Nature of ostracism
Why do these standards of judgment not apply to groups who level accusations against other adults online?
Category Archives: Law and Society
Orwell everywhere
More insidiously, since you live among particular cultures during your lifetime, you do not choose who influences you. They choose you.
What happens when your weapons become illegal?
Observers say O’Rourke could not be more clear.
No one can defeat Trump under these circumstances
If the country wants to rid itself of this man, voters must find a candidate for office who can prevail in this contest.
Defense Distributed
Even if you do not own a gun, or do not want to acquire one, applaud Cody Wilson’s resolve and vision. He needs backing from every one of us.
Quarantine concentration camps; Democratic unity
Nancy Pelosi wants to keep her job, of course, but she also focuses on what the party must do to defeat President Trump. You do not seem to think a unified party leads to that outcome.
Power with malice
Government exercises legal, and moral authority only if it observes these limitations. When it operates outside the law, it exercises power with malice. That defines criminal activity.
Cover your eyes when you look at what’s happening at the southern border
In country after country where the government sets up and runs gulags, the state does not have to keep the camps secret.
Concentration camps
They do share the common qualities outlined here: forcible detention of people in one place, to monitor and control them. Whether you call it a reservation, an internment camp, a prison camp, or a concentration camp does not matter. They are all the same.
New legal theory: whistleblowers and accomplices guilty of espionage
The difference between an intelligence apparatchik and a member of a crime syndicate is that the former draws pay from the public treasury, while the latter steals it. Secrecy is essential either way.
ICE appoints itself supreme authority for detainment and deportation
As the sanctuary movement illustrates, federal authority in immigration cases is not welcome in many places. It is certainly not welcome here in Massachusetts.
Vaccination and causes of autism
You cannot force people to put something inside their bodies against their will. You can no more do that than force them to kill themselves.
