Elijah J. Henry

In this personal account, I share my observations of several negligent discharges of firearms on the part of firearms users from housewives to Special Operations professionals, including myself. I discuss the risk factors that contribute to these potentially deadly incidents, and how to mitigate those risks.

In this personal account, I detail how my landlord and roommate invaded the private space I shared with my son, how that suddenly escalated into threats of violence that would have turned deadly, and what happened next.

The ‘Shark Tank’ star’s anti-pharmacy benefit manager rhetoric echoes Big Pharma’s talking points, shifting blame from drugmakers while positioning his company to gain a competitive edge.
Promptly after President Trump’s November 5 victory, business mogul Mark Cuban deleted all his pro-Kamala Harris posts on X (formerly Twitter) — an odd move for a former top campaign surrogate to make. What he cannot delete, however, is his track record of trying to use Harris to regulate his company’s compe...

February 21st, 2022 — three days before the Russian invasion — I shared with a men’s group a military.com article about American Veterans training Ukrainian troops. I said I very much wanted to do something like what these Veterans were doing, and I thought maybe there would never be a better time. I had had extensive training in the Army, but I'd never gone somewhere dangerous to do something good with the skills I'd learned; Soldiers will understand that drive. A Ukrainian gentleman in t...

The Foundation for Government Accountability is right: Democracy dies in a cubicle. Why, then, is Joe Biden’s Office of Personnel Management attempting to build a record number of federal offices in real time?
The OPM is the epicenter of the federal bureaucracy. It manages and oversees the more than 2 million workers in the U.S. government. Regrettably, the Biden administration wants it to grow even larger.
At a recent technology “power breakfast,” John Gill, the OPM’s executive director of “...

Ever since Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $44 billion, a debate about free speech and social media has been roiling the internet. The Right sees in Musk a savior from Twitter's liberal bias, while the Left sees in Musk someone who would eliminate content moderation, allowing all manner of views and speech on the social media platform.
Both sides are missing an equally important other side to Musk's potential acquisition, namely, that this deal may help Communist China.
The issue was rai...

In February, Joe Biden’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) sought to implement a new policy that would have essentially required every proposed natural gas pipeline in the country account for all greenhouse gas emissions in order to obtain a permit. Such a rule would have effectively banned new pipelines, as the requirement would be nearly impossible to comply with. FERC recently suspended that policy action, but it could always be renewed.
It would seem Biden and his appointees are...

The internet is abuzz with chatter and questions about cryptocurrency—yes, again—after Bitcoin’s price recently broke $60,000 a coin. A serious question on many lips and screens is whether the federal government will allow this rival to the U.S. dollar to continue operating, or if it will regulate it more strictly — or even ban it.
Opinions on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, in general, vary widely. Elon Musk—the world’s richest man—is cautiously optimistic. At a recent Code Conference, he decl...

Give yourselves a round of applause, taxpayers.
For the first time since 2017, there is a new “richest man in the world,” and you played a significant role in helping him get there. The guy he passed? You played a significant role in his success as well.
Elon Musk became the world’s richest person weeks ago when his car company Tesla achieved a $700 billion market value — more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, GM, and Ford combined.
Tesla’s stock price rose as investors moved to seemingly tak...

Biased polls and wishful thinking pervade the media consumption of many of us. There is a better way, however.
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Where do you get your news? How often do they tell you what will happen? How often do they get it right?
For decades, mainstream media have dominated many people’s news consumption. These days, a lot of people get their news from soc...

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Where do you get your news? How often do they tell you what will happen? How often do they get it right?
For decades, mainstream media have dominated many people’s news consumption. These days, a lot of people get their news from social media.
In both MSM and social media, analysis and predictions are tainted by preferences and hopes. Pundits, influencers, and most of your friends on Facebook tend to promote expectations that match what ...

Three days before Barack Obama left office, his Department of Labor served a complaint against Oracle America, Inc., alleging gross systemic discrimination in both its hiring and pay practices.
Specifically, it claims that Oracle discriminates against non-Asians in hiring for sixty-nine job titles and discriminates against women, Asians, and African Americans in pay for eighty job titles.
Did Oracle Discriminate?
Is it strange that Oracle allegedly discriminates both in favor of and against A...

Liberland Constitution: §IX.5. No law shall abridge the right to issue and/or use any commodity or item as currency or provide any incentive in that respect unless any party to the transaction is legally prohibited from possessing such commodity or item; nothing in this provision shall prevent the Public Administration from issuing its own currency so long as all financial liabilities vis-a-vis the Public Administration may be satisfied in selected other currencies.
Money provides such an adv...

The US government is infamously in debt. Since about 2012, the official national debt has equaled or exceeded the GDP. Shockingly, the real fiscal gap is much higher: With our $21.5 trillion GDP and $22.5 trillion official debt, we also have about $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities over the next few decades. Most of that last number is due to programs such as Medicare and Social Security, but our regular debt comes from accumulated deficits: the US government spends more each year than it ...

The U.S. government is infamously in debt. Since about 2012, the official national debt has equaled or exceeded the GDP. Shockingly, the real fiscal gap is much higher: with our $21.5T GDP and $22.5T official debt, we also have about $200T in unfunded liabilities over the next few decades. Most of that last number is due to programs such as Medicare and Social Security, but our regular debt comes from accumulated deficits: the U.S. government spends more each year than it steals in taxes. Sin...