August 17, 2018

VIDEO: 21st Century Fascists - Trained to Hate

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: The new face of violent intolerant fascism is not coming from ISIS, it is coming from the Left. Laura Ingram, Tucker Carlson, Tammy Bruce, Mark Steyn, Heather MacDonald.
Indoctrination and Censorship     Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

VIDEO: Google, Twitter and Facebook - Platforms or Publishers?

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Social media companies receive special government protection from lawsuits because they are merely platforms, presenting an opportunity for free speech. But what if they are not?
Media Bias on Parade     Indoctrination and Censorship

The YouTube censoring of Stefan Molyneux

fromLibertarianNews: First, they came for Alex Jones ...
Indoctrination and Censorship     Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

San Francisco is spending $750,000 on a ‘poop patrol’

fromReason: Leftwing politics have made San Francisco into a shitty city. Literally. The city’s gotten more than 14,500 crap complaints since the start of the year.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery 

Omarosa ‘source’: There is NO Trump ‘N-word’ tape — period.

fromTheAmericanMirror: The media's newest anti-Trump hero has nothing but a bad attitude to attack the president. More hysterical nothing from the fake news gang.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Why the pledge of allegiance Is un-American

fromFEE: It is NOT "under God" that is the problem, it is "indivisible".
The Government is Not Us

March 23, 2016

Tolerance cuts both ways: freedom for the speech we hate

fromTheRutherfordInstitute: Reminder: The First Amendment affirms the right of the people to speak freely, worship freely, peaceably assemble, petition the government for a redress of grievances, and have a free press. 
Indoctrination and Censorship      Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner promised a criminal justice revolution. He’s exceeding expectations.

fromTheIntercept: What a justice warrior looks like. In his first week on the job, he fired 31 prosecutors from the DA’s office because they weren’t committed to the changes he intended to make. 
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

House passes bill that would give patients access to experimental drugs

fromNYTimes: It's your life, isn't it? About time government stops trying to impede your survival.
Regulation Nation     The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

Vivaldi browser taps privacy-first DuckDuckGo search

fromCNet: Block out government peeping toms. As your personal information leaks out through Facebook, one web browser offers a new option to keep a lid on it -- for private browsing tabs, at least. 
Government is Watching Every Move You Make

Barry Farber: We can't go on like this

fromWND: Too many Americans hate President Donald Trump more than they love Americans. 
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

It didn’t take long for the U.S. to rack up another trillion dollars of debt

fromMarketWatch: Looking ahead, analysts see the nation much deeper in debt. The Committee for a Responsible Budget projects debt exceeding the size of the economy within a decade.  
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

November 30, 2017

On patriotic correctness

from TheLibertarianInstitute: Our society is one of the most prosperous and freest that has ever existed. But society and government are not the same, and we would do well to remember that.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

NY Times ‘Angry Hannity’ photo select confirms host’s belief of ‘liberal bias’

from Mediaite: And the NY Times has something of a predictable pattern of portraying progressive icons in a most flattering light. (see CNN’s Jeff Zucker, indie filmmaker Spike Lee and original Wikileaks discloser Chelsea Manning for example)
Media Bias on Parade

Why Net Neutrality was mistaken from the beginning (AOL edition)

from Reason: It turns out that Tom Wheeler, the FCC head who imposed the rules, doesn't know what he's talking about.
Regulation Nation

VIDEO: Carl Sagan - Science and Skepticism

from LibertyPen/YouTube: Scientist Carl Sagan is concerned about America’s future when citizens lack the scientific and technological understanding to make informed decisions.
Indoctrination and Censorship

FLASHBACK: Hypocrite Matt Lauer grilled Bill O’Reilly over sexual harassment

from NewsBusters: The time has come for Matt Lauer to answer the same questions he poised to Bill O'Reilly!
Media Bias on Parade

Cop tries to taser man for refusing to give ID, tasers fellow cop instead

from TheFreeThoughtProject: A man trying to assert his right not to give police his identification was arrested, but not before a cop tasered his own partner in the process.
Police State America   The Government is Not Us

Jayme Metzgar: Real American Heroes - 5 Notable Americans Who Fought For Their Opponents’ Rights

The difference between disagreement and force.    I live within earshot of a Civil War battlefield, where volunteers give frequent artillery demonstrations during tourist season. Throughout this past summer, the familiar blasts rattling the kitchen windows became an odd source of comfort. “I suppose we could be more divided than we are    ... MORE

