August 12, 2021                                             

fromDailyMail: It gives Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg the ability to award grants to local and regional entities 'to carry out pilot projects' of the VMT tax. The DOT would calculate drivers' payments quarterly.

fromDailyWire: “We don’t have to accept the mandates, lockdowns, and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and bureaucrats. We can simply say no, not again.”

fromAmericanThinker: Mike Lindell has organized a Cyber Symposium that he claims will prove the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and he’s giving $5 million to anyone who can disprove his data. Lindell plans to unveil computer data in front of politicians, cyber experts, and reporters.

fromReason: Recycling a government press release is not good journalism.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange                                  Police State America

fromZeroHedge: The record number of job openings stands out in stark contrast to Americans who are still collecting various pandemic emergency unemployment claims, which in the latest week was just above 11 million.

fromNYPost: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just released its latest climate report, and reactions from politicians and media pundits could not have been more predictable.

August 11, 2021                                             

fromReason: They'll never be satisfied in a world of balanced risks.

fromReason: As early as 2026, new cars will have to come equipped with "advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology."

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: The real-world data - from Israel, the United States, and everywhere else - are clear. Vaccine protection from infection fades within months against both the original coronavirus and the Delta variant. 

fromTheHill: Thirty-one percent of registered voters in the Aug. 2-3 survey named inflation as what concerns them the most when thinking about the future of the economy. This was followed by the national debt, at 22 percent, and unemployment and income inequality, at 15 percent each.

fromVisualCapitalist: A great way to grasp issues is to see them.

fromMises: Far from being in a position of overwhelming strength, China and its Communist leadership face imminent multifront domestic crises that will threaten the existence not only of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) but the existence of the Chinese state as a unified whole.

August 10, 2021                                             

fromCreators: Hate speech bans are unconstitutional in the United States, whose founders had the wisdom to recognize that giving government the authority to censor its citizens is more dangerous than allowing bigots to spew bile in a marketplace of ideas where reasonable people can refute and rebuke them.

fromTheHill: Biden acknowledged the obvious: any new order to extend the moratorium would be unconstitutional. Yet, he added that he was able to find “several key scholars who think that it may and it’s worth the effort.”


fromTownhall: Employers consistently report that new hires fare poorly in writing and critical thinking — essentially, two sides of the same coin. The shift began in the 1980s, as a new form of literary criticism knows as “deconstructionism” caught on in English departments across the country.

fromNationalReview: Two new independent polls on California’s September 14 recall election have a startling explanation for why Governor Gavin Newsom is in trouble. His support among minority communities is crumbling as issues such as crime, COVID restrictions, and a huge unemployment-benefits scandal dominate the race.

fromReason: The original formulation of OxyContin didn’t create the opioid crisis, argues psychiatrist Sally Satel, and removing it from the market didn’t make the problem go away.

August 9, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: It was always going to be Herculean to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multi-ethnic nation of 330 million, across a vast continent—in an era when the media routinely warps the daily news. 

fromReason: They'll never be satisfied in a world of balanced risks.
Regulation Nation                                                                                The Government is Not Us   

fromEpochTimes: Dr. Kobi Haviv, medical director of Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem said that “85 to 90 percent of the hospitalizations are in fully vaccinated people,” and “95 percent of the severe patients are vaccinated.”

fromQuillette: Truth matters. Words matter. What is objectively the case matters. And insofar as our words and concepts can be about the objective world at all, then the shared set of words and meanings that we collectively use and are permitted to use to describe, navigate, and refer to that objective world matters.

fromAxios: The number of Americans who renounced their citizenship in favor of a foreign country hit an all-time high in 2020: 6,707, a 237% increase over 2019.

fromBabylonBee: Blacks tend to be vaccinated at much lower rate than whites. Who can blame them for being wary of government 'experiments'? 

August 8, 2021                                             

fromFoxNews: Mask mandates and lockdowns from petty tyrants? No, not again.

fromCharlesHughesSmith: Risk cannot be extinguished, it can only be transferred. Crony capitalism has transmogrified into predatory capitalism as government, finance and the corporatocracy have allied into a seamless (and seamlessly corrupt) elite class that has offloaded systemic risk onto the unprotected class.

fromReason: Small-scale drug possession is now a $100 infraction that can be dismissed with a call to a drug abuse assessment hotline.

fromZeroHedge: Pointing out that the majority of black people in the United States have not yet had a COVID vaccine, Dr. Drew asserted that vaccine passports which ban the unvaccinated from venues like bars and restaurants are a new form of “segregation.”

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: That figure is far higher than the number of side effect reports about Moderna’s vaccine publicly available in the federal system that tracks such adverse events.

fromTheAtlantic: The state GOP’s comeback runs through Latino communities.

August 7, 2021                                             

fromRealClearPolitics: Here are three reasons why the recall won’t happen, and three reasons why it might.

fromJonathanTurley: Do you have a right to leave your home to eat or recreate if you are a “non-vac?”

fromReason: The government and media relied on studies plagued by shoddy statistics to make the case for blocking evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

fromRealClearEnergy: Virtue signaling is defined at the act of publicly expressing opinions in order to demonstrate that you are a good person.

fromRedState: A senator (Joe Manchin) is literally funneling a billion dollars of taxpayer money to an organization headed by his wife after she was given an appointment due to his influence.

fromUnderstandingDeepPolitics: “We persuaded our children that they were going to murder their grandma if they dared to be what they are, children. Or if they met their friends. None of this has been scientifically proven.”

