Michael Bedar
Fifty-two million Americans, for reasons ranging from investing to decentralizing economic control, own a cryptocurrency. While only a small fraction of these are voters who mark their ballots primarily on cryptocurrency issues, those voters do exist. Those who put cryptocurrencies…
Health Freedom Defense Fund and employees of the Los Angeles Unified School District sued LAUSD officials including Superintendent Alberto Carvalho in 2021 in a little-covered case about the district-imposed mandate requiring employees get COVID-19 injections. Plaintiffs and defendants batted the…
Compilations of “the most politically influential and outspoken” athletes crop up here and there occasionally. They list activists like Billie Jean King, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos, as well as overpaid, modern, but still outdated ones like Megan Rapinoe and…
Do the people in publishing have a way with words? Meh. Rather, the published words have a way with people. Words affect thought, culture, law, and society. A dictionary definition may affect constitutional interpretations and protected rights. Because dictionaries signify…
By now, the speaker of the House role has been given to Rep. Mike Johnson, who for some reason was voted in unanimously even among the Republican Party’s Never Trumpers. I sure did not see that coming. But whether it’s…
Believing that a civil war occurred in the early 1970s, and that the show All in the Family communicated persuasively to the combatants and affected the outcome, James Poniewozik wrote in Time magazine on June 22, 2001: Archie Bunker spoke…
Peel School District — located in Ontario, Canada, and bordering Toronto — is reportedly weeding books from its libraries with publication dates prior to 2008. The district’s school board has yet to respond specifically to parents’ and Ontario officials’ questions,…
Political polarization usually leads to balkanization and a corresponding migration pattern, as each faction of the nation’s population gathers together geographically. The Founding Fathers may have issued warnings against the people factionalizing, but they also provided outlets, such as powers…
On Sept. 30, the U.S. government’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a statement lauding the year’s decrease in health and dental insurance premiums. The HHS bizarrely named its favored and disfavored political parties in the statement, but…
“Quiet quitting” is not just a 2022 rage. No, in fact, in 1970, when massive new regulatory laws spawned additional government agencies, along came the quiet-quitting life. People looked at the bureaucracies’ hiring binges and said: “Wait, you’re telling me…
