Authoritarian progressives have plans to put surveillance devices in your car in the name of reducing drunk driving.

What if cars could stop you from driving drunk? A peek at the latest tech

The recent infrastructure law included a provision mandating that, starting in a few years, all new cars must include some sort of technology to detect and prevent drunk driving.

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As Ohio reopens shuttered businesses, not every business is operating safely. The state has declared that if workers don't put their lives on the line, they will lose unemployment benefits.

But a clever coder is poisoning the data well, with a script that generates fake names:

Vigilantism is always a bad idea. Vigilantism when you don't even know that the neighbors you think just arrived from New Jersey fleeing the disease outbreak have actually been there for a month...

In The Telegraph's business section, Jeremy Warner says the quiet part out loud: capitalists want poor old people to die, because this would be good for "the economy", as the owning classes conceive of it.

Besides being Ponzi schemes that get drivers to pay for the privilege of giving people rides, Uber and Lyft are contributing to CO2 pollution by displacing mass transit.

It is absurd that mass incarceration is so low on the Democrat's list of priorities that they had two prosecutors running for President this year. Here's a stark statistic that demonstrates the harshness of the our criminal justice policies of the past few decades:

One simply cannot kick Michael Bloomberg enough. On Twitter, Walker Bragman posted video from 2010 where Michael Bloomberg argues, in the most literal possible sense, against democracy and for authoritarian technocracy without checks on the executive.

Michael Bloomberg in 2010 on government: He begins with, "I'm not suggesting we shouldn't have democracy, BUT...," lamenting the lack of qualifications required to seek public office.

Jalopnik reports on Tesla removing software-controlled features -- valued at $8,000 -- from a used car, bought by a dealer at auction from Tesla and then sold to a customer.

1. Tesla must be destroyed. 2. Software for safety-critical systems (including vehicles) should never be updatable over-the-air. 3. The "first sale" doctrine must apply to software and software-controlled products.

February 19th is the anniversary of Executive Order 9066, FDR's order to put Japanese Americans into concentration camps. At this time when anti-immigrant sentiment is rising and we are preparing for the US Census, it is worth pausing to remember how census information was used in this state kidnapping of our fellow Americans, to consider how it could be so used again, and to resolve to answer the census only with a count of people and not with any further information, in accordance with the Constitution's provision for an "enumeration", not an interrogation.