June 8, 2021                                             

fromFoxNews: You can learn a lot about what the media is choosing not to tell from these routine reports.

fromMises: It is easy to understand why people viewed the gold standard as the symbol of this greatest and most beneficial of all historical changes. 

fromReason: The creator of ultra-woke poet Titania McGrath makes the case against cancel culture.

fromNationalReview: Every good prosecutor will tell you that the best case is a strong circumstantial case — and that’s exactly what we have.

fromNationalReview: Winning Republican mayoral candidates ran on an anti-crime platform.


June 7, 2021                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: “It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. As information itself becomes the largest business in the world, data banks know more about individual people than the people do themselves. The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.”— Marshall McLuhan, From Cliche To Archetype
Government is Watching Every Move You Make                                         Police State America

fromWashingtonPost: The breaking news is that Wapo has noticed the violence as something other than a right-wing conspiracy and propaganda.

fromRedState: She and Manchin seem to be hanging tight on this issue. Thank goodness.

fromReason: There is no "fake news" exception to the First Amendment.

fromSpiked: The arrest of gender-critical feminists should concern anyone who believes in liberty.

fromBabylonBee: What is notable here is that satire is now less ridiculous than reality.

June 5, 2021                                             

fromBariWeiss/Substack: Whole areas of research are off-limits. Top physicians treat patients based on their race. An ideological 'purge' is underway in American medicine.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery                                         Indoctrination and Censorship

fromReason: The Commerce Department is planning to hike tariffs on Canadian lumber from about 9 percent to more than 18 percent.

fromAmericanThinker: The idiotic and expensive plans to force electric vehicles down the throats of drivers have run into an obstacle created by a law that environmentalists demanded.

fromSpiked: The rainbow flag has become the ultimate symbol of our me, me, me society. Bolstering low self-esteem has become a national mission.

fromSpiked: The idea is to downplay individual liberty in favor of collective sacrifice (to the state).
Indoctrination and Censorship                                              Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromTheAtlantic: Some states now consider pornography to be a health threat. But stigmatizing porn can do more harm than good.

June 4, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: Most of our familiar reset left-wingers—the Clintons, the Obamas, Gavin Newsom—long ago became multimillionaires by monetizing their political careers through lucrative insider networking.

fromMediaite: The newspaper kicks dirt over its lies, pretending to be right all along.
Media Bias on Parade                                                       Indoctrination and Censorship

fromAxios: "This will help ensure that opportunities for things like college scholarships will be protected for female athletes for years to come," he wrote on Twitter.

fromTheFederalist: What happens when the next big disease rolls around? And what if it's one that's actually as deadly as people thought COVID might be? Who can people trust?
Media Bias on Parade                                                       Indoctrination and Censorship

fromZeroHedge: The EU is pressing ahead with plans to launch a "digital wallet" that would carry digital copies of a drivers' license and credit cards as Europe continues its transition away from cash.

fromDailyMail: Fauci's loyalty to China is long established and ongoing.

June 3, 2021                                             

fromEricPetersAuto: It’s funny that “saving lives” only seems to apply when it works to further the degree of control over us  . . . exercised by the people who control the thing called government.

fromAmericanSpectator: The media's handling of the China-virus lab-leak theory ought to be the last straw.
Media Bias on Parade                                                            Indoctrination and Censorship

fromRealClearInvestigations: In some countries, even driver’s licenses aren’t considered authoritative enough forms of voter identity verification.

fromWashingtonExaminer: Oxford University has hired a team of students to diversify and "decolonize" its STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering, and math. What does this mean in practice?

fromJonathanTurley: Blumenthal is taking up the cudgel of court packing with not so subtle threats to conservative justices that, if they do not vote with their liberal colleagues, the Court may be fundamentally altered.

fromAmericanGreatness: Send the January 6 protestors back to Washington as our elected representatives. Give the D.C. establishment something to get really frightened about.

June 2, 2021                                             

fromSpiked: Perhaps it is not unwitting. Its censorship of the lab-leak theory was wrong, immoral and insulting.

fromFoxNews: On May 25, editors at USA Today, without notice to Chelsea, changed the word "male" to "transgender" throughout her piece and condemned her use of "hurtful language."

fromZeroHedge: California drivers are now paying an astonishing average of 63 cents a gallon in state and local taxes, compared an average of 36.8 cents elsewhere in the country. 

fromAmericanGreatness: Big Tech censors and the credentialed public health class, not anti-maskers, are the real Neanderthals, the 21st century’s version of the Flat Earth Society.  

fromReason: Reminder: People are still sentenced to life in prison for marijuana possession. 

fromTheHill: One hell of a hard sell, but what else can the poor bastards do? 

June 1, 2021                                             

fromMises: The difficulty Trump encountered in trying to scale back American military schemes shows just how far Americans are from abandoning the idea that the United States is entitled to fight wars always and everywhere. 

fromFoxBusiness: AG Brnovich: "Google is doing everything it can to spy on everyone it can." Now, Google is partnering with hospitals and so has access to medical records.

fromKatiePavlich/Townhall: Writing in the American Society for Microbiology in October 2012, Dr Fauci acknowledged the controversial scientific research could spark a pandemic. He calculated it was worth the risk.

fromReason: The new administration does not appear to be interested in addressing the conflict between state and federal marijuana laws.

fromWashingtonExaminer: "Methodist Hospital is forcing its employees to be human 'guinea pigs' as a condition for continued employment."

fromReason: Americans are choosing jobs, brands, and friends for partisan reasons, say researchers.

