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Authored by Jim Bovard

"If it is known that authorities have power to coerce, few people will wait for actual coercion," economist Friedrich Hayek wrote in the 1956 foreword to his 1944 classic, The Road to Serfdom. Hayek’s insight could be the Rosetta Stone for understanding the Trump administration’s censorship zealotry.

On March 25, six masked federal agents seized a Turkish graduate student on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Rumeysa Ozturk—who was (more…)

Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations,

Topline: Congressional salaries and office space already cost taxpayers a bundle. Yet few realize that the speaker of the House gets to keep their office space, staff and budget for five years after retiring.

Dennis Hastert, the Republican speaker from 1999 to 2006, received a $4 million budget after he left office, and used $1.9 million of it, according to ABC News — $2.8 million in 2025 dollars.

Hastert’s (more…)

Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Former New York City Police Sgt. Michael McMahon was sentenced to 18 months in prison on April 16 after being found guilty of acting as an illegal agent of China.

Retired New York Police Department Sgt. Michael McMahon leaves Brooklyn Federal Court in New York City on May 31, 2023. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images

McMahon was one of (more…)