Links for 12-26-24
surveilling citizens without a warrant
š DHS surveils Americans without a warrant using more than 20 technologies. From: Derrick Broze/The Free Thought Project. A federal watchdog has released a report detailing how federal law enforcement agencies are using more than 20 types of surveillance technologies without a warrant and with limited privacy protections.
Shooting the messenger and blaming the victim. From: Jacob Sullum/Reason. How cops, politicians, and bureaucrats tried to dodge responsibility in 2024.
š¤ 2024: 5 times the left tried to quell free speech. From: Natalie Eaton/Campus Reform. Campus leftists often attempt to shut down speech they don't like ā but in 2024, conservatives defended their First Amendment rights. Here are five examples.
Growing tribalism threatens the American experiment. From: Michael Baharaeen/Liberal Patriot. A call for walking our democracy back from the brink.
š¤¬ Bidenās death-penalty commutations are a moral outrage. From: Charles Fain Lehman/City-Journal. The decision shows heās more beholden to pro-crime groups than to the public.
Trump vows to expand death penalty after Biden commutes 37 federal death row sentences. From: Tom Ozimek/Epoch Times. āWe will be a nation of law and order again!ā Make murderers pay again.
š¤„ Who can trust White House reporters who hid Biden's infirmity? From: Tim Graham/Creators. Everyone knew the president was babbling and bumbling. They knew because they observed it firsthand.
How the captive media divides us. From: Thomas Eddlem/Libertarian Institute. Most political differences in America today arenāt a result of moral differences, or even policy opinions. Rather, they are generated by divergent media consumption.
š© A half century of miseducation. From: John M. Grondelski/American Thinker. The problem was not the pandemic, it was the Department of Education.
A very American madness. From: Ronald W. Dworkin/Quillette. America is not fallen; it is simply given to periodic bouts of insanity. The patient is tiresome; the patient is ridiculous; but the patient is stable.
šÆ California Democrats are letting dangerous men in womenās prisons. From: Zachary Faria/Washington Examiner. California Democrats are so āinclusiveā and ātolerantā that they have decided to include a man in a womenās prison and tolerate the multiple rapes he has allegedly committed.
Housing policy 2024: the good, the bad, and the ugly. From: Christian Britchgi/Reason. Cities and states are passing lots of productive reforms, local courts are increasingly striking them down, and local governments continue their harassment of homeless shelters.
EPA grants California permission to ban new gas car sales by 2035. From: Aubrie Spady/Fox News. āļø Green authoritarians require electric vehicle mandates because persuasion has no chance.