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SCOTUS Clerks Consider ‘Lawyering Up’ After Investigators into Dobbs Leak Want Cell Phone Data

June 2, 2022 Op-Ed

The politicization of the United States Supreme Court has been escalating for decades, going back at least as far as the 1987 nomination of Robert Bork by President Ronald Reagan. Since that time, confirmation battles such as those of Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, along with hyper enthusiasm for scores of case decisions have seemingly ramped up … Read more

Blogline of the Day – Progressives think that Govt is MAGNIFICENT!

January 15, 2020 Skip

US Government-funded Android phones come preinstalled with unremovable malware. Words fail me so I’ll use that famous (and famously descriptive): “I’m here from the Govt and I’m here to help you” refrain.

Dem Lawmaker Ticketed for Hands-Free Law, Second Offense

November 9, 2019 Steve MacDonald

This, friends, is the crux of the laws that are passed. Eventually, they’ll get you. Yes, even you, Peter Leishman, who voted ‘Yea’ to pass the same law. And yes, even for a second time. In your hometown. The town you represent in Concord. From the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, 11/7/2019 Police Logs PeterboroughPeter Leishman, 62, Peterborough, … Read more

Texting Tax is Dead Thanks to Trump’s FCC – But To Democrats Raising Taxes Never Dies

December 18, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Regulators have decided to find something to tax other than texting. The proposed levy made news in our pages last week. And everywhere else. But popular outrage at the idea is not what convinced proponents they needed to find other ways to deprive people of their money. It was Trump’s FCC.

Obamaphones – free for “the indigent” but man, are we paying the sales folks well!

September 26, 2018February 21, 2013 Skip

It isn’t enough that the FCC decided that the Rural Telephone Fee was going to be switched paying for landlines and now to cellphones. It isn’t enough that costs have skyrocketed well beyond even the most “liberal” estimates and that millions have received them that aren’t supposed to (sure, just like with Medicaid, fraud costs are down WHEN YOU AREN’T LOOKING FOR IT!). So how DO all the phones get out to the “needy recipients”? Must be at some Government office with trained and professional social workers who swiftly and efficiently evaluate each and every case decided with deliberateness and thoughtfulness?

Not so much: from CraigsList:

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What is it?

Scared Shurtleff

September 26, 2018January 14, 2013
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That cell phone while driving post that Steve put up?

September 26, 2018December 16, 2011 Skip

Steve wrote about the NTSB busybodies now wishing to go all Nanny State on us about texting while driving; I thought this just fit ever so well. Dig the micro car with the electrical plug, too. It is never enough for the Govt to just carry out something that many of us think is a … Read more