June 27, 2022

fromBreitbart: According to a massive survey that looked at the state of media all across the world, America has the least-trusted media on Planet Earth.
Media Bias on Parade

fromAmericanGreatness: Here are two big reasons and five simple tips.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromAmericanThinker: The Coinage Act of 1792 ordered the establishment of the first U.S. Mint and a specific list of various coins to be struck in the near future. These coins would be made of either gold, silver, or copper.  They all would have something in common.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromReason: The president's $5.8 trillion budget shows he wants more of the same government spending that is already sending prices soaring.

fromFreeThoughtProject: The president's $5.8 trillion budget shows he wants more of the same government spending that is already sending prices through the roof.
2nd Amendment Assaults

fromEricPetersAutos: There is one button every new car ought to have – to turn off every saaaaaaaaaaaaaafety “technology” in the car, all at once. No more having to find a button – for each of these various “technologies,” whether it’s Lane Keep Assist, Brake Assist, Back-up Assist or (the very latest) Speed Limit Assist.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

June 26, 2022

fromDailyBell: The reality – which anyone who has lived outside of the West knows through personal experience – is that Western civilization is literally the least racist in the history of the world.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromBryanCaplan/Substack: I’ve long been puzzled by libertarian reverence for “the rule of law.” Why should friends of freedom care about the laws passed by the foolish and evil people who habitually rule over us?
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

fromBrownstoneInstitute: If the FDA’s so-called health standards include things like preventing lung cancer, why on earth are they targeting the devices widely known to be 95% safer (or more) than actual cigarettes?
Regulation Nation

fromAmericanWireNews: The woman who needs Democratic voters to show up for her in Wyoming’s August primary learned the painful lesson that, regardless of how willing she is to betray her Republican base, she is not now, nor will she ever be, one of them.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromNewsmax: Former President Bill Clinton attacked the high court Friday over its Dobbs ruling, asserting that the decision that returns the question of the legality of abortion to the states is putting "democracy at risk."
The Government is Not Us

fromWashingtonFreeBeacon: Rep. Michael Waltz (R., Fla.), a combat veteran and member of the House Armed Services Committee, introduced a measure that would prohibit the teaching of CRT at military academies and K-12 schools run by DOD. Democrats, who are in control of the committee, swatted down the measure.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

June 25, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: Democrats will soon find no further reason to cover for Joe Biden’s own serial abhorrent personal behavior on matters of financial probity, sex, race, and truthfulness. 
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromRutherfordInstitute: The burden of proof has been reversed. No longer are we presumed innocent. Now we’re presumed guilty unless we can prove our innocence beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. 
Police State America

fromMises: Unlike a private-sector service, police do not operate under any contractual obligations to provide services in any particular way. They can choose to do nothing at all, and face no real consequences. 
The Government is Not Us

fromWashingtonExaminer: The president displayed his instructions on how to behave in a meeting. "YOU take YOUR seat" was one. "Thank the participants" was another. 
The Government is Not Us

fromReason: A new report from the Government Accountability Office found that nearly $80 billion was paid out to ineligible beneficiaries or outright fraudsters.
The Welfare State: Promoting Dependency

fromRutherfordInstitute: In New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, the court found that "New York's proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public for self-defense." 
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

June 24, 2022

fromCreators: It wasn't until 1969 that the Supreme Court's modern First Amendment jurisprudence made it clear that whenever there is a clash between the government and a person over the constitutionality of the person's speech, the courts will give every benefit and draw every inference to the speaker, and none to the government. 
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: Two doses of Covid vaccines offer no protection against Omicron infection and may even increase the risk of infection within months, according to a new paper in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromNYPost: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is alarmed by the decline of families and church attendance in black neighborhoods.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromReason: The legislation prohibits firearm sales based on juvenile records and subsidizes state laws that suspend gun rights without due process.
2nd Amendment Assaults

fromCreators: The mistakes and failures of the Great Society programs continue to rack up. Health care policy analyst Sally Pipes provided sobering statistics in an article for Forbes magazine last year.
The Welfare State: Promoting Dependency

fromNationalReview: The Court voted 6–3 to strike down the New York law, which has been in place since 1913 and required that people show a special need to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun outside the home.
2nd Amendment Assaults

June 23, 2022

fromWashingtonExaminer: Have you been following the court case Biden v. Texas? It's not in the headlines every day, but court filings in the case are giving us the best picture yet of what the Biden administration is doing on the U.S.-Mexico border. And the news is very, very bad.
The Government is Not Us

fromJohnStossel/Creators: A woman tells the cop who stopped her in a carpool lane she's allowed to drive there because her pronouns are "they" and "them."
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromQuillette: The comedian's new Netflix special has its weak spots. But when it comes to goring gender ideology's sacred cows, no one does it better.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromNYPost: In a win for parents and school-choice advocates, the US Supreme Court overturned a Maine law Tuesday that denied religious schools access to state tuition assistance available to students attending secular private institutions.

fromAmericanThinker: For over a half century, American institutions of higher education have been guilty of promoting oikophobia -- hatred of one’s own people and, more generally, Western civilization. 
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromTheFederalist: Sports Illustrated now pushes banal, predictable, anti-religious propaganda.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

June 22, 2022

fromTheFederalist: The day Adam Schiff was named to the “Jan. 6” committee is the day we knew the investigation was going to be a frivolous partisan sideshow.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromAmericanSpectator: It is imposing costs a lot more nightmarish than those being felt at the pump.
The Government is Not Us

fromNYPost: For three decades, climate campaigners have fought to make fossil fuels so expensive that people would be forced to abandon them. Their dream is becoming reality: Energy prices are spiraling out of control and will soon get even worse. Yet we are no closer to solving climate change.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromReason: The day Adam Schiff was named to the “Jan. 6” committee is the day we knew the investigation was going to be a frivolous partisan sideshow.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromTheFederalist: Shortage of workers and prices of pipes, asphalt and construction materials surging.
Inflation Nation

fromActivistPost: Be clear on this: Assange is a political prisoner, charged with committing … journalism.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

