October 13, 2021                                             

fromWashingtonExaminer:  School board meetings show only that freedom is messy.

fromAlt-Markets:  Of course it is. It is a consequence of artificially created conditions and restrictions.

fromAmericanGreatness:  Biden's war on America's energy independence has international implications.

fromNYPost:  The Seattle Police Department has already lost more than 300 officers since Black Lives Matters riots and the “defund the police” movement roiled the city in 2020, putting officers in the crosshairs of political and public ire.

fromAmericanGreatness:  Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Monday banning "any entity" in the state from enforcing a vaccine mandate.

fromAmericanGreatness:  You shouldn't mess with a sleeping giant. Parents across the country have suddenly woken up to the wokeness haunting their schools and poisoning the minds of their children. 
Police State America                                                                       The Government is Not Us                                      

October 12, 2021                                             

fromAmericanConservative:  👉  Corporate America benefits from the warfare state. Everyone else pays.

fromSchiffGold:  "This is a real twilight zone. The price of gold should be soaring. The dollar should be getting killed. None of that is happening.”

fromPolitico:  Racial division gets introduced into the curriculum.

fromZeroHedge:  They can't stop ghost guns. But, like the war on drugs, winning isn't the point. Social control is.

fromJonathanTurley:  The decision was not a surprise. What is most striking however is the coverage in the Washington Post, which reported on the summary affirmance but only quoted supporters for the challenge, including a strikingly misleading take on the lower court ruling upheld by the Supreme Court.

fromOrganicPrepper:  When it comes to how we see and prepare for SHTF, thinking in terms of real and probable rather than fictional and possible can make a big difference.

October 11, 2021                                             

fromGallup: In all, 7% of U.S. adults say they have "a great deal" and 29% "a fair amount" of trust and confidence in newspapers, television and radio news reporting.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromEpochTimes: Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Norway have already limited the use of the Moderna vaccine over the same concerns. Iceland went further than its neighbors and stopped using the vaccine entirely.
The Government is Not Us

fromAxios: Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromMediate: The NYT issued a wide range of corrections on Thursday to a story about Covid-19, noting, among other things, that it inflated the number of children hospitalized with the virus by nearly 1,500 percent.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromFoxNews/Rumble: The Trump presidency was driven by all sorts of narratives about how independent generals like Mattis, John Kelly, and H.R. Mcmaster were going to save us from the elected president. 

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: The advance of wokeness, decreased border integrity, deterioration of common values, the encouragement of prolonged adolescence, tribalism and other assaults on the concept of citizenship explained.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

October 10, 2021                                             

fromEricPetersAuto: The Supreme Court  just “ruled” that teachers (and so, in principle, everyone) must take the Jab else lose their jobs – but the persons issuing these “rulings” are exempted from any “mandate” that they roll up their sleeves as the price of being allowed to continue wearing their robes. Judicial Privilege, you understand.
The Government is Not Us                                                                            Regulation Nation

fromMishTalk: Between wage increases, lockdowns and mandates, small businesses everywhere are being squeezed out of existence in order centralize commerce into big government-friendly entities. 
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market                                      The Government is Not Us

fromNYPost: Spurred by supply shortages and massive government spending, inflation has become an added tax on middle-class Americans coming out of the COVID lockdowns. 

fromFreeThoughtProject: An accidentally unsealed court document reveals that the federal government secretly ordered Google to provide data on people searching specific search words or phrases, according to Forbes. 

from Moonbattery: The National Energy Assistance Directors Association predicts gas bills in the U.S. could rise up to 30% this winter thanks to Biden's shutdown of domestic production. One result will be lost lives.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market                                       Regulation Nation

fromPolitico: Tax us and the black market will start preying on young smokers. Democrats want to pay for Biden’s agenda with a tax on cigarettes. 
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market                                       Regulation Nation

October 9, 2021                                             

fromMises: While short-term disruptions would occur, the fact is the medium- and long-term effects would prove beneficial by reining in the regime's chokehold on the American economy and financial system. 

