July 3, 2020
fromWashingtonTimes: What once was a government that needed the consent of the governed not only to exist but also to do anything is now one that requires of us its permission to do nearly everything.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle The Government is Not Us
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Tucker Carlson explains how the concept of equal rights under the law is now openly and blatantly under assault by the left. Discrimination and racial division is now the demand of the mob.
Indoctrination and Censorship
fromReason: Do you appreciate the incompetence, in-fighting, obstructionism, authoritarianism, and waste that you pay for?
The Government is Not Us Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Thoughtful black commentators look at the state of racism in today's America. Thomas Sowell, Walter E Williams, Jason Riley, Shelby Steele, Larry Elder, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Lil Wayne.
Indoctrination and Censorship
fromMises: After a period of only one month of "reopening," governments are already enacting new business shutdowns and claiming the authority to engage in these shutdowns indefinitely.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromCreators: Thomas Sowell may be underappreciated by the masses, but LibertyPen considers him among the greatest scholars and thinkers of all time.
The Pursuit of Happiness
May 9, 2020
fromDailyBell: Congress is now considering the Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act which would cancel all rent and mortgage payments for the duration of the pandemic, and possibly beyond for up to a year.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromLibertyNation: Scott D. Cosenza and Mark Angelides question how the world’s governments are handling the roll out of contact tracing?
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
fromWTSP: Anyone from outside of New York who stayed to help fight the coronavirus pandemic for more than 14 days will be subject to pay.
The Government is Not Us
fromLiveMint: Concepts like ‘the greater good’ could be used to justify clamps on freedom in a post-covid world.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
fromFoxNews: That authorities are only taking this case to a grand jury is evidence of the disgraceful degree of racism allowed to persist in Georgia. Authorities prepping to sweep this under the rug should be fired and charged.
Police State America
fromReason: In a nation of edicts, we serve at the pleasure of the king.
Regulation Nation The Government is Not Us
March 9, 2020
fromTheDailyBell: Nearly three quarters (73 per cent) added that they were worried about the state of the planet right now, including 22 per cent who say they were “very worried”.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromTheHill: Based on the 2019 estimates it is likely that California will actually lose its first congressional seat since 1850 due to residents leaving the state.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromFreeThoughtProject: The state removed a child from a home with loving parents over marijuana and put her in a home with an abusive woman and her crack addict husband who ran a racket keeping foster children.
The Government is Not Us
fromReason: "Red flag" laws leave gun owners defenseless.
2nd Amendment Assaults
fromReason: The new money will be consumed in a bureaucratic hiring frenzy, used to pay state-level salaries and pensions, and build a bigger "homeless industrial complex."
The Government is Not Us
fromIndependent: Nearly three quarters (73 per cent) added that they were worried about the state of the planet right now, including 22 per cent who say they were “very worried”.
November 13, 2019
fromAIER: The Real ID also represents the “last mile” in the ability of the state to track individuals in real time.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
fromStrategicCulture: "...the Deep State, in America, are not perpetrators of corrupt government, but, as The NYTimes explains, are instead courageous enemies of corrupt government..."
The Government is Not Us
fromWND: Politicians see no need to shroud corruption anymore. To hell with citizens that don't want to sponsor viewpoints they oppose.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
fromRutherfordInstitute: Police defend use of taser, chokehold & excessive force against man who complied during arrest. Any aggression toward citizens can be rationalized by the state.
Police State America
fromAIER: Where socialism is more rampant than even California.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromAIER: Corrupt governments everywhere want him dead. Make no mistake, Assange is a hero to mankind. Support for the imprisonment of Assange is an American disgrace. America is not an icon of liberty anymore.
October 31, 2019
fromFFF: When someone brings into existence or supports a government program that produces drug cartels that kill people, he is morally responsible for the natural and predictable consequences of that program.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
fromStrategicCulture: A major setback for champions of gender dysphoria who demand that males who identify as women can force beauticians to give them a bikini wax.
April 22, 2019
fromRutherfordInstitute: We get taxed on how much we earn, taxed on what we eat, taxed on what we buy, taxed on where we go, taxed on what we drive, and taxed on how much is left of our assets when we die, and yet we have no real say in how the government runs, or how our taxpayer funds are used.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromFEE: How high does the death toll need to get before people realize that communism, like its sister ideology of Nazism, is despicably evil?
fromActivistPost: FamilyTreeDNA is the first company known to be cooperating directly with the FBI to give its agents access to its genealogy database, according to a BuzzFeed report.
