Category Archives: Liberty

What Hath Elon Musk Wrought, Part 3

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Exposing a coup.

The Elon Musk/Twitter saga has been most interesting to watch.  After purchasing a 9.2% share of Twitter, he then proposed buying the company outright.

Twitter acted to prevent the takeover by using a poison pill approach.  This would involve issuing shares at half price if any investor would gain ownership of more than 15% of the outstanding shares.

Twitter’s actions (poison pill offer) publicized Twitter’s desire to censor free speech.

What is this the sole purpose of all of Elon Musk’s actions?

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What Hath Elon Musk Wrought, Part 2

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By now most people are aware of the Elon Musk/Twitter saga.  After purchasing a 9.2% share of Twitter, he then proposed buying the company outright.

Twitter acted to prevent the takeover by using a poison pill approach.  This would involve issuing shares at half price to existing shareholders if any investor would gain ownership of more than 15% of the outstanding shares.

Twitter’s temper tantrum (that’s what the poison pill offer was) publicized to the entire world Twitter’s desire to continue to censor free speech.   It also exposed its extreme hostility to more than half of its potential customers worldwide, that is those who believe in free speech.

What is the real purpose of all of Elon Musk’s actions?

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It’s Over

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A federal judge in Florida has voided the national mask mandate covering airports, planes and other public travel.  The decision by U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa said the CDC failed to justify its decision and did not follow proper rulemaking procedures that left it fatally flawed.

In her 59-page ruling, Mizelle said the only remedy was to vacate the rule entirely across the country because it would be impossible to end it for the limited group of people who had filed  the lawsuit.

[PDF Ruling Available Here]

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What Hath Elon Musk Wrought? Part 1

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By now most people know that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, purchased 9.2% of Twitter’s outstanding shares worth around $2.9 billion in early April.  This made Musk the largest single shareholder of Twitter.

The purchase was a bit of a surprise since Musk had raised questions about the site’s free speech policy.

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Florida Rolls

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Many states have been involved in the process of redrawing the lines for their House congressional districts as a result of the last census. Florida is no exception and actually will add a congressional seat making their total 28.  This is the result of rapid population growth as well as population shifts elsewhere in the country.

The Florida legislature originally drew two potential maps and sent them to the governor for his signature.  He vetoed them based on the opinion of attorneys in the governor’s office that such maps were unconstitutional.  Specifically, Florida law states that district lines cannot be “drawn to favor or disfavor an incumbent or political party.”  This law is supported by nearly two-thirds of Florida voters.

This is not what happens in many other states.  Lines are often drawn to favor an incumbent or to dis-favor one.  Both parties do it.  South Carolina’s 6th congressional district is one such example of many across the country.

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Rules For The Common People

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Mayor Eric Adams declared a special carve-out to New York City’s employer vaccine mandate Thursday for professional athletes and performers, allowing unvaccinated athletes like Brooklyn Nets superstar Kyrie Irving back onto his home court.

“Today I signed an emergency executive order expanding the performance exemption to the private employer vaccine mandate,” he said.

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More Lawfare From Trudeau

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Unless you live on a different planet, you probably know about the Freedom Convoy in Canada and about Justin Trudeau’s iron-fisted approach to dealing with it.  This week Trudeau went one step further and essentially imposed a broad-based censorship on the entire country when he invoked the Emergencies Act.  Legal?  Absolutely not!  But such legal road bumps are a mere annoyance to people like Trudeau.

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