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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: When the State Stays Silent, It’s Easy to Assume the Worst
Description: Full-text: What do spy balloons, a state liquor scandal, and Oregon road tolling have in common?
The short answer is “not much”…except they are all examples of our government hiding stuff from us. And, when the government doesn’t want you to know what’s going on, it’s easy to assume the worst.
Those balloons are definitely not space aliens. We need to face the fact that we’ve been spied on for years. We’re only catching them now because we just started looking for them.
On the OLCC liquor scandal, the big...