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.

December 15, 2021                                             

fromReason:  Contrary to what the judge who blocked his extradition implied, the Espionage Act does not include an exception for "responsible" journalism.

fromMishTalk:  Biden wants more inflation. It's in everything he says and does.

fromNakedCapitalism:  Following a decision by a federal court  blocking Biden’s mandate of Covid-19 vaccines for health care workers, some hospitals have dropped their vaccine requirements, to ease severe labour shortages.

fromTheUnherd:  It's time for Nato to disband. It only existed as an offset to the Soviet Union.

fromBenSharpiro/Creators:  Democrats can argue, crime and homelessness are out of control, the economy is stagnating, and businesses are leaving. But that's excusable. California seeks a higher purpose: utopianism.

fromCarlVernon/YouTube:  More evidence that wisdom comes with age.       Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

December 14, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness:  With fits and starts, we are slowly returning to reality after four years of mass hysteria. Our media-deified, progressive icons are finally being exposed as the deceivers they always were.

fromCaitlinJohnstone:  Q: What’s the difference between how the US deals with journalists it hates and how Saudi Arabia deals with journalists it hates? A: Speed.

fromZeroHedge:  At a time when the Biden administration is panicking in an attempt to keep energy prices down, the House has slapped a "fee" on methane that is being called a "stealth tax" on users of natural gas.


fromTheDefender:  Part 1 of a two-part series takes a deep dive into the history of the CIA’s central role in orchestrating news and editorial coverage in America’s most influential liberal national media outlets.  Media Bias on Parade              The Government is Not Us

fromAnti-War:  When it comes to foreign policy, the relentless stupidity of the bipartisan duopoly knows no bounds. That proposition was reinforced in spades yesterday when Sleepy Joe gave the GOP a screaming invitation to denounce Washington’s wasteful meddling in the affairs of a remote nation which have nothing whatsoever to do with the peace and security of the American homeland.

December 13, 2021                                             

fromEpochTimes:  The magazine limit is especially silly. It only takes a fraction of a second to pop out one magazine, then pop in another.

fromTheNationalDesk:  The black market has relied on the greed of government to remain healthy and viable.

fromZeroHedge:  Politicians on both sides of the aisle are always eager to tweak the definition of inflation so it appears to be less than it truly is. After all, for them masking reality is a matter of political survival.   Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption 

fromPostMillennial:  "My message to anybody considering coming to Los Angeles is: don't."    The Government is Not Us

fromNYPost:  The Black Lives Matter defense of Jussie Smollett is a good encapsulation of why parents are so upset about critical race theory and BLM ideology creeping into our schools. You would think that Smollett faking a hate crime against himself for publicity would be an embarrassment, a farce that undermines the real victims of racism. You’d be wrong. 

fromLibertyPen/Rumble:  The mainstream media was quick to highlight a perfect story to forward their systemic racism narrative until reality once again upended their endeavor.

December 12, 2021                                             

fromVanityFair:  A London court opened the door for the WikiLeaks founder to be sent to the United States to face charges for publishing government secrets, alarming First Amendment advocates.  
The Government is Not Us                                                                                 Indoctrination and Censorship

fromShtfplan:  Have you heard of the “Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2021” yet?  If not, you need to get up to speed right away, because there is a very good chance that it is going to become law.  In the House of Representatives, this bill was only debated for 40 minutes, and then it was easily passed.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make                                                       The Government is Not Us

fromAmericanThinker:  In a court filing responding to a lawsuit filed by John Stossel claiming that he was defamed by a "fact check" Facebook used to label a video by him as "misleading," Meta's attorneys assert that the "fact check" was an "opinion," not an actual check of facts and declaration of facts.  Under libel law, opinions are protected from liability for libel. 

fromReason:  Multiple Bay Area retailers have been hit by smash-and-grab robberies in recent weeks. Cannabis businesses have been among the hardest hit, especially those in Oakland. To make matters worse, these cannabis retailers have been further disadvantaged thanks to misguided federal drug laws. 

fromRuyTeixeira/Substack:  Here are ten points drawn from available data about the views and voting behavior of this population. Read ‘em and weep. 

fromNYPost:  At every test this year, when our country needed the vice president to step up to the plate and solve serious problems affecting American lives — including the safety and security of US troops — she fell short. 

December 11, 2021                                             

fromNewser:  Damn them to hell. 
The Government is Not Us                                                                       Indoctrination and Censorship

fromMintPressNews:  Much like Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald began to be condemned by liberals only post-Trump. The liberal visceral hatred of Donald Trump has trumped rational discourse. 
The Government is Not Us                                                                          Media Bias on Parade

fromRedState:  "But there are two ideological factions that will fully support Gabbard’s message, and they represent an incredibly odd pairing. Libertarians and right-leaning populists ... are perfectly in sync." 

fromMichaelShellenberger/Substack:  Progressive prosecutors are sheltering more and more criminals from consequences, sending the message that theft is an understandable response to poverty. 


fromReason:  Nearly 90 years after the 21st Amendment ended America's failed experiment with banning alcohol, our leaders are still trying to tell us what to do. Damn them to hell. 

