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Critics of the Ruling Against Biden's Anti-'Misinformation' Crusade See No Threat to Freedom of Speech: The Response to the Decision Illustrates the Alarming Erosion of Bipartisan Support for the First Amendment Jul. 14, 2023
Last week, a federal judge in Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction that bars a long list of fed... Read More
Critics of the Ruling Against Biden's Anti-'Misinformation' Crusade See No Threat to Freedom of Speech: The Response to the Decision Illustrates the Alarming Erosion of Bipartisan Support for the First Amendment Jul. 12, 2023
Last week, a federal judge in Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction that bars a long list of fed... Read More
Ungrateful Greedy Geezers Jul. 12, 2023
Sometimes people bug me. Today I'm going to share some recent email exchanges I had with two people ... Read More
Maybe Social Security Is Just Another Tax We Pay Jun. 28, 2023
I've received a lot of emails recently from readers trying to calculate how much they paid in Social... Read More
Parsing the Histrionic Narrative From Hawley and Other Trump Defenders Jun. 15, 2023
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley went there (again) on Tuesday night, warning a Fox News audience that "we ... Read More
Truth Is the Foundation of Our Nation Jun. 08, 2023
Last week, I wrote about the collapse of the public's trust in our professional class. Much of this ... Read More
My 'Ivory Tower' Is in the Basement of a Suburban Split-Level Jun. 07, 2023
I got an interesting email (actually, it was more like a rant) from a guy who was upset about an enc... Read More
The Far Right Has Lost Its Monopoly on Internet Misinformation, and That's Sad Jun. 02, 2023
Much attention in the culture wars tends to focus on how wacky the far right can be when it comes to... Read More
Dissent From Leftist Narratives Is Moving Toward Critical Mass May. 18, 2023
As the nation continues its precipitous decline under the weight of the deceitful and destructive po... Read More
You Can't Say That! Apr. 12, 2023
Over the past three years, we reporters learned there were certain things that we weren't allowed to... Read More
Social Security Rules for Federal Government Employees Apr. 05, 2023
I've commented before how surprised I am that a high percentage of emails I get come from the relati... Read More
Ron DeSantis, Anchorman Mar. 25, 2023
He sat in an anchorman's chair for the publicity stunt, but he is no friend of the free press. With ... Read More
Change Is Nothing New to Social Security Mar. 15, 2023
I continually remind my readers that they shouldn't worry too much when they read or hear reports of... Read More
More Questionable Advice From the SSA Mar. 01, 2023
I hate writing columns that are critical of some of my former colleagues who are still working for t... Read More
If You Mess Up, Don't Blame the Government Feb. 22, 2023
Sometimes people will write to me complaining that the government, specifically the Social Security ... Read More
The Perils of Trying to Curtail Hazily Defined 'Disinformation': The Global Disinformation Index's Controversial Ratings Illustrate the Challenge of Deciding Which Speech Belongs in That Category Feb. 15, 2023
NewsGuard, a service that rates adherence to basic principles of good journalism, gives my employer,... Read More
Columnist Turns a Molehill Into a Mountain Jan. 25, 2023
Several readers shared with me a story that ran in many newspapers around the country headlined: "So... Read More
The Problems With Running a Disability Program Jan. 18, 2023
Several readers recently sent me copies of a news story that appeared in papers around the country. ... Read More
Be Prepared Jan. 11, 2023
I got an email from a woman who had recently filed for widow's benefits. She was writing to tell me ... Read More
California's COVID-19 'Misinformation' Law Chills Constitutionally Protected Speech: The State Is Threatening to Punish Doctors Whose Advice Deviates From the 'Scientific Consensus' Nov. 23, 2022
The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which Columbia University legal scholar Philip Hamburger founded i... Read More
