April 28, 2021                                             

fromMarketWatch: Important legal issues remain unresolved with the FBI’s current operation. For most of American history, protections against warrantless searches were clearly and unambiguously guaranteed by our Constitution. 

fromZeroHedge: The US Supreme Court has agreed to review a New York case to decide whether the government must allow most residents to carry a handgun in public. 

fromRealClearPolitics: If blacks don't trust the police, they presumably won't turn to them as frequently as whites when a crime occurs. Yet, blacks report violent crime to police at a higher rate than either whites or Hispanics. 

fromCaitlinJohnstone: They’ll never regain the public’s trust for a couple of reasons, the first of which is because they’ll never be able to become trustworthy. 

fromTownhall: Fauci was wrong. The experts were wrong. But they’re so arrogant they cannot admit a mistake. They’ve taken a scared straight approach. 

fromReason: If public health scolds get their way, they will worsen the nation’s overcriminalization problem. 

April 27, 2021                                             

fromTheLibertarianInstitute: Fear is driving the ruling class. The de facto definition of terrorism now seems to be "anything that frightens politicians."

fromZeroHedge: The United States is reorganizing itself into two Americas - blue and red. Although there is a president of the United States, state governors are in many ways now driving the national narrative.

fromAlt-Market: We know where gun control leads, and so did the Founding Fathers of our nation, which is why they codified gun ownership into the US constitution as an inalienable right.

fromAmericanGreatness: The benchmarks of the Black Lives Matter and affiliated woke movements are overt racism, systemic untruth, and the hypocritical privilege of their elite architects. 

fromTheFederalist: Facebook started choking this opinion after more facts emerged that support it.

fromTownhall: He is either an idiot or he doesn't trust the vaccines.

April 26, 2021                                             

fromReason: Politicians and bureaucrats in legal states still struggle with the temptation to over-tax and over-regulate their legal marijuana markets.


fromAmericanThinker: No political, intellectual, government, diplomatic, or administrative experience necessary as long as you are the right color, claim to sleep with only the right people, and sport the rainbow flag.

fromTheFederalist: When you can convince people racism is rampant, you ignite a flame of division and destruction that can only end with bodies on the ground and cities leveled.

fromSunnySkyz: Under the new law, if someone finds an abandoned pet, they have a public duty to try to locate the owner or inform the authorities as they would do if they came across a lost child.

fromReason: Unresponsive government institutions fuel state-level measures to help parents and children pick learning models that suit them.

April 24, 2021                                             

fromAmericanThinker: The United States Post Office has been running a "covert operations program" to monitor conservative Americans' social media posts for inflammatory information.

fromIssuesInsights: On Tuesday, the public learned that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes. Just a few days before that, the public learned that the “Russian Bounty” story was fake.

fromSpiked: The fury over the killing of Ma’Khia Bryant has exposed the cynicism and hypocrisy of the woke elites.

fromFoxNews: Twitter accused of giving pass to NBA star who allegedly endangered police officer in tweet. False allegations to promote violence obviously does not violate their self-serving community standards.

fromAmericanGreatness: Friends and enemies abroad are becoming variously shocked, disheartened—and gleeful—as the United States cannibalizes itself.

fromJustTheNews: Crime and poverty are not about race or racial injustice. According to a new census report, the share of children living in single-parent homes more than doubled over the past 50 years.

April 23, 2021                                             

fromAmericanThinker: Without an acquittal or a mistrial — either of which would have unquestionably given rise to increased violence — Rep. Waters and most Democrats actually want the bedlam to continue.

fromTheFederalist: Perhaps they assessed the risks of getting COVID compared to the risks of an experimental medical treatment whose long-term effects are unknown, and decided that the former is a risk they’re willing to take.

fromAmericanGreatness: Whites made the country and the greatest civilization—not because they were white, but because of the values they held. Hatred of whites is ultimately hatred of those values.

fromReason: Bans on dangling objects are just one example of the myriad petty rules that give police the power to stop nearly any driver at will.

fromFreeThoughtProject: Citizens are forced to prove their innocence, costing motorists thousands of dollars to obtain legal representation, a process many may seem to be humiliating, costly, and unwarranted.
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fromTheFrontPage: It’s okay to riot in D.C., and assault government buildings and police officers again.

April 22, 2021                                             

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: Just as with the Russia Bounty debacle, they will never acknowledge what they did. Their audience wants to be lied to for partisan gain and emotional pleasure.
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fromReason: "How can an ordinary person afford to wait years after the government takes their car?"

fromBariWeiss/Substack: A New York father pulls his daughter out of Brearley with a message to the whole school. Is the dam starting to break?

fromWashintonTimes: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

fromReason: No surprise here. Republicans stand up for children, Democrats for teachers.

fromAmericanThinker: As long as the media face no consequences when they violate the rules of fair play, they’re not going to stop.
Media Bias on Parade                                      Indoctrination and Censorship

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.
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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. 
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