if it cannot rediscover some of the idealism that marked its long rise.” (06/28/22)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/28/us-global-power-values-roe-v-wade-guns/
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37) Biden Is the Economy’s Supply Chain Problem
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“Joe Biden has become America’s ‘it’s not my fault’ president. Whether it’s the inflation, the border, the crime, the gas prices, the Afghanistan exit fiasco or the stock market collapse, Biden has become an expert at pointing the finger at someone else. His presidency so far reminds me of the famous campaign slogan of then-New York Mayor David Dinkins, who admitted that everything was going wrong in the Big Apple on his watch and confessed, ‘I’m doing the best I can.’ New Yorkers believed him. And they wisely tossed him out of office for Rudy Giuliani, who actually fixed things. Take the supply chain crisis. Biden constantly blames shortages, empty shelves and back orders of everything from cars to tampons to baby formula on ‘supply chain’ disruptions.” (06/28/22)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2022/06/28/biden-is-the-economys-supply-chain-problem-n2609405
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38) Fact vs. Faith: Science in an Age of Unreason
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by John Staddon
“David Hume, the star of the Scottish Enlightenment, made a simple distinction, vital for science, between facts and faith, between is and ought. Science is about facts; ought is something else.” (06/28/22)
https://www.aier.org/article/fact-vs-faith-science-in-an-age-of-unreason/
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39) St. Teresa Has Some Bad News for Republicans
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Froma Harrop
“‘There are more tears shed over answered prayers than unanswered prayers,’ St. Teresa of Avila said. Republicans may soon learn just how that works. It used to be that Republican politicians with no fixed views on abortion could pray loudly for an end to Roe v. Wade. They knew that their stances would please abortion foes while not alarming the pro-choice majority. As long as Roe remained a law protecting the right to end a pregnancy, pro-choice voters open to other aspects of the Republican platform could shrug at such candidates. … not only has this ruling rattled the all-important suburban swing vote, but it has also unleashed right-wing radicals who are already launching threats at women who go to states where abortion remains legal. The nastiness is just beginning.” (06/28/22)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/06/28/st_teresa_has_some_bad_news_for_republicans_147809.html
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40) Will Raging Liberals Cause an Anti-Democrat Backlash?
Source: The Daily Beast
by Matt Lewis
“Democrats are betting that anger over the reversal of Roe v. Wade will take down Republicans in the 2022 midterms. This is a plausible, if desperate, hope. The theory is that the ‘winning’ side of such a long struggle will now be pacified, while the ‘losing’ side is energized and outraged. And abortion rights — with some limits — remain broadly popular on a national scale. The political calculus over the right’s biggest victory in a half-century is so scrambled that even former President Donald Trump is reportedly worried about this. But Republicans have a secret weapon: Democrats’ penchant for progressive overreach. We are already seeing signs at multiple levels — among activists, elite celebrities, and politicians. It raises the question: Could there be a backlash against the backlash?” (06/28/22)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/will-raging-liberals-cause-an-anti-democrat-backlash
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41) Samuel Alito: The 21st-Century Roger Taney
Source: The American Prospect
by Harold Meyerson
“He was confident that his sweeping opinion, backed by a majority of his Supreme Court colleagues, would decide the nation’s most divisive issue once and for all, even though his position was so extreme it lacked the support of the American citizenry. Instead, his opinion plunged the nation into crisis, not just because it denied an entire class of Americans their most basic rights, but also because it highlighted a deep and destabilizing flaw in the American system of government: that a minority could overrule a majority even on the most fundamental issues of life. Thus, Chief Justice Roger Taney in his 1857 decision in the Dred Scott case. Thus, Associate Justice Samuel Alito in his 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.” [editor’s note: Fascinating how this pundit can take the correction of an actual overreach of SCOTUS authority, and label the correction as that – SAT](06/28/22)
https://prospect.org/justice/samuel-alito-21st-century-roger-taney/
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42) More Bloat For Bloated Defense Spending
Source: CounterPunch
by Melvin Goodman
“The Senate and House Armed Forces Committees are in a competition to see which house of Congress can add more money to our bloated defense spending. The Senate took the lead two weeks ago, when it provided an additional $45 billion to defense spending, blowing past the targets set by both the White House and the Department of Defense. The mainstream media has paid virtually no attention to this irresponsible dueling with scarce American dollars. As of now, the top line defense budget figure is an astounding $847 billion, designed to counter inflation; the Russian invasion of Ukraine; and the Pentagon’s unwillingness to fund unneeded weapons systems.” (06/28/22)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/28/more-bloat-for-bloated-defense-spending/
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43) The well-traveled road from member of Congress to foreign agent
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Nick Cleveland-Stout & Ben Freeman
“It’s no secret that when members of Congress leave office, they turn to one profession above all others: lobbying. Year in and year out, it’s the same story of former elected officials selling their connections and knowledge of how to make things happen (or not happen) in Washington to high-paying special interests. While this lobbying is often done on behalf of American interests — like big pharmaceutical, banking, or weapons firms — former lawmakers have been lobbying on behalf of foreign interests more and more often in recent years. We analyzed Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings since 2000 and found that at least 90 former members of Congress have registered as foreign agents, representing nearly half (87) of all countries in the world, and the trend has only become more pronounced in recent years.” (06/28/22)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/06/28/the-revolving-door-from-congress-to-foreign-interest-lobbyist-is-well-traveled/
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44) Quantum Vibe, 06/28/22
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (06/28/22)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2352
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45) The End of the Beginning of the Culture War
Source: The Pamphleteer
by Davis Hunt
“Starting in the late 50s, the Supreme Court under the leadership of Earl Warren issued forty-five precedents overturning previous rulings. All previous courts together had done so only eighty-eight times. It was a revolutionary period described as a ‘Constitutional Revolution’ by some as the court migrated in an increasingly liberal direction. The Warren court was and is the most aggressive and politically inclined court in the history of the nation. ‘If you walk out of this hotel tonight and someone knocks you on the head,’ sneered George Wallace during his 1968 Presidential run. ‘He’ll be out of jail before you’re out of the hospital, and on Monday morning they’ll try the policeman instead of the criminal.’ His sentiment captured the popular reaction to Earl Warren’s reign outside of the major urban centers. It was during Warren’s reign that the Culture War was officially born.” (06/24/22)
https://pamphleteer.co/newsletter/no-284-the-birth-of-the-culture-war/
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46) Troops on the Ground Prove Canada Is at War With Russia
Source: Antiwar.com
by Yves Engler
“Canada is at war with Russia. But the government doesn’t want to talk about it. On Saturday the New York Times reported that Canadian special forces are part of a NATO network providing weapons and training to Ukrainian forces. The elite troops are also in the country gathering intelligence on Russian operations.” (06/28/22)
https://original.antiwar.com/yves_engler/2022/06/27/troops-on-the-ground-prove-canada-is-at-war-with-russia/
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47) A Lesson on Early Literacy from the Magnolia State
Source: Show-Me Institute
