May 9, 2019
fromAIER: Taxing your own people and hobbling their trading relationships does not create more wealth.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromForbes: Voters in Denver, Colorado made their city the first in the U.S. to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms by approving a ballot measure on the issue on Tuesday.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
fromZeroHedge: Different social classes raise their children differently. Studies have shown that children whose parents are professional heard more words per hour than children whose families are on welfare.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
fromZeroHedge: Robert Mueller's report contains at least two major omissions which suggest either incompetence, or purposeful concealing of major crimes committed against the Trump campaign and the American people.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
fromReason: Progressives push their luck with their totalitarian insistence that everybody is with them or against them on guns and so much else.
2nd Amendment Assaults
fromFreeThoughtProject: After police refused to respond to his calls for assistance, a Texas man gave police a peaceful piece of his mind, but it landed him in jail. So much for free speech.
May 8, 2019
fromActivistPost: High Court denied the state’s request to delay briefing until NY resolved its rule making process. As a result, the briefing will go forward on the first true Second Amendment case since McDonald v. Chicago.
2nd Amendment Assaults
fromReason: Socialists like Bernie Sanders tell us that "the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer." Bernie's wrong about that. The poor are much better off.
May 6, 2019
fromConsortiumNews: Even if charges are later dropped, governments still win because the tactics used damage the truth teller professionally, financially, socially and psychologically, and foreseeably chill other whistleblowers.
Indoctrination and Censorship
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Sex trafficking—especially when it comes to young girls has become the fastest growing business in organized crime and the most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
fromAmericanThinker: ‘Red flag’ laws brazenly violate the Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments of the United States Constitution. ‘Red flag’ laws cannot and should not ever be enforced.
fromWattsUpWithThat: You would think a country with rapidly worsening rates of child poverty would have other priorities than worrying about what the weather will be like in 50 years time.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
fromRutherfordInstitute: Sex trafficking—especially when it comes to young girls has become the fastest growing business in organized crime and the most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
fromFreeThoughtProject: We now know that the suspect did not fire on police before police opened fire on the truck full of children. The officers are now on paid administrative leave pending an investigation.
May 3, 2019
fromZeroHedge: Conviction under the 1917 law geared toward protecting the nation's military secrets and most sensitive security matters could result in life in prison or even the death penalty for Assange.
Indoctrination and Censorship
fromAmericanGreatness: In the next several weeks, Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected to issue his summation of the potential abuse of FISA by top officials in the Obama Administration.
May 1, 2019
fromTheNation: It is verifiable.
A half-century of Washington’s harsh drug prohibition policies has brought misery to millions across the globe.
April 29, 2019
fromCBSChicago: While every patrol officer is required to wear a body camera – 8,200 have been issued to officers, including tactical teams. Still, it is amazing how often the cameras fail during unflattering events.
Police State America
fromReason: If college students have skin in their own game, they'll think more seriously about going to college in the first place and be more motivated to be serious and to finish.
April 27, 2019
fromReason: Human Rights Watch and other groups say these systems draw serious concerns.
fromTargetLiberty: Amazing! Left-wing comedian uses facts and documents to show the original role of Clinton-Podesta in the Trump collusion narrative
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
fromFreeThoughtProject: For refusing to allow police to illegally search her home, an innocent grandma was attacked, kidnapped, injured and denied treatment -- and taxpayers, not cops were held accountable.
Police State America
fromDailyMail: The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed an amicus brief concerning Google's role in helping the government seize data via warrantless searches.
fromCaitlinJohnstone: Understanding everything that WikiLeaks has done to shine light where powerful people want darkness makes it abundantly clear why powerful people want to sabotage it.
April 24, 2019
fromZeroHedge: Now that the shoe is on the other foot, and key Democrats backing away from talks of impeachment, let's see if lady justice will follow the rest of us down the rabbit hole.
fromCreators: If one needed evidence of the gross ignorance of millennials, and their teachers and college professors, it's their solid support for socialism and socialist presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders.
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: From American Thought Leaders, historian Victor Davis Hanson provides a brilliant retrospective of the Russian Hoax, detailing the players, the playbook and what could come next.
fromBBC: When prostitution is illegal “what ends up happening is the sex workers themselves have to pay bribes to the police – either sexual bribes or financial bribes – to then escape the enforcement of the law. That simply means they have to do more sex work in order to make up the money they’ve paid to the state.”
fromReason: Classifying heavy internet use as medical addiction leads to bad policy and inferior patient care.
April 22, 2019
fromRutherfordInstitute: We get taxed on how much we earn, taxed on what we eat, taxed on what we buy, taxed on where we go, taxed on what we drive, and taxed on how much is left of our assets when we die, and yet we have no real say in how the government runs, or how our taxpayer funds are used.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromFEE: How high does the death toll need to get before people realize that communism, like its sister ideology of Nazism, is despicably evil?
fromActivistPost: FamilyTreeDNA is the first company known to be cooperating directly with the FBI to give its agents access to its genealogy database, according to a BuzzFeed report.
Police State America Government is Watching Every Move You Make
fromFoxNews: He only told the truth and used her own words. Unforgivable.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
fromCharlesHughSmith: There is really only one unforgivable sin in the political realm, and that's destroying the official narrative by revealing the facts of the matter. This is why whistleblowers who make public the secret machinery of the elaborately artful lies underpinning all official narratives are hounded to the ends of the Earth.
April 19, 2019
fromDailyBell: And that doesn't calculate the negative value of tyranny.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromDailyBell: 1. Ignore the problem, 2. raise taxes, 3. default, 4. continue creating inflation.
fromAlt-Market: Whenever disaster strikes economically, free markets are blamed. Whenever something is fixed, even if that fix is a band-aid on a sucking chest wound, government involvement and socialism are applauded.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromAmericanConservative: She's still spinning Russiagate conspiracy tales, even as her ratings crash down.
Media Bias on Parade
fromForbes: On December 31st, NYC raised the minimum wage to $15, a 15% increase from the 2018 level, and a 34% hike from 2017. The result? Close to three-quarters of restaurants in New York City have cut labor input.
April 17, 2019
fromTheFederalist: How negligent media have helped inflate a deadly moral panic over prescription opioids and ignored the real sources of addiction, while hurting people who live with devastating chronic pain.
The War On Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
fromInternationalMan: The infrastructure for this system is already in place in the United States. Under the new system of life by government approval, survival becomes simple: Obey… or die.
April 15, 2019
fromReason: The world is a better place now that it's harder than ever for governments to keep secrets.
April 12, 2019
fromBloomberg: Tens of millions of very foolish people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
fromEricPetersAuto: Free health care, free college tuition, free child care are the beacons for the liberal Left. Everything but the freedom to think for yourself.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromTheSpectator: The Fox News host’s only real crime is daring to be provocative in a dull media world.
Media Bias on Parade
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: A look at the apologetic whining from Democratic presidential candidates for having been born white, advocating borders, failing to champion reparations to blacks and other high PC crimes.