Civil Liberties
If this is all it takes for the governor to declare “a new state of emergency,” we’re in deep, deep trouble. We may never, ever be in a state of non-emergency ever again. Enough is enough. No real argument is made. No sources are cited (only vaguely referenced). No legal authority is defended. Any deliberation…
The amazing thing, when government officials establish a religion, is that everything becomes clear and easy. Through a clerisy, their god (even if it is an undefined Great Progressive Spirit) tells them what is right and wrong, and they simply conform the law to those requirements. Anybody who believes differently has to put their beliefs…
At the core of our very ability to call our system a “representative democracy” is that we write down rules by which we all must abide. New rules can be implemented and old rules can be repealed or amended, but the more fundamental it is, the more difficult it is to change. Thus, bureaucrats can…
Anita Baffoni reports for WPRI on the decision of Democrat Governor Dan McKee to take the middle path between vetoing a bill and signing it — allowing it to become law without his signature — on a bill that modifies what must be reported when guns are used in crimes. Most notably, the bill, which…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss how everything is becoming political narrative, not serving and protecting the people, in Rhode Island.
In a long (language-warninged) post from November 2018, Larry Correia ran through the mental exercise of imagining what would happen upon federal implementation of a gun confiscation program would look like. He wrote in the context of comments that gun owners couldn’t possibly take on the U.S. military, which Joe Biden has recently echoed, as…
Popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson has noted a development in his ongoing conflict with the National Security Agency (NSA) after a whistleblower informed him the agency was reading his emails and planned to leak them to the media to discredit him. Jon Brown reports on The Daily Wire: Speaking with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo…
Attitudes may be changing rapidly on this (or at least the mainstream narrative may be), but the partnership between the administration of Governor Dan McKee and the Rhode Island Foundation focusing on minority-owned businesses is destructive to our state. From an RI Foundation press release by Chris Barnett (emphasis added): “Supporting and growing our small…
Coincidentally while the federal government moves to excuse police and even military action against the phantom threat of “white supremacy,” academics are preparing to declare “whiteness” to be a pathology in need of a final solution.
Cornell law professor William Jacobson, highlights an important U.S. Supreme Court ruling, writing on his Legal Insurrection blog: In an Opinion issued today, the Supreme Court has stricken a California policy requiring disclosure of large non-profit donor information to state regulators. The case establishes the important principle that if you want to make, ahem, large donations to…
