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  • The Justice Department Quietly Ends Reprosecution of Man Who Received Clemency From Trump

    02/26/2024 7:37:26 AM PST · by Twotone · 1 replies
    Reason ^ | February 23, 2024 | Billy Binion
    A Florida man accused of facilitating an illegal health care scheme has been spared additional prison time, ending the Justice Department's attempt to reprosecute him after his sentence was commuted by former President Donald Trump. Philip Esformes on Thursday pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and was sentenced to time served, with prosecutors agreeing to dismiss the remaining five counts. It's a quiet conclusion to a controversial prosecution that saw the federal government resuscitate the criminal case against him not long after he'd spent four and a half years behind bars and was released...
  • How FDR Emasculated the Black Press in World War II

    01/19/2024 10:55:41 AM PST · by Spoonerite · 20 replies
    Reason ^ | December 27, 2023 | David T. Beito
    While federal authorities did not bring legal charges against the black press for the balance of the war, that doesn't mean they shifted to a hands-off approach. Instead, they ratcheted up both intense monitoring and informal pressure. In the first half of 1942, FBI agents visited leading black newspapers that had carried critical stories about the federal government. Moreover, postal inspectors admonished two leading papers that the "benefits of citizenship" carried an obligation not to "'play up' isolated and rare instances in such a fashion as to obstruct recruiting and in other ways hamper the war effort."
  • Is ESG Already Over?

    01/17/2024 9:09:56 AM PST · by Twotone · 10 replies
    Reason ^ | February 2024 | Russ Greene
    It may not seem unusual that a corporate CEO would want to focus on increasing shareholder value, but in October this was treated as big news. A Financial Times headline announced that "Unilever's new chief says corporate purpose can be 'unwelcome distraction.'" That new CEO, Hein Schumacher, went on to explain that he rejected the idea that "every brand should have a social or environmental purpose." He intended, he said, to build a "performance culture" instead. Why would it be newsworthy for a CEO to be focused on corporate performance? Not long ago, that was simply assumed. What changed? The...
  • Not to Think is a Sin: One of the Greatest Needs for Christians Today is to Start Using the Minds That God Gave Us

    12/16/2023 1:24:02 AM PST · by spirited irish · 9 replies
    PatriotandLiberty ^ | 11/22 | Bill Muehlenberg
    I am talking about normal Christians who do have a working mind. It is a sin for them not to use it. Sure, some folks might be smarter or brighter than others – maybe even have higher IQs and the like. But that is still no excuse. Some Christians will just have to work harder at this and put more effort into it. This is true of all areas of life. In Christ we are to grow and mature in all spheres.The English humourist P. G. Wodehouse once said: “Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.”...
  • Di Leo: The Modern Left and the Problem of Proportion

    10/09/2023 6:30:40 PM PDT · by jfd1776 · 1 replies
    American Free News Network ^ | October 9, AD 2023 | John F Di Leo
    We talk frequently – those of us who are paying attention – about the various policy proposals of the opposite sides in American politics. It goes back centuries; it predates our founding era, even. One side has one solution and the other side proposes an alternative; both sides debate, and eventually one option or the other is tried. Sometimes – and this is one of the goals of the idea of states’ rights – some states try one method and other states try the other. The “laboratories of democracy” concept is given its opportunity, and we can see which methods...
  • My Son Did His Taxes for the First Time. Rage Ensued.

    03/04/2023 7:00:49 AM PST · by Twotone · 78 replies
    Reason ^ | March 3, 2023 | J.D. Tuccille
    <p>Nothing focuses the mind quite so intently on the sheer stupidity of government as doing your taxes. What is taken from us is excessive, the intrusiveness is maddening, and the rules are byzantine, which is the distilled essence of most of our interactions with the state. So, it was with a certain degree of anticipation that I told my son that, after working hard at the supermarket in addition to his homeschooling and martial arts, he would have to file his first tax return. Much fun ensued.</p>
  • U.S. State Department Funds a Disinformation Index That Warns Advertisers To Avoid Reason

    02/28/2023 9:16:53 AM PST · by Jeff Chandler · 13 replies
    Reason ^ | 2.14.2023 10:03 AM | ROBBY SOAVE
    The Global Disinformation Index (GDI) is a British organization that evaluates news outlets' susceptibility to disinformation. The ultimate aim is to persuade online advertisers to blacklist dangerous publications and websites. One such publication, according to GDI's extremely dubious criteria, is Reason. GDI's recent report on disinformation notes that the organization exists to help "advertisers and the ad tech industry in assessing the reputational and brand risk when advertising with online media outlets and to help them avoid financially supporting disinformation online." The U.S. government evidently values this work; in fact, the State Department subsidizes it. The National Endowment for Democracy—a...
  • The FBI Paid Twitter $3.4 Million for Processing Requests

