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Judge Jones Stands Up for Separation-of-Powers Principles
Richard Samp
Photo: Adam Fagen Defenders of the administrative state have long contended that the Government runs much more smoothly when professional bureaucrats are granted free rein to act in “the public interest,” unconstrained by political forces that they fear are, all too often, dominated by “special interests.” That belief led in 2010 to creation of the…
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Unchecked by Courts, Government Censorship of Social Media Platforms Will Prove Fatal to Free Speech in Digital Age
In the News
The Biden administration’s increasingly aggressive efforts to combat so-called misinformation, along with the prospective acquisition of Twitter by free speech advocate Elon Musk, have sparked a national debate about what role, if any, the government should play in censoring social media. While some have applauded the administration’s campaign to police online “misinformation” about COVID-19 and…
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Proposed Legislation Would Ban Vital Procedure
Richard Samp
So, she is gone. The Minister of Disinformation has resigned. Whether any factor alone could have done her in – what apparatchik could survive being lampooned as both a Goebbelsesque Mary Poppins and a feminine Big Brother – the combination did the trick. The Open Society has, to use Karl Popper’s term, one less enemy.…
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Bittersweet Victory for Doctor After Practice Unlawfully Suspended for Refusing Vaccine
In the News
After six months of suspension, Rhode Island, in its munificence, has permitted the “defiant” maxillofacial surgeon Dr. Stephen Skoly to reopen his medical practice. Of course, in the mind of the state, the suspension was always Skoly’s own fault. If only he had submitted. When the vaccine mandate for health care workers was promulgated to…
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Under Biden, Government Forces Social Media Companies to Censor Americans
In the News
The Biden administration began a public, coordinated campaign last May to combat dissemination of “health misinformation” related to COVID-19, especially across social media platforms. Administration officials, including Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and President Joe Biden himself, often through White House press secretary Jen Psaki, made clear that they blame Big Tech for American deaths from…
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The Federal Government Forces Social Media Companies to Censor Americans
In May of 2021, the Biden Administration began a public, coordinated campaign to combat the dissemination of “health misinformation” related to Covid, especially across social media platforms. Members of the Administration, including Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and the President himself, often through White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, have made clear that they blame Big…
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