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Ian Underwood

Ian Underwood is the author of the Bare Minimum Books series (BareMinimumBooks.com).  He has been a planetary scientist and artificial intelligence researcher for NASA, the director of the renowned Ask Dr. Math service, co-founder of Bardo Farm and Shaolin Rifleworks, and a popular speaker at liberty-related events. He lives in Croydon, New Hampshire.

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Moby Trump

I just saw this headline on a news aggregator: “Volatile Fallout After Angry Reactions To Court-Approved Search Warrant For Trump’s Florida Estate”

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The Return of General Warrants

The warrant issued for the recent search — we’re not supposed to use the r-word — at Mar-a-Lago authorized agents to take ‘all physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed’ that violate the U.S. Code.

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Alec Baldwin Proved Innocent By FBI

Apparently, the FBI has concluded, after testing the gun that killed Halyna Hutchins, that it could not be fired except with the hammer fully cocked, and only then by pulling the trigger.

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Letter to InDepthNH

InDepthNH just ran a hit piece by Garry Rayno on the Free State Project (FSP). As with the New York Times, I doubt that InDepthNH will run my response, but I thought I’d include it here, as I did with my response to the Times’s hit piece by Dan Barry.

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Letter to the Times

This is in response to the article about Croydon’s budget battle, which appeared on the front page of the New York Times a couple of weeks ago. I don’t think they’ll be printing it, though.  So I thought I’d reproduce it here.

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Reading Alito’s Opinion? Read This First.

If you’ve already started reading today’s majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, you’ll notice that it relies heavily on the Court’s previous interpretation of the 14th Amendment, making frequent references to ‘substantive due process, and the ‘concept of ordered liberty.’

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The Third Second Amendment

Some in the media are starting to openly admit that repealing or altering the Second Amendment is a necessary first step towards allowing the government to exert more control over who can keep and bear what arms in which venues. But note that there are currently two Second Amendments. The First Second Amendment is from …

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