March 29, 2020

Abolish the World Health Organization

fromSpectator: Another pointless organization pandering to the world’s worst actors.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

Coronavirus and autocrats: Never let a pandemic go to waste

fromWallStreetJournal: With much of the world on lockdown, the coronavirus pandemic has chipped away at individual liberties everywhere.
The Government is Not Us

FDA tells at-home diagnostics companies to stop Coronavirus test roll-outs

fromReason: The companies are complying. Customers won't get their results and are being told to destroy their test kits.
Regulation Nation

VIDEO: Ayn Rand - Monopoly and Anti-Trust

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Rand defines what constitutes a monopoly and explains the nature and reality of anti-trust laws.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

Dr. Birx pops media's Coronavirus panic balloon

fromTownhall: Despite clamorous reports about a shortage of medical supplies in New York, Dr. Birx said that ICU beds are still readily available and more than a thousand ventilators remain unused.
Media Bias on Parade

FDIC asks Americans to keep their money in the banks

fromDailyBell: When they say zig, you should zag. Why Americans need cash in their home safe.
The Government is Not Us

Dec 19, 2018

A crisis in the making: Know your rights or you will lose them

fromTheRutherfordInstitute: We are approaching critical mass, the point at which all hell breaks loose. The government is pushing us ever closer to a constitutional crisis.

Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

Why Banks will shut you down for nothing that is actually Illegal

fromArmstongEconomics: The government fines banks if its customers are caught doing wrong incentivizing the process of ditching customers who use cash instead of conveniently trackable credit cards.

Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

73% of top U.S. universities do not guarantee the presumption of innocence in sexual misconduct trials

fromReason: The long-held judicial concept known as the presumption of innocence is now hopelessly out-of-style. At college campuses, it must take a back seat to #MeToo feelgoodism. 

Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery    Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

Report: 9 in 10 colleges restrict free speech

fromWatchDog.Org: Ninety percent of public and private higher education institutions in the U.S. restrict the speech of their faculty and students, according to a new report produced by FIRE.

Indoctrination and Censorship

Democracy Is a threat to individual liberty

from71Republic: Democracy is flawed when it comes to protecting the rights of the individual, but is successful in restricting those rights.

Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

Mueller destroyed messages from Peter Strzok's iPhone; OIG recovers 19,000 new "FBI lovebird" texts

fromZeroHedge: Nothing to see here! After Strzok was kicked off the special counsel investigation, Mueller's Records Officer scrubbed Strzok's iPhone after determining "it contained no substantive text messages." 

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

July 23, 2016

Trump’s tariffs injure another American business

fromReason: Tariffs always divert resources toward government-favored firms and away from everyone else.  
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

Gambling, smoking and drinking give Pennsylvania a lot of money in 'sin taxes'

fromPennLive: How one state profits wildly by exploiting citizens for exercising politically incorrect liberty.  
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

As branches close, some banks are saying they don't want people's money

fromLATimes: Edward Manley, 91, asked his son to deposit $38.50 in coins into his Wells Fargo account. Wells refused to accept them. Manley and his son are now suspected money launderers.  
Regulation Nation

Cop costs taxpayers $60,000 and a drug bust after lying about almost everything related to the traffic stop

fromTechDirt: The only thing in this story that makes it an anomaly is the resignation. Other than that, it's par for the course. Cops lie. And the reason they do it so frequently is that they almost always get away with it.  
Police State America

VIDEO: Tucker Carlson, Rand Paul - Deep State Warriors and Their Security Clearances

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: From Tucker Carlson Tonight, Rand paul joins Tucker to discuss how and why leakers and liars, such as John Brennan and James Clapper, continue to possess national security clearances. 
The Government is Not Us           Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

DOJ demands a sheriff to return the $69,000 in seized drug money he spent buying a Dodge muscle car

fromDailyMail: This is policing for profit, a program that allows police departments to legally steal property if they can conjure probable cause of a crime. No conviction needed.  
Police State America        

Two BIG Reasons NOT To Keep Your Cash In The Bank

by Mark Nestmann.     Don't lose your life savings. It’s bad enough depositing your money into a bank account and earning essentially zero interest on it, or in some countries, having a negative interest rate. It’s even worse knowing that once you deposit your money in a bank, it’s not really yours anymore. You have turned over your property to    ... MORE

