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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/parental_rights_at_risk_from_tyrannical_state_overreach.html

Last month, one-month-old Roxana was wrested at gunpoint from her mother Emily Yazdani’s breast by police and Child Protective Services (CPS) of Loudon County, Virginia. CPS placed the infant in a “foster to adopt” program before being returned to her parents after eight days. A few vigilant websites reported it, but mainstream media ignored this heartless snatching.

What did her parents do to warrant such an intervention? Nothing, says Roxana’s father Farzin Yazdani, an engineer and Navy veteran. CPS was acting on a false allegation of abuse filed by his ex-wife, with whom he is involved in a custody dispute over their five-year-old son. Her previous allegations that Yazdani was abusing their son had also resulted in separations that were later overturned.

While taking Roxana away, armed deputies said they were there “only to enforce.” But there was no warrant nor any specific charges—only CPS and police violating parental rights and riding roughshod over constitution-guaranteed due process. In actions faced by the Yazdanis, police withheld bodycam footage, and CPS rejected FOIA requests for its records.

Eventually, the abuse charges against Yazdani were dismissed. But despite no criminal record, he was handcuffed on one occasion, and, on another, watched helplessly as Roxana was torn from his wife. In a heartrending April 5 post on X, Yazdani called these actions “terror,” “psychological warfare,” and “government-sponsored child abuse.”

https://www.frontpagemag.com/liberal-hypocrites/

A handful of years after they cheered a president flanked by armed soldiers declaring half the countries to be enemies of the state, liberals are denouncing President Trump as a dangerous authoritarian. The misinformation censors of yesteryear have suddenly discovered that they love free speech and the men who filled D.C. with federal troops worry about the right to protest.

This born-again liberalism fools absolutely no one except the fools virtue signaling it.

The majority of liberals cast aside liberal values, they learned to deplore meritocracy, fair play, freedom of speech and all differences of opinion that did not serve their radical cause. They became leftists who play the cynical game of viewing dissent as either a ‘threat to democracy’ or the ‘highest form of patriotism’ depending on whether they’re the ones in power or dissenting.

That’s not liberalism. It’s a leftist wolf who puts on sheep’s clothing when he’s being hunted.

Liberalism means fundamentally distinguishing between speech and violence. It does not mean, as leftists have come to do, declaring that their violence is speech and that everyone else’s speech is violence. Branding the BLM race riots as the “speech of the unheard”, while also arguing as the New York Times did that, “Free Speech Is Killing Us”, is illiberal totalitarianism.

Free speech isn’t defending the speech you agree with, but the speech you disagree with, and the last time the born-again liberal hypocrites did that was at least a generation ago. The same people who told us that cancel culture was really ‘consequence culture’ are outraged when consequences come for their activists after they spent over a year calling for Death to America.

The cries about the sanctity of academic freedom ring hollow from the establishment that watched conservatives and then even actual liberals and non-conforming leftists being purged from academia until it became a political monoculture. The same liberals now defending campus Hamas riots were fine with campus bans on everything from sombreros to copies of the Constitution. Scrawl a Hamas red triangle and the civil libertarians will jump to your defense who ignored when a campus chalk message in support of Trump was treated like a hate crime.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21570/nuclear-fusion-energy-race

A visionary, an entrepreneur, a futurist, and perhaps one of the most creative of his generation, one still needs to spend considerable time in reading the comments of Elon Musk to determine his current opinion regarding fusion energy.

Prior published interviews suggest he has been a very strong proponent of solar and wind power, energy sources that have brought Europe to its knees economically and that, understandably, are not currently in favor at the White House.

In 2023, Musk told Joe Rogan during a podcast that “You could actually power the entire United States with 100 miles of 100 miles of solar.”

Musk did in fact recognize the power of fusion energy but, in this context, he meant the sun generating electricity through solar panels:

“We have a giant fusion reactor in the sky…. the sun is converting more than four million tons of mass to energy every second and requires no maintenance….If you can generate energy from solar panels and store it with batteries, you can have energy 24 hours a day.”

Yet Musk tacitly recognizes a growing strategic fact. The nation that owns the stunning advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) may well hold the technology that dictates who will dominate the rest of the 21st Century. AI consumes an enormous amount of power, so much so that Microsoft is investing in bringing back online the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant to ensure uninterrupted electricity to power its AI data centers.

No matter the size of their “farms,” solar panels and wind turbines simply cannot produce enough uninterrupted electricity to protect America’s AI leadership. Consider this quote from a report issued by the International Energy Association:

“In the United States, power consumption by data centres is on course to account for almost half of the growth in electricity demand between now and 2030. Driven by AI use, the US economy is set to consume more electricity in 2030 for processing data than for manufacturing all energy-intensive goods combined, including aluminium, steel, cement and chemicals.”