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March 29, 2021

Lockdown one year on – it doesn’t work, it never worked & it wasn’t supposed to work

fromOffGuardian: Light up the lone candle on the saddest birthday cake in the world! The most destructive public policy of the century is growing up and doesn’t look like slowing down.

The U.S. intelligence community, flouting laws, is increasingly involving itself in domestic politics

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: A letter from House Intelligence Committee members demands answers from the DNI about illegal breaches of the wall guarding against CIA and NSA domestic activity.

Government is Watching Every Move You Make

fromAmericanConsequences: If any expert had told you a year ago that people who were fully vaccinated would still have to mask up and avoid human contact whenever possible, that would’ve been considered absolutely nuts.

March 29, 2021

fromOffGuardian: Light up the lone candle on the saddest birthday cake in the world! The most destructive public policy of the century is growing up and doesn’t look like slowing down.

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: A letter from House Intelligence Committee members demands answers from the DNI about illegal breaches of the wall guarding against CIA and NSA domestic activity.

Government is Watching Every Move You Make

fromForbes: A move to further diminished the individual liberty afforded by both the 2nd and 4th Amendments.

fromCaitlinJohnstone: A commentary on the sad state of journalism in America.

fromBoredPanda: More depictions of black people winning, laughing and being successful would be a refreshing and more realistic view of America, but counterproductive to the race-baiting left's agenda.

March 27, 2021

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: The conspiracy theory that the media pushed since before Trump’s inauguration — to the point where it drowned out most of U.S. politics and policy for years — had no evidentiary foundation.

fromPolitico: Unlike immigration, infrastructure or even guns, no senators are talking across the aisle about whether any compromise can be had.

fromReason: As is the case with many of our Constitutional liberties, federal judges have ruled the 2nd Amendment doesn't mean what it says.

fromActivistPost: Identical headlines for what appears to be entirely different news outlets is definitely sketchy, but when you click the articles, you see that the text is identical with only numbers and state names plugged in.

fromReason: The measure could also make it illegal for states to create new tax credit programs, such as those used for expanding school choice.

fromAmericanThinker: Trump-haters ignored Biden's senility and Harris' record of being the most progressive member of the Senate. The media wanted rid of Trump and proactively hid what was behind the door.

March 26, 2021

fromAmericanThinker: Imagine a business model where the government mandates that customers must use a service or product, but then exempts the producing company from any liability.

fromOANN: Government giveaways are never cheap. Government has no money of its own. It must confiscate all of its resources from individuals through taxation or by expanding the money supply (destroying buying power).

fromFrontPageMag: Another opportunity to shore up their sagging “white terror threat” narrative is lost.

fromReason: The president has ordered the Education Department to consider rescinding reforms aimed at protecting the due process rights of accused students.

fromEpochTimes: A political tyrant who despises the notion of a country comprised of free men and dictates that his chosen morality be yours.

fromGetOutspoken: The highly specific language is unprecedented and also appears on the websites of all 15 executive departments.

March 25, 2021

fromCreators: The Atlanta lie is part of the greater lie that there is a national epidemic of white supremacist anti-Asian racism.

fromAIER: More taxes coming as well. The Biden administration has adopted the philosophy of the cancer cell: growth for the sake of growth.

fromMises: Social justice warriors accuse the police of systemic racism, while pushing for revolutionary changes in police procedure that cement extreme bias into law enforcement—a bias that will fall heavily upon black men.

fromAmericanThinker: While they previously had been somewhat restrained in their efforts to transform the nation, any pretense of subtlety has now been abandoned.

fromEpochTimes: A predictable knee-jerk reaction when any opportunity to make government bigger and citizens littler presents itself.

fromWashingtonExaminer: Fauci seemed to argue that no amount of vaccine uptake can free us from the need to wear masks, pointing to coronavirus variants.

March 24, 2021

fromAIER: "Its message has never, sadly, been more timely. This time, threats to freedom justified by terrorism then, have reclothed themselves in the trappings of a medical pandemic."

fromCityJournal: There’s no proof that lockdowns save lives but plenty of evidence that they end them.

fromMattTabbi/Substack: A brief list of the many times government officials have pimped misinformation about Russia. Isn't it time to start asking for proof?

fromCNNBusiness: Most troubling for Joe and Company is that this is being done by their own lapdogs.

fromReason: New Mexico could be the 16th state to legalize pot, while Texas considers tinkering with its onerous penalties and Pennsylvania continues to arrest cannabis consumers.

fromForbes: After campaigning to legalize pot and choosing a former pot user as VP, Joe canned staffers who admitted to ever using marijuana in the past. Was transparency or drug use the disqualifying factor?