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: Facebook and Google are both grave menaces. Through consolidation, mergers and purchases of any potential competitors, their power far exceeds what is compatible with a healthy democracy.

fromTheIntercept: The Covid-19 treatment molnupiravir was developed using funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.

fromMisesWire: As in many previous years, this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is chock-full of terrible legislation slyly inserted for the purposes of concealing matters from the public.
Defense Versus The War Machine                                              Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromBloomberg: The Swedish health authority Wednesday cited new data on the increased risk of heart inflammation to those under 30 as the primary reason to stop giving the shot to those younger than 18. 
The Government is Not Us                                                                                  Regulation Nation

fromLifesiteNews: A symptom of our stupid age is that extremely obvious facts are reported as shocking news, while obvious falsehoods are reported as triumphant truths. Consider two transgender stories.

October 8, 2021                                             

fromAmericanThinker: Freedom of speech is designed to protect Americans from being silenced by the government.

fromTheFederalist: Instead of recognizing a mom as the hero that she is for protecting children from pedophilia in school libraries, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has issued a declaration of war on America’s parents.
Police State America                                                         Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromSharylAttkisson: The Taliban has used the biometric information left behind by the American Embassy to contact the Afghans with spoof emails, telling them report to fake "safe houses," where they were executed.

fromReason: Governments may not be able to make an economy, but they've proven they can break it.

fromAmericanGreatness: Twenty or 30 years ago, it was tacitly understood on both sides of the political aisle that leftists — mostly Democrats — had to lie about what they wanted to do. Now, they openly support those things.

fromTownhall: While the greens in America, including their champion zealot, President Joe Biden, howl their primal screams over climate change, the rest of the world is turning to coal. The dark stuff. The satanic fuel.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery                                             The Government is Not Us

October 7, 2021                                             

fromTheFederalist: Illegal migrants previously received funding through the Additional Child Tax Credit, but the new version of this government handout program ensures that “the arrival of any low-income immigrant (legal or illegal) who has a U.S.-born child will have a much larger negative fiscal impact than was previously the case.”

fromTheHill: So far this year, the Fed has proved to be a poor inflation forecaster. When it comes to inflation, the Federal Reserve seems to be suffering from confirmation bias.

fromOANN: Dollar Tree announced they plan to raise prices for some items as inflation continues unabated.

fromMisesInstitute: "Everything we do is in service to our public mission. We at the Fed will do everything we can to support the economy for as long as it takes to complete the recovery." If the Fed will only stop once the recovery is finally complete, then one thing becomes certain: The Fed will never stop helping.

fromAmericanThinker: Take notice--it’s all Joe Biden has ever done and it’s all that the Democrat party wants to do.

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: The professor provides an explanation of the origins of money as well as the cause and cure for inflation.

October 6, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: Milley, Fauci, and Biden are soulless men who reveal the bankruptcy of our ruling class.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption                                  The Government is Not Us

fromAmericanThinker: A cautionary tale. "Vroom recently had her breasts replaced with headlights, but the procedure didn't go well, and the bulbs are dim."

fromMisesInstitute: Although the experts assured us Sweden would experience a disaster and a bloodbath without covid lockdowns, the Nordic nation has fared better than Europe on excess deaths. 
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery                                         The Government is Not Us

fromReason: How far do "emergency powers" really extend?

fromFrontPageMag: Nearly four decades ago, the now-famous doctor encouraging COVID-19 vaccines advocated an ineffective, dangerous medication for a far deadlier disease -- and got away with it.
The Government is Not Us                                                                       Regulation Nation

fromTownhall: NBC Sports reporter Kelli Stavast responded to an awkward situation when she interviewed winning NASCAR driver Brandon Brown against a backdrop of race fans chanting "f**** Joe Biden."

October 5, 2021                                             

fromTownhall: "Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." -- George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

fromGlennGreenwald/RealClearPolitics: "What they want is social control," says Greenwald. "They crave what's going on in Australia. They look at that and say that's what we should be doing to our political enemies.

fromJustTheNews: President Biden and his senior officials have left a lengthy trail of broken promises, false assurances and fibs. An impressive list to have been produced in just 9 months.

fromReson: The pandemic turned America's public health bureaucracy into its national landlord. America's rental property owners were left paying the price. It seems to be just another redistribution program.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market                                        Regulation Nation

fromReason: The agency seems inclined to ban the vaping products that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer because teenagers also like them. Health mandates used as simple mechanisms for control are now common.

fromMarketWatch: As Biden pimps new massive spending programs that he claims will cost "nothing", consumers are left to deal with the real world consequences from the last batch of drunken-sailor spending.