by Abigail Wagner
“If I polled one hundred Missourians on which state they thought had the best early literacy policies in the nation, I’m almost certain most of them wouldn’t immediately say ‘Mississippi.’ Mississippi has long been at the bottom of the pack when it comes to reading performance, while Missouri has consistently floated in the middle. However, in 2013, Mississippi brought in a dynamic state superintendent of schools, Dr. Carey Wright, who has emphasized a science-based approach to early literacy and taken a tough stance on promoting struggling readers to the next grade level. In the years since Wright’s appointment, Mississippi has reversed its last-in-the-nation status with an impressive increase in the percentage of its fourth graders who can read at grade level.” (06/27/22)
https://showmeinstitute.org/a-lesson-on-early-literacy-from-the-magnolia-state/
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48) Blue votes, red policy
Source: EconLog
by Scott Sumner
“South Dakota put abortion bans on the ballot several times, and each time the initiative was soundly rejected by voters …. Despite these votes, the South Dakota government went ahead and made abortion illegal. Does this sound familiar? Perhaps you recall the following: ‘South Dakota has voted to legalize marijuana use for adults.’ … The legalization was to take effect in 2021, but it never happened. The amendment was rejected by the South Dakota Supreme Court on a minor technicality. You might think that’s no big problem. They can vote again on a cleaner initiative in 2022. But the anti-democratic elements in South Dakota are unwilling to give up so easily …” (06/27/22)
https://www.econlib.org/blue-votes-red-policy/
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49) Teens Work, Drive & Pay Taxes, Should Be Able To Vote, Too
Source: In These Times
by staff
“The most popular proposal is to give everyone 16 and up the right to vote. In the United States, 16-year-olds are working full-time, paying taxes and driving, so why not voting? And most live with their families, which may be a better time for them to cast their first vote -- rather than when they’re in the midst of major life transitions a few years later. In countries like Scotland and Austria, where 16- and 17-year-olds can vote in some or all elections, the teens vote at higher rates than their slightly older cohorts, and research shows voters who begin earlier stick with the habit. Civically engaged teenagers at home might even boost the participation of parents and other family members. Enfranchising more young people could also combat what writer Astra Taylor has termed the ’gerontocracy’: a generational cohort making long-term policy they won’t be around to deal with.” (06/28/22)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/young-voter-youth-activism-electorate-gerontocracy
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50) Roe Was Flawed. Dobbs Is Worse.
Source: The Atlantic
by Tom Nichols
“I’m a conservative (or what used to be called a conservative) who always thought Roe v. Wade was the product of judicial activism. But overturning it is even worse. … Years of political change matter. Decades ago, abortion became accepted as a right by a broad majority of the country. Justice Samuel Alito and the other five conservatives on the Supreme Court were not handing back abortion to the states as if it were some open question for a debate; they knew exactly what was going to happen in states with ‘trigger’ laws the minute they ruled. Despite their legal rationale, these justices were taking sides in a culture war on behalf of a minority of Americans with whom at least some of them happen to agree.” (06/27/22)
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/06/dobbs-conservative-justices-activist-court-roe-overturned/661410/
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51) Free Talk Live, 06/28/22
Source: Free Talk Live
"Forkfest Day One :: Aria rants about someone taking Soapbox Idol seriously :: Atheist fired for not attending company prayer meetings :: Upcoming Civil war? :: Do assault weapon bans reduce gun violence? :: Shawn Grissom talks with us about the maturation of Porcfest :: Tarrin Lupo talks about Covid-19 :: Light and Liberty :: Maxwell sentenced to 20 years :: Show: 2022-06-28 Aria, Captain." [Flash audio or MP3] (06/28/22)
https://freetalklive.com/archives?ppplayer=5c48425a5422918dc6f904bd1cb7e00f&ppepisode=fde9846cc48ec080561d652e187b4e16
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52) Dave DeCamp on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Scott interviews Antiwar.com News Editor Dave Decamp about the recent developments in Eastern Europe.” [various formats] (06/28/22)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/6-27-22-dave-decamp-on-ukraine-nato-and-antiwar-com/
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53) Hubwonk, 06/28/22
Source: Pioneer Institute
“SCOTUS Gun Stun: Bearing Arms in Summer Bruen Decision.” [various formats] (06/28/22)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/featured/scotus-gun-stun-bearing-arms-in-summer-bruen-decision/
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54) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 06/28/22
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“G7 Leaders Pledge Endless Money To Ukraine — ‘As Long As It Takes!'” [Flash video] (06/28/22)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/g7-leaders-pledge-endless-money-to-ukraine-as-long-as-it-takes
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55) Rising, 06/28/22
Source: The Hill
“Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to the discovery of 46 dead migrants inside an abandoned 18-wheeler in San Antonio, Texas.” [Flash video] (06/28/22)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/3539364-rising-june-28-2022/
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56) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/28/22
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me for our weekly conversation about his latest observations about living during interesting times.” [various formats] (06/28/22)
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-da2v5-125ef81
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57) Cyberlaw Podcast, 06/28/22
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
“One Small Door, Too Many Fat Men: Congress’s Tech Agenda.” [MP3] (06/28/22)
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/06/28/one-small-door-too-many-fat-men-congresss-tech-agenda/
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58) FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcat, 06/27/22
Source: FiveThirtyEight
“What The Politics Of Abortion Look Like Now.” [various formats] (06/27/22)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-what-the-politics-of-abortion-look-like-now/
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59) Year Zero with Tommy Salmons, 06/27/22
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Nihilism w/Buck Johnson.” [Flash audio or MP3] (06/27/22)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/year-zero/nihilism-w-buck-johnson/
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60) TechTank, season 2, episode 13
Source: TechTank
“Will Americans finally see bipartisan federal privacy legislation?” [Flash audio] (06/27/22)
https://shows.acast.com/tech-tank/episodes/will-americans-finally-see-bipartisan-federal-privacy-legisl
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Turkey: Regime Agrees to Support Sweden and Finland Joining NATO
2) Aide: Disgraced former president threw tantrum when Secret Service refused to take him to Capitol riot
3) Germany: Court sentences 101-year-old Nazi camp guard to five years in jail
4) Maxwell sentenced to 20 years
5) Dog Bites Man: Whackjob authoritarian incumbent easily beats “moderate” challenger in Colorado congressional primary
6) South Korea: Yoon Seeks EU-Style Unification With Kim Regime
7) MI: Court kills Flint water charges against ex-governor, others
8) KY: ACLU Lawsuit claims abortion ban violates state constitution
9) Ethiopia: Regime denies accusation it executed Sudanese soldiers, civilian
10) Colombia: Prison riot sparks deadly fire
11) India: Regime thugs abduct Muslim journalist accused of insulting Hindus
12) WI: Democratic AG sues to block state’s abortion ban
13) NASA’s tiny CAPSTONE cubesat launches on pioneering moon mission
14) Spanish PM blames traffickers, migrants for deaths at border
15) Scotland: 19 October 2023 proposed as date for referendum on independence
16) SCOTUS sides with doctors challenging opioid convictions
17) Special counsel rules Biden’s energy secretary violated Hatch Act
18) UK: Johnson’s move to rewrite Brexit rules clears first hurdle
19) TX: Judge told to recuse himself in killer cop’s trial
20) TX: 46 dead, 16 hospitalized trying to avoid ICE gang’s depredations
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Who’s Murdering Immigrants? It’s No Mystery.