August 6, 2021                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: Imagine it: a national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status but also allows the government to sort you in a hundred other ways: by gender, orientation, wealth, medical condition, religious beliefs, political viewpoint, legal status, etc. This is the slippery slope upon which we are embarking, one that begins with vaccine passports and ends with a national system of segregation.

fromVox: Now, law enforcement simply buys your data. No need for a search warrant.

fromJonathanTurley: National Public Radio, rejecting objectivity in journalism, announced that its journalists can now engage in protests and advocacy.
Media Bias on Parade                                                                           Indoctrination and Censorship

fromActivistPost: If you make a conscious choice to ignore all long-term consequences, managing your personal finances can be a lot of fun.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromAmericanThinker: Mask policy in America has become as incoherent as Joe himself.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromGatewayPundit: Finds 8.1 million excess votes in US election and affirms that Trump won Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and Minnesota.

August 5, 2021                                             

fromClaremontReviewofBooks: Faceless people make compliant subjects, not good citizens.

fromWashingtonPost: The more government flexes its political muscles to enforce vaccine compliance, the greater incentive there is for push back, reinforcing the idea that the fight over vaccines is a fight about individual liberty.

fromGlobalResearch: We have to deal with the reality of what we’ve become thanks to the people who sought to use the power of the state to outwit an enemy that neither we nor they could see or understand.


fromEpochTimes: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey were named in the lawsuits—as well as the companies themselves.

fromCaitlinJohnstone: Hawaii police are defending their use of pandemic relief funds for a robotic "police dog" made by Boston Dynamics which scans homeless people's eyes to see if they have a fever.

August 4, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: PC ideology is masking and contributing to the widespread failure of our institutions.
The Government is Not Us                                                        Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromNYPost: The future of freedom depends on it.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle                               Indoctrination and Censorship

fromAmericanThinker: Of the many life lessons my high school wrestling coach taught me, one such gem resonates with me 39 years hence: "Boy Scouts don't win street fights."  If only we had street fighters in our corner.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromJonathanTurley: Threatening to make the lives of the unvaccinated a “living hell,” or isolating them from society, will do little to increase the level of vaccination, but it will do much to increase the level of alienation in our society.
The Government is Not Us

fromCreators: Farmers languishing financially could use help from Biden's American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. 
But, because Rogers and her neighbors are white they do not qualify.
The Government is Not Us

fromMises: In the case of both athlete and teacher, the rarity of the skill and the number of people who benefit from the individual determines the level of pay. Scarcity in relation to the level of demand determines value for all things.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

August 3, 2021                                             

fromRealClearPolitics: HBO host Bill Maher, on Friday's broadcast of his show "Real Time," took on "cancel culture" at the "woke Olympics" and people need to take a pause from thinking about the "bad people in the world."

fromTheHill: Fauci and the CDC have squandered any credibility they once possessed.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery                                                      The Government is Not Us

fromAP: Next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, but only 4% of hog operations now comply with the new rules.

fromYahooNews: The Biden administration aims to spend millions of dollars to cover the cost of lawyers for migrants who have illegally entered the country, a prospect that has infuriated law-abiding citizens.
The Government is Not Us

fromDailyMail: A petition to disallow transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard from competing as a woman is quietly cancelled ahead of his Olympic debut. He has already been eliminated by competition however.

fromRealClearPolitics: Fox News host Maria Bartiromo and Sen. John Barrasso agreed on "Sunday Morning Futures" that Democrats will try to cheat in the 2022 midterm elections and take advantage of Covid-19 to do so. 
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

August 2, 2021                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: We have lingered too long in this strange twilight zone where ego trumps justice, propaganda perverts truth, and imperial presidents rule by fiat rather than by the rule of law.

fromIssuesInsights: The misery index is up, so is inflation, pessimism, and financial stress. Illegal border crossings and murders are way up. And, cases of COVID-19 — the disease Biden said he would slay — are increasing again.

fromNationalReview: Exporting death the Democratic Party way, at the American taxpayer's expense.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery                                            The Government is Not Us

fromNYPost: Despite evidence from the CDC that breakthrough infections among the vaccinated were “rare,” the latest information also suggests Delta can spread just as easily among the jabbed, the report warns.

fromReason: Reason has joined a new legal effort seeking to force the government to unseal warrants justifying the FBI's seizure of more than 600 safe deposit boxes.

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: "Since the beginning, Covid has been both a political godsend to the left and a big business. But I’ve assumed that sooner or later the public health mandarins and their water-carriers in the media would have to admit the truth. Yet they won’t."

July 31, 2021                                             

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: The only unanswered question answered about January 6 -- how embedded was FBI in the groups that planned it? -- is notably off the table.
Police State America                                                                      The Government is Not Us

fromReason: Because adults can't evaluate risk, kids continue to suffer the most from COVID policy, despite suffering the least from COVID.

fromCreators: We at The American Spectator call it "Kultursmog," and it is the only kind of smog of which our friends on the left approve. Actually, they not only approve of Kultursmog, but they contribute to it.

fromTheFederalist: The sheer similarities and differences between the treatment of the 2020 rioters compared to the treatment of the January 6 riot rioters are shocking.

fromBuckSexton: Mask mania is making a comeback. Democrats’ favorite cloth fetish mass hysteria was on a short hiatus while they tried to induce every person in America over the age of 12 to get a vaccine shot this past spring.
Regulation Nation                                                                                  The Government is Not Us

fromMises: All the propaganda that whitewashes the Cuban dictatorship is based on two lies: the nonexistent “blockade” and the allegedly excellent “public health.”
                                          
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