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Supreme Court needs to tread carefully with Section 230

Gonzalez v. Google, which questions the liability shield built into Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, will be heard by the Supreme Court this term. Section 230 is the “First Amendment of the internet” and is responsible for the growth of the open internet we know it. ...

FBI tampering proven in Keith Raniere ‘human trafficking’ case

The Keith Raniere case is an example of our judicial agencies acting against the best interest of common sense, common decency and “we the people.” I witnessed this at Tiger King Joe Exotic’s resentencing trial, where the judge stuck to a specific agenda, ignoring actual relevant evidence ...

HOLY COW! HISTORY: Seven sisters, 37 feet of hair

There’s no delicate way to say this, so here goes. Your great-great-grandparents had a weird thing about hair. The Victorians were obsessed with lovely locks. People have always admired a nice head of hair. But Victorians were bonkers for beautiful tresses. They snipped strands of dead ...

Woe Britannia! New prime minister sails into heavy weather

EDINBURGH, Scotland — These are trying times for the British, as I am finding on a visit to Scotland with a brief foray south into England. All isn’t right with their world, and there are expectations that the winter will be the hardest to bear since the long-ago days of the end of World ...

A quiz for Columbus Day

Most American schoolchildren learn about Christopher Columbus, his patronage from King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, and his three ships that came to the New World. But few of us know very much about what that “world” was like when Columbus arrived. Here’s a fun quiz to test your ...

OPEC’s production cuts embarrass Biden – again

President Biden went to Saudi Arabia earlier this year to bump fists and ask the oil-rich nation to increase oil output, essentially outsourcing oil production from U.S. oilfields to the Middle East to bring gas prices down. On Wednesday, Biden got his answer. The OPEC+ nations led by the ...