22) Dissolving the Inkblot: Privacy as Property Right
23) The Purpose of Government Lists
24) What If People Actually Controlled the Government?
25) Trump Is In Deep, Deep, Deep, Deep Trouble
26) SCOTUS decision for Maine parents paves road for school choice
27) Democrats Have Become a Serious Threat to the Republic
28) Economic Winter Has Arrived
29) The conspiratorial roots of Trumpism
30) Why Going “Hard” Is Taking the Easy Way Out
31) Big Oil, Big Profits — Big Deal?
32) Trump’s dominance might end with a whimper, not a bang
33) Poem: Holding Hands On The Precipice
34) America’s Culture of Immigration Death
35) Whatever happened to “protect and serve?”
36) America Is Losing Its Value Proposition
37) Biden Is the Economy’s Supply Chain Problem
38) Fact vs. Faith: Science in an Age of Unreason
39) St. Teresa Has Some Bad News for Republicans
40) Will Raging Liberals Cause an Anti-Democrat Backlash?
41) Samuel Alito: The 21st-Century Roger Taney
42) More Bloat For Bloated Defense Spending
43) The well-traveled road from member of Congress to foreign agent
44) Quantum Vibe, 06/28/22
45) The End of the Beginning of the Culture War
46) Troops on the Ground Prove Canada Is at War With Russia
47) A Lesson on Early Literacy from the Magnolia State
48) Blue votes, red policy
49) Teens Work, Drive & Pay Taxes, Should Be Able To Vote, Too
50) Roe Was Flawed. Dobbs Is Worse.
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Free Talk Live, 06/28/22
52) Dave DeCamp on The Scott Horton Show
53) Hubwonk, 06/28/22
54) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 06/28/22
55) Rising, 06/28/22
56) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/28/22
57) Cyberlaw Podcast, 06/28/22
58) FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcat, 06/27/22
59) Year Zero with Tommy Salmons, 06/27/22
60) TechTank, season 2, episode 13
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1) Turkey: Regime Agrees to Support Sweden and Finland Joining NATO
Source: Time
“Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, a breakthrough in an impasse clouding a leaders’ summit in Madrid amid Europe’s worst security crisis in decades triggered by the war in Ukraine. … Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had blocked the move, insisting the Nordic pair change their stance on Kurdish rebel groups that Turkey considers terrorists. Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said the three countries’ leaders signed a joint agreement after talks on Tuesday.” (06/28/22)
https://time.com/6192023/turkey-finland-sweden-nato/
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2) Aide: Disgraced former president threw tantrum when Secret Service refused to take him to Capitol riot
Source: CNBC
“Former President Donald Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent in a rage in the presidential limousine when told he could not be taken to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a former White House aide testified Tuesday. ‘I’m the ‘effing’ president, take me up to the Capitol now!’ Trump insisted, according to the aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, describing what she was told had happened in the limo that day. Trump also grabbed the steering wheel of the limo in a fury after learning he would not be taken there, Hutchinson said. Hutchinson, who had served as a top aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, revealed the dramatic incident for the first time at an abruptly scheduled hearing of the select House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. … Trump denied Hutchinson’s account and criticized her in a series of posts on his social media site.” (06/28/22)
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/28/trump-lunged-at-secret-service-agent-in-rage-when-told-he-couldnt-go-to-capitol-on-jan-6-aide-testifies.html
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3) Germany: Court sentences 101-year-old Nazi camp guard to five years in jail
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatar state media]
“A German court has handed a five-year jail sentence to a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person so far to go on trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust. Josef Schuetz was found guilty of being an accessory to murder while working as a prison guard at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945 …. The pensioner, who now lives in Brandenburg state, had pleaded innocent, saying he did ‘absolutely nothing’ and was not aware of the gruesome crimes being carried out at the camp. ‘I don’t know why I am here,’ he said at the close of his trial on Monday. But prosecutors said he ‘knowingly and willingly’ participated in the murders of 3,518 prisoners at the camp and called for him to be punished with five years behind bars.” (06/28/22)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/28/germany-sentences-101-year-old-nazi-camp-guard-to-5-years-in-jail-2
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4) Maxwell sentenced to 20 years
Source: Politico
“Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls. The stiff sentence was the punctuation mark on a trial that explored the sordid rituals of a predator power couple who courted the rich and famous as they lured vulnerable girls as young as 14, and then exploited them. Prosecutors said Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial, sexually abused children hundreds of times over more than a decade, and couldn’t have done so without the help of Maxwell, his longtime companion and onetime girlfriend. In December, a jury convicted Maxwell of sex trafficking, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts and two conspiracy charges.” (06/28/22)
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/28/ghislaine-maxwell-prison-jeffrey-epstein-00042874
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5) Dog Bites Man: Whackjob authoritarian incumbent easily beats “moderate” challenger in Colorado congressional primary
Source: Colorado Sun
“U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert on Tuesday took a major step toward securing a second term when she easily defeated her Republican primary challenger, state Sen. Don Coram, in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. The Associated Press called the race for Boebert at 7:36 p.m. Boebert was leading Coram with 64% of the vote compared to his 36%. Coram promised to be a drama-free, get-it-done replacement to Boebert in Washington. But 3rd District GOP voters decided instead by what appeared to be a commanding margin to stay the course with the Garfield County congresswoman, despite all of her controversies, which have helped make Boebert a national Republican figure.” (06/28/22)
https://coloradosun.com/2022/06/28/lauren-boebert-don-coram-primary-results/
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6) South Korea: Yoon Seeks EU-Style Unification With Kim Regime
Source: Newsweek
“South Korea’s new leader has opted for a tougher approach toward North Korea than his predecessor, but a plan put forth by his administration envisions a path to a peaceful future for the two rivals and their shared peninsula. Published this month and seen by Newsweek, the framework, conceived under South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, imagines a three-phase roadmap first involving reconciliation and cooperation, then the creation of a Korean Union and, finally, a unified Korea. … This provisional union would include the creation of a single economic zone and freedom of movement and residence between the two Koreas, officially known as the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).” (06/28/22)
https://www.newsweek.com/south-koreas-new-leader-seeks-eu-style-unification-kim-jong-un-1719591
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7) MI: Court kills Flint water charges against ex-governor, others
Source: ABC News
“Charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder and others in the Flint water scandal must be dismissed after the Michigan Supreme Court said Tuesday that a judge had no power to issue indictments under a century-old, rarely used law. … State laws ‘authorize a judge to investigate, subpoena witnesses, and issue arrest warrants’ as a one-person grand jury, the Supreme Court said. ‘But they do not authorize the judge to issue indictments,’ the court said in a 6-0 opinion written by Chief Justice Bridget McCormack. … Separately, the state has agreed to pay $600 million as part of a $626 million settlement with Flint residents and property owners who were harmed by lead-tainted water. Most of the money is going to children.” (06/28/22)
