“Are we to believe that the same institution that so recklessly hawks military weaponry to hostile actors is so sincerely concerned with protecting America’s national-defense capabilities that we can trust it to restrict, for reasons of national security, our freedom to trade?”
“More than 50 years later, President Trump is getting excoriated for doing what Kennedy did — rejecting the admonitions of the U.S. deep state and reaching out to Russia in a spirit of peace and friendship.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/07/17/the-deep-state-went-after-jfk-on-russia-too/
“It was the single greatest blow to the War Party since it turned Imperial Washington into a colossal menace bent on global hegemony when the Soviet Union slithered off the pages of history in 1991.”
“On Monday night, he rewarded the swamp denizens and deep state outliers by nominating one of their own to the Supreme Court.”
“There’s a category of story we call ‘Them Not Us’—US media reporting on problems abroad, and seemingly not noticing that they have the same problems at home.”
“We finally have enough evidence to establish a theory about why so many law enforcement departments rolled over so easily. They recognized that body cameras were valuable assets when prosecutors needed evidence and malfunctioning junk when law enforcers might be shown in a bad light.”
Read more: https://blog.christopherburg.com/2018/07/11/body-cameras-are-for-the-benefit-of-prosecutors-not-you/
“It turns out that advertising to the world that you believe in racial segregation and obedience to the loudest common denominator turns out not to be good for business.”
Read more: https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/the-true-cost-of-the-stepford-student/
“In their quest for cash, municipalities across the nation are trampling individual rights and human dignity by imposing arbitrary and abusive fines on residents. In some cities, if you walk on the left side of the sidewalk rather than the right, you could be fined. BBQ in the front lawn? Face a fine. Have mismatched window treatments? Face a fine.”
Read more: https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/town-fines-municipal-governments-abuse/
“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.”
Read more: http://fastml.com/googles-principles-on-ai-weapons-mass-surveillence-and-signing-out/
“AWS already has a sprawling Pentagon business, and it is the odds-on favorite for a new contract that could be worth $10 billion.”