May 31, 2021                                             

fromRealClearPolitics: While most people understand that corporate scientists tend to support positions that serve corporate interests, many believe that academic and government scientists serve objective scientific truth.

fromTheFederalist: Listen to Gwen Stefani. Don't let the race-baiters bully you into giving up cultural appreciation.

fromAmericanGreatness: No one killed Brian Sicknick. But that isn’t stopping the Biden Justice Department, the media, every Democratic politician, and now Sicknick’s loved ones from perpetuating the lie.
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process                                      Indoctrination and Censorship

fromAmericanThinker: Healthy children and young adults do not need to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Nevertheless, the current administration vaccinates them without informed consent and even using direct coercion.

fromNYPost: The dinner raises questions about how much Joe Biden, who has claimed ignorance of his son’s activities, knew about Hunter’s dealings with foreign businesses and government officials.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption                                               Media Bias on Parade

fromCity-Journal: Lockheed, the nation’s largest defense contractor, sends key executives on a mission to deconstruct their “white male privilege.”

May 29, 2021                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: “The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity subject to the whim of every cop on the beat, trooper on the highway and jail official. The framers would be appalled.”
— Herman Schwartz, The Nation

fromTexasNewsToday: The banned policies are limited to those enacted by the federal government after January 19, 2021, the day before President Joe Biden took office.

fromReason: "This raises concerns that reducing access to flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems may motivate youths who would otherwise vape to substitute smoking.”

fromNationalReview: The Weekend Australian reports that Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, did not alert senior WH officials before lifting a ban on gain-of-function research in 2017.

fromByronYork/WashingtonExaminer: In short, Biden is pushing more change than some of his voters want. The change they wanted was to get rid of Trump, not elect a new FDR.

fromActivistPost: If you are enjoying the ride on the highway to hyperinflation, then you are going to absolutely love Joe Biden’s new budget.

May 28, 2021                                             

fromIssues&Insights: The Biden administration is using the events of Jan. 6 as a pretext for a domestic spying campaign that can more accurately be described as the beginnings of a Biden police state.

fromJonathanTurley: President Biden has spoken out passionately against the “ugly poison” of discrimination and racism in our government. So a ruling by a federal district court in Texas this week was particularly jarring.

fromProjectVeritas/YouTube: Our reporting is fact based with clear and irrefutable video and audio content.  Truth is paramount. We never deceive our audience. We do not distort the facts or the context. We do not “selectively edit.”

fromLibertyNation: He’s brash. He’s bold. And he’s coming to a radio and TV station near you. There will never be another Rush but perhaps we have the next best thing.

fromSpiked: The problem, Ono Lennon argues, is the way the woke encourage us to view ourselves and other people primarily through a racial lens. Wokeness is little more than sugar-coated hate.

fromMattTabbi/Substack: Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do.

May 27, 2021                                             

fromSlate: That outcome is looking more and more likely.

fromAmericanSpectator: Gov. DeSantis leads the way for states to protect their citizens’ rights online.

fromAmericanThinker: During the later stages of the 2016 campaign and the four years of his presidency, Donald Trump’s personal characteristics and the timing of his election caused the ruling elites and the Marxist-inspired American left to become enraged and, thus, to fully expose themselves.

fromAmericanGreatness: House Republicans unanimously voted against Pelosi’s $60 million payback to the USCP. GOP senators should do the same.

fromEpochTimes: The administration looks like a melting iceberg, turning in the desperation, back to the only tactic that has worked for them: the malicious character assassination of the former president.

fromReason: At critical junctures, the FDA slowed vaccine development and rollout. Its decisions cost lives.

May 26, 2021                                             

fromReason: When Amazon won't sell your book, you can head to Barnes & Noble. When government cancels your expression, there's nowhere left to go.

fromAmericanThinker: I’m riffing off the top of my head here, so I’m sure I’ll forget things, but here’s what we know about the events on January 6:

fromAmericanGreatness: Democrats claim election audits like the one in Arizona are an existential threat to democracy, but it’s difficult to see how—unless they reveal that our elections have been hijacked.

fromGatewayPundit: Fauci made the comments on far-left Politifact channel, an organization that itself has been pushing fake news on the COVID crisis for over a year.

fromZeroHedge: "It's just the latest evidence that the Paris Accords and President Biden's other emissions targets simply aren't achievable..."

fromCreators: Biden has only been president for a little over 100 days. He supposedly got the most votes of any candidate in history. He should be wildly popular right now, considering we're still in the "honeymoon phase" of his presidency. Instead, Americans have turned on him. Why?