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/court-indictments-invalid-flint-water-scandal-85850486
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8) KY: ACLU Lawsuit claims abortion ban violates state constitution
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
“Kentucky’s new abortion ban is being challenged by abortion-rights supporters, who filed a lawsuit Monday that says women are being ‘forced to remain pregnant against their will’ in violation of the state’s constitution. The state’s Republican attorney general, Daniel Cameron, responded by vowing to fight any ‘baseless claim’ made against enforcing the abortion ban. The suit takes aim at a 2019 Kentucky law that called for an immediate halt to nearly all abortions in the event that the Roe v. Wade ruling were to be overturned. The state law went into effect Friday (and abortions ended abruptly in Kentucky) when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to end federal constitutional protections for abortions. Filed in a state court, the suit asks a judge to temporarily block Kentucky’s so-called trigger law along with another state law that attempted to prevent abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.” (06/28/22)
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/article262939673.html
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9) Ethiopia: Regime denies accusation it executed Sudanese soldiers, civilian
Source: Reuters
“Ethiopia on Monday denied Sudan’s accusation that its army had captured and executed seven Sudanese soldiers and a civilian, instead blaming the killings on a local militia. Skirmishes between the neighbouring countries have erupted in recent years over the contested and fertile al-Fashqa border region. Sudan’s foreign ministry said on Monday the men had been seized on Sudanese territory on June 22 and taken into Ethiopia where they were killed. In a statement on Monday, Ethiopia’s foreign ministry said the facts of the incident were misrepresented and that the deaths were a result of a skirmish between Sudanese soldiers, who they said had staged an incursion into Ethiopian land, and a local militia.” (06/28/22)
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sudan-accuses-ethiopia-executing-7-sudanese-soldiers-civilian-2022-06-26/
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10) Colombia: Prison riot sparks deadly fire
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A fire during a prison riot in south-west Colombia has killed 49 inmates and injured at least 30 other people, including prison warders. The national prison authority said the fire in Tuluá, in Valle del Cauca, was started by prisoners in the early hours of Tuesday morning. According to officials, the inmates set fire to mattresses in a bid to stop guards breaking up the riot. They say the blaze has now been controlled, and no prisoners escaped. The fire broke out at about 01:00 local time (06:00GMT) on Tuesday morning in one of the prison blocks, which normally houses about 180 inmates. Residents of the city reported seeing smoke and flames inside the jail after the fire got out of control and engulfed the prison block. Firefighters and ambulance services were alerted, with some of the injured being taken to hospital.” (06/28/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-61970093
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11) India: Regime thugs abduct Muslim journalist accused of insulting Hindus
Source: CNN
“Delhi police have arrested a prominent Muslim journalist, accusing him of insulting religious beliefs on social media, in a move condemned by free speech advocates. Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of fact-checking website Alt News, which debunks misinformation in the Indian media, was arrested Monday and remanded overnight in police custody, said KPS Malhotra, a deputy commissioner in Delhi’s Cyber Crime Unit. … Among Zubair’s recent social media posts are videos he claims show Hindu extremists giving hate-speeches against Islam, a minority religion in India where nearly 80% of people are Hindu.” (06/28/22)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/india/mohammed-zubair-india-arrest-journalist-intl-hnk/index.html
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12) WI: Democratic AG sues to block state’s abortion ban
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Wisconsin’s Democratic attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the state’s 173-year-old abortion ban, arguing that statutes passed in the 1980s supersede the ban and it’s so old that modern generations never consented to it. Wisconsin passed a law in 1849, the year after the territory became a state, banning abortions in every instance except to save the mother’s life. The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling, which essentially legalized abortion nationwide, nullified the ban. The court’s decision on Friday to reverse Roe vs. Wade has created questions about whether the ban is back in effect. Anti-abortion advocates insist it is. Abortion providers in the state stopped offering procedures on Friday out of fear of prosecution. Attorney General Josh Kaul had hinted before the Supreme Court’s decision reversing Roe vs. Wade that he would challenge the ban’s validity.” (06/28/22)
https://www.startribune.com/wisconsins-democratic-ag-sues-to-block-states-abortion-ban/600185933/
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13) NASA’s tiny CAPSTONE cubesat launches on pioneering moon mission
Source: Space.com
“NASA’s tiny CAPSTONE spacecraft has begun its long, history-making journey to the moon. The 55-pound (25 kilograms) cubesat launched today (June 28) atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster, which lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand at 5:55 a.m. EDT (0955 GMT; 9:55 p.m. local time in New Zealand). … CAPSTONE is headed for the moon, where it will test the stability of the orbit that NASA plans to use for its Gateway space outpost.” (06/28/22)
https://www.space.com/nasa-capstone-cubesat-moon-launch-success-rocket-lab
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14) Spanish PM blames traffickers, migrants for deaths at border
Source: Spectrum News 1
“Spain’s prime minister has defended the way Moroccan and Spanish police repelled migrants last week as they tried to cross the shared border into the north African enclave of Melilla, depicting the attempt in which at least 23 people died as ‘an attack on Spain’s borders.’ ‘We must remember that many of these migrants attacked Spain’s borders with axes and hooks,’ Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said during an interview Monday with The Associated Press. ‘We are talking about an attempt to assault the fence that was evidently carried out in an aggressive way, and therefore what Spain’s state security forces and Moroccan guards did was defend Spain’s borders.’ Authorities in Morocco have blamed the deaths on a ‘stampede’ of people that formed early Friday as hundreds attempted to scale or break through the 12-meter (29-feet) iron double fence.” (06/28/22)
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triangle-sandhills/ap-online/2022/06/28/spanish-pm-blames-traffickers-migrants-for-deaths-at-border
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15) Scotland: 19 October 2023 proposed as date for referendum on independence
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Scotland’s first minister has proposed 19 October 2023 as the date for another referendum on independence. Nicola Sturgeon said the question would be the same as in the last referendum in 2014: ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’ Ms Sturgeon has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask for formal consent for the vote to be held. She said she would press on with her plan if this was not granted by the UK government. But she stressed that any referendum would need to be ‘indisputably lawful’ and constitutional — with the Supreme Court being asked to rule on whether the Scottish government has the power to hold a vote without UK government approval. The UK government said it would examine the first minister’s proposals, but stressed that its position that ‘now is not the time’ for another referendum had not changed.” (06/28/22)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-61968607
