“There needs to be a permanent wall of separation established between tech and state.” On this episode, I check in with Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey about his landmark case against the Biden administration for colluding with Big Tech to censor views unfavorable to the government’s narrative. “What we’ve uncovered is a relationship of coercion…

“There needs to be a permanent wall of separation established between tech and state.” On this episode, I check in with Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey about his landmark case against the Biden administration for colluding with Big Tech to censor views unfavorable to the government’s narrative. “What we’ve uncovered is a relationship of coercion…

“There needs to be a permanent wall of separation established between tech and state.” On this episode, I check in with Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey about his landmark case against the Biden administration for colluding with Big Tech to censor views unfavorable to the government’s narrative. “What we’ve uncovered is a relationship of coercion…

Back in May of 2022, the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana filed a lawsuit (pdf) seeking a preliminary injunction to stop Biden and his administration from colluding with social media giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to suppress free speech. At the time, it had just become known that Biden had set up a…

Back in May of 2022, the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana filed a lawsuit (pdf) seeking a preliminary injunction to stop Biden and his administration from colluding with social media giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to suppress free speech. At the time, it had just become known that Biden had set up a…

Commentary All high school diplomas are equal, but some diplomas are more equal than others (apologies to George Orwell for shamelessly appropriating and modifying this quote from “Animal Farm”). On one hand, all high school diplomas are equal. Apart from mature students, a diploma is the minimum requirement for being accepted into college or university….

Commentary If you’re doing your bit as a Canadian by following the lumbering Conservative leadership race and the looming Ontario election, I can’t blame you for missing other stories because you are sound asleep. But there is one about how our military chaplains must not be Christian that might wake you up thinking a hardcover…

Commentary In recent days, two iconic American public figures, Elon Musk and Barack Obama—each in his own trademark fashion—struck a chord with wildly different audiences in the debate over freedom of speech and expression in this country. On April 25, Elon Musk reached an agreement with Twitter’s board of directors to acquire and take the…

Commentary Communism comes in various stripes. The Soviets had their version, the Chinese have theirs—these days quaintly called “Socialism with Chinese characteristics.” The North Koreans have “Juche!” The Cambodian Khmer Rouge had theirs (thankfully short-lived) and the Cubans a pretty traditional Marxist-Leninist state with the creepy addition—they have long embedded secret police in the neighborhoods…

Commentary In “The Principles of Newspeak,” the appendix to “1984,” George Orwell reports that it was expected that Newspeak “would have finally superseded Oldspeak (or Standard English, as we should call it) by about the year 2050.” It’s 2021 now.  How are we doing? The purpose of Newspeak, remember, was to alter reality in order to…