Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
May 20, 2019
Why everyone in the U.S. who counts wants Julian Assange dead
fromCommonDreams: It's not for being a jerk that the Establishment state wants the Wikileaks publisher dead. They want him dead for publishing videos like these. Only the bravest will watch the video contained within.
The Government is Not Us Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption Defense Versus The War Machine
Some US cities are moving into real-time facial surveillance
fromWired: The lack of federal rules on facial recognition may create a patchwork of surveillance regimes inside the US.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
Camille Paglia: Neo feminism teaching women to live in ‘a permanently juvenile condition’
fromCommonDreams: “What I am saying throughout my work is that girls who are indoctrinated to see men not as equals but as oppressors and rapists are condemned to remain in a permanently juvenile condition for life."
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
VIDEO: Larry Elder - Reparations for Slavery
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Commentator/author Larry Elder comments on a scheme to extract money from people who were never slave owners and give it to people who were never slaves.Federal funding for California bullet train boondoggle formally canceled
fromReason: Jerry Brown's bait and switch scheme goes up in flames, as taxpayers suffer another ramification of the Obama administration.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
Is California ready to ban gas-powered cars? Not yet. But they're thinking about it
fromUSAToday: Fresh of the high-speed rail fiasco, state politicians plot yet another way to torture citizens.Feb 6, 2019
Donald Trump: ‘We’ve got to get out of these endless wars’
fromBreitbart: President Donald Trump detailed his position Sunday on withdrawing troops United States from Afghanistan and Syria.
Defense Verses The War Machine
Major DNA testing company sharing genetic data with the FBI
fromBloomberg: FamilyTreeDNA is the culprit. Unwitting citizens are paying to have their genetic information sent to the FBI and other government databases.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
Are you a woman traveling alone? Marriott might be watching you.
fromReason: The surveillance tactics that have been adopted by hotel chains are part of a disturbing partnership between hospitality businesses and federal law enforcement to track the movements of people, especially women.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
How the drug war eats the poor
fromVice: According to a new report by the NGO Health Poverty Action, prohibition drives poverty and criminality in places like Brazil and India.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
Hawaii considers ban on cigarette sales
fromABC30: Vice cops look for new products as busybodies seek to mind YOUR own business.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
Capitalism has been the bane of poverty worldwide
fromReviewJournal: Bill Gates noted that the proportion of people on Earth living in extreme poverty has declined from 94 percent in 1820 to below 9 percent today. “Most of the credit … must go to capitalism and free trade.”Jan 11, 2019
'Traditional masculinity' deemed harmful, could lead to sexual harassment, medical group says
fromBaltimoreSun: For the first time in its history, the American Psychological Association declares that so-called “traditional masculinity” not only is “harmful” but also could lead to homophobia and sexual harassment.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Major university sued for Orwellian, unconstitutional restrictions on free speech
fromWashingtonExaminer: Once-venerable institutions, committed to the pursuit of truth and the other eminent tenets are now thoroughly overrun by an upstart class of petty, would-be authoritarians.
Indoctrination and Censorship
Raising age to buy tobacco would be costly — to individual liberty
fromBaltimoreSun: If citizens are considered mature enough at 18 to make the most important decision we have in our country — the casting of the vote — then why do you think they are not mature enough to buy alcohol?
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle Regulation Nation
Walter E Williams: Black education: A glimmer of hope
fromCreators: The most crucial input for a child's education cannot be provided by schools or politicians.
Indoctrination and Censorship
VIDEO: Tucker Carlson - Family Matters (4 min)
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: From Tucker Carlson Tonight, Tucker touches upon matters of family.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Woman’s march cancelled: participants had the wrong skin color
fromDailyBell: Too many uppity white women ruin the optics of what was supposed to be a diversity celebration.Jan 1, 2019
Fear of a Rand Paul-influenced Trump foreign policy
fromReason: Such fear is a sign of an exhausted establishment that can't justify decades of expensive failure.
