August 13, 2022

fromMises: "Sooner or later, other people will be in power, and since the elites have shown no restraint in pursuing Trump and his allies, one can be sure that no one else will show restraint, either."

fromNYPost: A former New York Times opinion page editor alleges that her bosses refused to run an op-ed submitted by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) without first getting approval from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The Government is Not Us

fromTheHill: Spending $800 billion more will continue to drive up inflation, pushing it toward 10 percent. The Democrats are already hemorrhaging Black and Hispanic voters from their core base. This will accelerate it, along with other middle-class Americans.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Excerpts from Senate Judiciary Committee testimony on Aug 3, 2022. The pertinent testimony of FBI Director Christopher Wray regarding the politicization of the FBI.
The Government is Not Us

fromCATO: Warrantless surveillance may be novel for technology and media companies, but it is nothing new when it comes to the government’s surveillance of Americans’ financial activity.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make

fromNYPost: A former New York Times opinion page editor alleges that her bosses refused to run an op-ed submitted by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) without first getting approval from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

August 12, 2022

fromMarcThiessen/WashingtonPost: The unprecedented FBI search of former president Donald Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., home might go down as one of the most catastrophic mistakes in law enforcement history — one already widely seen by Republicans as an act of political retribution by a bureau whose relentless pursuit of Trump has destroyed its credibility. It also makes it far more likely that Trump will win the GOP nomination and take back the White House in 2024.         The Government is Not Us         Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromJonathanTurley: The point is not just hypocrisy, it is the concern of what this change is really about.

fromZeroHedge: A careful review of the official transcripts of its eight long hearings shows the committee repeatedly made connections that weren’t there, took events and quotes out of context, exaggerated the violence of the Capitol rioters, and omitted key exculpatory evidence otherwise absolving former President Donald Trump of guilt.

fromReason: DOJ says that policy is rational and consistent with the right to keep and bear arms.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange                                               2nd Amendment Assaults

fromDailyWire: Which is why innocent people now plead the 5th.

fromBreitbart: “Republicans must match this unprecedented action with an equally historic and powerful oversight effort to root out all abuse and corruption within our federal law enforcement.”

August 11, 2022

fromTownhall: "Remember 1998's "Enemy of the State" with Will Smith. In 2022, it's not just the NSA but also the DOJ, FBI, and now IRS coming after us. The only person who can stop that is Donald Trump, who made his plans for a massive government worker purge known in a lengthy piece in Axios."
The Government is Not Us                                                                          Police State America

fromNewser: The language is so strict that not a single electric vehicle on the US market would currently qualify for a full subsidy. "The $7500 credit might exist on paper, but no vehicles will qualify for this purchase incentive over the next few years."

fromQuillette: When high-school students can’t tolerate hearing the name of a book title, we know there’s a problem in education.

fromJonathanTurley: The problem is that the law would add a qualification or condition that is not stated in the Constitution. There are constitutional ways to impeach a president or to bar a former president from future office. The mishandling of official records is not one of them.

fromHotAir: The vaccine mandates have turned out to be dumpster fire as a public policy tool. There has been a steady undercurrent of resistance to the mandates all across the country. This is one result.

fromMattOsborne/Substack: She was startled by the voice of a man while she was in the shower.Poking her head out of the plastic sheet between herself and the man, she saw him wearing a women’s swimsuit, supervising little girls as they stripped off their own swimsuits to pee. “Do you have a penis?” She asked him.

August 10, 2022

fromTheFederalist: A two-tier justice system is not a justice system. It is a totalitarian system. Its purpose is not justice but population control.

fromSpectator: On 8/8 America officially became a banana republic. The FBI is now being used as a political apparatus of the state to criminalize opposition.

fromByronYork/WashingtonExaminer: "The main targets will by necessity be the middle and upper-middle class because that's where the money is," the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote recently.          The Government is Not Us                        Regulation Nation

fromJonathanTurley: Red states should pass legislation barring state business or travel with any state that 
engages in boycotts. The key would be that the agreement must stand on principle, allow no exceptions, and 
trigger immediate reciprocity: A travel ban on, say, Nebraska would result in a reciprocal ban not just from 
Nebraska but from every state in the alliance.

