May 17, 2022                                       

fromAmericanGreatness: The world is fragmenting and changing in all different directions. Unfortunately, contemporary America is offering no guidance.
Defense Versus The War Machine

fromZeroHedge: Former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers slammed moves by Democratic lawmakers to introduce legislation that would counter alleged price gouging, calling it "dangerous nonsense."
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromReason: Regulators have long targeted tobacco products, but there's new energy behind outright bans on vapes and cigarettes.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

fromSpiked: The globalist elites are determined to crush Musk’s dream of a freer social media.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromAmericanSpectator: The globalist elites are determined to crush Musk’s dream of a freer social media.
Inflation Nation

fromJustTheNews: Special Counsel John Durham alleges Michael Sussmann lied when he told the FBI he was not working on behalf of a client while feeding government since-debunked Trump-Russia collusion allegations.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

May 16, 2022                                       

fromReason: The CDC projects that the total for 2021 will be nearly 108,000 when the numbers are finalized, up 15 percent from 2020, when the number of deaths jumped by 30 percent.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

fromIssuesInsights: From abortion to school shutdowns to runaway inflation to baby-food shortages, seemingly everything Democrats do these days has an adverse effect on children.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromMises: In our time the most powerful theocratic parties are opposed to the world's great religions. Today's theocrats believe they alone can plan society and that are enlightened.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromNYPost: The CDC projects that the total for 2021 will be nearly 108,000 when the numbers are finalized, up 15 percent from 2020, when the number of deaths jumped by 30 percent.
Inflation Nation

fromTownhall: Radical activists, or as they would call themselves, teachers, have created “transition closets” so students can dress as the gender they identify with while at school. Unbeknown to their parents, kids can enter a “transition closet” and choose from a wide variety of clothes and accessories to correlate with their desired gender that day. They would change into their normal clothes before going home, so as to leave their parents in the dark.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: Dems voting YES have long denounced these sorts of bills. What happened?
Defense Versus The War Machine

May 15, 2022                                       

fromRutherfordInstitute: Without having ever knowingly committed a crime or been convicted of one, you and your fellow citizens have likely been assessed for behaviors the government might consider devious, dangerous or concerning; assigned a threat score based on your associations, activities and viewpoints; and catalogued in a government database according to how you should be approached based on your particular threat level.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make

fromRealClearPolitics: Fauci lied; people died.
The Government is Not Us         

fromIssuesInsights: It’s taken President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats all of 16 months to turn the land of plenty into one plagued by empty shelves and rationing.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromFinancialTimes: As inflation rises, higher interest rates will curb investment in innovation.
Inflation Nation

fromPolitico: Natural gas prices have tripled since January, adding more fuel to the inflation plaguing the White House's popularity.
Inflation Nation

fromCBSNews: Gasoline prices in the U.S. hit a new record on Thursday — the same day the Biden administration canceled three oil-and-gas lease sales.
Inflation Nation

May 14, 2022                                       

fromTheAtlantic: The third factor is America’s regulatory and trade policy. And while that might not sound as interesting to most people as bacteria and viruses, it might be the most important part of the story.
Regulation Nation

fromZeroHedge: Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next 5 months that would have seemed unimaginable.
The Government is Not Us

fromCreators: Progressives tell us that it is a violation of "democracy" to allow state legislators and governors elected by voters to decide how to regulate or criminalize abortion. "Democracy," in this view, requires such decisions to be made by nine unelected judges.
The Government is Not Us

fromRealClearEnergy: Biden recently signed into law a requirement that all vehicles produced after 2026 be fitted with a remote kill switch. If the law is not challenged or repealed, these kill switches will have a “back door” that allows government agencies to shut your vehicle off remotely as well.
Regulation Nation

fromAmericanGreatness: We are in desperate need of immigration policies that put the best interests of our country and its citizens first. Catch-and-release is the opposite of that and needs to go.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromWashingtonTimes: The FBI used “threat tags” created by the bureau’s counterterrorism division to launch dozens of investigations into parents who had protested at school board meetings, whistleblowers disclosed. The probes targeted parents who were reported on a new Justice Department “snitch line.”
The Government is Not Us

May 13, 2022                                       

fromAmericanGreatness: Water is the foundation of civilization. It is absurd that Californians, living in the wealthiest and most innovative place on earth, cannot design abundance into their water infrastructure.
The Government is Not Us                                                                 Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromReason: More money chasing fewer goods.
Inflation Nation

fromFoxBusiness: Economists expected the producer price index to show prices climbed by 10.7% in April.
Inflation Nation

fromReason: Will a "you bring em', we'll kill em'" policy revitalize travel to the Golden State?
The Government is Not Us       

fromAmericanThinker: You've heard of pallets of cash for the mullahs? Now it's pallets of baby formula exclusively for illegals -- while American babies go hungry. Such is the incredible story being reported by the Washington Examiner on the state of Joe Biden's "priorities."
The Government is Not Us                                                                 Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromTheFederalist: What began as a straightforward U.S. policy of arming the Ukrainians has expanded into a dangerous and rapid escalation.
Defense Versus The War Machine

May 12, 2022                                       

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: Tens of billions, soon to be much more, are flying out of U.S. coffers to Ukraine as Americans suffer, showing who runs the U.S. Government, and for whose benefit.
Defense Versus The War Machine

fromAntiWar: America’s interests are best served by an early and negotiated peace. Such a goal rules out imposing humiliating terms on Russia, which cause Moscow and Putin to escalate militarily – to survive.
Defense Versus The War Machine

fromMiddleEastEye: According to the UN, the UK and US have colluded to publicly destroy the WikiLeaks founder – and deter others from exposing their crimes.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle  

fromWashingtonExaminer: Joe blames COVID and Putin and says drunken-sailor spending played no role.
Inflation Nation

fromZeroHedge: California's bold move toward an EV revolution and eliminating the sale of gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035 have hit a snag in the liberal utopian city of San Francisco.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromFreeThoughtProject: Chula Vista, CA hasn’t cured cancer or discovered perpetual energy, instead, their mark on history will be a dark one as they become the first city in America to be completely monitored by spy drones.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make

May 11, 2022                                       

fromJamesBovard: Prominent journalists are calling for the media to champion a “pro-democracy” bias in how they portray politicians and government agencies. But tub-thumping for democracy — or at least for politicians who claim to be pro-democracy — is a poor substitute for exposing the proliferation of government abuses. Freedom will be the victim if journalists grasp a new pretext to portray government as a trustworthy savior.
Media Bias on Parade

fromAmericanThinker: The likelihood of cheating in November is looking ugly, and time is growing short for patriots to do anything about it.
The Government is Not Us

fromWashingtonExaminer: A new internet browser with a focus on making right-leaning searches more widely available to users was made publicly available Tuesday. TUSK, a web browser that seeks to be censorship -free, was created in an attempt to allow conservatives to search what other like-minded people were saying or searching for in a sea of "inherently left-leaning and biased" web browsers.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromUnherd: There are dangers to using censorship as a political tool.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromPolitico: Going forward with just Ukraine aid complicates the future of the $10 billion coronavirus legislation, which Senate Republicans blocked over Biden’s plans to lift pandemic-era border restrictions.
Defense Versus The War Machine

fromReason: Maria Falcon doesn't have a business license. So New York police officers detained her and confiscated all of her merchandise.
Police State America

May 10, 2022                                       

fromOff-Guardian: For a book that’s almost 100 years old, Propaganda could not be more relevant today. In fact, its relevance is a testament to the unchanging nature of human psychology.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromSpiked: Lockdown-free Sweden had fewer excess deaths than lockdown-mad Germany.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromReason: Caught stealing from motorists, these towns disbanded their police forces or even disbanded their governments altogether.
The Government is Not Us

fromAmericanGreatness: Will the voters channel their furor at this regime of lies into an unprecedented turnout at the polls in November?

fromFoxNews: Courses on Harry Potter, ice cream and serial killer Ted Bundy are among the 'unique' offerings.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromWashingtonExaminer: House Republicans are seeking to defund the Biden administration's controversial Disinformation Governance Board, and conservative members are willing to threaten a shutdown to do so.
Indoctrination and Censorship

May 9, 2022                                       

fromVice: The use of cellphone location data for such a wide variety of tracking measures is likely to give anti-vaccine groups a real-world data point on which to pin their darkest warnings.
The Government is Not Us

fromAndrewNapolitano/AntiWar: The Director of National Intelligence, the data-gathering and data-concealing arm of the American intelligence community masquerading as the head of it, revealed that in 2021, the FBI engaged in 3.4 million warrantless electronic searches of Americans. This is a direct and profound violation of the right to privacy in "persons, houses, papers, and effects" guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle 

fromJonathanTurley: How years of attacks on the Court created a “by any means” mentality.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromSHTFPlan: Drugstore chains like Walgreens and CVS have announced they would limit how many baby formula products each shopper can purchase at a given time.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromNYPost: “Over $46 billion of American Rescue Plan funds have been allocated to implement critical race theory into the school curriculum of 13 states,” the report says. That includes $15.1 billion in California.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromGarrisonCenter: If the draft opinion becomes an actual ruling,  democratically elected state legislatures will once again make decisions on abortion law. That’s the exact opposite of “undemocratic.”
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

May 8, 2022                                       

from19FortyFive: The people who told you the WMD in Iraq were real, Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake and we were winning in Afghanistan are now going to be the ultimate arbiters of what constitutes disinformation?
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromAmericanThinker: Government-based authorities are lying to us. The version of COVID that’s around now is a minor illness that is largely preventable and easily treated. Important info ahead.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromTheLastRefuge: Does Joe Biden intend to take the U.S. into a direct war with Russia?  Perhaps, because they need a bigger distraction from the political impact of their own policies?   Defense Versus The War Machine

fromMarketWatch: Mortgage rates soar to highest level since 2009 as the Fed pressures the housing market.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromJustTheNews: Israeli data on 16-39 year-olds adds fuel to campaigns against coerced jabs. Italian court strikes down mandate, and U.S. pilots accuse FAA of ignoring severe adverse reactions among pilots.
The Government is Not Us

fromReason: Heavy regulation, high taxes, and local bans combined to cripple the legal cannabis industry, which accounts for just a third of the state's pot market.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

May 7, 2022                                       

fromAmericanGreatness: The Left sees success only through altering the rules of governance or changing the demography of the electorate—or both.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromFoxNews: Rand Paul grills Mayorkas on disinformation: 'I don't trust government to figure out what the truth is'.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromNYPost: If California’s cumulative rate of excess mortality equaled Florida’s, about 5,000 fewer folks would have died during the pandemic. And if California’s unemployment rate equaled Florida’s last year, 500,000 fewer Californians would have been out of work.
Regulation Nation

fromFoxNews: Diverting VA staff to illegal migrants at our southern border is a slap in the face to our nation’s finest.
The Government is Not Us

fromLewRockwell: “I am the direct descendant of the North American slave trade. Both my parents are black, all four of my grandparents are black, all eight of my great great grandparents, all sixteen of my great greats. On my mother’s side my ancestors were enslaved in Alabama. On my father’s side we were enslaved in Texas. I am not oppressed, and I’m not a victim. I neither oppressed nor a victim. I travel all across this country of ours, and I check into hotels, and I fly commercially, and I walk into retail establishments, and I order food in restaurants. I go wherever I want whenever I want. I am treated with kindness dignity and respect, literally from coast to coast.".
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromTheFederalist: Roe sowed the seeds of a crisis that will end with America ceasing to be divided: we will become all one thing or all the other.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

May 6, 2022                                       

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: The power to decree what is "disinformation" now determines what can and cannot be discussed on the internet. It is now in the hands of trained disinformation agents of the U.S. Security State.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromReason: This “unprecedented crisis for democracy” is neither unprecedented nor a crisis for democracy.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromTheDailyBell: Corporate media markets ‘transgender’ athletes as new civil rights heroes.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromSchiffGold: It sure looks that way. The question is how long will it take for the air to really start coming out.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromLukianoffAndBarnes/Substack: Concern about the proliferation of hate speech motivates many who oppose the recent acquisition of Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk, who plans to transform the platform into a free speech bastion.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromQRTsFringeFinance: The most profound seismic shift in the global monetary bedrock in decades is happening right before our eyes, and no one seems to notice or care. Eventually, they will have to.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

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