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16) SCOTUS sides with doctors challenging opioid convictions
Source: Reuters
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave two doctors found guilty of misusing their licenses in the midst of the U.S. opioid epidemic to write thousands of prescriptions for addictive pain medications another chance to challenge their convictions. The justices ruled 9-0 in favor of Xiulu Ruan and Shakeel Kahn, who had argued in appealing their convictions that their trials were unfair because jurors were not required to consider whether the two physicians had ‘good faith’ reasons to believe their numerous opioid prescriptions were medically valid. Liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the court, said that once defendants produce evidence that they were authorized to dispense controlled substances like opioids, prosecutors must prove they knew they were acting in an unauthorized manner.” (06/27/22)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-sides-with-doctors-challenging-opioid-convictions-2022-06-27/
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17) Special counsel rules Biden’s energy secretary violated Hatch Act
Source: Fox News
“The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) determined that Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm violated the Hatch Act during a late 2021 interview. The OSC said Granholm explicitly endorsed Democratic Party candidates during an Oct. 6 interview in her official capacity with media outlet Marie Clare, according to a response letter sent to the Foundation for Accountability & Civic Trust (FACT) on June 9. FACT requested that the OSC investigate the matter shortly after the interview was published. During the interview, Granholm remarked that it was ‘good news’ voters gave Democrats majority control of the House and Senate in 2020. ‘”OSC has concluded that Secretary Granholm engaged in political activity when she gave this response promoting the electoral success of the Democratic Party,’ Erica Hamrick, the deputy chief of the OSC’s Hatch Act Unit, wrote to FACT.” (06/28/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/special-counsel-biden-energy-secretary-violated-hatch-act
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18) UK: Johnson’s move to rewrite Brexit rules clears first hurdle
Source: ABC News
“British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bid to rip up parts of the post-Brexit trade deal he signed with the European Union has cleared its first hurdle in Parliament, despite warnings from opponents that the move is illegal. Lawmakers voted 295 to 221 late Monday to give initial approval to a bill allowing U.K. officials to rewrite trade rules for [occupied] Ireland. The vote clears the way for the bill to undergo detailed scrutiny in coming weeks. If approved, the legislation would remove checks on goods entering [occupied] Ireland from the … U.K., thereby scrapping parts of a trade treaty that Johnson signed before Britain left the EU in 2020.” (06/28/22)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/johnsons-move-rewrite-brexit-rules-clears-1st-hurdle-85840258
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19) TX: Judge told to recuse himself in killer cop’s trial
Source: SFGate
“A new judge must be assigned to oversee the murder case against a former Texas police officer after defense attorneys successfully argued that the initial judge must recuse himself. Retired Second Court of Appeals Justice Lee Gabriel issued the decision Tuesday after hearing arguments last week. Attorneys for the former Fort Worth officer, Aaron Dean, argued that Judge David Hagerman’s pre-trial decisions raised questions about his objectivity. Dean is accused of shooting Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old [b]lack woman, through a window of her home while responding to a call reporting the front door was open. The 2019 killing heightened mistrust between the city’s [b]lack community and the police department.” [editor’s note: He’s not “accused of shooting” the victim. There’s no doubt he did. He’s accused of ILLEGALLY shooting the victim – TLK] (06/28/22)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Judge-told-to-recuse-himself-in-former-Texas-17272069.php
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20) TX: 46 dead, 16 hospitalized trying to avoid ICE gang’s depredations
Source: Desert Sun
“Forty-six people were found dead and 16 others were taken to hospitals Monday after a tractor-trailer containing suspected migrants was found abandoned in a remote area of San Antonio amid soaring temperatures in Texas, officials said. … Monday’s deaths are the most recent incident officials believe to be related to [the ICE gang’s attempts to thwart] border crossings.” (06/27/22)
https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation/2022/06/27/san-antonio-semi-truck-migrants-texas-victims/7752843001/
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21) Who’s Murdering Immigrants? It’s No Mystery.
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“It’s a grisly affair: Dozens of immigrants locked in a semi-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, apparently abandoned by those attempting to smuggle them into the United States. After their cries for help were heard and rescuers arrived, 48 were found dead at the scene, four more died shortly thereafter, and 16 were hospitalized. … if the US government pursued the ‘open borders’ policy mandated in its Constitution, those immigrants wouldn’t have been locked in a semi-trailer in the first place, nor would their drivers have abandoned them …. American politicians know that supporting government lawlessness on immigration gets them votes. A vote for a non-‘open borders’ politician — these days, that means pretty much any Republican or Democrat — is a vote for mass murder.” (06/28/22)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/16913
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22) Dissolving the Inkblot: Privacy as Property Right
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“The dominant liberal and conservative approaches to privacy are unsatisfactory because they are essentially unprincipled. Liberals, such as Laurence Tribe, envision a right of privacy radiating from express provisions of the Constitution, but that right is so narrow that it is self‐subverting. Conservatives, such as Robert Bork, reject that vision of a right to privacy because they believe that the method used to find it will allow judges to invent rights. Conservatives seem to assume that there is no alternative vision. But there is an alternative vision, one that derives privacy rights from a Lockean framework based on each person’s property in his own life, liberty, and estate.” (originally published in the 1990s; posted 06/28/22)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/06/dissolving-inkblot-privacy-as-property.html
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23) The Purpose of Government Lists
Source: A Geek With Guns
by Christopher Burg
“Statists tend to believe that government lists are beneficial or at worst benign. They tend to believe that government has good cause for creating lists. That part is true. Government does have good cause for creating lists. But that cause is neither beneficial or benign. It’s to inflict ill on those they deem worthy of punishment. The Attorney General of California just demonstrated this by publishing the name and home address of every carry permit holder in the state …. The Attorney General claims this is to improve transparency, but it’s obviously retaliation for the Supreme Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, which found that requiring carry permit applicants to provide proper cause violated the Second Amendment.” (06/28/22)
https://blog.christopherburg.com/2022/06/28/the-purpose-of-government-lists/
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24) What If People Actually Controlled the Government?