May 25, 2021                                             

fromReclaimTheNet: New levels of censorship control, as government merges with powerful corporate media.

fromTheMarshallProject: Police are allowed to use “pain compliance.” But experts say dog bites are too unpredictable and severe. “Just because force doesn’t look good doesn’t mean it’s wrong,” says Yakima Police Chief Matthew Murray. “At the end of the day this worked.”
Police State America                                                              The Government is Not Us

fromNationalInterest: It is customary self-indulgence after a change in power in Washington to predict that the other party is not only defeated, but likely to go extinct. This past election was no exception.

fromReason: The Supreme Court has a chance to fix this. The stakes are high.
Police State America                                                              The Government is Not Us

fromPolitico: Conservative interest in the mayor’s race is primarily about the future of policing, and how it might set the standard for the rest of the country.


May 24, 2021                                             

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: My responses to The Washington Post's article and Daily Beast's questions about accusations from The Intercept that I have "endangered" their writers.

fromNYPost: Lockdowns did more harm than good on multiple levels. Businesses died, mental-health problems abounded, people missed important “elective” procedures such as cancer screenings with long-term consequences, and many kids effectively missed out on a year of education.

fromReason: California bounds from one crisis to another; most of them being self-imposed.

fromTheFederalist: If you know a man is a man and a woman is a woman, then referring to Jenner in the feminine sense violates your moral compass and prescription to the truth.

fromRutherfordInstitute: It never fails. Just as we get a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, there might be a chance of crawling out of this totalitarian cesspool in which we’ve been mired, we get kicked down again.

fromAmericanGreatness: We who swear to uphold the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic owe no allegiance whatever to the oligarchy that now runs this country.

May 22, 2021                                             

fromAmericanThinker: The Liz Cheney brigade. A comprehensive list of the cancerous forces within the Republican Party that should be targeted for removal in 2022.

fromSpectator: It has become deeply unfashionable to worry about inflation. The downside of vision that does not extend beyond one's nose.

fromTheFederalist: The American Revolution proved a people can not only overthrow an existing regime but establish a free, peaceful, and functional government of their own.

fromNewsweek: Republican lawmakers introduced legislation this week that would federally legalize and regulate marijuana, saying the proposal was necessary to ensure "individual liberty" and protect states' rights.

fromCreators: America has a record 8.1 million job openings. The media call it a "labor shortage." But it's not a labor shortage; it's an incentive shortage.

fromPragerU/YouTube: Seth Dillon is the CEO of The Babylon Bee, where they write satire for a living. You’d think that would be easy in today’s absurd world, but in reality, it’s just the opposite. Seth explains why this endangers the very concept of free speech and the open exchange of ideas.

May 21, 2021                                             

fromEpochTimes: At issue is the fact the package directs the Biden administration to prioritize restaurants that are owned and controlled by women, veterans, and people deemed “socially and economically disadvantaged.”
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process                                      Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromReason: The economic crisis is not simply a matter of corruption or short-sighted politicians. It is a plan in which the bottom 99% of the world’s population lives under a complete tyranny with virtually no comforts.

fromReason: Violent acts are already illegal. Any new tools will be used against those who annoy the powerful.
Police State America                                                  The Government is Not Us

fromTheFederalist: Purdue University President Mitch Daniels warned that the pandemic snuffed out the American eagerness to take risks and move ahead boldly.

fromAmericanGreatness: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Sunday that the state had zero daily COVID-19 deaths just two months after his reopening plan was slammed by President Biden as “Neanderthal thinking.”

fromAmericanThinker: Hawley's book is a crash course in the history of monopolies and corporate liberalism which led to the rise of big tech.

May 20, 2021                                             

fromNYPost: This is the same tactic used by the tobacco industry last century when epidemiologists observed high rates of lung cancer among people who reported a history of heavy smoking.

fromHotAir: Bottom line: stating the obvious triggers the twits at Twitter.

fromFreeThoughtProject: Asset forfeiture funds help fund the ever-growing national surveillance state.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make                             Police State America

fromAmericanMind: This week the federal Department of Education announced plans to distribute grants to public schools that agree to implement racist pedagogy.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery                                     Indoctrination and Censorship

fromAynRandInstitute/YouTube: What is the proper meaning of "freedom of speech"? What does a right of free speech protect for the person who has it—and what obligations does it place on others?

fromTownhall: Recent polling shows the majority of Americans want corporations to stay out of politics. 

May 19, 2021                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: From government-manipulated crises to the blowback arising from a society that has repeatedly prized mass-marketed values over self-ownership and individual sovereignty, those coming of age today are facing some of the greatest threats to freedom the world has ever witnessed.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle                                   The Government is Not Us

fromFrontPageMag: How the Democrats steal from the poor - to give to the wealthy.

fromMises: Economic inequality caused by money printing benefits those who claim to stand up for "the little guy" and denounce "trickle-down" markets. Nothing is more "trickle down" than government money printing from on high.

fromJonathanTurley: “The Post admits that the claimed descendant who denounced Gen. Lee was not a descendant.

fromCreators: When you meditate for a moment on what the left expects honest and decent people to believe, you confront the world of absurdities and lies in which we live.

fromTownhall: In the left's pecking order of preferred groups, Jews may finish last.

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