Socrates Corner
“Justice is supposed to be blind, regardless of race religion or Creed. However, here in Manhattan the scales of Justice are weighed down by politics. For the District Attorney, justice isn’t blind, it’s about looking for opportunities to advance a radical political agenda. Rather than enforcing the law, the D.A is using his office to […]
“Ordinary Americans are not just being reported to Twitter for de-amplification or de-platforming, but to firms like PayPal, digital advertisers like Xander, and crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe. These companies can and do refuse service to law-abiding people and businesses whose only crime is falling afoul of a distant faceless unaccountable algorithmic judge.” ~Matt Taibi, independent […]
“The ‘Twitter Files’ tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designers” ~Matt Taibbi, author and journalist Why Elon Musk’s Acquisition of Twitter Restores Equal Treatment Online Elon Musk’s triumphal […]
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.” ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago Background on Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his account […]
A Who’s Who of 2022: Breakdown of Critical Midterm Races and Candidates With the 2022 Midterm elections right around the corner, the country has seen many heated races at the national level. Following a contentious and continually controversial Presidential election in 2020, the vestiges of election fraud and manipulation continue to permeate the questionability […]
“The art challenges the technology and the technology inspires the art.” ~John Lassetter, film director “The [Quadriptyque] watch represents Jaeger-LeCoultre’s biggest strengths—its impeccable design sensibilities and supreme technical prowess” ~Neha S. Bajpai Intro & background on Jaeger-LeCoultre This piece will consummate the third installment to my watch review series, examining noteworthy achievements in […]
“The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.” ~John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Summary: Chapters 1—6 “The Grapes of Wrath” was a prominent realist novel written by John Steinbeck, centered around the economic suffering of the Great […]
“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives. ‘The permissibility of abortion, and the limitations, upon it, are to be resolved like most important questions in our democracy: by citizens trying to persuade one another and then voting.’” ~Justice Samuel Alito, citing the late Justice […]
“President Biden and the people he appointed to key positions in his administration have pursued the most radical open-borders policies in the history of any sovereign nation, and these new numbers bear that out.” ~Dan Stein, President of the Federation for American Immigration Reform Illegal Immigration on the Rise: 2021 in Review The rate of […]
“I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.” ~Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla “Seems Shadow Banning is yet another ‘right-wing conspiracy theory’ that was 100% true.” ~Donald Trump Jr The Road […]
“The corruption, crime, and incompetence of the D.C. government has been an embarrassment to our nation’s capital for decades. It is long past time that Congress restored the honor and integrity of George Washington to the beautiful city which bears his name.” ~ Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), speaking on the BOWSER Act “It is […]
Fifth Circuit’s Ruling against “Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule” Safeguards Meritocracy Over Mediocrity
“The evidence presented by Nasdaq in its rule proposal, contrary to its claims, does not show that board diversity provides better returns for shareholders.” ~Excerpt from a Manhattan Institute led amicus curiae brief in the case of Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment vs. SEC. “We will terminate every diversity, equity, and inclusion program across the […]
The Keep Nine Amendment: A Permanent Solution to Threats of Court-Packing
“I think that was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court. If anything would make the court appear more partisan, it would be that. So, I am not at all in favor of that solution. Nine seems to be a good number. It’s been that way for a […]
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