VIDEO: Glenn Greenwald - Patriotism

Peter Schiff: The Death Of A Patriot

Crushed for what he believed in.    My father Irwin A. Schiff was born Feb. 23rd 1928, the 8th child and only son of Jewish immigrants, who had crossed the Atlantic twenty years earlier in search of freedom. As a result of their hope and courage my father was fortunate to have been born into the freest nation in the history of the world.  But when ... MORE

American Hero Arrested For Disabling Red Light Cameras

by Sean Davis.    Who is the REAL public servant here? The arrest of a New York man for disabling red light cameras poses a vital question that all Americans must answer: is this Son of Liberty a great hero, or the greatest hero? Stephen Ruth, a 42-year-old New Yorker, was arrested earlier this week for neutering red camera lights, which act as automated ... MORE

VIDEO: Not The Confederate Flag

Doug Newman: They Thought They Were Fighting For Freedom But Are Now Abused By America's Police State

Veterans abused by government.    It is easy to stand up and cheer for your favorite government activity. It is quite another to acknowledge what it means in the real world. I almost never try to speak for other people. However, I think it is fairly safe to say that the average military recruit firmly believes that he joins the military so that you and   ... MORE

VA Blocks Injured Vets From Access To Medical Weed

by Lori Denman-Underhill.      War veterans of Los Angeles wait patiently to be given the freedom to toke up. A VA policy known as VISN-22 was modernized to let veterans use medical marijuana as well as opioids while getting care, a blessing to vets who suffer pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, anger issues and suicidal tendencies. The policy change  ... MORE

United States Supreme Court Refuses To Protect The Right Of Students To Wear American Flag T-Shirts To School

High Court rules against right of free expression.     The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a case in which California public school students were prohibited from wearing American flag t-shirts to school, allegedly out of a fear that it might be disruptive. In refusing to hear the appeal without giving any reason for the decision, the Supreme    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Giuliani Versus Obama

We all attempt to transform that which we love, right?   The firestorm of denunciation of former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, for having said that he did not think Barack Obama loved America, is in one sense out of all proportion to that remark — especially at a time when there are much bigger issues, including wars raging, terrorist   ... MORE

VIDEO: Andrew Napolitano - The First Jury Nullification

VIDEO: The Award For Best Iraq Bombing Goes To ...

The Guardian: Citizenfour Documentary Utterly Engrossing

Edward Snowden and patriotism in the 21st century.   Last year, UK cinemagoers were treated to two competing accounts of the story of Julian Assange: Bill Condon’s oddly inert drama The Fifth Estate, and Alex Gibney’s more pointedly dramatic documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks. Although very different in form,  ... MORE

Katrina Vander Heuvel: Justice For Edward Snowden

What if truth mattered to Obama?       It is time for President Obama to offer clemency to Edward Snowden, the courageous U.S. citizen who revealed the Orwellian reach of the National Security Agency’s sweeping surveillance of Americans. His actions may have broken the law, but his act, as the New York Times editorialized, did the nation   ... MORE

Barry Farber: When Strong Words Came With Strong Deeds

"Don't break your toothpick."     Water power gets all the credit, but word power does the same kind of job. Water can unleash the forces of nature. Words can unleash the forces of human nature. Freedom-lovers from Minneapolis to Manila found energy and a stiffer backbone when, after the Japanese conquered the Philippine Islands, Gen.   ... MORE

VICE NEWS: Study Says That Citizens Opposed To Growth Of Government Are A Greater Threat Than Al-Qaeda

by Maxwell Barna.   Politicians see the people as their prime enemy. An al Qaeda splinter group has declared an Islamic State in portions of Iraq and Syria and threatened to "raise the flag of Allah in the White House." US intelligence agencies suspect that the Islamic State is determined to launch a major attack against Western targets, and South     ... MORE

Katie Brace: Endangered Bird Nixes 4th Of July Celebration

Another sign the country is going to the birds.     The town of Duxbury has cancelled what was an annual 4th of July beach bonfire celebration. The endangered piping plover bird has moved-in and there are at least 24 nests on Duxbury Beach. There are large areas of the beach that are restricted. The town’s July 4th committee said        ... MORE

John W. Whitehead: A War on America’s Military Veterans

Waged with SWAT teams, surveillance and neglect.       Just in time for Memorial Day, we’re once again being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by politicians and corporations eager to go on record as being supportive of our veterans. Patriotic platitudes aside, however, America has done a deplorable job of caring      ... MORE