September 26, 2021                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: We’re being fed a constant diet of fear: fear of a virus, fear of the unmasked, fear of terrorists, fear of illegal immigrants, fear of people who are too religious, fear of people who are not religious enough, fear of extremists, fear of the government, fear of those who fear the government. The strategy is simple yet effective: the best way to control a populace is through fear and discord. Fear makes people stupid.

fromTheFederalist: Race card circles back to bite authoritarian Dems in the ass, as Black Lives Matter threatens 
an ‘uprising’ against ‘racist’ vaccine mandates.

fromReason: That’s why its role in our lives should be reduced to the minimum.

fromBreitbart: Despite bold promises of removal, it appears the number of Haitians being removed is in the hundreds while those being released are in the thousands.

fromHeartlandInstitute: Starting with the fact that governments enacted mask mandates based on the false assumption that Covid-19 is mainly transmitted by large droplets and only remain airborne for a few seconds.
Indoctrination and Censorship                                                         The Government is Not Us

fromAIER: If passed in its proposed forms, the $3.5 trillion of new “entitlement” programs and spending over the next ten years, and the accompanying call for increases in a wide variety of taxes, will represent the largest expansion of the American welfare state since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society agenda in the second half of the 1960s. It will further envelop the United States in the stranglehold of political paternalism.

September 25, 2021                                             

fromSlate: Do American taxpayers have a chance against the big-spending drunken sailors of Congress? Maybe. Slate provides grounds for optimism.

fromTheHill: Biden is finally getting criticism from the political press, at least as it pertains to the stories they actually cover. But, fortunately for him, it's just about the most delicate criticism one could hope for.

fromReason: Former congressman Davy Crockett explains how government transmogrified from a limited representative government to an unlimited unrepresentative central authority.

fromRealClearEnergy: Former congressman Davy Crockett explains how government transmogrified from a limited representative government to an unlimited unrepresentative central authority.

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Former congressman Davy Crockett explains how government transmogrified from a limited representative government to an unlimited unrepresentative central authority.  

fromBabylonBee: Satire, but a great idea. After all, this is what Joe would consider a "workaround."

September 24, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: We are doing our best to become a Third-World country of incompetency, constitutional erosion, a fractious and politicized military elite, and racially and ethnically obsessed warring tribes.  

fromBusinessInsider: At the start of the year, 62% said it was a good time to buy a house. Now, only 29% think so.

fromPolitico: An optimistic scenario in which Biden's drunken sailor spending spree can be thwarted.  

fromReason: None of which would be necessary if our vaccines were recognized as effective. At Brown, University, vaccination is a requirement. So is testing every four days.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery                                       Indoctrination and Censorship

fromRealClearPolitics: President Trump’s success and influence continues to defy the political norms of the corrupt political class and, in doing so, he has established an unprecedented level of political influence.

fromMises: An economic depression is not caused by a decline in the money supply per se, but results from a shrinking pool of savings made possible by a previous bout of monetary inflation.  

September 23, 2021                                             

fromTheFederalist: A new Texas law will help secure America’s southern border and fill the gap due to the federal government’s lack of law enforcement.

fromGizmodo: As Biden desperately attempts to change the subject to mandatory vaccines or domestic terrorism, Rep. Issa reveals at least 200 individuals stranded, double the hostages of Biden's public claim.

fromMises: For politicians, it may indicate whether society in the long run can be governed by applying the historically problematic concept of segregation—only this time to the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.

fromNYPost: Another self-imposed crisis blows up in Biden's face.

fromCNBC: As of Aug. 31, some 163,735 businesses have indicated on Yelp that they have closed, a 23% increase since mid-July. 97,966, representing 60% of closed businesses, won’t be reopening.

fromGizmodo: Instead of just monitoring for fatigue, this advanced camera system even knows when you're on the phone or texting while behind the wheel. Smart people don't buy a 'smart' car, 'smart' TVs, or smart' phones.

September 22, 2021                                             

fromReason: The president says the IRS needs just two bits of information: all the money that goes into your bank account, and all the money that comes out.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make                                     The Government is Not Us

fromAmericanThinker: Conservatives' argument just got a lot easier to make.