December 10, 2021                                             

fromCNBC:  The Senate voted Wednesday to block President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate on private employers in the latest blow to his push to flex federal power to boost vaccinations in the U.S. 

fromBrownstone:  For healthy kids, the risk of going to the hospital is 51 per 100,000. The risk of going to the ICU is 8 per 100,000. The risk of death is 3 per 1,000,000 with no deaths reported in kids older than 5. Kids 5 to 11 have a lower risk than kids <5 and adolescents 12 to 17. Kids 5 to 11 have a risk of going to the ICU of 2 in 100,000; 0 died. Among kids who died of COVID19, 38% were already on palliative/ hospice care. 

fromAmericanThinker:  By claiming the lives of so many people in such a short time, the Covid vaccines are the deadliest pharmaceuticals ever released into wide circulation. 
Indoctrination and Censorship                                                                         The Government is Not Us

fromTheFederalist:  Nothing learned from Iraq and Afghanistan debacles? Ukraine and Taiwan are proxy fights over the soul of American foreign policy: does it exist to protect America's security interests, or everyone else's? 

fromNYPost:  Like most states, Massachusetts lets police seize property when they have “probable cause” to believe it was used for drug trafficking. 
Police State America                                                                                     The Government is Not Us

fromLibertyPen/Rumble:  The media was quick to follow Democratic Party instruction to shroud the scandal surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop under the curtain of Russian disinformation. 

December 9, 2021                                             

fromPostMillennial:  Rumble, a video-based, pro-free speech platform that features LibertyPen videos, works in a similar manner to other streaming services like YouTube, but promotes neutrality, refusing to censor its users like other Big Tech companies have been doing. 
Indoctrination and Censorship                                         Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromReason:  The bottom line: of the most popular apps, iMessage and WhatsApp are particularly susceptible to FBI snooping. Telegram and Signal score far better according to the FBI documents. 

fromJustTheNews:  Drugs currently listed as "in shortage" by the FDA include antidepressants, antibiotics, heart medicines, cancer-fighting drugs, and pain killers. 

fromTenthAmendmentCenter:  A bill prefiled in the New Hampshire House for the 2022 legislative session would ban state and local enforcement of most federal gun control; past, present and future.  The enactment into law would represent an important first step toward bringing those measures to an end within the state. 

fromCitizenFreePress:  “Michigan has considered a number of times enacting a law, this child access prevention law that many states have adopted which would make criminal what happened here which was the that the parents allowed the child to get access to the weapon.  But the state of Michigan has decided not to enact that law.” 

fromWallStreetJournal:  Republicans have made rapid gains among a crucial voting demographic that has long favored Democrats. 

December 8, 2021                                             

fromRealClearPolitics:  Polling shows that 80% of Americans support voter ID, 87% support banning ballot harvesting, and 89% are in favor of purging outdated, inaccurate voter lists. 

fromAmericanMilitaryNews:  Disney has catered to Chinese Communist Party censorship, removing an episode of The Simpsons from its streaming service Disney+ in Hong Kong because the episode contains a joke about Chinese censorship of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

fromTheFederalist:  n the book 'Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy,' Batya Ungar-Sargon urges news consumers to champion unpopular opinions—but is it enough?

fromLibertyPen/Rumble:  Andrew Cuomo was the ordained superstar of the Democratic Party/mainstream media until evidence of his inept performance and inappropriate sexual conduct came to light.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption                                                       Media Bias on Parade

fromAmericanThinker:  Girls, women, their coaches, and parents should all be outraged. If biologic men can compete as women, it makes women’s sports irrelevant.


December 7, 2021                                             

fromFEE:  Studies have found that 70% of the money spent on budgeting for government assistance gets spent upholding the bureaucracies, with only 30% actually going to the poor. Private charities, on the other hand, give over 70% of their proceeds to the poor.

fromLibertyPen/YouTube:  Intentional or not, the Biden administration is facilitating, if not outright providing, massive inventory for sex trafficking cartels.

fromRealClearPolitics:  Vaccine mandates are nothing new. Nor are petty tyrants. Nor is Joe Biden the first person to try to use the police powers of the state to compel Americans to violate their own personal convictions and take a vaccine they find to be unnecessary if not dangerous.

fromRealClearMarkets:  Why raising the cap on the SALT deduction was important enough to Democrats to sacrifice their stated principles and resort to brazen gimmicks in order to fit it into the reconciliation bill.

fromZeroHedge:  "Now, those concerned about crime and blame liberal policies for its rise are growing more vocal."

fromConsortiumNews:  The fraudulent fable has died, but its consequences live on.

December 6, 2021                                             

fromBariWeiss/Substack:  Cowardice and courage on the question of China.

fromNewsmax:  "The movement into next year means the chances of the bill going through are dropping. Falling. Falling. Falling. Save America, kill the bill." 

fromEricPetersAuto:  The free market existed from the dawn of the automotive age at the beginning of the last century to nearly the end of it. It does not exist any longer – which accounts for the uniformity of current cars.
The Government is Not Us                                                        Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromTheHill:  "It is still the case that he is overseeing thousands and thousands of medically unjustifiable and morally grotesque experimentations on dogs." 

fromTownhall:  There's been a lot of COVID craziness in Oregon, and it could very well get worse. The state is considering making its indoor mask mandate permanent. 

fromAmericanGreatness:  The new COVID variant is an excuse for control—the little frisson that comes with the exercise of power and lording it over other people.

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