“‘It is in my memory banks,’ Eric Peters wrote last month, referencing an android on an old Star Trek episode, ‘the long-ago time when GM was a car company.’ Yes, in the “long-ago” they ‘made an almost infinite variety of vehicles to suit almost any need and budget, all of them designed and engineered to free their owners. Some were utilitarian. Others were beautiful. Some were arrogant. None were parenting. They were made by adults who respected other adults. What became of that GM?’ The answer? Government.” (05/06/26)
“The Department of Justice’s recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey has been rightly criticized as flimsy and an affront to the First Amendment. This is nothing more than a naked use of federal authority to intimidate a notable critic of President Donald Trump. It’s also something that should make conservatives uneasy. The Republican Party won’t always control the government, but by treating hostile political symbolism as a threat, the Department of Justice has opened a door that future administrations may be all too willing to walk through.” (05/06/26)
“Legislators and the Kentucky Board of Education should act to restore proper oversight, ensure compliance with state law, and preserve the ability to accurately measure student performance over time.” (05/06/26)
“Venezuela insisted Wednesday that a disputed mineral-rich region of Guyana was ‘fraudulently’ taken in a 19th-century example of colonialism, arguing that a 1966 agreement and not the United Nations’ highest court should finalize ownership of the territory. The International Court of Justice is holding a week of hearings between the South American neighbors who both lay claim to the Essequibo region, which is rich in gold, diamonds, timber and other natural resources and is located close to massive offshore oil deposits. An 1899 decision by arbitrators from Britain, Russia and the United States drew the border along the Essequibo River largely in favor of Guyana. The U.S. represented Venezuela in part because the Venezuelan government had broken off diplomatic relations with Britain. Venezuela contends the Americans and Europeans conspired to cheat the country out of its rightfully owned land.” [editor’s note: States, as criminal gangs, don’t and can’t own anything. Everything they control is stolen – TLK] (05/06/26)
“Tax season is a useful reminder that how we organize financial information matters just as much as the numbers themselves. Taxpayers file returns, but the underlying numbers come from employers, who report wages directly to the government. Without that upstream reporting, the total simply would be error-prone. That’s true, too, of carbon accounting: There are several ways to measure emissions, each targeting a different node in the supply chain.” (05/06/26)
