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James Harden Arrested On Hypocritical Firearms Charge In Texas Via Gun Owners of America, NBA player James Harden was arrested over the weekend in Texas for “unlawful carry of a firearm in a motor vehicle.” But wait, how can carry in a vehicle be unlawful in a state like Texas, where constitutional carry is the law of the land? On Saturday, June 13 at around 3am, Harden was driving a Mercedes sedan that was part of a group of five vehicles traveling through downtown Houston, Texas. According to reports, one of the vehicles was...

AI Doomsday Warnings Distract From More Imminent AI Concerns Authored by Daniel Nuccio via The Brownstone Institute, AI is everywhere. It’s getting incorporated into everything. That’s simply progress, we’re told. And therefore we need to embrace it, lest we look like a Luddite and let China win (whatever that means). Yet, simultaneously, a lot of people also are afraid because of AI. Very afraid. And sometimes, we’re told that we should be afraid too. However, in public discourse surrounding AI, there often can be a lack of detail regarding what specifically we’re...

Federal Appeals Court Rules Sex Offenders Have Constitutional Right To Live With Their Children Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court ruled July 6 that convicted sex offenders retain a fundamental constitutional right to live with their own children. The new ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit arises out of an Alabama case but could help reshape strict sex offender residency laws in the other two states in the circuit—Florida and Georgia—and serve as persuasive authority elsewhere. At the heart of the case...