Defense Versus The War Machine
California plans stricter gun laws in 2019
fromCNBC: California is going to ban anyone under 21 from buying rifles, shotguns and semiautomatic weapons.‘Gun-free’ United Kingdom has a growing problem with illegal guns
fromLouderWithCrouder: Their civilian peeps have no means of protecting themselves against criminal gun use. At least here in the U-S-of-A we can counter mass-murdering fiends with guns of our own.
2nd Amendment Assaults
Firm who warned America of ‘Russian Meddling’ caught running fake Russia bot campaign
fromFreeThoughtProject: The company behind an op-ed in the New York Times about “the Russians” and their nefarious efforts to influence American elections were the actual perpetrators of said influence.
Media Bias on Parade Indoctrination and Censorship Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
California women's march canceled for being 'overwhelmingly white'
fromReason: NOT FROM THE ONION. Modern leftist activism is mired in infighting between the most marginalized and their allies. Blame intersectionality for pretelizing these poor snowflakes.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Nullification is the cure for tyranny
from71Republic: With the death of local sovereignty comes the rise of the superstate, where the only checks on their power are the arbitrary rulings of the elites within their own ranks.Dec 9, 2018
The Russia investigation is about criminalizing peace
fromRonPaulInstitute: The mainstream left and state serving-media voices are trying to gaslight an entire generation into believing any candidate that wants peace with Russia may be a foreign conspirator.Defense Versus The War Machine
Taxpayers to be held liable after cops tortured man strapped to a chair with pepper spray
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: A judge has refused to dismiss excessive force claims against police after multiple officers were seen on video surrounding a man in a restraint chair and hitting him with pepper spray in his face.Police State America
Feds received whistleblower evidence in 2017 alleging Clinton Foundation wrongdoing
fromTheHill: Is the Clinton family charity really the international do-gooder that earned a perfect four-star rating from Charity Navigator, or does it suffer from corruption and illegalities as conservatives allege?Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
VIDEO: Fake News Reports: The Migrant Caravan
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Perhaps nothing is more illustrative of media bias than coverage of the migrant caravan. Tucker Carlson, Buck Sexton.Media Bias on Parade
When nonviolence isn't enough
fromReason: Does the right to self-defense apply against agents of the state?The Government is Not Us
The violence against women act is an insult to fairness
fromTheDailyCaller: from Wendy McElroy: "Any legislation that benefits one gender at the expense of another or one race at the expense of another is invalid on its face, and it should be rejected."Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Dec 5, 2018
France's protesters are part of a global backlash against climate change taxes
fromSFGate: People of the world are revolting against extreme government taxes based on the pretense of climate change.Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Pageant may show that men make the best women
fromTheBlast: Gamblers say transgender could be the next Miss Universe. Many observers conclude that feminism just got set back a good bit.Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
San Francisco's wealthy leftists are making homelessness worse
fromMises: In S.F., the median price of a modest single family home now stands at $1.6 million. A family of four with a household income of $100k is considered at the poverty line and actually qualifies for assistance from HUD.Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
The Amazon deal shows why we must end corporate welfare
fromActivistPost: Amazon is but one example of local governments bestowing special favor on the few at the expense of those less able to petition for tax dollars.Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
VIDEO: Colion Noir - Guns and Reason
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: From the Rubin Report, gun rights activist Colion Noir explains his advocacy of concealed carry and other gun rights and his opposition to universal background checks and assault weapon bans.2nd Amendment Assaults
Paul Ryan Is kinda sorry he was a total failure at balancing the budget
fromReason: Ryan presided over three years of growing deficits and laid the groundwork for worse to come.Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
Nov 26, 2018
Beijing to judge every resident based on behavior by end of 2020
fromBloomberg: Coming to a tyranny near you? China’s plan to judge each of its 1.3 billion people based on their social behavior is moving a step closer to reality.Government is Watching Every Move You Make
Dear TSA, please stop molesting kids at the airport
fromCreators: "Normally, I would have reported this incident to the proper authorities. Inappropriate contact with a child is a criminal act. But in this case, the proper authorities were the ones feeling up the kid."The Government is Not Us
VIDEOS: Migrant caravan storms border, U.S. shuts down crossing in response
fromGrabieNews: Some in the caravan are launching projectiles at U.S. border authorities.Defense Versus The War Machine
Violence Against Women Act diminishes the seriousness of domestic violence
fromTheHill: An opinion piece from Wendy McElroy. The pending bill would expand the definition of DV in a way that could harm abused women and other innocent people.Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Thomas Sowell returns
fromReason: America's top social scientist on what has changed since he sat down with Reason 38 years ago.Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
Trump's Trade war bailout program Is a predictable mess
fromReason: More than 1,100 people living in America's 50 largest cities have received bailout funds intended for farmers harmed by Trump's trade war.Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromReason: There were a few silver linings for liberty lovers this past year.