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“Imagine, if you will, the following system. Government is managed by elected representatives who are in turn elected by the people. Government is further restrained by checks and balances between three branches, each of which is accountable ultimately to the people who live under the laws. Unlike the ancient system of government in which the only people who were truly free were the aristocracy, under this new system, every adult citizen has political rights. No one rules over anyone without accountability. … Sounds dreamy? A bit. We haven’t had that system in the US for a very long time, even if what I just mapped out seems more or less like what the US Constitution set up.” (06/28/22)
https://brownstone.org/articles/what-if-people-actually-controlled-the-government/
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25) Trump Is In Deep, Deep, Deep, Deep Trouble
Source: Commentary
by John Podhoretz
“The testimony this afternoon of Cassidy Hutchinson, the aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, cannot be dismissed. If what she has testified to, sworn under oath, is not countered or contradicted by Meadows or Trump’s White House counsel Pat Cippolone — either under oath themselves or eventually before a grand jury — then there is a credible criminal case that Trump violated the law in ways not dealt with by the second impeachment, and from which he would not be shielded by executive privilege. … I did not think this day would come. I have said as much on our podcast many times. But as a result of the bombshells today, there’s no question now that Donald Trump is staring down the barrel of an indictment for seditious conspiracy against the government of the United States.” (06/28/22)
https://www.commentary.org/john-podhoretz/trump-is-in-deep-deep-deep-deep-trouble/
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26) SCOTUS decision for Maine parents paves road for school choice
Source: Fox News
by David McIntosh
“Students should never be denied the benefit of their education tax dollars simply on account of religion. But that’s precisely what had been happening. Tuition assistance to attend private institutions had been available to Maine school children, but the state program excluded those attending religious schools. … The Supreme Court agreed with Maine’s parents in its 6-3 decision, delivering an undeniable victory for religious liberty. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the court’s opinion in Carson v. Maykin: ‘Regardless of how the benefit and restriction are described, the program operates to identify and exclude otherwise eligible schools on the basis of their religious exercise.’ The ruling for the parents also represents a huge victory for the parental school choice movement.” (06/28/22)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/supreme-court-decision-maine-parents-paves-road-school-choice
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27) Democrats Have Become a Serious Threat to the Republic
Source: The Federalist
by David Harsanyi
“Those who seek to destroy or delegitimize the Supreme Court for upholding the Constitution are no better than those who desire to overturn or delegitimize presidential elections. In fact, they probably pose a greater long-term threat to American ‘democracy.’ Now, if you believe the above contention is hyperbole, consider that many leftists aren’t merely advocating for court-packing or nullification of the Dobbs decision; they justify those attacks with a litany of other grievances about the constitutional order. Even as the Supreme Court relinquished its power, and threw the abortion issue–unmentioned anywhere in the Constitution–back to the voters, a horde of j-school graduates and politicians, either ignorant of basic civics or contemptuous of them, descended with panic-stricken warnings about the demise of ‘democracy.'” [editor’s note: As if Republicans give a tinker’s damn about the Constitution when it gets in their way – TLK] (06/27/22)
https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/27/democrats-have-become-a-serious-threat-to-the-republic/
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28) Economic Winter Has Arrived
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Doug French
“The average card-carrying Austrian would say that the Federal Reserve is creating money by the bale, with evidence being Consumer Price Index prints of 8.6 percent per the Bureau of Labor Statistics or over 15 percent per John Williams’s shadowstats.com computation based on the way the government calculated CPI back in 1980. Surely, at best, the US dollar is only the cleanest dirty shirt in the currency laundry basket. But Uncle Sam’s dollar continues to strengthen (vis-a-vis other government fiat), with the result being market crashes in … everything.” (06/28/22)
https://mises.org/wire/economic-winter-has-arrived
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29) The conspiratorial roots of Trumpism
Source: The Hill
by John Kenneth White
“It’s easy to see the comparisons between [George] Wallace and [Donald] Trump. Both endorsed political violence: Wallace threatened to run over demonstrators with his limousine; Trump said he would like to personally punch protestors in the face. Both were viewed by many as racists. But conspiracy-minded thinking energize Trump and his followers most. … Trump’s promotion of conspiracy theories is reminiscent of the late Robert Welch. Welch, heir to a vast candy fortune, founded the John Birch Society in 1958. Welch claimed without evidence that Dwight Eisenhower was a ‘dedicated, conscious agent of the communist conspiracy;’ that the United Nations was ‘the instrument of communist global conquest;’ that the civil rights movement sought to tear the country asunder and establish an ‘independent Negro-Socialist Republic;’ and that the fluoridation of public drinking water was ‘a method of Red Warfare.’ … And they were a powerful force in Republican politics.” (06/28/22)
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3538633-the-conspiratorial-roots-of-trumpism/
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30) Why Going “Hard” Is Taking the Easy Way Out
Source: TomDispatch
by William J Astore
“American schools are soft, you say? I know what you mean. I taught college for 15 years, so I’ve dealt with my share of still-teenagers fresh out of high school. Many of them inspired me, but some had clearly earned high marks too easily and needed remedial help in math, English, or other subjects. School discipline had been too lax perhaps and standards too slack, because Johnny and Janey often couldn’t or wouldn’t read a book, though they sure could text, tweet, take selfies, and make videos. Oh, wait a sec, that’s not what you meant by ‘soft,’ is it? You meant soft as in ‘soft target’ in the context of mass school shootings, the most recent being in Uvalde, Texas.” (06/24/22)
https://tomdispatch.com/why-going-hard-is-taking-the-easy-way-out/
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31) Big Oil, Big Profits — Big Deal?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“When President Joe Biden accused oil companies of excessive profiteering, and those profits as a cause of inflation, reactions were … mixed. Democrats love that kind of talk. Ronald Reagan, back in his Democrat days, pitched precisely that sort of rhetoric when he campaigned for Truman’s re-election. Republicans, along with most other Americans, are skeptical. Or just plain incredulous.” (06/28/22)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2022/06/28/big-oil-big-profits/
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32) Trump’s dominance might end with a whimper, not a bang
Source: Washington Post
by Jennifer Rubin
“Pollsters, pundits and Republican operatives have long insisted that the House Jan. 6 committee’s hearings won’t change voters’ minds, largely because Republican voters deep in the right-wing media cocoon are ignoring the hearings. But there’s evidence the ‘nothing matters’ crowd is wrong. … Of course, swindled people do not like to admit they were swindled. Most Republicans are not going to tell pollsters they now disapprove of Trump or that the Democrats were right about 2020. They are not going to finally acknowledge that the ‘big lie’ was just that — a lie. But many more Republicans might be amenable to finding someone who does not appear unhinged and did not try to use the presidency to reverse an election outcome.” (06/28/22)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/28/january-6-hearings-desantis-trump-may-end-with-whimper-not-bang/
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33) Poem: Holding Hands On The Precipice
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“From our perch here on the edge of armageddon / we are safe to gush out our love over everything, / because we’ve got nothing left to save it for / and nothing left to lose. / I place slippery wet YES kisses on the black crows in your stomach / and on the glowing red cardinal birds who fill the night sky. / I hold your precious heart in my hands and my eyeballs grow vines into it / and I weep round sloppy joy while telling you that you are perfect. / There is great beauty to be found in the oceans choked with garbage, / in the coughing poverty streets filled with schizophrenic prophets and opioid eyes, / in the Sauron eye of Google, / and in the pounding of the war drums as the ICBMs are readied. / It is not hard to see. / It is not even hidden.” (06/28/22)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/06/28/holding-hands-on-the-precipice/
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34) America’s Culture of Immigration Death
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“The latest example of America’s culture of immigration death involves 46 immigrants in San Antonio. Their bodies were found in the back of a tractor-trailer. They had died of dehydration in the blistering South Texas heat. … The official anger will be directed to the driver of the tractor-trailer and everyone else who was involved in the transportation of those people. Federal officials will go after them with all guns blazing. … in the process of punishing those drivers, supporters of America’s system of immigration controls block out of their minds a critically important point: The deaths of all those people are a direct consequence of America’s system of immigration controls.” (06/28/22)
https://www.fff.org/2022/06/28/americas-culture-of-immigration-death/
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35) Whatever happened to “protect and serve?”