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: The DOJ's new charging document, approved by Biden's Attorney General, sheds bright light onto the Russiagate fraud and how journalistic corruption was key.

fromRealClearMarkets: A central fact of Covid-19 is its highly differential effect according to age and preexisting conditions. Young, healthy people are nearly invulnerable to Covid, but not to vaccine side-effects.

fromEdwardSnowden/Substack: Denying facts: bad. Denying hope: worse.

fromEpochTimes: Medical freedom is the notion that an individual has the right to determine what kind of medical interventions his or her body will be subjected to. And it has been an issue since long before COVID.

September 21, 2021                                             

fromGarrisonCenter: “‘It’s just 15 days to flatten the curve. It’s just a mask. It’s just six feet. It’s just no large gatherings. It’s just preventing ‘misinformation.’ It’s just a shot. It’s just a mandate. It’s just showing your vaccine passport on demand." Anyone who objected at any waypoint on that trail, or predicted the next waypoint, was roundly decried in American mainstream media as a whackjob. It was always going to be ‘this far and no further,’ and only ‘conspiracy theorists’ would believe otherwise. Two years ago, Australia could be plausibly described as a ‘western liberal democracy.’ Today, Australia’s regime is doing its best to show up Joseph Stalin and Kim Jong-Un.

fromReason: Instead of repealing tariffs that are raising aluminum prices, politicians are instead trying to lower aluminum prices by legislative fiat.

fromActivistPost: "This treaty would require Americans to be placed on an international gun registry that will be public to all nations and to everyone in the world." Biden wants the U.S. to be a signatory.

fromLifeSite: Here is a comprehensive list of resources, including sample exemption letters, for Americans seeking relief from forced coronavirus injections and mandatory groupthink.

fromFoxBusiness: Beef prices have risen 14% this year; pork 12.1%, and poultry 6.6%.

fromFreeThoughtProject: There are traits that appear to be extremely common among the ‘woke’. Woke being now a common term for those among us who become righteously incensed with progressive social justice issues.

September 20, 2021                                             

fromSubstack: “Experts” and the media declared Sweden was the world’s cautionary tale, a dangerous outlier who shunned The New Science™ of masks and lockdowns and stuck to established public health principles and pre-pandemic planning. So let’s see what’s transpired recently which resulted in the deafening silence.

fromDailyMail: As employers deal with a global labor shortage due to the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of companies worldwide have eliminated marijuana drug tests as an incentive to build up their workforce.

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Comedian George Carlin delivers the simple politically incorrect truth about the planet and its fragility in the most entertaining possible way.

fromBrownstoneInstitute: “Give me liberty or give me death” was our original rallying cry. Oppressed by British rule, Americans fought for independence, for the right to live their own lives in their own way. This passion for liberty created the most successful republic in history, a nation to be proud of — a beacon of hope and prosperity for all. 

fromReason: Your daily dose of presidential hypocrisy AND also from Reason: There's little rationale for masking school kids, but teachers unions are demanding it. Mandates are required when persuasion has no chance.
The Government is Not Us                                                       Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromBabylonBee: "We are astounded by the growth we've seen in California," said U-Haul's Regional Director Fennick Buggstein. "Thanks to Gavin Newsom, literally every middle-class family has moved out of the state!

September 19, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: Science is dying; superstition disguised as morality is returning. And we all will soon become poorer, angrier and more divided.
Indoctrination and Censorship                                                          The Government is Not Us

fromBruceWilds: All transactions could be tracked, down to buying a stick of gum.
Police State America                                             Government is Watching Every Move You Make

fromTheGuardian: Between when the women initially complained to the FBI and the time the FBI took action, Nassar sexually abused approximately 70 women and girls.

fromTheFederalist: If Republican lawmakers vote for a debt limit increase, they own the reconciliation bill — all of it.


fromAmericanGreatness: Instead of cramming students into overcrowded social studies fields, universities would produce generations of productive professionals more interested in building things than in rioting and looting.

September 18, 2021                                             

fromTheRutherfordInstitute: The Constitution is just a piece of paper that protects rights only if people are willing to insist upon them. Insist on them.

fromZeroHedge: Trump lashes out at General Milley over claims of China dealings "behind the president's back."

fromAmericanMind: This betrayer of the Constitution is a liberal darling. At the inauguration, Joe Biden thanked Milley for undermining President Trump in the final weeks of his presidency.
Defense Versus The War Machine                                         Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromAmericanThinker: Voters double down on high taxes, high energy costs, more blackouts, more homelessness, higher housing costs and low-performing schools.

fromMises: When a politician says "do the right thing," what he means is "do what I say, or else." 

fromAmericanThinker: The largest single demographic group remaining unvaccinated is Blacks, raising all kinds of hell with plans to force the jab on everyone, given the Democrats' fealty to the doctrine of disparate impact, making anything that adversely impacts Backs more than other groups automatically racist.

