Statist Anti-Individualism, from Eugenic Sterilization to COVID.
Statist Anti-Individualism, from Eugenic Sterilization to COVID. Posted by Ed Folsom August 14, 2023 “We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could … Read More
Trump Indictment The DOJ’s Latest Big Conspiracy Theory.
Trump Indictment The DOJ’s Latest Big Conspiracy Theory. Posted by Ed Folsom August 5, 2023 On Thursday, August 4, 2023, former president Donald Trump was arraigned on an indictment that lays out the Department of Justice’s latest big conspiracy theory … Read More
The Political “Left”‘s Antifascist Con, Among Others.
The Political “Left”‘s Antifascist Con, Among Others. Posted by Ed Folsom July 28, 2023 How have the politics of individualism come to be labeled “far-right” while the statist collectivism of the self-identified “left” is sold to us as “anti-fascist”? Does … Read More
Progressivism’s Cognitive Infrastructure Police Scrub the Public Square.
Progressivism’s Cognitive Infrastructure Police Scrub the Public Square. Posted by Ed Folsom, July 8, 2023. On July 4th, in Missouri v. Biden, a federal judge issued a ruling that enjoins certain U.S. Government administrative agencies and Biden administrative officials from … Read More
Now RFK, Jr., is a Threat to Democracy Too?
Now RFK, Jr., is a Threat to Democracy Too? Posted by Ed Folsom, June 27, 2023. According to the latest-Party-line-thing machinery, RFK, Jr., is now a “threat to democracy.” My local newspaper, the Maine Sunday Telegram, recently picked up an … Read More
Now Also on Substack.
Posted by Ed Folsom January 13, 2023. Now Also on Substack. I’ve started putting my posts up on Substack, here. Who knows? I might eventually have to migrate there.
Maine Legislature Proceeds With Hearsay Exception For Personal Circumstances.
Maine Legislature Proceeds With Hearsay Exception For Personal Circumstances. Posted by Ed Folsom June 5, 2023 This is a follow-up to my previous post (here) regarding Maine LD 765 (2023), formerly titled “An Act to Permit Recordings of a Protected … Read More
Auto-totalitarian Signs.
Auto-totalitarian Signs. Posted by Ed Folsom, June 2, 2023. I continue to be intrigued by Vaclav Havel’s essay, The Power of the Powerless. Havel wrote it from the belly of the socialist beast that was 1978 Czechoslovakia, then a satellite … Read More
Asylum Seekers Arriving In Portland at Astronomical Pop-Based Rate.
Asylum Seekers Arriving In Portland at Astronomical Pop-Based Rate. Posted by Ed Folsom, May 23, 2023 The magnificence of nonchalant understatement in the following passage in today’s Portland Press Herald about blew me away: “More than a quarter-million people filed … Read More
Disparate Impact and Male Longevity: Ironclad Proof of Systemic Misandry?
Disparate Impact: Ironclad Proof of Systemic Misandry? Posted by Ed Folsom, April 25, 2023. Have you noticed the never-ending search in the public discourse for disparate outcomes as automatic, ironclad proof of systemic injustice at work? For instance, fairly early … Read More
