Kidnappers: The Tyranny of Child Protective Services Across the Nation
"A Clinton era federal law called the Adoption of Safe Families Act hands out federal funds to states based on the number of children the state takes from parents."
Cops Charge Black Man With Hate Crime For Calling Them ‘Nazis’
"It's absurd to think that the crime of 'ethnic intimidation' was meant to include citizens who angrily rant at cops who are arresting them."
The Supreme Court’s Deference to the Pentagon
"The national-security establishment has become the most powerful part of the federal government, one to which the judicial branch (as well as the other two branches) inevitably defers in matters that are critically important to the Pentagon, the CIA, or the NSA."
The Senate Just Gave the Pentagon More Money Than Russia’s Entire Military Budget.
"There are few bipartisan projects in Congress these days, but Republicans and Democrats have no trouble joining together to feed more money into the Pentagon's gaping maw."
Homeland Security asks Pentagon to house 12,000 migrant family members
"The DHS request for the Pentagon to house comes a week after the Defense Department was asked to house up to 20,000 unaccompanied alien migrant children. All told, the Pentagon has now been asked to house 32,000 migrants, 2,000 beginning in the next 45 days."
Supreme Court unleashes tax nightmare upon online businesses
"Every business large and small will be responsible for knowing the sales tax rates in [over 10,000] counties, towns, cities and states in the nation. The ruling is a Pandora’s box for expansive state taxing authority. This court decision is not limited to expanding the targets of the state sales tax. Politicians will use this court decision as a green light to export their income tax to individuals and companies in other states."
Nanny State: A Permit Patty and BBQ Becky In Every Neighborhood
"With a phone pressed to the side of their sanctimonious faces, this army of volunteer state minions get to feel like their local police--tyrannical psychopaths."
Midwestern farmers brace to lose billions in trade war
"The stakes are high because China buys roughly 30 percent of all America's soy. The proposed 25 percent tariff -- which is a tax buyers pay the government to purchase the commodity -- ensures Chinese buyers will look elsewhere."
Homeland Security mass US citizen face-scanning program rolled out in Orlando
"The face scan expansion is costing the Orlando airport authority $4 million. The program should be rolled out at other airports in other U.S. cities in the next year."
Google’s ‘principles’ on AI weapons, mass surveillence, and signing out
"At some point the wolf cannot say 'I won’t eat you' to sheep any longer with a straight face, because everybody knows for a fact that it eats sheep daily."