July 4, 2020
The rise and fall of American freedom.
Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
February 25, 2020
No backdoor on human rights: why encryption cannot be compromised
fromBitcoin.com: In 2015, the UN issued a report on encryption and anonymity in the context of human rights. The report found encryption to be key to the right of privacy.
fromBitcoin.com: In 2015, the UN issued a report on encryption and anonymity in the context of human rights. The report found encryption to be key to the right of privacy.
VIDEO: Tucker Carlson - A Law Rewarding Criminal Illegal Aliens
fromDailyMail: Among the stakes of the 2020 election is the New Way Forward Act, a bill supported by scores of Democrats that would open U.S. borders to criminal predators.
fromDailyMail: Among the stakes of the 2020 election is the New Way Forward Act, a bill supported by scores of Democrats that would open U.S. borders to criminal predators.
Trump has flipped the 9th Circuit
fromLATimes: A return to sanity could be in store for the Golden State.
fromLATimes: A return to sanity could be in store for the Golden State.
Mainstream media fails to report on Omar’s alleged marriage to her brother
fromAIM: This week, an alleged associate of Omar’s told the Daily Mail that he knew that the congresswoman married her brother for immigration reasons.
fromAIM: This week, an alleged associate of Omar’s told the Daily Mail that he knew that the congresswoman married her brother for immigration reasons.
Feds still persecuting hemp growers with new THC testing standards
fromPersonalLiberty: New federal regs would make it harder for hemp growers to prove their plants are not marijuana, in a major setback to a promising industry legalized just two years ago.
fromPersonalLiberty: New federal regs would make it harder for hemp growers to prove their plants are not marijuana, in a major setback to a promising industry legalized just two years ago.
We’re all in this together: a case for not giving up on the American dream
fromRutherfordInstitute: "We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." -- Benjamin Franklin
fromRutherfordInstitute: "We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." -- Benjamin Franklin
July 3, 2019
Hong Kong protests show dangers of a cashless society
fromReason: Many digital payments can be tracked, potentially assisting an authoritarian crackdown.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
VIDEO: Tech Tyranny - Censoring the Town Square
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Record-low American patriotism is the latest casualty of the sharply polarized political climate in the U.S. today. Fewer than half of U.S. adults say they are extremely proud to be Americans.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption The Government is Not Us
How Amazon and the cops set up an elaborate sting operation that accomplished nothing
fromVice: It was a scare marketing scheme by Amazon that failed when cops were unable to make any arrests.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
The sinister, unconstitutional effort to ban secure encryption is back
fromReason: Government is demanding everyone be more vulnerable to hackers to protect their snooping.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make The Government is Not Us
U.S. Supreme Court rules police can forcibly carry out blood draws on unconscious drivers
fromRutherfordInstitute: Screw the Fourth Amendment.
Police State America
American pride hits new low; few proud of political system
fromGallup: Record-low American patriotism is the latest casualty of the sharply polarized political climate in the U.S. today. Fewer than half of U.S. adults say they are extremely proud to be Americans.Feb 19, 2019
How 1984 turned into an instruction manual
fromTheDailyBell: One of the key themes from George Orwell’s dystopic novel 1984 is that the Party can do and say whatever it wants. And more importantly, you must believe it, with all your heart. No matter how absurd.
The Government is Not Us
Wayne Allyn Root: Democrats can't hide crazy
fromCreators: Why is Donald Trump's approval rating surging? Look at what he is compared to.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
Walter E Williams: Plunder - An American way of life
fromCreators: "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
Beyond guilt or innocence, should jurors weigh if law is worth enforcing?
fromChristianScienceMonitor: Because juror deliberations are private, and rarely discussed afterward, it’s unclear how much nullification may be happening even without juries being instructed.
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process
VIDEO: Cops smell weed on 16yo boy, so they beat the hell out of him
fromChristianScienceMonitor: The primary danger of smoking pot comes from police.