    12/20/2022 1:02:55 AM PST · by Tench_Coxe · 18 replies
    The FBI paid Twitter millions of dollars to cover the costs of processing the agency's requests. "I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!" wrote someone with Twitter's Safety, Content, & Law Enforcement (SCALE) team in a February 2021 email, according to internal messages reported by journalist Michael Shellenberger today.
  • The Kids Aren’t All Right: What the Gender-Identity Revolution Has in Common with 1960s’ Drug Culture

    07/22/2022 7:47:00 AM PDT · by aspasia · 41 replies
    Public Discourse ^ | 2/16/2017 | SCOTT BEAUCHAMP
    The LSD consciousness-expansion movement of the late sixties and the campus gender-identity fixation of today are two examples of these counterfeit revolutions. The two might initially appear very different, but they share similar intellectual assumptions and therefore make analogous mistakes. Most significantly, both take rationality and physical fact as limitations to freedom, impediments to be transcended, instead of appropriate cornerstones of political freedom itself. They’re too incoherent to be rationally communicated and too individualistic to resist anomie. And so, denuded of genuine revolutionary potential, these children’s crusades cycle through failures.
  • Two major reasons why pro-choice women are enraged about the abortion issue

    06/28/2022 4:27:50 AM PDT · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 95 replies
    Life and living | 28 June 2022 | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
    One of the primary reasons for immoral women deciding to have an abortion is the potential discovery of infidelity. Were a husband or even a boyfriend to discover that their "woman" has been sleeping around can lead to severe consequences. Men are also advocates of the practice to absolve them of consequences as well. This is not to excuse immoral men for doing the same thing, but is a major reason for demanding that abortion be legal...it removes the evidence of wrong-doing. All of the other supposed reasons for needing an abortion represent a miniscule amount of cases relative to...
  • His 2000 Thesis on Civil-Rights-Era Atlanta Lifts Passages From Other People's Work

    06/15/2022 1:23:25 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 29 replies
    Reason ^ | 6.14.2022 | PHILLIP W. MAGNESS
    When former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke intimated in early 2017 that he would be joining Donald Trump's nascent administration, CNN obtained a copy of Clarke's master's thesis from the Naval Postgraduate School and revealed that Clarke had copied blocks of text from other sources. The borrowed passages, as CNN noted, had footnotes identifying their sources, but they failed to "indicate with quotation marks that he is taking the words verbatim." Few responses to CNN's revelation encapsulated the giddiness of the academic left more than that of Kevin M. Kruse, a Princeton historian and rising social media star. When the Clarke...
  • Do Studies Show Gun Control Works? Answer…No! ~ VIDEO

    04/09/2022 6:16:03 AM PDT · by marktwain · 12 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | April 7, 2022 | Dean Weingarten
    U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- The video is a little over 16 minutes long. It features Aaron Brown answering questions and pontificating on the failings of the vast majority of “studies” aimed at various “gun control” policies. Brown is a well-credentialed expert on statistics.Early on, an important point is made about gun control policies. They have tremendous associated costs. Those costs are almost never considered in policy debates. This is a failing of Progressive philosophy and government policy in general. While benefits are stressed, costs are ignored or glossed over.Brown focuses heavily on a Rand meta-study updated in 2020. The Rand study evaluated...
  • Former San Diego military contractor charged with violating arms export laws

    03/05/2022 4:45:50 PM PST · by dynachrome · 2 replies
    San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 3-4-22 | KRISTINA DAVIS
    Brothers Joe and Dror Sery are accused of sending technical drawings and specs of defense projects to China, India without licenses. The former CEO of a San Diego-based company that manufactures tungsten components for the U.S. military has been charged alongside his brother on accusations of violating arms export laws, according to an indictment unsealed Friday. Joe Sery, 77, who used to own and run Tungsten Heavy Powder & Parts, and his brother, Dror Sery, 70, have been indicted on charges relating to a conspiracy to export sensitive information about defense systems to China and India without a license. Joe...
  • The Reason Why So Many Democrats Are Retiring!

