Average American Can No Longer Afford Average Home
2024-10-24
The affordability of buying a home has collapsed to an all-time low since the beginning of 2022. The average US household can no longer afford to buy an average home.
Helene Devastates American Southeast
2024-09-30
More than 100 are dead across the Southeast in the wake of a generational storm, Helene, which made landfall as the most powerful hurricane to impact Florida’s Big Bend.
Hezbollah Radios Explode
2024-09-19
For the second day in a row, communication devices used by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously in what appears to be a Mossad op, leaving nine dead and at least 450 injured.
UK Wants to Police Social Media in Other Countries
2024-08-12
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley says he’ll try to extradite people in other countries to prosecute them for unacceptable social media posts. Sir Mark: The free speech thing was settled between us in 1783.Continue Reading
Court Blocks Texas Immigration Law
2024-03-21
A US appeals court has blocked Texas from enforcing a new law giving the state power to arrest and deport illegal migrants.
Five in Ten 3/13/24: Modern Blasphemy Laws Could Land You in Prison for Life
2024-03-13
A proposed hate speech law in Canada could criminalize “advocating genocide” with a prison sentence of 5 years to life. The problem: Who gets to define what that term means?
NATO OK With Ukraine Bombing Russia
2024-02-26
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said last week that Ukraine has the right to use NATO-supplied weapons to strike deep inside Russia—which suggests that Russia might feel free to respond deep inside NATO countries.
2023 in Review: War, Chaos, and Criminalizing Free Speech
2023-12-18
War in Israel and Ukraine, government-sponsored censorship, a growing divide between East and West, and the Balkanization of the United States.
The Friday Five: State-Sponsored Censorship
2023-12-08
Big Brother may be 40 years later than George Orwell predicted, but the censorship-industrial complex is here and spreading its tentacles through an unholy alliance of government, academia, and the tech industry.
The Friday Five – Pro-Israel Rally and the Censorship Industrial Complex
2023-11-17
Two big stories this week: Joe Biden is accused of war crimes for supporting Israel by State Department employees, and the scope of government efforts to control the narrative on social media is even bigger than we thought.