September 17, 2021                                             

fromFoxNews: The president doesn't seem to see limits for government.

fromWashingtonExaminer: In 2020, the year police were turned into the bad guys, murder rose by 25% in the U.S., according to preliminary FBI data. That is an astounding increase for a single year.

fromTheAtlantic: The study found that from March 2020 through early January 2021—before vaccination was widespread, and before the Delta variant had arrived—the proportion of patients with mild or asymptomatic disease was 36 percent. From mid-January through the end of June 2021, however, that number rose to 48 percent. In other words, the study suggests that roughly half of all the hospitalized patients showing up on COVID-data dashboards in 2021 may have been admitted for another reason entirely, or had only a mild presentation of disease.

fromSHTFPlan: If Biden's tyrannical mandates force millions of Americans out of their jobs.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market                                The Government is Not Us

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: While AOC's revolutionary and subversive socialist gown generated buzz, the normalization of maskless elites attended to by faceless servants is grotesque.

fromTheFederalist: Milley’s alleged behavior (making ‘secret’ calls to his counterpart in communist China) directly contradicts his role as an adviser to the president and undermines the uniform code of military justice.

September 16, 2021                                             

fromCNSNews: Americans spent more on taxes in 2020 than they did on food, clothing, healthcare and entertainment combined, according to newly released data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

fromZeroHedge: The Daily Telegraph reveals that 26 of the 27 scientists who wrote a letter in The Lancet medical journal to dismiss the possibility that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan have ties to China.

fromRealClearPolitics: Everywhere you turn, you will encounter coverup, corruption and confusion in the media. If it isn’t an intentional disinformation campaign, then it’s the result of laziness and stupidity. Either way, the fourth estate has become a fifth column of provocateurs and saboteurs.
Media Bias on Parade                                                                             Indoctrination and Censorship

fromBreitbart: Biden has successfully defeated the Trump agenda in the eyes of American voters. Our country is now nowhere near being great again. We are weakened and disgraced. Mission accomplished.

fromRT: Glenn Greenwald tears into liberals for praising George W. Bush's 9/11 speech on threat ‘at home.’ This is why they cannot give up on the racism claims, despite all contrary evidence.

fromPolitico: Congress is approaching hard deadlines on the debt ceiling and funding the government, at the same time Democrats are focused on passing spending bills.

September 15, 2021                                             

fromGarrisonCenter: They’re about letting the serfs know who’s in charge. No number of deaths is too many where the question of establishing its authority is concerned. No damage to civil liberties or the economy is too severe.

fromRealClearPolitics: These ineffective mandates stem from a preference for coercion and control by Democrat politicians, all with the assistance of powerful business interests, including Big Tech and Big Pharma.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle                                              Regulation Nation

fromSpectatorWorld: Yet, the essence of white privilege, will likely weather the storm of a recall election.

fromFoxNews: Government's newest tactic to create supply shortages that will further lower our standard of living.

fromReason: Economic freedom is the key to other kinds of freedom.

fromDailyMail: The victory by the former army special forces soldier via a rear-naked choke sparked controversy online in the ongoing debate regarding biological males in woman sports.

September 14, 2021                                             

fromNYPost: Amazingly, it was the New York Times that broke the story.

fromAmericanThinker: The chant, vulgar though it may be, is a sign that, despite fifty years of leftist propaganda in schools, the news, entertainment, and corporate America, the American spirit still lives.

fromInternationalMan: Not for the faint of heart. China is methodically dominated world trade.

fromMichaelTracey/Substack: At this very moment, Connecticut College in New London (estimated total cost for the 2020-2021 academic year: $79,575​​) has its entire student body under mass quarantine. 

fromZeroHedge: * BTW, it is underreported that the mandate exempts illegal aliens, members of Congress, the federal courts and the post office.

fromThomasReutersFoundation: Well played, Putin.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption                                            Indoctrination and Censorship