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen, Bjorn Lonborg, discusses the evidence and implications of climate change as an existential threat.

fromZeroHedge: None of the billions in tax increases Democrats threatened high-earners with last year make it into the final version of the bill. Their plans to 'tax the 1%' turned out to be nothing more than a big virtue signal.

August 9, 2022

fromFrontPageMag: With the FBI raid on Trump’s home, America has fallen into the abyss.

fromNYPost: Christopher Wray’s disingenuous testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, before he left early on the FBI’s private Gulfstream 550 jet, speaks volumes about the need to defund the FBI — or at least dump its unctuous director.

fromReason: California should build infrastructure, not shame water users.

fromWashingtonTimes: The current legislation would, according to the Tax Foundation, increase taxes on those in every income quintile and, consequently, reduce economic growth.

fromEpochTimes: The Select Committee to Investigate Jan. 6 has adjourned for a well-deserved summer break. Misleading the public is exhausting work.

fromAmericanLiberty: One major bit of misinformation has been the claim that former President Trump didn’t order the National Guard to protect the Capitol as he has said. Or that it is ‘false’ that Democrat officials rejected his offer. One is totally misleading; the other is just untrue.

August 8, 2022

fromTownhall: This is an election year. But the issues this year are not about Democrats and Republicans. The big issue is whether this nation has degenerated to a point of no return -- a point where we risk destroying ourselves, before our enemies can destroy us.
The Government is Not Us

fromReason: Michael Picard's free speech rights were violated when he was booked for telling passersby to "Google Jury Nullification."

fromMises: While renewable energy and organic farming are considered sustainable, they're anything but. The collapse of Sri Lanka is a warning.  

fromTownhall: It’s not shocking that the FBI didn’t apologize. That’s fine. The next step for any GOP candidate for president is to purge the whole agency from top-to-bottom then. Everyone, even the nighttime custodian, should go.
The Government is Not Us

fromTheFederalist: The GOP needs to vet corrupt, incompetent bureaucrats before confirming them instead of trying to hold them accountable with letters later.
The Government is Not Us

fromAmericanThinker: Harris locked up many petty marijuana offenders with comparable sentences in her day.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

August 7, 2022

fromTownhall: Worse than failing to address inflation, the legislation Biden has been begging Congress for over the last 18 months will add even more pain to Americans struggling under his economy — even those he has repeatedly promised wouldn't see increased costs under his administration's policies.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Alex Epstein, author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, explains that energy policy  should be focused on the process of producing energy, not just the raw material utilized.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromJohnKassNews: If you search online for “racism and medicine,” you will find screen after screen of medical papers purporting to show that doctors are racially biased, leading to worse outcomes for minorities. Is this science? No. It's politically driven. And that makes it political science, not medical science.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromWattsUpWithThat: What is settled is the abject failure of the three-decade-long attempt by the bureaucracies of the 195 countries of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to convince anyone other than themselves, a credulous media, and a few gullible people that climate change represents an existential threat.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromTheFederalist: President Biden referred to himself as “vice president” Thursday while lamenting his inability to buy an electric Corvette — in the latest job title mixup from the commander-in-chief.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromNYPost: President Biden referred to himself as “vice president” Thursday while lamenting his inability to buy an electric Corvette — in the latest job title mixup from the commander-in-chief.

August 6, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: 
Agents who miss knocking down doors and confiscating private property can always find work with the mafia.

fromDavidHansanyi/Creators: While peddling the ludicrously named Inflation Reduction Act on CNN this past week, Sen. Joe Manchin claimed that Democrats were merely trying to "close the loopholes and collect the taxes that are owed to the Treasury and the United States people."
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromReason: It is unlikely to stop mass shootings, but it will restrict rights and unjustly send people to prison.

fromIssuesInsights: As recently as two weeks ago, the big story of the day was the coming surge of a new, highly infectious COVID variant, called BA.5. The Biden administration warned about it. Los Angeles county considered renewing its indoor mask mandate. The head of the World Health Organization said that “new waves of the virus demonstrate again that the Covid-19 [pandemic] is nowhere near over.”
Regulation Nation

fromCaitlinJohnstone/Substack: Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government.
Media Bias on Parade

fromRutherfordInstitute: “Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.”—Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes.
Police State America

