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Two senators offer a bipartisan solution to censorship by proxy. The JAWBONE Act would let Americans sue government officials who try to restrict their speech by pressuring third parties.- Social Security has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. It is Social Security's overly generous benefits that are actually driving the program into insolvency.
- "The issues at hand involve not only the fate of two individuals but also the limits of freedom of thought, conscience, and belief," a European religious freedom group told the U.N. about the prosecution of orgasmic meditation group OneTaste.
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South Carolina's top court unanimously rules that penis measurements cannot justify a sex offender's civil commitment. It joins a long list of state and federal courts that have deemed penile plethysmography unreliable. - Conservatives who claim to put workers first should be wary of a bill that hands workers' choices to union officials and federal arbitrators.
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New investigation: Public records from 13 Massachusetts towns show "Nicotine-Free Generation" (NFG) tobacco bans are orchestrated by a state-funded network of activists who scripted hearings, faked grassroots support, and ignored voters who pushed back. "I can speak to Rajit and
- Police arrested a Florida man for attempted child abduction in a county he had never visited, based solely on facial recognition.
- The billions of people still lagging in the global income distribution have one realistic path out: growth. Degrowth is the ultimate luxury belief.
- A medical examiner ruled Geraldo Lunas Campos' death a homicide by asphyxiation. Witnesses say guards choked him to death. Now a government report says evidence is missing.
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I am humbly begging people to stop acting like a drop in unintended pregnancies among teen girls is some great tragedy Also to look at what the new NBER paper actually measured before making grand pronouncements about phones killing fertility. The authors didn't measure how
- Two Texas grandmothers overcame addiction and got clean. They wanted to become social workers and help others do the same, but state law wouldn’t let them. Now they’re taking their case to the Texas Supreme Court.
