Let’s talk about the blatant efforts to cause an irreparable rift between the people of our country. I often compare current events to parenting, and this week is no different. Everything purported to be news is just more bickering. It’s like when your kids are behaving like brats, and no matter what one kid does, the Read More…
Police State
Public School System Exposed for Reporting Parents to CPS for Homeschooling
New York City, NY — Homeschooling your child in New York City could earn a visit from Child Protective Services for neglect — even if you’ve followed all procedures required by the public school system to withdraw from its programs. Tanya Acevedo, as The Federalist reports, experienced firsthand the punitive bureaucracy in place, essentially deeming all homeschooling Read More…
Children Snatched by Government, Mother Arrested. Why? Because They Were Homeschooling
A Buffalo mother’s children have been kidnapped by the government. Why? Because she dared to homeschool them. Last November, Kiarre Harris decided to homeschool her two elementary school aged children because she felt they deserved a better education than the system could provide. “I felt that the district was failing my children and that’s when I Read More…
The New Travel Ban You Didn’t Hear About Is Against U.S. Citizens
As emotions intensify over Trump’s recent immigration ban, the State Department and IRS have quietly used it as a smokescreen to roll out a new policy that targets U.S. citizens for unpaid taxes. The passports of these individuals can now be revoked and their citizenship status undermined at the behest of one of the government’s Read More…
Maybe Government Death Squads Are A Bad Idea
Remember when I warned about the worrying signs that Filipino President Rodrigo “Dirty Harry” Duterte was setting up a police state, including deputizing the public to kill suspected criminals, threatening martial law if the judiciary tried to stop him and endorsing the killing of journalists? Well, to adopt the parlance of the millennial Buzzfeed set, Read More…
The Biometric ID Grid: A Country-by-Country Guide
In last week’s report on India’s demonetization disaster I began to connect the dots between demonetization, the push for a cashless society, and the biometric identification schemes that will eventually tie everyone’s fingerprints, iris scans, and other identifying details to every transaction they ever make. Well, that game of “connect the dots” just became even Read More…