Source: spiked
by Kevin Yuill
“The disastrous response of Uvalde’s cops to the Robb Elementary School shooting sheds light on the terrible impact of certain cultural changes on and within the police. It is clear that the police are now more risk-averse than they ever used to be. It is also clear that individual officers are less willing or simply unable to respond to situations using their own judgement. Indeed, many police departments in cities across America are now using predictive algorithms, based on arrest data and police records, to make policing decisions for them. Above all, it is clear that Uvalde police failed to display qualities that were once deemed virtuous, but are now more likely to be damned as signs of toxic masculinity. Those officers on duty that horrible day should have shown courage. They should have been willing to act and take responsibility for their decisions.” (06/28/22)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/06/28/whatever-happened-to-protect-and-serve/
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36) America Is Losing Its Value Proposition
Source: Foreign Policy
by Howard W French
“Politics is a rough game everywhere, but when all principles fall away, as appears to be happening in the United States, beware of a hard fall. The future will not be pretty for the United States if it cannot rediscover some of the idealism that marked its long rise.” (06/28/22)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/28/us-global-power-values-roe-v-wade-guns/
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37) Biden Is the Economy’s Supply Chain Problem
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“Joe Biden has become America’s ‘it’s not my fault’ president. Whether it’s the inflation, the border, the crime, the gas prices, the Afghanistan exit fiasco or the stock market collapse, Biden has become an expert at pointing the finger at someone else. His presidency so far reminds me of the famous campaign slogan of then-New York Mayor David Dinkins, who admitted that everything was going wrong in the Big Apple on his watch and confessed, ‘I’m doing the best I can.’ New Yorkers believed him. And they wisely tossed him out of office for Rudy Giuliani, who actually fixed things. Take the supply chain crisis. Biden constantly blames shortages, empty shelves and back orders of everything from cars to tampons to baby formula on ‘supply chain’ disruptions.” (06/28/22)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2022/06/28/biden-is-the-economys-supply-chain-problem-n2609405
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38) Fact vs. Faith: Science in an Age of Unreason
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by John Staddon
“David Hume, the star of the Scottish Enlightenment, made a simple distinction, vital for science, between facts and faith, between is and ought. Science is about facts; ought is something else.” (06/28/22)
https://www.aier.org/article/fact-vs-faith-science-in-an-age-of-unreason/
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39) St. Teresa Has Some Bad News for Republicans
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Froma Harrop
“‘There are more tears shed over answered prayers than unanswered prayers,’ St. Teresa of Avila said. Republicans may soon learn just how that works. It used to be that Republican politicians with no fixed views on abortion could pray loudly for an end to Roe v. Wade. They knew that their stances would please abortion foes while not alarming the pro-choice majority. As long as Roe remained a law protecting the right to end a pregnancy, pro-choice voters open to other aspects of the Republican platform could shrug at such candidates. … not only has this ruling rattled the all-important suburban swing vote, but it has also unleashed right-wing radicals who are already launching threats at women who go to states where abortion remains legal. The nastiness is just beginning.” (06/28/22)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/06/28/st_teresa_has_some_bad_news_for_republicans_147809.html
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40) Will Raging Liberals Cause an Anti-Democrat Backlash?
Source: The Daily Beast
by Matt Lewis
“Democrats are betting that anger over the reversal of Roe v. Wade will take down Republicans in the 2022 midterms. This is a plausible, if desperate, hope. The theory is that the ‘winning’ side of such a long struggle will now be pacified, while the ‘losing’ side is energized and outraged. And abortion rights — with some limits — remain broadly popular on a national scale. The political calculus over the right’s biggest victory in a half-century is so scrambled that even former President Donald Trump is reportedly worried about this. But Republicans have a secret weapon: Democrats’ penchant for progressive overreach. We are already seeing signs at multiple levels — among activists, elite celebrities, and politicians. It raises the question: Could there be a backlash against the backlash?” (06/28/22)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/will-raging-liberals-cause-an-anti-democrat-backlash
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41) Samuel Alito: The 21st-Century Roger Taney
Source: The American Prospect
by Harold Meyerson
“He was confident that his sweeping opinion, backed by a majority of his Supreme Court colleagues, would decide the nation’s most divisive issue once and for all, even though his position was so extreme it lacked the support of the American citizenry. Instead, his opinion plunged the nation into crisis, not just because it denied an entire class of Americans their most basic rights, but also because it highlighted a deep and destabilizing flaw in the American system of government: that a minority could overrule a majority even on the most fundamental issues of life. Thus, Chief Justice Roger Taney in his 1857 decision in the Dred Scott case. Thus, Associate Justice Samuel Alito in his 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.” [editor’s note: Fascinating how this pundit can take the correction of an actual overreach of SCOTUS authority, and label the correction as that – SAT](06/28/22)
https://prospect.org/justice/samuel-alito-21st-century-roger-taney/
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42) More Bloat For Bloated Defense Spending
Source: CounterPunch
by Melvin Goodman
“The Senate and House Armed Forces Committees are in a competition to see which house of Congress can add more money to our bloated defense spending. The Senate took the lead two weeks ago, when it provided an additional $45 billion to defense spending, blowing past the targets set by both the White House and the Department of Defense. The mainstream media has paid virtually no attention to this irresponsible dueling with scarce American dollars. As of now, the top line defense budget figure is an astounding $847 billion, designed to counter inflation; the Russian invasion of Ukraine; and the Pentagon’s unwillingness to fund unneeded weapons systems.” (06/28/22)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/28/more-bloat-for-bloated-defense-spending/
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43) The well-traveled road from member of Congress to foreign agent
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Nick Cleveland-Stout & Ben Freeman
“It’s no secret that when members of Congress leave office, they turn to one profession above all others: lobbying. Year in and year out, it’s the same story of former elected officials selling their connections and knowledge of how to make things happen (or not happen) in Washington to high-paying special interests. While this lobbying is often done on behalf of American interests — like big pharmaceutical, banking, or weapons firms — former lawmakers have been lobbying on behalf of foreign interests more and more often in recent years. We analyzed Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings since 2000 and found that at least 90 former members of Congress have registered as foreign agents, representing nearly half (87) of all countries in the world, and the trend has only become more pronounced in recent years.” (06/28/22)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/06/28/the-revolving-door-from-congress-to-foreign-interest-lobbyist-is-well-traveled/
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44) Quantum Vibe, 06/28/22
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (06/28/22)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2352
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45) The End of the Beginning of the Culture War
Source: The Pamphleteer
by Davis Hunt
