Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton

“The 1936 Act very much sped up the provision of grid electrical power to rural and frontier regions …. It slowed down the massive accumulation of power by local governments — counties and smaller towns — in contrast to many larger cities and towns where providing electrical power joined providing water, sewage, and even trash collection services as yet another political football for corruption, patronage, and control (micro-management control at that). … Unfortunately, like many of the FDR-era alphabet agencies, and longer than many, it created a seemingly perpetual federal bureaucratic agency and yet another way for Congressmen to ‘benefit’ their districts and states with all the federal money — and with more and more strings attached.” (05/16/22)

https://thepriceofliberty.org/2022/05/16/socialist-america-history-rural-electrics/

Source: The Atlantic
by Graeme Wood

“My friends in the terrorism-analysis community engaged in preemptive scolding as news of the manifesto came out. ‘Don’t post the fuckin manifesto anywhere,’ tweeted Amarnath Amarasingam, a professor at Queen’s University in Canada. ‘Folks in our field: You should read the manifesto,’ Seamus Hughes of George Washington University wrote. ‘You shouldn’t share it.’ They are right, of course. You should not circulate it, any more than you should store your feces and fling them around the neighborhood out of your car windows, rather than flushing them down like a normal person. … But sometimes there is no substitute for the smell of effluent, and I think it is worth considering what we lose by discouraging members of the public from singeing their nostrils on the offending material directly.” (05/16/22)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/buffalo-shooting-manifesto-tucker-carlson/629878/

Source: Libertarian Party
by Cathy Reisenwitz

“As the War on Drugs begins to ramp down after 50 years of failure and devastation, authoritarians are hardly going quietly into that good night. The nanny state never sleeps, and the new moral panic is the scourge of sex work and pornography. Lawmakers are hard at work eroding free speech online in the name of ‘moral decency.’ … You don’t need to like or use drugs to understand that the War on Drugs has caused far more, and far more lasting, harm than drugs alone ever could. The war on sex workers and porn creators is the same story, being written all over again in real-time.” (05/16/22)

https://www.lp.org/why-libertarians-should-care-about-the-war-on-sex/

Source: Independent Institute
by K Lloyd Billingsley

“On May 11, acting National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Lawrence Tabak conceded that $350 million in undisclosed royalty payments to Dr. Anthony Fauci, his deputy Clifford Lane, former NIH director Francis Collins, and hundreds of NIH employees presented ‘an appearance of a conflict of interest.’ Tabak, deputy ethics counselor of NIH since 2010 and in 2009 acting principal deputy director, seemed unaware of developments at his own agency. Francis Collins received 14 royalty payments, Dr. Fauci 23 payments, and his deputy, Clifford Lane, eight payments, but the NIH heavily redacted the information.” (05/16/22)

https://blog.independent.org/2022/05/16/conflicts-interest-national-institutes-health/