September 10, 2021
fromVictoryGirls: Monday, the State Department was caught lying after claiming credit for rescuing a pregnant American woman and her children from Afghanistan.
fromCalculatedRisk: The headline unemployment rate of 5.2% significantly understates the current situation.
fromLifesiteNews: Twenty states this week filed a lawsuit to block radical transgender policies by the Biden administration that seek to redefine federal sex discrimination protections to mandate transgender pronoun use and allow biological males to compete on girls’ sports teams, among other things.
fromReason: Imagine living in a world where every one of your noncash financial transactions—a restaurant meal, a Venmo transfer to a friend, maybe some bitcoin bought on the dips—was automatically reported to a beefed-up, audit-hungry IRS. That dystopia will become a reality if President Joe Biden gets his way.
fromNakedCapitalism: Getting on a plane was no different from getting on a bus. It’s been jarring to watch how abruptly the sprawling Transportation Security Agency system was created – and how quickly American air travelers came to accept those security measures as normal features of all U.S. airports.
fromCaitlinJohnstone: Tyranny runs rampant when there is no protection for individual rights.