August 5, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: Elite experts and degreed professionals massaged and warped their knowledge to serve ideological masters rather than the truth.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromAndrewNapolitano/Creators: What if the purpose of sending nearly $60 billion in cash and military aid to Ukraine is to extend the war Ukraine can only win if American troops become involved? What if the government is giving Ukraine more borrowed federal dollars in six months than Ukraine's entire annual budget? What if the government wants American troops in this war to take the minds of American voters off the dismal economic, cultural and social mess that America has become?   Defense Versus The War Machine

fromSpiked: The most basic hallmarks of middle-class life have now fallen out of reach for millions. This isn’t a recession so much as a total assault on the middle class. From car-ownership and home ownership to being able to afford energy bills and eating out, the hallmarks of a middle-class life are being pulled further and further out of reach for millions and millions of Americans.

fromAmericanThinker: This administration’s green agenda has fueled the inflation fire that was already raging with the unprecedented government spending in recent years, and there’s no imaginable way that prices would come down when everything is toted to market by electric big rigs.
Inflation Nation

fromCaitlinJohnstone/Substack: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a brief but diplomatically corrosive visit, the aftereffects from which may be felt for years to come.
Defense Versus The War Machine

fromJohnStossel/Reason: Wherever markets are free, new wealth gets created. Then almost everyone wins.

August 4, 2022

fromRealClearEnergy: The Manchin-Schumer deal shows that the Washington Favor Factory never sleeps. The 700-plus-page bill is filled with outrageously expensive subsidies for the solar and wind sectors and lavishes lollipops on nearly every energy-related special interest in Washington. The legislation is so broad and has so much corporate welfare that it has been endorsed by Exxon Mobil and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

fromAmericanThinker: Why were they so hellbent in trying to get every single person on the planet “vaccinated” when Drs. Fauci and Birx knew from the beginning that the “vaccines” were deeply problematic?

fromShow-MeInstitute: When elected officials intentionally ignore the law, we often react with a mixture of anger and helplessness. Abetted by their government lawyers, whose jobs exist at the pleasure of their only client, elected officials invent arguments to justify going around the plain meaning of ordinary words.

fromReason: With 28 percent of Americans trying hallucinogens, the days are numbered for bans.

fromJimBovard: Joe Biden won the 2020 election as a result of 43,000 votes in three states. The election was far closer than the media has usually admitted.

fromTheFederalist: Decades of catastrophic claims about climate change have terrorized generations into believing the planet will be uninhabitable by the time they have their own children. Today’s young people are no different.

August 3, 2022

fromReason: Sen. Ron Wyden (D–Ore.) and Reps. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) team up to help protect whistleblowers from vindictive prosecution.

fromAmericanGreatness: The evidence is verified — 
the only unknown is what Republicans will do next.

fromDailySignal: A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that 98% of those infected around the world were gay or bisexual men who were having sex with other men.

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: In 2014, the Manhattan Institute’s Robert Bryce dismantled the pie-in-the-sky notion that the world can run on renewable energy. The facts could not be more clear.

fromWND: Hundreds of dollars in fees and penalties threatened.

fromHumanEvents: Since Biden contends there’s no difference between gender identity and biological sex, his administration has interpreted the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton to mean that discrimination ensues when a man cannot access feminizing surgery at his whim, so long as he claims he feels like a girl on the inside.

August 2, 2022

fromFoxNews: Biden's Education Department wants to reform Title IX to emphasize gender identity and normalize gender-benders. That could create a host of problems for colleges, universities and young girls.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: In 2014, the Manhattan Institute’s Robert Bryce dismantled the pie-in-the-sky notion that the world can run on renewable energy. The facts could not be more clear.

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: Add British Columbia to the governments trying to hide the reality that the mRNA jabbed make up the vast majority of Covid hospitalizations and deaths. If at first you don’t succeed, hide the numbers.

fromEricPetersAutos: Electric cars are like “masks” – and “vaccines” – in that all three don’t work and so depend on government to prop them up. Government dictates are a poor substitute for consumer demand.

fromHotAir: You probably haven’t seen many stories about baby formula shortages on the cable news networks or on the front pages of the larger newspapers lately. And that lack of coverage might lead you to believe that the problem has finally been addressed. But you would be incorrect.

fromTheFederalist: The same climate policies that are set to destroy private agriculture in the Netherlands are eventually coming to America.

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