December 28, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness:  The Left is being consumed by its own hatreds and hubris.  Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromZeroHedge:  "The robber is the government, because it’s the government that’s creating the inflation that is causing the cost of living to go up. But the cost of living is going up, yet consumers have even less savings to afford that increase in the cost of living.   Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromNewsmax:  "This is like getting in your car and you see a kid running out in front of you, and you immediately slam your foot on the brakes, but by accident, you put your foot on the gas and you killed the child."   Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

fromCreators:  A recent study by the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank, ranked California 48th out of the 50 states in personal and economic freedom. The study also examines fiscal policy and regulatory policy. For the first time, California's population decreased last year, resulting in the loss of a congressional seat.
The Government is Not Us

fromTheDailyBell:  Don't look over there, just take the jab.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromBreitbart:  "This is like getting in your car and you see a kid running out in front of you, and you immediately slam your foot on the brakes, but by accident, you put your foot on the gas and you killed the child."

December 27, 2021                                             

fromZeroHedge:  Only serial media misinformation and lies turned a ragtag band of misfits into an existential threat to the nation.           Media Bias on Parade

Americans swept up into massive digital data dragnet
fromRutherfordInstitute:  Police use Warrantless real-time cell phone data to track travel, movement. 

fromAmericanGreatness:  The myth that January 6 was an insurrection that aimed to “overthrow the government” must not be allowed to stand. It's time to counter the Big Lie.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble:  US Border Patrol whipping down-trodden Haitian immigrants was a perfect story for the mainstream media to amplify the systemic racism narrative they seek to promote. If only it were true.

fromEpochTimes:  The report found that claims made by government leaders that mandatory vaccination will reduce or stop the spread of COVID-19 are not supported by either medical science or real-life experience. 

fromNYPost:  Our oblivious commander-in-chief makes it unanimous. 

December 26, 2021                                             

fromSpiked:  In 2022, we must defend bodily autonomy.

fromNYPost:  Sen. Joe Manchin was burned in effigy by progressive Democrats and pundits after he announced on Sunday that he would not support President Biden’s Build Back Better bill.

fromDailyMail:  The 50-year-old is wanted in the US for embarrassing the U.S. government by exposing incompetence and malfeasance.

fromNYPost:  "If students are to be educated, rather than indoctrinated, parents will have to stand up to the transgender militants. No one else has the nerve."

fromSpiked:  The classroom will be the key battleground in the 21st-century culture.

fromReason:  It's unwise to try to force consumer spending habits in defiance of the market.

December 24, 2021                                             

fromTheUSSun:  "The implant could carry all sorts of information about a person, from Access and Visa details to your National Insurance number, blood type, medical records etc., with the data being updated where necessary."

from1945:  Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) drew a bit of controversy earlier this month when he and his family posed for a Christmas greeting in which the Congressman, his wife, and their children all posed holding large guns. The greeting also included the phrase “Santa, please bring ammo.”

fromReason:  Researchers are hoping to learn about the behavioral economics that drive gambling addictions in humans by teaching pigeons how to play slot machines. And federal taxpayers are paying for it.   The Government is Not Us

fromLibertyPen/Rumble:  Race car driver Bubba Wallace feels threatened when he mistakes a garage door pull for a noose and the all-too-willing media can’t wait for investigation to launch into its systemic racism narrative.

fromCBSNews:  The drugmaker says it works to block the ability of the virus to make copies of itself. It reduces chances of hospitalization by 90 percent.

fromZeroHedge:  Elon Musk slams Liz Warren and woke culture in epic Babylon Bee interview. Why Babylon? "I'm not perverted enough for CNN..."

December 23, 2021                                             

fromWashingtonExaminer:  It will hear arguments on an expedited basis over President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine-or-test measure for companies employing 100 or more workers. It will also hear a case challenging vaccine mandates for healthcare workers.

fromBreitbart:  Forty percent of U.S. adults rate current economic conditions as fair, 42 percent as poor, and 67 percent say the economy is getting worse.  

fromZeroHedge:  The Biden Administration's attempt to force millions of American workers to either get vaccinated or risk losing their jobs has backfired spectacularly.  The Government is Not Us

fromTheFederalist:  Rather than return to lockdowns and school closures — to say nothing of canceling holiday gatherings — there’s every reason to believe we’ll be able to weather this surge with minimal disruption.

fromBrownstone:  Will the same policies that failed against a more virulent strain succeed in containing a more transmissible strain? The answer is self-evidently no. 


December 22, 2021                                             

fromRealClearPolitics:  Glenn Greenwald discusses why WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a "pioneer" of journalism and a "dissident in the noblest and bravest sense of that term."

fromTheFederalist:  "Now, after pushing kids away from vocational education in past decades, public schools water down the academic qualifications so much as to make them meaningless."

fromRonPaul/Mises:  Fauci, and the Big Pharma billionaires are trying to make a last stand, desperate to push omicron as a justification for further tyranny and profits.

fromCommentary:  As early as September 2020, the “experts” were starting to say aloud what was previously the exclusive province of cranks and conspiracy theorists: The temporary emergency measures necessitated by the pandemic were never going away.

fromCNN:  The legal papers are directed to Kavanaugh because he has jurisdiction over the appeals court that made the ruling. He is likely to refer the matter to the full court. The court asked for responses by December 30 to the mandate challengers' request.

fromReason:  A new report says 83 percent of the world's population is less free today than it was in 2008, and the gap between the world's most and least free countries is growing.