“Starting in the late 50s, the Supreme Court under the leadership of Earl Warren issued forty-five precedents overturning previous rulings. All previous courts together had done so only eighty-eight times. It was a revolutionary period described as a ‘Constitutional Revolution’ by some as the court migrated in an increasingly liberal direction. The Warren court was and is the most aggressive and politically inclined court in the history of the nation. ‘If you walk out of this hotel tonight and someone knocks you on the head,’ sneered George Wallace during his 1968 Presidential run. ‘He’ll be out of jail before you’re out of the hospital, and on Monday morning they’ll try the policeman instead of the criminal.’ His sentiment captured the popular reaction to Earl Warren’s reign outside of the major urban centers. It was during Warren’s reign that the Culture War was officially born.” (06/24/22)
https://pamphleteer.co/newsletter/no-284-the-birth-of-the-culture-war/
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46) Troops on the Ground Prove Canada Is at War With Russia
Source: Antiwar.com
by Yves Engler
“Canada is at war with Russia. But the government doesn’t want to talk about it. On Saturday the New York Times reported that Canadian special forces are part of a NATO network providing weapons and training to Ukrainian forces. The elite troops are also in the country gathering intelligence on Russian operations.” (06/28/22)
https://original.antiwar.com/yves_engler/2022/06/27/troops-on-the-ground-prove-canada-is-at-war-with-russia/
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47) A Lesson on Early Literacy from the Magnolia State
Source: Show-Me Institute
by Abigail Wagner
“If I polled one hundred Missourians on which state they thought had the best early literacy policies in the nation, I’m almost certain most of them wouldn’t immediately say ‘Mississippi.’ Mississippi has long been at the bottom of the pack when it comes to reading performance, while Missouri has consistently floated in the middle. However, in 2013, Mississippi brought in a dynamic state superintendent of schools, Dr. Carey Wright, who has emphasized a science-based approach to early literacy and taken a tough stance on promoting struggling readers to the next grade level. In the years since Wright’s appointment, Mississippi has reversed its last-in-the-nation status with an impressive increase in the percentage of its fourth graders who can read at grade level.” (06/27/22)
https://showmeinstitute.org/a-lesson-on-early-literacy-from-the-magnolia-state/
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48) Blue votes, red policy
Source: EconLog
by Scott Sumner
“South Dakota put abortion bans on the ballot several times, and each time the initiative was soundly rejected by voters …. Despite these votes, the South Dakota government went ahead and made abortion illegal. Does this sound familiar? Perhaps you recall the following: ‘South Dakota has voted to legalize marijuana use for adults.’ … The legalization was to take effect in 2021, but it never happened. The amendment was rejected by the South Dakota Supreme Court on a minor technicality. You might think that’s no big problem. They can vote again on a cleaner initiative in 2022. But the anti-democratic elements in South Dakota are unwilling to give up so easily …” (06/27/22)
https://www.econlib.org/blue-votes-red-policy/
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49) Teens Work, Drive & Pay Taxes, Should Be Able To Vote, Too
Source: In These Times
by staff
“The most popular proposal is to give everyone 16 and up the right to vote. In the United States, 16-year-olds are working full-time, paying taxes and driving, so why not voting? And most live with their families, which may be a better time for them to cast their first vote -- rather than when they’re in the midst of major life transitions a few years later. In countries like Scotland and Austria, where 16- and 17-year-olds can vote in some or all elections, the teens vote at higher rates than their slightly older cohorts, and research shows voters who begin earlier stick with the habit. Civically engaged teenagers at home might even boost the participation of parents and other family members. Enfranchising more young people could also combat what writer Astra Taylor has termed the ’gerontocracy’: a generational cohort making long-term policy they won’t be around to deal with.” (06/28/22)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/young-voter-youth-activism-electorate-gerontocracy
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50) Roe Was Flawed. Dobbs Is Worse.
Source: The Atlantic
by Tom Nichols
“I’m a conservative (or what used to be called a conservative) who always thought Roe v. Wade was the product of judicial activism. But overturning it is even worse. … Years of political change matter. Decades ago, abortion became accepted as a right by a broad majority of the country. Justice Samuel Alito and the other five conservatives on the Supreme Court were not handing back abortion to the states as if it were some open question for a debate; they knew exactly what was going to happen in states with ‘trigger’ laws the minute they ruled. Despite their legal rationale, these justices were taking sides in a culture war on behalf of a minority of Americans with whom at least some of them happen to agree.” (06/27/22)
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/06/dobbs-conservative-justices-activist-court-roe-overturned/661410/
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51) Free Talk Live, 06/28/22
Source: Free Talk Live
"Forkfest Day One :: Aria rants about someone taking Soapbox Idol seriously :: Atheist fired for not attending company prayer meetings :: Upcoming Civil war? :: Do assault weapon bans reduce gun violence? :: Shawn Grissom talks with us about the maturation of Porcfest :: Tarrin Lupo talks about Covid-19 :: Light and Liberty :: Maxwell sentenced to 20 years :: Show: 2022-06-28 Aria, Captain." [Flash audio or MP3] (06/28/22)
https://freetalklive.com/archives?ppplayer=5c48425a5422918dc6f904bd1cb7e00f&ppepisode=fde9846cc48ec080561d652e187b4e16
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52) Dave DeCamp on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Scott interviews Antiwar.com News Editor Dave Decamp about the recent developments in Eastern Europe.” [various formats] (06/28/22)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/6-27-22-dave-decamp-on-ukraine-nato-and-antiwar-com/
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53) Hubwonk, 06/28/22
Source: Pioneer Institute
“SCOTUS Gun Stun: Bearing Arms in Summer Bruen Decision.” [various formats] (06/28/22)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/featured/scotus-gun-stun-bearing-arms-in-summer-bruen-decision/
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54) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 06/28/22
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“G7 Leaders Pledge Endless Money To Ukraine — ‘As Long As It Takes!'” [Flash video] (06/28/22)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/g7-leaders-pledge-endless-money-to-ukraine-as-long-as-it-takes
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55) Rising, 06/28/22
Source: The Hill
“Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to the discovery of 46 dead migrants inside an abandoned 18-wheeler in San Antonio, Texas.” [Flash video] (06/28/22)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/3539364-rising-june-28-2022/
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56) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/28/22
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me for our weekly conversation about his latest observations about living during interesting times.” [various formats] (06/28/22)
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-da2v5-125ef81
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57) Cyberlaw Podcast, 06/28/22
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
“One Small Door, Too Many Fat Men: Congress’s Tech Agenda.” [MP3] (06/28/22)
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/06/28/one-small-door-too-many-fat-men-congresss-tech-agenda/
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58) FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcat, 06/27/22
Source: FiveThirtyEight
“What The Politics Of Abortion Look Like Now.” [various formats] (06/27/22)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-what-the-politics-of-abortion-look-like-now/
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59) Year Zero with Tommy Salmons, 06/27/22
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Nihilism w/Buck Johnson.” [Flash audio or MP3] (06/27/22)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/year-zero/nihilism-w-buck-johnson/
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60) TechTank, season 2, episode 13
Source: TechTank
“Will Americans finally see bipartisan federal privacy legislation?” [Flash audio] (06/27/22)
https://shows.acast.com/tech-tank/episodes/will-americans-finally-see-bipartisan-federal-privacy-legisl
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