April 21, 2021                                             

fromAmericanMind: For these woke religionists, there can be no wall of separation between public and private life, between dogma and conscience, or between their state and their church.

fromTheFederalist: To counter the left’s lies, conservatives have to use words that accurately reflect the truth — not words that actively mean the opposite.

fromAmericanGreatness: We know too much, and we know too little. We have a lot of data and precious little wisdom. This is no way to run a country. And it’s no way to preserve a civilization.

fromRutherfordInstitute: The individual liberty protections of the Constitution have been summarily defeated.
The Government is Not Us                                    Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromMises: Apologists for police abuse often claim that if a citizen complies with police orders and does what he's told, then he won't get hurt. The evidence says otherwise. 

fromReason: Defying authoritarian laws helps to preserve freedom and to undermine prohibitions.

April 20, 2021                                             

fromCaitlinJohnstone: The mass media aggressively promoted a CIA narrative that none of them ever saw proof of, because there was no proof, because it was an entirely unfounded claim, disguised as a news story.

fromMoonbattery: Trying to create riots? To what extent will the left-wing activists who run the media blatantly deceive us to advance their destructive agenda?

fromMattTabbi/Substack: After hyping a fake story on Afghan bounties, cable's leading anchor doesn't blink and moves on to the next fable.

fromAccuracyInMedia: The media hyped the large Spring Break gatherings in Florida a few weeks ago, but haven’t followed up articles about these being superspreader events – because there were none.

fromDailyMail: Americans are clearly understanding that the "war on drugs" is a war on them.

fromAsiaTimes: An inquiry is needed into how a limited mission by two dozen special forces became a 19-year war.

April 19, 2021                                             

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: The most significant Trump-era alliance is between corporate outlets and security state agencies, whose evidence-free claims they unquestioningly disseminate.

fromTheFederalist: The anonymously sourced story claimed Russia offered members of the Taliban bounties in exchange for killing American soldiers.

fromReason: Our culture seems to think nothing of depriving the people we ostensibly love the most—children—of the chance to be fully alive when they are young.

fromJohnMcWhorter/Substack: When things get tense, cops are quite okay with depriving white people of life. 

fromAmericanGreatness: People who compare Georgia’s efforts to ensure the integrity of the electoral process to Jim Crow—an evil, unconstitutional, and inhumane monstrosity­­—are engaged in slander, pure and simple.

fromTexasTribune: House Bill 1927 would nix the requirement for Texas residents to obtain a license to carry handguns if they’re not prohibited by state or federal law from possessing a gun.

 April 17, 2021                                             

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

fromCreators: We have an obligation to the truth that must outweigh our obligations to our tribes. 

fromSpiked: Big businesses are aggressively interfering in politics – and liberals are egging them on. 

fromEpochTimes: What does an unpopular totalitarian oligarchy do when faced with the prospect of losing their power?  There is no shame among the corrupt.

fromAIER: CS Lewis said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” 

fromNYPost: Censored on Facebook. Unflattering news violates their community standards.

 April 16, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: Conservative state legislators are taking a page from the playbook of pro-immigration activists and the marijuana legalization movement. 

fromRealClearMarkets: Last week the CDC announced that the risk of contracting the virus by touching a “contaminated” surface was near impossible. Another myth born of Covid-hysteria has bitten the dust. 

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: By draping itself in the finery of political activism, the corporatist class consolidates political power, corrupts democracy and distracts from its real functions. 

fromReason: Conservative state legislators are taking a page from the playbook of pro-immigration activists and the marijuana legalization movement. 

fromTheFederalist: 'Dirty Jobs' and 'Six Degrees' host Mike Rowe is correct about the negative economic and social effects of the minimum wage. 

fromRealClearPolicy: The Internal Revenue Service, Environmental Protection Agency, Social Security Administration, and many others were found to have spent taxpayer money on weapons. 
The Government is Not Us                          Police State America

 April 15, 2021                                             

fromTheMostImportantNews: If we accept what they are doing to us now, they are just going to keep pushing.

fromCNBC: In March 2020, the government had just begun a massive shutdown of U.S. businesses that ultimately would see more than 22 million Americans on the unemployment line.

fromNakedCapitalism: As the use of vaccine passports snowballs around the world, concerns about their potential reach and implications are growing.
Regulation Nation                               The Government is Not Us

fromAmericanThinker: "What if widespread treason happened in Washington in 2020 and the media refused to report it and the swamp collaborated?  Did treason really happen?"
Indoctrination and Censorship                               The Government is Not Us

fromDailyMail: The only question is whether medical or political reservations should be the primary factor when rejecting this possibility. As with the COVID vaccines, expect all criticisms to be censored.
Indoctrination and Censorship                               The Government is Not Us

fromReason: "What if widespread treason happened in Washington in 2020 and the media refused to report it and the swamp collaborated?  Did treason really happen?"

