A Bad Day For A Free Press
While today was a good day for civil liberties, yesterday was a bad day for a free press as it was attacked on multiple fronts. The attacks on press freedom came from three directions,...
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SCOTUS Cracks Down On Legalized Theft
The abuse of civil asset forfeiture has been well documented over the last few years as local governments and police forces have basically turned the concept into legalized theft. In 2014, it was reported...
The Professional Classes That Enable The Global Kleptocracy
Way back in 2011, when Robert Mueller was still running the FBI, he made a remarkably prescient speech that detailed the very situation he is investigating today. Mueller’s revelation over eight years ago was...
Astronomy Adventure – Two Open Clusters
Messier 93 is an open cluster in the constellation Puppis: And NGC 2362 is small, distant, but massive open cluster in Canis Major: Technical details: Scope: Starblast 4.5; tracking on Magnification: ~30x Camera: iPhone6...
Protesting The Fake National Emergency
Some concerned fellow citizens and I decided to see if our First Amendment right of free assembly was still valid under the current Fake National Emergency instituted by the President in order to protest...
Who’s Weaker: Trump Or The Congressional GOP?
By all rights, Donald Trump should have been expected to be an incredibly weak president. He managed to eke out an Electoral College victory by under 100,000 votes and the lost the popular vote...
Astronomy Adventure – Messier 1, The Crab Nebula
Like NGC 253, the Crab Nebula is another of those objects that is difficult to see from my polluted skies. I have seen it with averted vision on occasion but even a short exposure...
Is Mueller About To Be Kneecapped?
There has been a remarkable convergence of talking points from members of the Trump administration, members of Congress, and Republican operatives about the Mueller investigation lately. That is hardly unusual in the cult-like party...