Government Surveillance Series — Part Two Model legislation and a citizen action guide Part One of this series compared all 50 states across five protections involving cash and central-bank digital currency, facial recognition, government artificial intelligence, electronic information, and commercial data brokers. The comparison revealed a ...
Your face can be scanned by a camera you never noticed. Your movements can be reconstructed from location records held by a private company. Your purchases can be analyzed, your communications requested, and an artificial-intelligence system can help a government agency decide that you deserve closer attention. Much of this can happen without the a...
Most people know the popularized story of how the American Revolution – its kinetic phase, anyway – began on April, 19, 1775, when the Massachusetts militia turned out to oppose a British column marching from Boston to Concord to seize arms and military stores accumulated there by the colonists. Myths have grown up around the events of that day, re...
We came across a couple of anonymous posts on an online forum recently where someone laid out the steps they had been taking in their county to bring about real political change. Starting small, networking, organizing others and building on each little success had generated significant momentum and had opened up the prospects for state wide impact....
August 16th was Primary Election Day in Wyoming. From our perspective, of the imminent crises facing the state, the nation, and the world, we draw several conclusions. For readers who are not residents of Wyoming, the political reality here, broadly drawn, is this. The state is overwhelmingly Republican. Most elective state and local offices are de...
In many ways the current situation is deteriorating quickly. We can sense the whiffs of chaos on the horizon and each new day seems to bring a yet another data point. It can be difficult, if not impossible, to keep up with everything that is happening. And it is all too easy to be overwhelmed or, equally, distracted by one crazy story after another...
Recent SCOTUS decisions have boosted morale among liberty-conscious conservatives, but the Empire aways strikes back. Let's consider what these events mean, and what must be done to solidify resistance and exploit success. Donald Trump, in the most lasting achievement of his presidency, left us with a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme...
There is an old line about somebody who has nothing left has nothing left to lose. The idea being that someone who is pushed and pushed, punished and penalized, stripped of everything they care about and loses it all finally becomes extremely dangerous and willing to do whatever it takes to fight back and take on their oppressor. While there is som...
In Part 2 of this series, we proposed a recommitment to the concept of State rights and State sovereignty as delineated in the U.S. Constitution, and especially in its Tenth Amendment. Here we will explore one powerful option that would support that goal. One way available to States generally, and to Wyoming in particular, to reduce dependence on t...
What Can Be Done (Part 2): States' Rights Under the Constitution and Court Precedent Part 1 of this series discussed the unlikelihood of addressing the current crisis through electoral means at the federal level. Instead, we need to turn to one of the fundamental concepts of the Founding Fathers: federalism. The United States was formed as a union ...