Police State America The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
Motive revealed In Smollett case: Actor concocted hate crime after racist letter failed to impress
fromZeroHedge: Pimping the "Trump and his supporters are racists" narrative at all costs.October 13, 2018
Cops charged with home invasion because a man asked for a warrant and they broke In without one
fromTheFreeThoughtProject: The fourth amendment violations of two Detroit cops were so egregious that they were actually arrested and charged with home invasion.Police State America
VIDEO: Victor Davis Hanson - WTF happened in California
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Professor Victor Davis Hanson offers explanation as to why the once great state of California now dominates the nation in poverty, high taxes, poor education, and low performance.Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
Government police fail to make arrests In nearly half of murder cases
fromMises: Many urban police departments fail to make arrests in even half of the murder cases in their jurisdictions. Imagine if a private sector policing firm had a similar rate of failure.Police State America The Government is Not Us
VIDEO: Ronald Reagan's Vision for America
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: From “A Time for Choosing”, excerpts of Ronald Reagan on government spending, a balanced budget, property rights, regulation, Social Security, socialism and the future of America.Individual Liberty: America's First Principle Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
John Stossel: socialism destroys
fromCreators: Famous actors recently made a commercial proclaiming that "democratic socialism" creates some of the best parts of America.Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
Amazon patents Alexa tech to tell if you’re sick, depressed and sell you meds
fromMises: Creepy Amazon app monitors your mood to know if you are getting sick so it can sell you medicine.Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Walter E Williams: Attacking Our Nation's Founders
Undermining the Constitution to gain greater control. During Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign visit to Liberty University, he told the students that our nation was created on racist principles. Students at a Christian-based university, such as Liberty, do not often hear the founders-as-racists argument. But it is featured at many other universities, ... MOREJohn Stossel: The Art Of Trump
Hooray for Donald Trump! I can ice skate in Central Park because Trump got the skating rink fixed after New York City couldn't. Couldn't, you ask? Really? How is that possible? New York City government couldn't fix an ice rink? Sad, but true. Despite six years of effort and fiddling with 13 million taxpayer dollars, government's bureaucracy was unable ... MOREThomas Sowell: Desperate Tactics
The panic over Trump. It is desperation time for the Republican party establishment. Its extremely well financed favorite — Jeb Bush — never got anywhere with the voters in the primaries, and has already been forced out of the contest. This should at least cause some second thoughts — or perhaps first thoughts — by people who keep repeating that ... MOREBarry Farber: CNN's Latest Defamation Of America
Following an anti-American template. “A typical day in America” was the way the BBC announced the massacre in San Bernardino. When CNN let us in on that, Wolf Blitzer asked Fareed Zakaria how the rest of the world looked upon America. “You’re a world traveler, Fareed,” said Wolf. “What are they saying about us?” Before Fareed said a ... MOREWhich Of The 11 American Nations Do You Live In?
by Reid Wilson. Red states and blue states? Flyover country and the coasts? How simplistic. Colin Woodard, a reporter at the Portland Press Herald and author of several books, says North America can be broken neatly into 11 separate nation-states, where dominant cultures explain our voting behaviors and attitudes toward everything from social ... MOREWhen American Exceptionalism Was Self-Evident
by Barry Farber. A journalism professor once insisted that if the headline were good enough you wouldn’t have to write the rest of the story. Shall we try it? Here goes! “The World Has Lost America as a Champion of Freedom.” Our teachers never tried to sell us on American exceptionalism. It wasn’t necessary. It automatically became ... MOREFrank Newport: Gallup Poll Reveals That 51% Of Country Still Fail To See Government As An Immediate Threat
Half the country is oblivious to lost liberty. Almost half of Americans, 49%, say the federal government poses "an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens," similar to what was found in previous surveys conducted over the last five years. When this question was first asked in 2003, less than a third of Americans held ... MORELawrence J. McQuillan: The United States Of America Now Has Less Economic Freedom Than Chile, Jordan, Or Taiwan
The verdict on hope and change is in. Today the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, Canada, released the 2015 Economic Freedom of the World Report (pdf) and it’s bad news for the United States, where economic freedom is falling. The U.S. ranks only 16th in economic freedom trailing Chile, Jordan, and Taiwan. The EFW Report measures the level ... MOREThomas Sowell: Looking Back
Discovering what is important. After my 85th birthday last week, I looked back over my life and was surprised to discover in how many different ways I had been lucky, in addition to some other ways in which I was unlucky. Among the things I did not know at the time was that I was adopted as an infant into a family with four adults, in which I was ... MOREEd Feulner: 'We The People'
Are we up to the challenge of self-government? “We the People.” We’ve heard that phrase so often it’s easy to overlook its significance. But as we mark our nation’s birthday, we should take a moment to ask ourselves: What is the role of the people? Our nation is unique because of its universal founding principles. At the heart ... MORE
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