Texas Voters Ban State Income Taxes. Again.

Texas, a state so nice they banned income taxes twice. On Tuesday, some 76 percent of voters in the state approved Prop 4, a constitutional amendment that prohibits the imposition …

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Sandworm and the GRU’s global intifada

This episode is a wide-ranging interview with Andy Greenberg, author of Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers. The book contains plenty …

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Free Speech and Government Surveillance

Governmental infiltration of political groups can obviously deter people from joining groups that they think might be infiltrated, and deter them from speaking freely within those groups. The Court in Laird …

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Brickbat: That’s Not Funny

British comedian Roy Chubby Brown often works blue. His jokes often touch on racial or ethnic topics and some could be seen as making fun of LGBT people. He’s popular …

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Cryptocurrencies vs. the State

House members summoned Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to Washington, D.C., and grilled him—harshly—about his plan to create a new currency, Libra. “Why should we trust you?!” asked Rep. Mike Doyle (D–Pa.). …

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Trump’s Audacious Immunity Claim

President Donald Trump’s desperate attempt to block a New York grand jury subpoena seeking his tax returns, which he once promised to publicly release, makes you wonder anew why he …

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