December 21, 2021                                             

fromReason:  We seem to be entering a new era of yellow journalism, in which ad hominem attacks and conspiracy-mongering are more valued than truth and accuracy.

fromAmericanGreatness:  The bill for the arrogance and incompetence displayed by leftist elites is now coming due.

fromRutherford:  What if Jesus had been born 2,000 years later?

fromAmericanThinker:  If there were three quick lessons I wish people would understand about government, they are these: (1) Governments do whatever is necessary to secure and expand their own power and wealth. (2) Governments have no capacity for morality and will lie about anything large or small. (3) Governments always put their own interests ahead of those they purport to govern.

fromAlexBerenson/Substack:  Scientists advising the government of South Africa - where Omicron is now the dominant strain - say tracing and quarantining the contacts of infected people is a waste of time.

fromReason:  After Build Back Better assumes its position on the junk heap of bad ideas, Democrats turn to institutionalizing the 2020 election manipulations that opened the system to fraud.

December 20, 2021                                             

fromNYPost:  President Joe Biden has stopped claiming the surge is “seasonal,” though mostly he just ignores the crisis, perhaps because his policies clearly caused it.

fromReason:  One man provides evidence that "reasonable Democrat" is not an oxymoron.

fromAmericanGreatness:  "Uncontrolled inflation is no mere annoyance; it is a disease that turns every single day into a fight for survival. It brings out the worst in people."

fromHotAir:  Why is this happening? Because California wants more money. According to the California Public Utilities Commission so many people have installed solar to get out of paying their monthly electric bill that utilities can’t cover the cost of maintaining the distribution system.

fromDailyMail:  Industry leaders want immediate lifting of the cultivation tax placed on growers, a three-year holiday from the excise tax and an expansion of retail shops

fromLibertyPen/Rumble:  Anonymous sources are often used to conjure fake news. Two such instances are illustrated here.

December 19, 2021                                             

fromReason:  The USA maintains a decent international reputation as a haven for personal freedom. But that's cold comfort in a world growing less free, in which Americans themselves are alarmed about the status of their liberty.

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack:  The same corporate outlets that most vocally profess concern over disinformation are the ones spreading it most casually. NBC's Assange report is the perfect case study.

fromTheFederalist:  Lots of politicians are big, fat liars. Joe Biden is merely one of the most obvious.

fromPolitico:  The idea that a handful of corporate malefactors are driving widespread inflation is a fairy tale intended to shift political blame.  Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromFoxNews:  Time for the White House to admit that its policies have failed and are getting people killed.  

fromJonathanTurley:  The guilty verdict does not simply mean that Smollett is a liar or someone who engaged in disorderly conduct. He is a race baiter.

December 18, 2021                                             

fromCaitlinJohnstone:  The US government is trying to extradite a journalist and prosecute him under the Espionage Act for exposing its war crimes, with the long-term goal of normalizing this practice. That's it.

fromDailyWire:  Led by Joe Biden, the drunken sailors of Washington have brought us this distinction.

fromJamesGMartinCenter:  The purpose of the university is not to create parroting pundits who are hostile to other viewpoints, it’s to create thinkers who will be future innovators that aid in advancing society.     Indoctrination and Censorship

fromIssues&Insights:  In the beginning officials from both parties were guilty of the excesses. But in 2021, it’s the Republican red states that have returned lost liberties while Democrat blue states, and Democrats in Washington, continue to violate freedom with the cheerleading of the press.              The Government is Not Us

fromPostMillennial:  Twitter is censoring and deactivating accounts for telling simple truths about Covid, like the fact that vaxxed people can spread the virus. Twitter is an unabashed political propaganda outlet.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble:  A smirking white teenager in the face of a noble Native American fit into the mainstream media’s narrative like a glove. If only it had been true.
Indoctrination and Censorship                                                                              Media Bias on Parade

December 17, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness:  There’s a word to describe people who believe that unpleasant ideas can be eliminated by banning the “trigger words” that represent them: Such people are called children.

fromEpochTimes:  Here we go again. The latest scheduled round of minimum-wage increases, to $15 per hour, starts Jan. 1. It hasn’t even gone into effect, yet calls are going out for a $18 wage. Why not $28? Or $58? Or $118?

fromReason:  15 out of 16 adult New Yorkers have gotten the jab, but that's not enough to keep government from fining businesses and excluding kids.

fromWashingtonFreeBeacon:  69 percent 'say no new mandates or restrictions are required'. Scare tactics seemed to have run their course, as authoritarians find it increasingly difficult to squeeze out more utility from them.

fromRonPaul/Mises:  If the government can monitor and control something as fundamental as our health care choices, then no part of our lives is off limits to the nanny state.

fromPostMillennial:  Back in October of 2020, Biden demanded that Trump take responsibility for COVID deaths. There were 200,000 deaths at that time.

December 16, 2021                                             

fromCNNBusiness:  The producer price index, which tracks the average changes in selling prices that domestic producers receive over time, rose 9.6% over the 12 months ended in November, the biggest jump since calculated.

fromPostMillennial:  Speaking to Dan Bongino, Senator Rand Paul, who is also a doctor, took aim at the COVID restrictions that have come down from the Biden administration and from Democrat leaders across the country.

fromSpiked:  Time has named Biles its Athlete of the Year. That is bonkers.  Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromIssues&Insights:  If $1million in $100 dollar bills stacks up to 40 inches (3.3 feet), $5 trillion in $100 dollar bills is 200,000,000 inches high, which is 3155 miles. Outer space is only 62 miles (NASA).

fromPJMedia:  The Leftist political and media establishment now takes for granted that on Jan. 6, Donald Trump attempted a coup, with his slavish minions storming the Capitol and threatening the very survival of our free institutions. The only thing they haven’t been able to do is to prove it.

fromBigThink:  Do your kids a favor and give them the gift of philosophy this Christmas.

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