October 7, 2020

 

Liberal reporter exposes how the media uses 'white supremacists' to 'manufacture hysteria'

fromPJMedia: “Bold, adversarial Progressives love citing unsubstantiated FBI claims when it bolsters their ‘white supremacist’ alarmism and fear-mongering, kind of like when they repeated FBI Russian collusion propaganda.
Media Bias on Parade                 Indoctrination and Censorship

ObamaCare and the Supreme Court -- can the government force us to eat broccoli?

fromFoxNews: With President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, the Affordable Care Act -- ObamaCare -- is back in the news. Andrew Napolitano weighs in.
Regulation Nation

Tax, legal experts say leaker of Trump tax returns could face prison time

fromJustTheNews: "This is every bit as bad as what Nixon did," said Mann, noting the privacy section enacted after the Nixon administration abused tax return information of individuals on the White House "enemies list."
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Breonna Taylor's death shows how drug prohibition transforms murder into self-defense

fromReason: The hail of bullets that killed her can be justified only in a country that uses violence to enforce politicians' pharmacological prejudices.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange                   Police State America

Walter E Williams: Supreme Court and rules of the game

fromCreators: A referee's job, whether he is a football referee, baseball umpire or a Supreme Court justice, is to know the rules of the game and to ensure that those rules are evenly applied without bias.
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

California is a cautionary tale for America

fromReason: California bounds from one crisis to another; most of them being self-imposed.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

October 3, 2020

 

L.A. ordered to pay NRA six figures after losing First Amendment case

fromWashingtonFreeBeacon: A federal district court judge struck down a city ordinance aimed at punishing prospective contractors with ties to the NRA as an infringement on the right to free speech and association.
 

Gavin Newsom beclowns himself finding nonsensical excuses to keep California locked down

fromAmericanThinker: Newsom, who is becoming known to Californians as Nussoloini, is really stretching to find excuses to keep businesses closed and Californians unemployed and reverting to race-pandering.
 

Crumbling case against Assange shows weakness of "hacking" charges related to whistleblowing

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: The entire computer crime case against Assange is based on a brief discussion, between a publisher and source, about cracking a password — but the cracking never actually happened.
 

VIDEO: Tucker Carlson - Masks, Science and Medical Authoritarianism

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Christians in Idaho are arrested for singing outdoor, not wearing masks. A socially-distanced mom is tasered while outdoors, watching her son play football for not wearing a mask. Alex Berenson joins Tucker Carlson to talk about the science surrounding the wearing of masks and what the future may hold.
 

Why it’s fashionable to hate your own country

fromSpiked: This is more about parading virtue than reckoning with history.
 

Prosecutor's password-cracking conspiracy theory against Assange unravels at extradition trial

fromShadowproof: It seems like payback for embarrassing the U.S. government by unraveling their password-cracking conspiracy theory with their own digital forensic expert’s testimony.

  

September 23, 2020


The next pandemic will Be caused by the national debt

fromReason: The attorney general called virus lockdowns the ‘greatest intrusion on civil liberties’ since slavery and likened career DOJ prosecutors to preschoolers.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

Barr calls coronavirus lockdowns the ‘greatest intrusion on civil liberties’ since slavery

fromPolitico: The attorney general called virus lockdowns the ‘greatest intrusion on civil liberties’ since slavery and likened career DOJ prosecutors to preschoolers.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Edward Snowden deserves a pardon

fromAIER: Under any sane standard, the country’s national security and intelligence establishment are the real traitors, selling out and betraying the American people in dangerous and misguided quests for unlimited power and knowledge about our every activity. 
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Justice sleeps and ‘We the People’ suffer: No, the U.S. Supreme Court will not save us

fromRutherfordInstitute: “The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.”—Justice William O. Douglas
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process            The Government is Not Us

Gun control puts your life at risk

fromReason: In the 20th century, far more people were murdered by genocidal governments than by armed criminals.
2nd Amendment Assaults

Inflation: Its effects and failures

fromMises: Inflation, the issue of additional paper money, and credit expansion are always intentional; they are never acts of God which strike people, like an earthquake.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market


September 21, 2020


Subpoenas authorized for Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Halper and other 'Spygate' figures

fromZeroHedge: As part of the authorization, Johnson may subpoena "the production of all records" related to the FBI's initial Russia probe.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Making an apocalypse out of a pandemic

fromZeroHedge: What the 20th-century flu pandemics reveal about our response to Covid-19.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

BLM riots are officially the most costly manmade damage to American property in history

fromBreitbart: The domestic terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter have accomplished one thing: the most costly riots in the history of our country, reports the far-left Axios.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

End the war on drugs

fromReason: Drug prohibition turns police officers into enemies to be feared rather than allies to be welcomed.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

The messed up reason age 30 is the new 20

fromTheDailyBell: No longer can you naturally transition to an adult in your teens. Society will not allow it. The government has outlawed being an adult as a teen.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery


September 17, 2020


It’s perfectly Constitutional to talk about jury nullification

fromACLU: “Juror nullification is your right to refuse to enforce bad laws and bad prosecutions. Once you know your rights and powers, you can veto bad laws and hang the jury.”
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

Abolish qualified immunity

fromReason: This court-invented doctrine shields bad cops from civil liability.
Police State America

White House will cancel racial sensitivity training for all federal employees

fromDailyMail: Trump blasts classes on 'critical race theory' and 'white privilege' as a 'sickness in our country'.
Indoctrination and Censorship             Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

