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The Threat to America’s Next Great Leap
Two months ago, chip maker NVIDIA released a promotional video entitled “America’s Next Great Leap: The Age of AI.” Its bright vision of the future is undermined by unchecked presidential power.
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Cyberwarfare Waged Against Water Grid in Pennsylvania
Last Saturday, local news site BeaverCounty.com reported an Iranian-linked "hactivist" group claimed responsibility for compromising control systems in the Aliquippa, PA water grid. The attack disabled autonomous control over a pressure regulating pump, forcing operators to take manual control to prevent service disruption. The facility's
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The Renaissance of Korean Drama
Potentially, motion pictures are a great art, but that potential has not as yet been actualized, except in single instances and random moments. An art that requires the synchronization of so many esthetic elements and so many different talents cannot develop in a period of philosophical-cultural disintegration such as the
Biden's Ukraine Speech: A Great Start, Followed by Cowardly Retreat
I was pleasantly surprised when I watched President Biden's speech on a live broadcast the other day. He had some incredibly powerful and positive lines - though he likely would have inadequate definitions for some of the terms he used, his use of concepts such as liberalism and
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Freedom of Contract and the Abortion Debate
Freedom of Contract had a vibrant (albeit not completely consistent) history within American jurisprudence during the so-called Lochner Era, which legal scholars generally regard as lasting from the late nineteenth century until 1937. While never completely consistent in its application, the Supreme Court defended property rights much more consistently than
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The App Store Is Under Attack (Not by Hackers)
Governments around the world are enacting new regulation and opening antitrust investigations over the dominance of Google and Apple’s respective app stores. Arguably, these attacks were inspired by Epic Games v. Apple since, in that case, Apple partially won. For those who are unfamiliar, Apple takes a 30% commission
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FDA to Ban Specific Tobacco Products
Today, under direction of the Biden Administration, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced its plans for a blanket ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. The bureaucracy's justification for such a ban is "to significantly reduce disease and death from using combusted tobacco products."