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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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What SCOTUS Is Trying to Teach Us?

SCOTUS recently issued a pair of rulings that appear, on the surface, to contradict each other. In the first, the court ruled that the federal government couldn’t force private companies with 100 or more employees to require those employees to accept either vaccination or weekly testing as a condition of employment.

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The Pandemic of the Unarmed

According to NPR, Quebec is about to impose a financial penalty against adult residents who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19.

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The Supreme Court Takes Irony to a New Level

Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented from today’s ruling that President* Biden’s vaccine mandate covering companies with 100 or more employees is unconstitutional, saying:

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The New Fifth Amendment

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has announced that he will not cooperate with the committee that is ‘investigating’ the Amble Around the Capitol™️ on January 6 of last year.

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The James Wilson Voting Act

Now that the Build Back Better Act (sometimes called the Great Giveaway) has stalled, Democrats have decided that their top legislative priority is something called the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (sometimes called the Permanent Majority Act), which will effectively give the federal government the ability to dictate the electoral practices of individual states.

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Poor Ted

Many people, like Tucker Carlson, like to talk about how ‘smart’ Ted Cruz is — how articulate he is as a speaker, how carefully he chooses his words, how insightful his questions are during hearings.

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Our Supreme Court Parents

Tucker Carlson recently made fun of some Supreme Court justices because they didn’t seem to have sufficient mastery of the ‘facts’ regarding COVID to make the right decision about whether one of President* Biden’s vaccination mandates should be allowed to stand.

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Constitution Day Talk

I originally meant to present the following talk at a Constitution Day celebration. Unfortunately, I came down with COVID-19, and was unable to attend. But several people have asked me what I had planned to say.  So here it is:

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Do These People Even Read the Laws They Write?

Not so long ago, the legislature passed, and the governor signed into law, a bill that says:   Every person has the natural, essential, and inherent right to bodily integrity, free from any threat or compulsion by government to accept an immunization.