March 23, 2021

fromMises: For most of the American media, compelling submission to political commands is a nonissue, equivalent of the sun rising in the east each morning.

fromElectroverse: By attempting to appease extreme leftists who seek to destroy our economies and our freedoms, governments have adopted a failed strategy that makes us weaker, poorer and at much greater risk.

fromTheCritic: Debates over what constitutes ‘hate speech’ reintroduce dangerous concepts of sin and morality into our common law.

fromDailyMail: Defying censorship orders, Congressman Henry Cuellar released the images taken over this weekend. He said they offer an insight into the 'terrible conditions for the children' at the border.

fromPolitico: On everything from climate change to immigration and abortion rights, GOP attorneys general are leading the charge to dismantle White House policies.

fromZeroHedge: “Supply chains are depleted; inventories up and down the supply chain are empty. Lead times increasing, prices increasing, and demand increasing.

March 22, 2021

fromAmericanThinker: The elite have turned the world into a zoo, with themselves as keepers and the rest of us as the animals that must be trained or destroyed.

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: Eager to obtain vindication for the pre-election falsehood they spread about the Hunter Biden story, journalists falsely claim that the CIA blamed Russia for it.

fromRT: A New York Supreme Court judge handed Veritas, known for its undercover and whistleblowing videos, a big “win” this week, allowing a defamation suit against the paper and two reporters to proceed forward.

fromAndrewSullivan/Substack: How the media grotesquely distorted the Atlanta massacres.

fromReason: Politicians on the right and the left are coming for your free speech.

fromFrontPageMag: A collection of tales from the radicalized classroom.

March 21, 2021

fromAIER: Lockdown proponents committed themselves to something previously unthinkable. To admit error at this point is far too intellectually and psychologically upsetting to consider.

fromAreo: Those who decide to take on the responsibility of creating, producing, and distributing media in any form have a moral obligation to resist censorship in all forms.

fromNBCNews: Restrictions on what border agents can share with the media were passed down verbally, say officials. Some have released videos of the border surge anyway.

fromReason: Voters came out for legalizing marijuana, removing criminal penalties for psychedelic use, and treating drug addiction as a public health concern.

fromMises: “Poverty in society is overcome by productivity, and in no other way. There is no political alchemy which can transmute diminished production into increased consumption.”

fromTownhall: Biden also plans to repeal the Trump tax cuts, which means a tax increase for the middle class and most Americans. He also wants to reimplement the death tax.

March 20, 2021

fromAutomaticEarth: Your human rights are just a thin veneer that serves to make your reality look nice and shiny, but may be scraped off at any moment.

fromAmericanGreatness: Leftist administrations see the military foremost as a tool for accelerating their own progressive domestic changes.

fromAmericanThinker: No facility inspections, no interviews, no ridealongs for reporters? Every request for information to be processed with the bureaucrats in Washington, who are undoubtedly going to be too busy?

fromHotAir: The cure for voter fraud would be a death knell for Democrats. Election integrity is NOT their friend.

fromGoodbyeMicrosoft: It's long past time to escape the Goolag. Here's how.

fromTheHill/YouTube: Senator (and medical doctor) Rand Paul holds the tail-chasing expert's feet to the fire.

March 19, 2021

fromReason: Public schools can barely teach kids at all, but their defenders don’t want you trying alternatives.

fromCNN: Tone-deaf governor insists only racists and white supremacists have a problem with him.

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromCNN: Legislators view the disease as a license to spend like there's no tomorrow.

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromWashingtonExaminer: Facebook announced that it will restrict the popularity of groups and users that accrue violations and, in some cases, remove them altogether in order to reduce "harmful content and misinformation."

fromGatestoneInstitute: Pentagon generals thwarted by Trump's disdain for endless wars, seem to have found a friendly war monger in Joe.

fromCNN: Like CNN and the NY Times, not everything on Babylon Bee is fake news.

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

March 18, 2021

fromAmericanGreatness: The left-wing postmodern idea of “truth” as a mere pick-and-choose official narrative is now normal.

fromTownhall: Glenn Greenwald explains how the Washington Post's media-spread error about Trump's Georgia call shows the deceitful playbook first invented to undermine Trump and promote Russiagate.

fromReason: The road to speech restrictionism is paved with political rhetoric about protecting the proletariat from falsehoods.

fromProPublica: More than 15 hours of testimony failed to answer fundamental questions about the Capitol attack. Among them: Why national security officials responded differently to BLM protesters than to Trump supporters.

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: From a 1995 interview with Ben Wattenburg, Thomas Sowell provides insight as to how ruling class elites use the perception of crisis to increase their powers and promote their self-interests.

fromWattsUpWithThat: “We know there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know” — Donald Rumsfeld.