June 21, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: Our current oil shortage did not arise from a foreign war or tsunami, but from a deliberate policy to curtail oil production to force a more rapid transition to battery-powered transportation.
The Government is Not Us

fromCity-Journal: A White House official pressures social media companies to stifle dissent on climate.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromFrontPageMag: When you’re looking for a garden tool and all you can find is a sign that says “this product is currently unavailable,” it’s an inconvenience, but if you’re looking for baby formula and your own supply is about to run out, it’s an emergency.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromBrownstoneInstitute: COVID-19 triggered lockdowns around the world never before seen. It isn’t the worst pandemic the world has seen, so why were government interventions so swift? There are really two reasons. One, broadband and laptops. Had there not been ways to continue working for the governments and remote learning to bridge education, we’d have not seen lockdowns beyond May 2020.
Media Bias on Parade

fromDailyMail: An infectious diseases expert, Dr. Sarah Long, said: 'We should just assume that we don't have efficacy data' regarding vaccine success in under fives.
The Government is Not Us

fromTheDailyBell: Do you think it might be relevant to women to know ovarian cancer is among the most common  cancers in females?
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

June 20, 2022

fromTheFederalist: The committee completely sidestepped the verifiable evidence of systemic violations of election law, illegal voting, and more. Political hacks know that inconvenient truths are to be ignored.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromJohnStossel/Creators: The late economist Walter Williams explained, "Short of aerial bombardment, the best way to destroy a city is through rent controls."
Regulation Nation

fromReason: Calorie counts don't change behavior.
Regulation Nation

fromJudicialWatch: Fortunately, a conservative group got involved and the school district recently dropped its federal investigation under immense pressure from the community and attorneys at the legal nonprofit.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromReason: "Have sex with your clothes on" and "wash your fetish gear," offers the agency, which has in the past given us the brilliant advice to "cook your prosciutto" during times of salmonella spread.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromMises: "Have sex with your clothes on" and "wash your fetish gear," offers the agency, which has in the past given us the brilliant advice to "cook your prosciutto" during times of salmonella spread.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

June 19, 2022

fromRutherfordInstitute: “We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” — Ayn Rand.
2nd Amendment Assaults

fromIssuesInsights: One of the hallmarks of authoritarianism is the crushing of free expression. Speaking against the state is not allowed. What, then, to make of the Biden’s administration’s efforts to silence Americans?
The Government is Not Us


fromAmericanThinker: Over the past two decades, far too many citizens of the United States have willingly surrendered their rights and freedoms and now they are on the cusp of being unrestorable.
The Government is Not Us

fromOpenCulture: To each of the original text’s chapters the video devotes a ten-to-fifteen-minute section, conveying not just the content of its lessons but also their relevance to the history of human conflict in the roughly two and a half millennia since they were written.
Defense Versus The War Machine

fromFoxNews: Greg Gutfeld discusses the failures of the Biden administration.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromZeroHedge: "White House economists are laying out arguments for why the soaring cost of living isn’t Biden’s fault - and the economy is much better than voters seem to think it is."
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

June 18, 2022

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: The Assange persecution is the greatest threat to Western press freedoms in years. It is also a shining monument to the fraud of American and British self-depictions.
The Government is Not Us

fromKatiePavlich/TheHill: The reason for Garland’s refusal to enforce the law by prosecuting illegal intimidation of justices and those allegedly attacking pro-life pregnancy centers is simple. By looking the other way, President Biden’s DOJ appears to be fine with terrorizing the court, perhaps in the hope it will push justices to change their minds on the Dobbs case.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: A powerful new paper in Science magazine suggests the vaccines are useless if not harmful against Omicron.  The Government is Not Us

fromAmericanGreatness: A real committee would also investigate the other, far larger and more lethal riots on iconic federal property months earlier.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromGetPocket: The wisdom of Bertrand Russell. All human activity is prompted by desire. There is a wholly fallacious theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle. I say this is fallacious, not because no man ever acts from a sense of duty, but because duty has no hold on him unless he desires to be dutiful.
The Pursuit of Happiness

fromOilPrice: Last year, the International Energy Agency made headlines by calling for an end to new oil and gas exploration by the end of the year. A few months later, the IEA was calling for more oil.
Regulation Nation

June 17, 2022

fromBrownstoneInstitute: American’s capacity for denial is truly a thing to behold. For at least 27 months, it should have been obvious that we were headed for a grave crisis.

fromGov.UK: A survey of monkeypox cases by the UK Health Agency has found that 151 out of 152 participants are men who “identify as gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men.” The survey found that 311 (99% of 314) cases were men, with just 3 confirmed female cases.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromCNNHealth: Despite four vaccine jabs, Mr. Know-it-all gets sick anyway. Immunity ain't what it used to be.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromBrownstoneInstitute: The House voted 396-27 to approve the measure that had already passed unanimously in the Senate in May just days after the leak of the draft Supreme Court decision which could overturn Roe v Wade. 22 of those members voted for extra security for themselves after the January 6th protest at the Capitol.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromFreeThoughtProject: The study compared COVID-19 fatality rates across several counties in Kansas because the state allowed each of its 105 counties to decide whether or not to implement a mask mandate.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromTheFederalist: You’d think every Biden White House press conference would be a home run because, despite the president being largely incoherent, the press corps is exceedingly friendly to Democrats.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

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