The Durham Gloss on the Russia Hoax

The Russia Hoax was at first a criminal fraud designed to swing the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton, and then became ab attempted coup after the election, with acts taken both to both divert from Hillary Clinton’s attempted coup and to destroy the administration of Donald Trump.  It is hard

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Parents Have Constitutional Rights To Protect Their Children From Leftist Madness Part I

Leftist states give the government ever greater power to interfere with parenting, but legal history establishes parents’ and families’ long-standing, non-textual constitutional rights. This is a two-part series.  Part I examines whether parental rights exist in constitutional law.  Part II will examine the substance of constitutional parental rights. With the

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Have California’s Democrats made a couple of serious errors?

Two news stories suggest that California Democrats have alienated major constituencies in that once lovely and now benighted state. In 2020, California’s population was 39,538,223 people. Two years later, it was estimated to have shrunk by .9%, leaving it at 39,185,605 people. That’s a significant trend for the nation’s most

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Memorializing the Twitter Files XXI – How to Find Russian Disinfo Anywhere

Under Senate pressure, Twitter adopted tests for finding “Russian” related sites that became simple ideological tests and that were further exploited by third-party groups to advance censorship. Note:  For an Index to the Twitter Files, see here. 1/ #TWITTERFILES 21 How to Find Russians Anywhere Pt.1 – PROJECT OSPREY –

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Memorializing the Twitter Files XX – The Information Cartel

The alliance to censor and control information was widespread almost beyond the imagination.  In what looks like a plot for the series 24, the alliance was a conspiracy across social media that involved academics, journalists, intelligence operatives, military personnel, government bureaucrats, NGO workers and more. “1.TWITTER FILES #20 The Information

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Memorializing the Twitter Files XIX – Covid-19, The Virality Project, & Censoring “True Stories”

The Virality Project was a coordinated effort to monitor billons of social media posts by Stanford University, federal agencies, and a slew of (often state-funded) NGOs, and to censor any posts, whether or not factually true,  that did not support the government narrative about the need for, and the safety

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Memorializing the Twitter Files XVIII – The Censorship-Industrial Complex

Matt Taibbi’s Statement to Congress about a partnering of state agencies like DHS, FBI, or the Global Engagement Center (GEC), along with “NGOs that aren’t academic” and an unexpectedly aggressive partner, commercial news media – to form a “Censorship-Industrial Complex on social media. 1. TWITTER FILES: Statement to Congress THE

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