A question every liberty lover should store away in the back of their brains when considering policy is this: Would I be okay with this policy if people who despise me were in charge? As a rule of thumb, if the answer to this question is “no” then you should run for the hills and never consider it again. Sadly, there are folks in the conservative movement who have not heeded this sage advice.

Liberty Kitty has learned the hard way that overcriminalization and excessive regulation ruins lives and hurts the economy. She was prevented from grooming neighborhood kittens because she did not have the time or money it would take to become licensed, and she was incarcerated for 7 cat years under a mandatory minimum sentencing law for a non-violent crime.

The Hills Are Alive ...The Twitterverse was alive on Sunday night with the reverberations from the news that the loathsome Piers Morgan will be taking his anti-freedom talents back to England. Morgan was famous for two things: railing against the American concept of constitutional liberty, and tanking ratings. The wonder is not that his show is being canceled, nor that his ratings cratered. The only wonder is that it took so long for this decision to be made.

Whenever a big event happens I like to park myself on Twitter and read the live commentary. Imagine an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, with dozens of smart, funny riffers who serve up a LOL-funny line every minute and you've a good idea of what my Twitter feed is like during the State of the Union address or the premiere of Sharknado. The companies and organizations who have a presence on Twitter don't disappoint either. Some of them, most of them, do badly, but a few really shine on big Twitter nights. 

If you've spent any time at all working in social media, you've heard the aphorism "Content is King".

We all develop bad habits, especially on our social media platforms where we are largely self-taught. Often, we don’t even know we’ve made a mistake until we see the results — reduced traffic to our site, the mentions column of our Twitter feed blown up like Michael Corleone’s car, an angry Facebook mob storming the comments.