House will vote on federal marijuana legalization for the first time, bill's future in Senate uncertain

fromUSAToday: The House's vote comes as views of marijuana have changed in Washington and increased numbers of Americans support the legalization of the drug, whether for recreational or medicinal purposes.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

VIDEO: Tucker Carlson - Facebook, COVID and the End of Free Speech

fromSpiked: The social media giants are morphing into a state media that will ban all media that contradicts statist doctrine and, in effect, abolish the First Amendment.  Tucker explains in brilliant detail. 
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

People must have the right to mock Muhammad

fromSpiked: In America, freedom trumps archaic religious demands.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

September 4, 2020


The social fabric of the U.S. is fraying severely, if not unravelling

fromTheIntercept: Why, in the world’s richest country, is every metric of mental health pathology rapidly worsening?
The Pursuit of Happiness

Here’s how a cashless society would affect day to day life

fromOrganicPrepper: There is an alarming amount of power in access. In a cashless society, you will NOT be able to access your money at will.
The Government is Not Us          Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

New York is dead forever ... here's why

fromJamesAltucher: This article explains SF and many other cities as well.
The Government is Not Us          Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

I stand with Tucker Carlson

fromCreators: He is one of us.
Indoctrination and Censorship           Individual Liberty: America's First Principle           Media Bias on Parade

Walter E Williams: Institutional racism

fromCreators: Most institutional racism is practiced by the nation's institutions of higher learning.
Indoctrination and Censorship

The lockdown has been a bonanza for billionaires

fromSpiked: While ordinary people have been plunged into economic turmoil, the world’s richest are cleaning up.
The Government is Not Us          Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

July 31, 2020


Don't force schools to reopen, but don't force families to pay for closed schools either

fromReason: We should fund students instead of systems.
Indoctrination and Censorship              Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

Soros pours record $50 million into 2020 election

fromWashingtonFreeBeacon: Liberal billionaire spends $30 million more than in 2016 with months left to go before the elections.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell/Black Wisdom Matters - Slavery, Guilt and Reparations

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: The judicially invented license for police abuse undermines the rule of law and the separation of powers.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

Safety first is a bad ideology

fromAIER: In the last several decades, public tolerance of risk has shifted towards lower socially acceptable levels of risk-taking and in the long run, these changes may leave us all worse off.  
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

Fedcoin: A new scheme for tyranny and poverty

fromRonPaulInstitute: If some Congress members get their way, the Federal Reserve may soon be able to track many of your purchases in real time and share that information with government agencies. 
The Government is Not Us

Qualified immunity is a test for conservatives

fromReason: The judicially invented license for police abuse undermines the rule of law and the separation of powers.
Police State America

July 6, 2020


America's long-term debt crisis is now a short-term problem

fromReason: Even in a healthy economy, rising debt and deficits posed challenges. The current crisis has magnified those problems.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

Rand Paul's exchange with Fauci was exactly what America needed

fromTheHill: One thing is for certain. We either believe in liberty in times of crisis, or we don’t believe in liberty at all.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle              The Government is Not Us

Redskins to undergo 'thorough review' of nickname

fromESPN: Washington Tyrants would be a fitting replacement.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

We must end the war on drugs

fromTheReview: "What drug prohibition did do is exactly what alcohol prohibition did a hundred years ago: increase conflict between police and citizens."
The War On Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

1 million dead people received federal bailout checks

fromTheDailyBell: The total amount of money which was sent to dead people came to about $1.4 billion, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.
The Government is Not Us

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom”

fromTheActivistPost: The following published is a letter penned by a young Benjamin Franklin. No truer words were ever spoken.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

July 4, 2020



A look back at sacrifices made by our founders to develop the first nation by the people and for the people.



The rise and fall of American freedom.

July 3, 2020


Revolutionary spirit of individual liberty with minimal government embraced America in 1776

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

VIDEO: Tucker Carlson - The Fight for Inequality: Racial Division by Design

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

As delayed tax day approaches, consider what you get for your money

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

VIDEO: Black Wisdom Matters - The State of Racism in America

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

Want to kill the economy again? Keep threatening more lockdowns.

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

Walter E Williams: An underappreciated American scholar

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

June 27, 2020


Venezuelans take extraordinary steps to beat water shortage

fromAP: Critics of the socialist government blame chronic infrastructure failures on years of corruption and mismanagement that have also left the electrical grid fragile and destroyed Venezuela’s once-thriving oil industry.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

Will government mandate COVID-19 vaccinations?

fromTheHill: Government mandated vaccinations for adults would be a major and controversial step. But then government has taken a number of major and controversial steps recently, such as shutting down the economy.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

California agency blocks release of police use of force and surveillance training, claiming copyright

fromActivistPost:Our elected officials can pass laws regulating the police, and watchdog bodies can review law enforcement policies, but if training materials are kept secret, it provides a back door for manufacturers of surveillance technology and private organizations to influence police practices without oversight or accountability.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make        Police State America         Regulation Nation

Walter E Williams: Insults to black history

fromCreators: Both blacks and whites can benefit from a better appreciation of black history.
Indoctrination and Censorship

The pandemic's economic carnage looks worse than expected

fromReason: If you thought the economic toll wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic was only going to be horrendous, you may have been overly optimistic.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

VIDEO: Black Wisdom Matters - Good Intentions of the Welfare State

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Thomas Sowell, Walter E Williams, Star Parker, Jason Riley, Bob Woodson and Larry Elder share their insights on how a half century of the welfare state has changed America and the American family.
The Welfare State: Promoting Dependency