Police State America Government is Watching Every Move You Make
fromFoxNews: He only told the truth and used her own words. Unforgivable.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
fromCharlesHughSmith: There is really only one unforgivable sin in the political realm, and that's destroying the official narrative by revealing the facts of the matter. This is why whistleblowers who make public the secret machinery of the elaborately artful lies underpinning all official narratives are hounded to the ends of the Earth.
April 19, 2019
fromDailyBell: And that doesn't calculate the negative value of tyranny.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromDailyBell: 1. Ignore the problem, 2. raise taxes, 3. default, 4. continue creating inflation.
fromAlt-Market: Whenever disaster strikes economically, free markets are blamed. Whenever something is fixed, even if that fix is a band-aid on a sucking chest wound, government involvement and socialism are applauded.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromAmericanConservative: She's still spinning Russiagate conspiracy tales, even as her ratings crash down.
Media Bias on Parade
fromForbes: On December 31st, NYC raised the minimum wage to $15, a 15% increase from the 2018 level, and a 34% hike from 2017. The result? Close to three-quarters of restaurants in New York City have cut labor input.
April 12, 2019
fromBloomberg: Tens of millions of very foolish people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
fromEricPetersAuto: Free health care, free college tuition, free child care are the beacons for the liberal Left. Everything but the freedom to think for yourself.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromTheSpectator: The Fox News host’s only real crime is daring to be provocative in a dull media world.
Media Bias on Parade
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: A look at the apologetic whining from Democratic presidential candidates for having been born white, advocating borders, failing to champion reparations to blacks and other high PC crimes.
Jan 29, 2019
fromAmericanThinker: How is it that the same generation that has benefited more from capitalism than any other in human history is also the generation most willing to destroy it?
fromReason: What's actually demeaning is thinking you know what's best for an entire group of people.
Regulation Nation
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: The Mueller investigation doggedly persecutes Trump associates over crimes not associated with Russian collusion but rather stimulated by his own inquisition.
Jan 19, 2019
fromForbes: Under federal law, property owners facing civil forfeiture are essentially guilty until proven innocent and must bear the burden of proof, unlike criminal cases.
Dec 3, 2018
fromReason: “The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”
Police State America
fromReason: South Africa's High Court rejected a legal challenge today brought by a group representing white farmers against President Cyril Ramaphosa's plans for land expropriation without compensation.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
fromHawaiiFreePress: The IRS and EPA will develop a cozy relationship to siphon cash from the vat of taxpayer funds for what the bill calls "Administrative Expenses" and "Other Administrative Expenses."
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromWallStreetJournal: A healthy society reserves anger for special occasions. Today taking
offense has become a reflex.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
fromCNN: A rare instance where a grand jury holds a police officer accountable for a wrongful death. Grand juries indict less than ten percent of cops brought before them.
Police State America Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process
fromTownhall: Right now, it's unclear what the tax would look like but Levine's chief-of-staff said they're considering a $25 fee per firearm, which is similar to Chicago and Seattle's tax.
2nd Amendment Assaults
October 29, 2018
fromReason: Our northern neighbors are handling the transition from prohibition to regulation better than the U.S. in several ways.
Regulation Nation The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
fromScienceMag: Forget government permission. Forget those long lines at the pharmacy: Someday soon, you might be making your own medicines at home.
Regulation Nation Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
fromCreators: Price gouging after natural disasters is often seen as evil exploitation by sellers to rip off desperate customers. Let's hold off on that conclusion until after you give thought to some very important questions.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromScienceMag: Forget government permission. Forget those long lines at the pharmacy: Someday soon, you might be making your own medicines at home.
Regulation Nation
fromRutherfordInstitute: We’re living in two worlds, you and I. There’s the world we see (or are made to see) and then there’s the one we sense (and occasionally catch a glimpse of).
The Government is Not Us
fromMisesInstitute: Why exploding debt? More than half of Americans receive more money in various types of government transfer payments (Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, Social Security) than they pay in federal taxes.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
July 23, 2016
fromReason: Tariffs always divert resources toward government-favored firms and away from everyone else.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromPennLive: How one state profits wildly by exploiting citizens for exercising politically incorrect liberty.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
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
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
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
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