SALEM, Ore. – Today, Senators Kim Thatcher (R-Keizer) and Janeen Sollman (D-Hillsboro) announced that they will spearhead a bill in the 2024 Legislative Session to honor veterans’ service and make Oregon more affordable for them by allowing veterans to keep more of their retirement pay through a state income tax exemption. “For many veterans, Oregon […]
How Political Establishments Sponsor Protests They Want, Suppress the Ones They Don’t, and Tread Carefully When Clients Go Off-Message
A brief consideration of how the German state has treated climate, pandemic and pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Protestors raise the Palestinian flag atop the Neptune Fountain in Berlin on Saturday. Western liberal democracies cultivate a range of fictions about their nature and function. In the myths they tell about themselves, the people are sovereign and politicians merely […]
Measuring the Mandates: Questioning the State’s Response to COVID-19
Dear DailyClout, I live on the Isle of Man, where an independent inquiry is currently taking place into the government’s handling of COVID-19. I’m part of a group that was set up in opposition to mandates, and we decided we should submit a report critiquing their use. The report became a small book, examining […]