    01/10/2022 8:48:18 AM PST · by Stayfree · 35 replies
    Self | 1/10/22 | Stayfree
    Self-serving as usual, Congress long-a-go put a provision in the tax code whereby upon "retirement", a candidate can transfer all unused campaign funds into a non-profit organization. And I am sure every Democrat who is facing defeat in the upcoming midterms, is busy setting up a self-controlled non-profit into which all of his or her campaign funds will be transferred TAX-FREE!!!!! For example, when Bob Dole retired, he had over $40 million in campaign funds...what a treasure chest for retirement!!!!
  • Good Riddance to Ralph Northam and Terry McAuliffe

    01/01/2022 4:51:45 PM PST · by Rummyfan · 41 replies
    Reason ^ | 30 Dec 2021 | Jason Russell
    It's rare for a single election result to spell the likely end of the careers of two politicians, but Virginia Democrats appear to have accomplished just that in 2021. With Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin's two–percentage point upset victory, angry parents likely put an end to the careers of current Gov. Ralph Northam and 2014–2018 Gov. Terry McAuliffe. As we bid adieu to 2021, let's take a ride down memory lane as we also bid good riddance to Northam and McAuliffe. McAuliffe's four years in office were plagued by corporate cronyism, which was not surprising given that an electric car company McAuliffe...
  • NIH Dir. Collins: Omicron Variant a ‘Great Reason to Go and Get Boosted’

    11/28/2021 8:15:08 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 51 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/28/2021 | Pam Key
    National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins said the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 was a “great reason” for people in the United States to get their booster shot. Collins said, “The booster basically enlarges the capacity of your immune system to recognize all kinds of different spike proteins it’s never seen. This is a great day to go and get boosted or find out how to do so.”
  • Yes, It’s Fair To Frame The Loudoun County Rape As A ‘Cautionary Tale’

    11/02/2021 8:32:09 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 12 replies
    The Federalist ^ | November 2, 2021 | Emily Jashinsky
    The standard being used to criticize Luke Rosiak and the conservative outlets that amplified his story could take down pretty much any piece of investigative reporting.Contrarian writers are attacking conservative media with a giant straw man, claiming right-of-center outlets gave misleading treatment to the story of a horrifying rape in Loudoun County Public Schools. It’s true that conservative media is a small, scrappy bunch of outlets with comparatively limited resources—especially for the kind of investigative journalism Luke Rosiak did in this case—so I entered the debate with a pretty open mind.The story holds up just fine. It’s the critics who...
  • Freddie deBoer: The social justice left needs to grow up

    10/11/2021 5:59:18 PM PDT · by DeweyCA · 8 replies
    Hotair.com ^ | 10-11-21 | John Sexton
    The jumping off point for this Substack piece by Freddie deBoer is the story I wrote about here. If you missed it, the very short version is that a progressive data analyst named David Shor, who was literally fired from his job last year because a cancel mob went after him, is trying to warn Democrats that they are not going to win elections anytime in the next decade if they keep talking like leftist college professors. His advice to the party is simple: Talk about broadly popular things you support not about broadly unpopular things the far left is...
  • The Overthrow of Reason (2016)

    10/09/2021 1:15:30 PM PDT · by Jacquerie · 4 replies
    ArticleVBlog ^ | May 13th 2016 | Rodney Dodsworth
    Our Declaration of Independence was not only illegal, it was an act of treason. Like today, most men in 1776 worldwide equated that which is legal with justice. Who could argue against the idea that justice is joined with statutory law? Equate the legal with the just, and the law can be whatever presidents for life, oligarchs, or a majority say it is. Mankind can be fragmented into a welter of nations, each with its own morality. Might makes right. Justice is rendered relative among the nations of the world. Since there is no single standard of justice, all standards...
  • Have We Reached the End of Reason in Policymaking?

    08/18/2021 6:54:48 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 13 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | August 18, 2021 | Young Voices Contributors
    Editor's Note: This piece was authored by Justin Begley.With renewed mask mandates and guidelines in place, our policymakers are showing Americans their abandonment of reason. In fact, we are currently living in an age where reason is no longer a virtue, but a vice. In our culture of confusion, elected policymakers, influenced by unelected government bureaucrats, have abandoned their duty to institute policies that actually help Americans, choosing instead to make policy performatively — that is, to impress (or appease) a small minority. They make policy, not on the basis of reason and scientific evidence, but on the basis of...