Regulation Nation Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
Regulation Nation Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromMedium: The common notion in the media is that now the work field will shift and women will be promoted everywhere because men are the worst people in the world.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
fromRarePolitics: Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been busy seeing to it that the government is kept out of our private electronic communications.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
fromWashingtonExaminer: The report about the harsh media coverage was included in Pew’s year-ending report titled "17 Striking Findings From 2017."
Media Bias On Parade
Media Bias On Parade
fromTheFreeThoughtProject: A federal court has just handed down an insulting decision by claiming
that a cop shooting at a fleeing minivan full of children does not
violate their rights.
Police State America The Government is Not Us
Police State America The Government is Not Us
fromReason: Nobody calls himself a censor anymore in the 21st century. We've got better words for it.
Indoctrination and Censorship
Indoctrination and Censorship
Thomas Sowell: Old Lies
Bathroom Boycotts Flush Safety Of Women And Girls
by Jan LaRue. Here’s a question for the mayors and governors who are boycotting North Carolina because of its single-sex public restroom law: “Is your taxpayer-funded, executive office bathroom open to the public, including every Tom, Dick and Harry pretending to be ‘Mary’”? North Carolina enacted a law on March 23 that bans individuals from ... MOREJake Macaulay: Men Invading Women’s Restrooms
The PC politicians are insisting on it. The mayor of San Francisco has banned all publicly-funded city employees from traveling to North Carolina. The NBA is threatening to relocate next year’s All Star game from Charlotte, North Carolina, to another city. Corporate giants like American Airlines and Hollywood giants like Disney are threatening action ... MORE
What Unmarried Women Want: Big Government?
by Elizabeth Nolan Brown. For most of American history, married women have far outnumbered their single counterparts. But this all changed in 2009, when the proportion of unmarried U.S. women first climbed above 50 percent. And in 2016, unmarried women will—for the first time—make up a majority of the potential female ... MOREGender-Integration Of Combat Jobs Fuels Legislation, Lawsuits To Impose Draft Registration On Women
by Morgan Chalfant. The Obama administration’s decision to open up all combat roles to
women has led to a heated debate over whether women should have to
register for the draft and has sparked both legislation and legal action
that could change the Selective Service’s rules. It remains to be seen what the impact of Defense Secretary ... MORE
Generals Want Women To Register For The Draft
by Ilya Somin. Instead, Let's Abolish It. Top Army and Marine Corps generals recently stated that they believe that women should be required to register for the draft, now that they are no longer barred from most combat positions in the armed forces: The top Army and Marine Corps generals told senators Tuesday that it will take up to three years ... MOREWalter E Williams: Our Timid Military Leaders
Sending the weaker sex to battle. This month, President Barack Obama's defense secretary, Ashton Carter, decreed that there will be 220,000 combat military jobs offered to women — including in Army special operations forces and the Navy SEALs. He said, "They'll be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars and lead infantry soldiers into combat ... MORE
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