California is trying to gag websites from sharing true, publicly available information about actors in the name of age discrimination. But one online service, IMDb, is fighting back. EFF and four other public interest organizations have filed in a friend of the court brief in the case, urging the court not to allow celebrities to… Read More »
Milo Yiannopoulos, the alt-right-friendly media figure and Breitbart tech editor who is permanently banned from Twitter, was scheduled to speak at the University of California-Davis on Friday, but student-protesters mobbed the scene, forcing event organizers to cancel his appearance. Given the unruly state of the protesters, university officials informed Yiannopoulos’s hosts, the Davis College Republicans,… Read More »
The Seasteading Institute, dedicated to promoting the creation of new political entities floating in the open ocean, tonight held a ceremony in which it publicly signed a long-in-the-works “memorandum of understanding” with the government of French Polynesia. The agreement is meant to pave the way to the creation of an actual functioning seastead in French… Read More »
President-Elect Donald Trump has very low approval ratings. Ex-Breitbart writers think Breitbart sold out, and are working on creating an even more avowedly pro-Trump advocacy organization. Rep. John Lewis says Trump is not a legitimate president. Some Republican members of Congress say reining in OCR is a top priority. The House of Representatives has voted… Read More »
As Nick Gillespie pointed out previously in his post about interviewing the great Gene Epstein, I will be debating New York magazine political writer and frequent libertarian-baiter Jonathan Chait at the Epstein-moderated Soho Forum in Manhattan’s East Village on Tuesday, Jan. 17, at 6:30 p.m. (though you’ll want to be there when the bar opens… Read More »
Television’s last excursion into papal politics—Showtime’s The Borgias, in which Renaissance bad boys Alexander VI (better known to history by his birth name, Rodrigo Borgia) and Guiliano della Rovere (the future Julius II, the guy who bullied Michaelangelo over painting the Sistine Chapel) boinked and butchered their way across Europe—was debauched. The newest one, HBO’s… Read More »
It’s not every day that an immigration decision made by President Barack Obama draws praise both from liberalizers such as Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and restrictionists like the Federation for American Immigration Reform, yet that’s precisely what happened after yesterday’s abruptly announced policy change to end the decades-old “Wet Foot/Dry Foot” policy of giving Cubans… Read More »
“I believe that each of us who has his place to make should go where men are wanted, and where employment is not bestowed as alms,” advised New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley in a famous 1871 letter. “Of course, I say to all who are in want of work, Go West!” Basically, Greeley was… Read More »
Remember when those pesky other branches of government wouldn’t bow down to Obama’s whims, and the President famously bragged about going it alone? Now Obama’s out and it will soon be Donald Trump wielding his pen and phone. As Barack Obama bids farewell to his presidency this week, keep in mind these five scary powers… Read More »
Chicago police engaged in a pattern and practice of violating the civil rights of black and Latino citizens, used unconstitutional force, and failed to properly investigate officer misconduct, according to the results of a long-awaited investigation released Friday by the Justice Department. The wide-ranging 164-page report—the result of an investigation launched by the Justice Department’s… Read More »