VIDEO: Charles Payne - Negative Interest Rates

Robert Gore: How To Defeat Your Government

This outcome does not require a plan.     In a recent article, “How to Defeat Your Enemies,” SLL maintained that governments and their people were natural enemies, and that the most powerful adversarial tactic is “getting one’s enemies to fool themselves.” The article detailed the effective use of this tactic by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. ... MORE

Will Our Freedoms Survive Another Presidential Election?

by John W. Whitehead. Who needs bread and circuses when you have the assortment of clowns and contortionists that are running for the White House? Truly, politics in America has been reduced to a three-ring circus complete with carnival barkers, acrobats, contortionists, jugglers, lion tamers, animal trainers, tight rope walkers, freaks, strong men,  ... MORE

Janet Yellen Fights The Tide Of Falling Interest

by Keith Weiner.     On Wednesday Dec 16, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen announced that the Fed was raising the federal funds rate by 25 basis points. Let’s get one thing out of the way. This is not a move towards free markets. Whether the Fed sets interest lower, or whether it sets interest higher, we still have central planning. We still have price ... MORE

Mike Bird: This Is How A Central Bank Could Kill Off Cash And Bring In Negative Interest Rates On Your Savings

A bank may not be the best place for your money.   Since the financial crisis, the world's understanding of economics has been undergoing a lot of rapid change. Ideas that would have been considered crazy just a decade ago are now seen as much more likely. One of those ideas is that central banks could bring in negative interest rates. ... MORE

Gonzalo Lira: The Coming Middle-Class Anarchy

The reward of playing by the rules.    True story: A retired couple I know, Brian and Ilsa, own a home in the Southwest. It’s a pretty house, right on the manicured golf course of their gated community (they’re crazy about golf). The only problem is, they bought the house near the top of the market in 2005, and now find themselves underwater.    ... MORE

Joseph T. Salerno: Why Government Hates Cash

Overlords favor supervised spending.    In April it was announced that Greece was imposing a surcharge for all cash withdrawals from bank accounts to deter citizens from clearing out their accounts. So now the Greeks will have to pay one euro per 1,000 euros that they withdraw, which is one-tenth of a percent. It doesn’t seem very big, but the ... MORE

VIDEO: The Government's Covert War On Small Business

Learn about Operation Chokepoint.

Peter Schiff: Currencies Depend On Faith, Gold Doesn’t

Considering the intrinsic value of paper.    In his July 17th Blog, Let’s Get Real About Gold, author and Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig likened investor interest in gold with the “Pet Rock” craze of the 1970’s, when consumers became convinced that a rock in a box would provide continuous companionship, elevate their social standing,  ... MORE

How Bitcoin Can Save You During A Financial Crisis

by Robert Taylor.     A little rebellion. What would you do if the US government suddenly announced a bank holiday, limits or bans on ATM withdrawals or other types of cash and capital controls? Or implemented a “bail-in” where part of your bank deposits were used to further pyramid debt and save an oligarchical financial system? Is there any doubt  ... MORE

Keith Weiner: They’re Coming To Take Away Your Cash

Do banks serve you or politicians?   The stories are all over the Internet. Governments are forcing us into a cashless society. Supposedly the pretext is terrorism, and the real reason is to take more control. No doubt more power appeals to politicians, and banning cash seems like the next step after mandatory reporting of cash transactions.        ... MORE

When It’s A Crime To Withdraw Money From Your Bank

by Josh Barro.    Dennis Hastert has not been indicted on a charge of sexual abuse, nor has he been indicted on a charge of paying money he was not legally allowed to pay. The indictment of Mr. Hastert, a former House speaker, released last week, lays out two counts: taking money out of the bank the wrong way, and then lying to the F.B.I. about     ... MORE

The Federal Reserve: Promises vs Track Record

by Thomas Sowell.  Now that the federal government is playing an ever larger role in the economy, a look at Washington’s track record seems to be long overdue. The release of the Federal Reserve Board’s transcripts of its deliberations back in 2007 shows that their economic prophecies were way off. How much faith should we put in their prophecies   ... MORE

VIDEO: Freakonomics Looks At When To Rob A Bank

John Stossel: The Next Bubble

They're doing it again!      When the last housing bubble burst, politicians blamed "greedy banks." They said mortgage companies lent money recklessly, making loans to people with dubious credit, for down payments as low as 3 percent. "It will work out," said the optimistic bankers. Regulators didn't disagree. Everyone said, "Home prices  ... MORE

VIDEO: Kennedy - Operation Choke Point