April 14, 2021                                             

fromJamesBovard: A case before the Supreme Court could open the flood gates to warrantless searches.

fromEpochTimes: New tax increases proposed by President Joe Biden would kill one million jobs and harm the economy, a new study released by the nation’s largest manufacturing association states.

fromZeroHedge: The Federal Reserve was initiated in 1913. Each time the FED creates new money, pre-existing money is worth less. Once, $1 could buy 30 Hershey bars. Now, it will only buy a cup of coffee at McDonalds.

fromFoxNews: Pete, who overstated projected jobs created by over 16M, says "I should have been more precise."

fromReuters: A spokesman for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which administers foreign aid, told Reuters in a statement that it is already using cash transfers in programs “to help people meet their basic needs” in the wake of severe hurricanes in Central America and is considering expanding the efforts going forward.
The Government is Not Us                                                     Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromReason: The president is picking fights with much of the population and further dividing the country.

 April 13, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: Americans privately fear these rules, while publicly appearing to accept them. The onslaught of nitwittery is overwhelming. 

fromRutherfordInstitute: Those living through this present age of government lockdowns, immunity passports, militarized police, SWAT team raids, police shootings of unarmed citizens, roadside strip searches, invasive surveillance and the like might feel as if these events are unprecedented. They are not.

fromTownhall: The fourth wave is going to kill us all. We have variants. We have cases reportedly surging. We have vaccines, but even if you get the shot you have to remain inside and remain in total fear.
The Government is Not Us                             Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromPacificLegalFoundation: The Biden administration seeks to make weapons manufacturers responsible for crimes instead of criminals. Their assault on individual rights is relentless. 
2nd Amendment Assaults                              The Government is Not Us

fromAmericanSpectator: There’s not a single thing that Biden has done that the former Bronx barista, now leftist heartthrob, would not find simpatico.

fromWashingtonExaminer: West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed a bill removing the sales tax on gun and ammunition purchases across his state, making his state a stronghold for the Second Amendment. 

April 12, 2021                                             

fromPacificLegalFoundation: Supreme Court will declare whether the Fourth Amendment means what it says.  
The Government is Not Us                             Police State America


fromMises: Capitalism isn't just better because it makes us materially better off. Capitalism also helps us forge a more humane and civil society.  

fromWashingtonExaminer: The Supreme Court is weighing whether it will take up two cases that could clarify the limits of the Second Amendment. 

fromTheFederalist: Democratic Party attempts to make all things racist appears to be successful political strategy in the short term but is a recipe for national disaster in the long term.  

fromTheFederalist: In pursuit of the Democrat's wet dream to establish single party control.  

April 11, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: It will be a long time, if ever, before the truth about what happened—and didn’t happen—on January 6, 2021 is fully and fairly explained. 

fromAmericanThinker: American progressives have a long and ugly history of abusing the government’s police power over people’s bodies. 
The Government is Not Us                                                Police State America

fromKoin: “People shouldn’t have to go to the game and worry about if they’re sitting next to a Joe Biden supporter or a Donald Trump supporter,” he said. 

fromReason: Joe's governing philosophy is also shared by the cancer cell: growth for the sake of growth. 

fromZeroHedge: VIDEO: Joe Biden was asked by a reporter "will you stack the courts?" - he replied that voters "don't deserve" to know his stance until after the election. Lie, cheat and steal is clearly his playbook. 

fromAmericanMind: You don’t want to chain your kids up in the basement and seal all the doors? Rather not ship them to an ice floe off Greenland? Then, friends, you’re going to need to become a master of anti-wokeness. 

April 10, 2021                                             Special All Nitwittery Edition

fromTheFederalist: It's long past time our elected politicians use the powers they have to protect their constituents from the powerful and wealthy private interests who have so casually set us in their sights. 

fromWashingtonExaminer: The authors explain that “racial inequity” in hospitals is negatively affecting patients and propose solutions such as “cash transfers and discounted or free care” for minorities only. 

fromEpochTimes: In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Fay Vincent argued that Robert Manfred likely made the decision to boycott Atlanta without first examining the substance of the election reforms. 

fromAmericanMilitaryNews: It stands to reason that only gays would prefer the men's facility. 

fromEpochTimes: A look back at how American exceptionalism was always part of Coca-Cola’s identity, until it wasn’t. Or, how woke Coke became a joke.

fromAmericanThinker: The entertainment industry is dead set on making its products the complete opposite of entertaining...for your own good. 

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