October 4, 2021                                             

fromRealClearPolitics: It's not clear if Biden is too out of it to manage America effectively or if his staff is too ideological to make sound decisions or both.

fromAmericanGreatness: Mask mandates are very political precisely because they make no medical sense.

fromHotAir: Flawed COVID mandates are speeding up the flight out of public schools.

fromTheFederalist: First workers, now blacks. Roughly 72 percent of black New York City residents aged 18-44 are banned -- banned -- from entering dining establishments.
Regulation Nation                                                                      Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromReason: Among Americans who aren't liberal pundits, the debt and deficit rank as major concerns. It's about time Congress noticed.

fromTheDailyBell: Widespread poverty is the result of a sluggish, overregulated economy. It’s the result of inflation that erodes people’s income and savings. It’s the result of bad policies that make people less prosperous and free.

October 2, 2021                                             

fromTheFederalist: This is a common technique of moral blackmail, regularly used by the left to silence opposition to progressivism's march through American institutions.
Media Bias on Parade                                                                           Indoctrination and Censorship

fromReason: Economics is a reckoning with unavoidable tradeoffs. If you spend money on something, you may obtain something in return — but you lose the ability to use those resources on something else.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromAmericanThinker: It is not often that a point like Lt. Col. Scheller's — that some of the most senior military leaders in charge are found wanting — is so quickly validated.
Defense Versus The War Machine

fromJonathanTurley: This is the face of censorship. As demanded, the companies are now sanitizing their sites to remove opposing views on these subjects. Rather than offer a free forum for the full debate on such issues, anti-free speech advocates have again prevailed in silencing those with opposing views.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromRealClearInvestigations: The battle over President Joe Biden’s sweeping clean energy plan isn’t over, but there already appears to be a winner – natural gas.
Regulation Nation

fromTheGatewayPundit: The tyrannical, authoritarian behavior of the Australian Government is a stain on what was once an honorable country. Some parts of America have started down this despicable path.
The Government is Not Us

October 1, 2021                                             

fromAmericanConsequences: Americans used to think of Australia as something like the United Kingdom with warmer weather and better beaches. But in the era of COVID-19, it has turned into a cautionary tale of the limitless powers that governments can seize under the guise of protecting public health.
The Government is Not Us                                                                      Police State America

fromAmericanThinker: There simply aren't enough rich people to finance all the new spending.

fromTheFederalist: Self-appointed pope of all New Yorkers Kathy Hochul appeared at a megachurch to preach her COVID doctrines, saying 'I need you to be my apostles' for preaching universal vaccination to the unsaved.

fromRutherfordInstitute: “No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.” — Albert Speer. The question is not whether the government will lock up Americans for defying its mandates, it's when.
Police State America                                                                         The Government is Not Us

fromReason: Rule-makers are not as concerned with medicine, science or health as they purport to be, or from first responders to second-class citizens in a New York minute.

fromReason: There simply aren't enough rich people to finance all the new spending.

September 30, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: What explains these insanities that are insults to the American people’s intelligence?

fromFrontPageMag: 50 years after Ms. Magazine was founded by Gloria Steinem, the prototypical feminist magazine decided to erase women by referring to them as “birthing people” and “people with vaginas”. 

fromTownhall: No citizenship verification, no signature matches, no ID and now, universal mail-in ballots sent to every address. It is a political wet dream for communists, fascists, Democrats and authoritarians everywhere.

fromWashingtonExaminer: The Marine who went viral after speaking out against the leaders of the military for the flawed Afghan withdrawal is in the brig awaiting a hearing.
The Government is Not Us                                                                Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

fromReason: For every 8.3 executions in the U. S., one innocent person on death row has been exonerated.

fromTheFederalist: Our ruling class's support for critical race theory and undeniable hostility towards white people fuels acts of racial harassment -- and worse.

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