March 18, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: The legends of our fall

fromAmericanGreatness:  The left-wing postmodern idea of “truth” as a mere pick-and-choose official narrative is now normal.  

Indoctrination and Censorship                     The Government is Not Us

How do big media outlets so often "independently confirm" each other's falsehoods?

fromTownhall:  Glenn Greenwald explains how the Washington Post's media-spread error about Trump's Georgia call shows the deceitful playbook first invented to undermine Trump and promote Russiagate.  

Media Bias on Parade

The war on free speech is about to get a lot uglier

fromReason:  The road to speech restrictionism is paved with political rhetoric about protecting the proletariat from falsehoods.  

Indoctrination and Censorship         Individual Liberty: America's First Principle           The Government is Not Us

6 questions officials still haven’t answered after weeks of hearings on the Capitol attack

fromProPublica:  More than 15 hours of testimony failed to answer fundamental questions about the Capitol attack. Among them: Why national security officials responded differently to BLM protesters than to Trump supporters.  

Indoctrination and Censorship        The Government is Not Us          Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - The Vision of the Anointed

fromLibertyPen/YouTube:  From a 1995 interview with Ben Wattenburg, Thomas Sowell provides insight as to how ruling class elites use the perception of crisis to increase their powers and promote their self-interests.  

The Government is Not Us

The problem with climate models

fromWattsUpWithThat:  “We know there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know”  — Donald Rumsfeld.  

Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery