August 10, 2022

fromTheFederalist: A two-tier justice system is not a justice system. It is a totalitarian system. Its purpose is not justice but population control.

fromSpectator: On 8/8 America officially became a banana republic. The FBI is now being used as a political apparatus of the state to criminalize opposition.

fromByronYork/WashingtonExaminer: "The main targets will by necessity be the middle and upper-middle class because that's where the money is," the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote recently.          The Government is Not Us                        Regulation Nation

fromJonathanTurley: Red states should pass legislation barring state business or travel with any state that 
engages in boycotts. The key would be that the agreement must stand on principle, allow no exceptions, and 
trigger immediate reciprocity: A travel ban on, say, Nebraska would result in a reciprocal ban not just from 
Nebraska but from every state in the alliance.

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen, Bjorn Lonborg, discusses the evidence and implications of climate change as an existential threat.

fromZeroHedge: None of the billions in tax increases Democrats threatened high-earners with last year make it into the final version of the bill. Their plans to 'tax the 1%' turned out to be nothing more than a big virtue signal.

August 9, 2022

fromFrontPageMag: With the FBI raid on Trump’s home, America has fallen into the abyss.

fromNYPost: Christopher Wray’s disingenuous testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, before he left early on the FBI’s private Gulfstream 550 jet, speaks volumes about the need to defund the FBI — or at least dump its unctuous director.

fromReason: California should build infrastructure, not shame water users.

fromWashingtonTimes: The current legislation would, according to the Tax Foundation, increase taxes on those in every income quintile and, consequently, reduce economic growth.

fromEpochTimes: The Select Committee to Investigate Jan. 6 has adjourned for a well-deserved summer break. Misleading the public is exhausting work.

fromAmericanLiberty: One major bit of misinformation has been the claim that former President Trump didn’t order the National Guard to protect the Capitol as he has said. Or that it is ‘false’ that Democrat officials rejected his offer. One is totally misleading; the other is just untrue.

August 8, 2022

fromTownhall: This is an election year. But the issues this year are not about Democrats and Republicans. The big issue is whether this nation has degenerated to a point of no return -- a point where we risk destroying ourselves, before our enemies can destroy us.
The Government is Not Us

fromReason: Michael Picard's free speech rights were violated when he was booked for telling passersby to "Google Jury Nullification."

fromMises: While renewable energy and organic farming are considered sustainable, they're anything but. The collapse of Sri Lanka is a warning.  

fromTownhall: It’s not shocking that the FBI didn’t apologize. That’s fine. The next step for any GOP candidate for president is to purge the whole agency from top-to-bottom then. Everyone, even the nighttime custodian, should go.
The Government is Not Us

fromTheFederalist: The GOP needs to vet corrupt, incompetent bureaucrats before confirming them instead of trying to hold them accountable with letters later.
The Government is Not Us

fromAmericanThinker: Harris locked up many petty marijuana offenders with comparable sentences in her day.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

August 7, 2022

fromTownhall: Worse than failing to address inflation, the legislation Biden has been begging Congress for over the last 18 months will add even more pain to Americans struggling under his economy — even those he has repeatedly promised wouldn't see increased costs under his administration's policies.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Alex Epstein, author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, explains that energy policy  should be focused on the process of producing energy, not just the raw material utilized.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromJohnKassNews: If you search online for “racism and medicine,” you will find screen after screen of medical papers purporting to show that doctors are racially biased, leading to worse outcomes for minorities. Is this science? No. It's politically driven. And that makes it political science, not medical science.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromWattsUpWithThat: What is settled is the abject failure of the three-decade-long attempt by the bureaucracies of the 195 countries of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to convince anyone other than themselves, a credulous media, and a few gullible people that climate change represents an existential threat.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromTheFederalist: President Biden referred to himself as “vice president” Thursday while lamenting his inability to buy an electric Corvette — in the latest job title mixup from the commander-in-chief.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromNYPost: President Biden referred to himself as “vice president” Thursday while lamenting his inability to buy an electric Corvette — in the latest job title mixup from the commander-in-chief.

August 6, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: 
Agents who miss knocking down doors and confiscating private property can always find work with the mafia.

fromDavidHansanyi/Creators: While peddling the ludicrously named Inflation Reduction Act on CNN this past week, Sen. Joe Manchin claimed that Democrats were merely trying to "close the loopholes and collect the taxes that are owed to the Treasury and the United States people."
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromReason: It is unlikely to stop mass shootings, but it will restrict rights and unjustly send people to prison.

fromIssuesInsights: As recently as two weeks ago, the big story of the day was the coming surge of a new, highly infectious COVID variant, called BA.5. The Biden administration warned about it. Los Angeles county considered renewing its indoor mask mandate. The head of the World Health Organization said that “new waves of the virus demonstrate again that the Covid-19 [pandemic] is nowhere near over.”
Regulation Nation

fromCaitlinJohnstone/Substack: Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government.
Media Bias on Parade

fromRutherfordInstitute: “Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.”—Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes.
Police State America

August 5, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: Elite experts and degreed professionals massaged and warped their knowledge to serve ideological masters rather than the truth.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromAndrewNapolitano/Creators: What if the purpose of sending nearly $60 billion in cash and military aid to Ukraine is to extend the war Ukraine can only win if American troops become involved? What if the government is giving Ukraine more borrowed federal dollars in six months than Ukraine's entire annual budget? What if the government wants American troops in this war to take the minds of American voters off the dismal economic, cultural and social mess that America has become?   Defense Versus The War Machine

fromSpiked: The most basic hallmarks of middle-class life have now fallen out of reach for millions. This isn’t a recession so much as a total assault on the middle class. From car-ownership and home ownership to being able to afford energy bills and eating out, the hallmarks of a middle-class life are being pulled further and further out of reach for millions and millions of Americans.

fromAmericanThinker: This administration’s green agenda has fueled the inflation fire that was already raging with the unprecedented government spending in recent years, and there’s no imaginable way that prices would come down when everything is toted to market by electric big rigs.
Inflation Nation

fromCaitlinJohnstone/Substack: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a brief but diplomatically corrosive visit, the aftereffects from which may be felt for years to come.
Defense Versus The War Machine

fromJohnStossel/Reason: Wherever markets are free, new wealth gets created. Then almost everyone wins.

August 4, 2022

fromRealClearEnergy: The Manchin-Schumer deal shows that the Washington Favor Factory never sleeps. The 700-plus-page bill is filled with outrageously expensive subsidies for the solar and wind sectors and lavishes lollipops on nearly every energy-related special interest in Washington. The legislation is so broad and has so much corporate welfare that it has been endorsed by Exxon Mobil and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

fromAmericanThinker: Why were they so hellbent in trying to get every single person on the planet “vaccinated” when Drs. Fauci and Birx knew from the beginning that the “vaccines” were deeply problematic?

fromShow-MeInstitute: When elected officials intentionally ignore the law, we often react with a mixture of anger and helplessness. Abetted by their government lawyers, whose jobs exist at the pleasure of their only client, elected officials invent arguments to justify going around the plain meaning of ordinary words.

fromReason: With 28 percent of Americans trying hallucinogens, the days are numbered for bans.

fromJimBovard: Joe Biden won the 2020 election as a result of 43,000 votes in three states. The election was far closer than the media has usually admitted.

fromTheFederalist: Decades of catastrophic claims about climate change have terrorized generations into believing the planet will be uninhabitable by the time they have their own children. Today’s young people are no different.

August 3, 2022

fromReason: Sen. Ron Wyden (D–Ore.) and Reps. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) team up to help protect whistleblowers from vindictive prosecution.

fromAmericanGreatness: The evidence is verified — 
the only unknown is what Republicans will do next.

fromDailySignal: A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that 98% of those infected around the world were gay or bisexual men who were having sex with other men.

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: In 2014, the Manhattan Institute’s Robert Bryce dismantled the pie-in-the-sky notion that the world can run on renewable energy. The facts could not be more clear.

fromWND: Hundreds of dollars in fees and penalties threatened.

fromHumanEvents: Since Biden contends there’s no difference between gender identity and biological sex, his administration has interpreted the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton to mean that discrimination ensues when a man cannot access feminizing surgery at his whim, so long as he claims he feels like a girl on the inside.

August 2, 2022

fromFoxNews: Biden's Education Department wants to reform Title IX to emphasize gender identity and normalize gender-benders. That could create a host of problems for colleges, universities and young girls.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: In 2014, the Manhattan Institute’s Robert Bryce dismantled the pie-in-the-sky notion that the world can run on renewable energy. The facts could not be more clear.

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: Add British Columbia to the governments trying to hide the reality that the mRNA jabbed make up the vast majority of Covid hospitalizations and deaths. If at first you don’t succeed, hide the numbers.

fromEricPetersAutos: Electric cars are like “masks” – and “vaccines” – in that all three don’t work and so depend on government to prop them up. Government dictates are a poor substitute for consumer demand.

fromHotAir: You probably haven’t seen many stories about baby formula shortages on the cable news networks or on the front pages of the larger newspapers lately. And that lack of coverage might lead you to believe that the problem has finally been addressed. But you would be incorrect.

fromTheFederalist: The same climate policies that are set to destroy private agriculture in the Netherlands are eventually coming to America.

August 1, 2022

fromAmericanThinker: "Information Dominance goes farther than just news.  It uses TV shows, movies, comedians, advertisements, classrooms, and cartoons to guide people to the conclusions the operators want them to have."

fromTheFederalist: According to the CDC, monkeypox can transmit via body fluids, touching an infected person’s rash, “prolonged, face-to-face contact,” and even by handling objects that made contact with someone who has the virus. By my calculation, that means about 100 percent of the country’s population should have the new gorilla AIDS by now. And yet there have only been, according to the CDC, a total of 3,500 confirmed cases, .001 percent of the U.S. population.

fromPostMillennial: Now that restrictions are merely being suggested to curb the spread of Monkeypox, cries of homophobia and discrimination abound.

fromReason: A new report from the Government Accountability Office found that the Federal Student Loan Program will cost over $300 billion more than originally predicted.

fromZeroHedge: The article remained on the UN website for a day or so before being deleted after it went viral on social media, with people horrified at the truly unbelievable evil.

fromBloomberg: “In a year when customers are looking for ways to save money, like-new refurbished products have become an increasingly popular way to cut down on costs without sacrificing quality,” Walmart said in the statement.

July 31, 2022

fromAxios: The company said it received a record number of legal demands from governments, nearly 50,000 during a six-month period last year. The 47,572 legal demands were for 198,931 unique accounts. The U.S. makes up the majority of demands for account information, accounting for 20% of the requests.

fromEricPetersAutos: As part of the now-admitted-to plan to force people out of their cars, the cabal behind the puppets who pretend to run the countries of the Western world have double-plus’d the cost of gasoline while at the same time decreasing the purchasing power of the fiat currency people are forced to use to buy it. 

fromReason: Unrealistic policy and dependency on fickle neighbors like Russia are no substitute for working power plants.

fromPostMillennial: On the Wiki page that provides the definition of a "recession," a message pops up when an attempt is made to edit the information, reading: "This page is protected to prevent vandalism." 

fromNYPost: Big Tech platforms are the modern town square. It’s urgent we preserve free speech in these digital spaces. The Biden administration wants to censor Americans. It has admitted to flagging “problematic” content for Big Tech companies to censor and sought to establish a board to monitor and censor Americans online.

fromJonathanTurley: Some of us have written for two years that Biden’s denial of knowledge is patently false. Indeed, it is baffling how Attorney General Garland can ignore the myriad of references to Joe Biden in refusing to appoint a special counsel.
The Government is Not Us                                                               Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

July 30, 2022

fromReason: And it also won't help us recover from the recession we're definitely not in.

fromTheFederalist: The FBI keeps interfering in presidential elections. Time to disband it.

fromWashingtonTimes: Over the last 30 years, alarmists have routinely claimed that climate change is making natural disasters including hurricanes, floods and heatwaves more frequent. The data, however, show that the number of climate-related disasters worldwide has actually declined slightly over the last 20 years.

fromAmericanGreatness: Rather than face disapproving comments from gay activists, public health experts, the media, and politicians preferred to let a deadly disease become an epidemic.

fromCaitlinJohnstone: Hawks always say our geopolitical situation resembles that of 1938 so that any call for de-escalation, diplomacy or detente can be portrayed as "appeasement."

fromTheDailyBell: As if not unpopular enough, the Biden administration has announced plans to double down on the unwinnable drug war. This time, the alphabet boys are coming for the vapes.

July 29, 2022

fromBrownstoneInstitute: "It had a loud part and a quiet part. The loud part talked about washing hands and staying home from work. The quiet part was in very small print on the bottom of page two."

fromQuillette: Addiction is defined as using a substance or engaging in behaviors in a compulsive manner despite harmful consequences. Opioid and alcohol addiction are classic examples. Over the years, the definition of addiction has expanded to include activities such as shopping and golf. But when one thinks about it, we all have compulsive behaviors that border on the harmful.

fromOrganicPrepper: If governments around the world are trying to make farming financially impossible, what do they expect us to eat instead? Insects.

fromTheFIRE: When Washington Post reporter David Weigel retweeted a joke in early June, he probably didn’t expect to be suspended without pay for a month, or for it to lead to a newsroom blowup culminating in another reporter’s firing and a very public black eye for the Post.

fromTwitchy: You know who builds blacklists? Authoritarians. And here’s the thing, you don’t have to be a fan of Putin’s to realize what Zelensky is doing here by ‘blacklisting’ people is effed up, especially when it’s people like Tulsi Gabbard, Rand Paul, and Glenn Greenwald. Glenn is none-too-pleased with being put on the list.

fromPostMillennial: "More sharing can reduce ownership of idle equipment and thus material usage."

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