Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Laurence M Vance

“[T]he only real argument for the legalization of marijuana is freedom. It doesn’t matter if marijuana has no medical benefits and that advocates of the legalization of medical marijuana just want to get high. Just like it doesn’t matter if using marijuana for recreational purposes is addictive, harmful, risky, unhealthy, immoral, sinful, or dangerous. It is not the business of government at any level to concern itself in any way with the eating, drinking, and smoking habits of Americans. It is not the business of the American Enterprise Institute or any other conservative think tank. It is not the business of Naomi Schaefer Riley or any other nanny-state, conservative drug warrior.” (06/03/26)

https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/conservatives-miss-the-point-on-marijuana/

Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille

“Americans aren’t interested in reinstating a military draft, but that’s not stopping the government from ‘streamlining’ Selective Service registration — for young men’s own good, we’re told. That’s right, the government is automating draft registration, using the excuse that it’s saving registrants from the legal peril inherent in choosing to not register. The real reason, of course, is that fewer men were voluntarily registering, and the government wants to gloss over that mass rejection by potential draftees.” (06/03/26)

https://reason.com/2026/06/03/the-draft-is-unpopular-registration-becomes-automatic-in-december-anyway/

Source: Liberalism.org
by Mike Masnick

“It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.” (06/03/26)

https://www.liberalism.org/p/enshittification-despotification-and-the-open-internet

Source: The Realist Review
by Pelle Taylor

“In 1961 Washington and Moscow agreed to abolish war. Then the men who meant it died.” (06/03/26)

https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/the-world-government-that-wasnt

Source: American Greatness
by Edward Ring

“If you own property in California, you’re not safe. A new ballot measure will empower the state to confiscate a percentage of the assets of any resident, even though its initial provisions don’t communicate that intent. California’s ‘One-Time Wealth Tax for State-Funded Healthcare, Education, and Food Assistance Programs Initiative,’ which has already qualified for the November ballot, is even worse than it appears. It’s not as if appearances aren’t bad enough. The explicit intent of the initiative already chased at least six billionaires out of the state in 2025. … Just the departure of these six men has lowered the potential take from the wealth tax by an estimated $27 billion.” (06/03/26)

https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/03/californias-wealth-tax-is-coming-for-everyone/

Source: Expression
by James Kirchick

“Though he had been, by his own description, ‘shy and retiring’ as a young man, Kameny was ‘radicalized’ by the way his government had treated him. How could his homosexual orientation possibly affect his work as an astronomer or, as he one day hoped to be, an astronaut floating hundreds of miles away from Earth’s surface? On the contrary, it was the government that had wronged him. ‘I simply felt something had to be done,’ he recalled. And so, Kameny did what no gay man or woman in his position had yet done: He fought back.” (06/03/26)

https://expression.fire.org/p/frank-kameny-was-fired-for-being