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.”
                                          

July 30, 2021                                             

fromAmericanThinker: If killing freedom is the cost of survival, the cure is worse than the disease.

fromAmericanThinker: Future doctors will be science deniers. Professors are apologizing for saying ‘male’ and ‘female.’ Students are policing teachers. This is what it looks like when activism takes over medicine.

fromAmericanThinker: "When a bureaucrat demands that you be injected with a substance hidden behind walls of government censorship and secrecy, those with low risk factors are correct to be suspicious."

fromRealClearPolitics: "She is on the biggest stage in the world," he said. She has the chance to represent the United States. She has the chance to represent black people. I quit. I'm not in the right headspace."

fromAmericanGreatness: The idea that religion must be expelled from all public places is a lie and a fraud—a Marxist trojan horse: The goal isn’t to expel all religion. The goal is to expel all competing religions.

fromReason: The First Amendment clearly protects the right to political expression, even when it's vulgar.

July 29, 2021                                             

fromCity-Journal: History shows the dangers of suppressing scientific debate—but social media platforms, using public health as a justification, are eroding free speech.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromJustTheNews: Public school teacher pay in NY averaged $87,069 for the 2019-2020 school year.
The Government is Not Us                                        Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromReason: New York's firearm licensing requirements criminalize gun ownership by racial and ethnic minorities.
2nd Amendment Assaults

fromAmericanThinker: "it is primarily a big test — probably the final one — issued by those in power to see if there are still limits as to what they can force Americans to do.  For if they can succeed in wresting our health decisions away from us, if they can take away our choice, if they can force us to submit to allowing an unvetted foreign substance into our persons to act in a way that cannot be now known on the very genes of which we are composed, they will know there is nothing they can't do to us."
The Government is Not Us                                                            Indoctrination and Censorship

fromBasicEconomics/YouTube: Simple and highly explanatory.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromNYPost: It’s not just that the public gives the prez low marks on his handling (non-handling is more like it) of the surge at the southern border and the surge in shootings on our streets.
The Government is Not Us

July 28, 2021                                             

fromOpindia: Series of bizarre comments by US President Joe Biden sparks further concerns about his deteriorating mental health.

fromAIER: The root word is liberty.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromJonathanTurley: The signage is juvenile and highly offensive. However, it is also free speech. Judge Bundy is entirely right in his expression of disgust but, in my view, entirely wrong in his analysis of the First Amendment..
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromFoxNews: Wokeness has infiltrated every industry, from the military to media to philanthropy, without public support. But, according to Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson, there is a way to stop it.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromWashingtonTimes: A Democratic proposal that would give Black people more federal aid than White people to make down payments on homes is bringing charges of reverse racism and threats of lawsuits.

fromZeroHedge: Try to avoid the feces in the streets as you make your way toward the Gucci-style trash cans.
The Government is Not Us

July 27, 2021                                             

fromRealClearPolitics: If there are good reasons for holding separate competitions at all, then transgender women should not compete against other women.  
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromEpochTimes: A federal court on Friday ruled that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) overstepped its authority by halting evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.  
Regulation Nation

fromGlennGreenwald: Questioning the FBI's role in 1/6 was maligned by corporate media as deranged. But only ignorance about the FBI or a desire to deceive could produce such a reaction.  
The Government is Not Us

fromReason: We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans.  
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromFRC:  Under the cover of the pandemic, the D.C. City Council passed an act authorizing schools to administer vaccines to children as young as 11-years-old without their parent's consent.  
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle                                                           The Government is Not Us

fromZeroHedge: "About 92% of violent crimes in America do not involve firearms...".  
2nd Amendment Assaults

July 26, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: Now with money, institutions in their hip pocket, and cool popular culture, the Left would not just damn American institutions, but infect them to transform them into revolutionary agencies.  

fromSpectator: We no longer have a Constitution. 
The Government is Not Us

fromBreitbart: At least 66 percent of voters “think Congress should investigate last year’s violent protests, in which more than 2,000 police officers suffered injuries in the line of duty,” compared to only 49 percent of voters who support House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee investigation of the January 6 Capitol riot. 

fromActivistPost: All players need to be vaccinated unless teams want to risk running afoul of the new guidelines. 

fromUSAWatchdog: “This is not the time to be invested in the markets..." "Hold gold for insurance."
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromActivistPost: There is government, independent, military, and industry-funded research that indicates exposure to Bluetooth, cell phone and wireless “Wi-Fi” radiation is biologically harmful. Even if you’re not worried about health risks – it might bother you to know that the FBI can spy on your car via your on-board Wi-Fi. 
Government is Watching Every Move You Make

July 24, 2021                                             

fromGatewayPundit: The state only had 5.6 million registered voters?
The Government is Not Us

fromTheIntercept: The FBI foiled a plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer that was hatched by…the FBI’s own informants. What a mess.
Indoctrination and Censorship                                                            The Government is Not Us

fromFEE: This warning offers a painful reminder of how price inflation hurts everyday Americans.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromTheIntercept: Gordon Kromberg has been dogged by allegations of bias and politicized prosecutions. Now he could shape the future of journalism.
Media Bias on Parade                                                            The Government is Not Us

fromReason: As inflation increases, we need a low-debt environment.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromNYPost: President Biden is full of compassion for Hispanics fleeing their home countries — with one exception, that is: liberty-loving Cubans.
The Government is Not Us                                              Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

July 23, 2021                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: Brush up on your history, and you’ll find that we’ve been stuck on repeat for some time.
 The Government is Not Us     

fromPolitico: Conservative talk show host Larry Elder was reinstated in California's recall election at the eleventh hour Wednesday after a judge found he complied with ballot requirements and the state elections chief shouldn't have demanded that candidates provide five years of tax returns.

fromCaitlinJohnstone: If the propaganda engine of the US-centralized empire ceased actively deceiving the public about the world, it would collapse immediately.

fromGallup: Credit BLM, critical race theory, the mainstream media, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party and all other purveyors of divide and conquer "identity politics".

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reports on the actual situation at the border and presents compelling evidence that Biden regime is lying about what is transpiring.

fromBabylonBee: No sacrifice is too great for the religiously woke.
                                             

July 22, 2021                                             

fromReason: Misinformation is NOT disinformation. It is often truth that simply lacks government approval. 
The Government is Not Us                                                       Indoctrination and Censorship

fromAmericanThinker: There may not be absolute, incontrovertible proof of election fraud — yet. But there is plenty of (slightly more than compelling) evidence. 

fromNationalReview: Fauci has repeatedly denied that the U.S. funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. We know otherwise.
The Government is Not Us                                                       Indoctrination and Censorship

fromMises: One of the most important principles of economics is that people respond to incentives. You get more of whatever you incentivize. You get less of whatever you disincentivize. This is irrefutable. 

fromTheFederalist: Misinformation is anything that stands between Democrats and an authoritarian power grab. 
The Government is Not Us                                                       Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption


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