September 13, 2021                                             

fromReason: What if every one of your noncash financial transactions was automatically reported to the IRS?
Government is Watching Every Move You Make                                   The Government is Not Us

fromFoxNews: "Courts will now be asked to ignore the admission and uphold a self-admitted evasion of constitutional limits," Turley added. The "problem is that the thing being ‘worked around’ is the Constitution."

fromYahooNews: Not from the Babylon Bee. ("Outside of that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?")

fromTabletMag: You’re struggling to understand where all this vaccine hesitancy comes from. Let me help you.
Indoctrination and Censorship                                                            The Government is Not Us

fromGlennGreenwald/Rumble: On the dangers of rising Big Tech censorship and the central importance of this platform to fight against it.

fromActivistPost: It’s time to start applying the clear lessons from that time and continue to uncover, question, and dismantle both the mass surveillance and the unfettered secrecy that were ushered in when we were all afraid.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make                                  The Government is Not Us

September 11, 2021                                             

fromReason: We were warned about the dangerous power of the USA PATRIOT Act. Edward Snowden proved that critics were justified. But the genie is not going back into the bottle easily.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make                                        The Government is Not Us

fromDailyMail: Tyrannical president demands his minions be injected with experimental vaccine or fired, over-riding the principle behind legalized abortion: that a person has domain over their body.

fromWashingtonExaminer: For decades, the CDC has quietly expanded its activities from its original critical mission of infectious disease control. The agency now supports far-afield research projects in spousal abuse, juvenile delinquency, and other subjects far better explored by criminologists and sociologists.
Regulation Nation                                                                                  2nd Amendment Assaults

fromBreitbart: Why allow California to have the highest aggregate basket of income, sales, property and capital gains taxes in the nation, the highest gas and power prices in the continental United States, poor schools, outdated infrastructure and the country's largest populations of homeless, welfare recipients and undocumented immigrants.

fromJonathanTurley: While cable networks have long catered to political audiences on the left or right, mainstream newspapers and networks now openly frame news to fit a political narrative.

fromBreitbart: Obama swapped four major terrorist planners for a dishonorable deserter. The most idiotic trade since the Sox sent Ruth to the Yankees. With the stooge's assistant now at the helm, what could go wrong?

September 10, 2021                                             

fromVictoryGirls: Monday, the State Department was caught lying after claiming credit for rescuing a pregnant American woman and her children from Afghanistan.

fromCalculatedRisk: The headline unemployment rate of 5.2% significantly understates the current situation. 

fromLifesiteNews: Twenty states this week filed a lawsuit to block radical transgender policies by the Biden administration that seek to redefine federal sex discrimination protections to mandate transgender pronoun use and allow biological males to compete on girls’ sports teams, among other things.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery                                                        Regulation Nation

fromReason: Imagine living in a world where every one of your noncash financial transactions—a restaurant meal, a Venmo transfer to a friend, maybe some bitcoin bought on the dips—was automatically reported to a beefed-up, audit-hungry IRS. That dystopia will become a reality if President Joe Biden gets his way.

fromNakedCapitalism: Getting on a plane was no different from getting on a bus. It’s been jarring to watch how abruptly the sprawling Transportation Security Agency system was created – and how quickly American air travelers came to accept those security measures as normal features of all U.S. airports.

fromCaitlinJohnstone: Tyranny runs rampant when there is no protection for individual rights.

September 9, 2021                                             

fromBrownstoneInstitute: One of the important rules about how fear works is that the fearful individual focuses obsessively on the feared object. There is a good evolutionary reason for this: when in danger it is important not to get distracted by other things and to focus 100 percent on the threat and how it can be extinguished.

fromMises: When we look at the massive spending bills and the fact that over 23% of dollars have just recently been ushered into existence, it leaves many asking why has there not been proportionally drastic inflation?

fromAmericanThinker: In Israel, “One of the most vaccinated countries in the world has this week seen its highest number of coronavirus cases ever.” And these cases are not mild. In a country with over 80 percent of adults vaccinated, a majority of hospitalized patients are in serious condition with close to 15 percent on ventilators.

fromAmericanConsequences: In August, YouTube froze Sen. Rand Paul’s YouTube channel. That’s just wrong. 

fromCreators: The only promises Biden kept throughout his botched exit from Afghanistan have been to the Taliban. All "We The People" have gotten from our befuddled president is deception, distortion and spin. He repeatedly looked into television cameras and insisted no Americans will be left behind in Afghanistan. 

fromQuillette: We see increasingly muscular attempts by democratic governments to censor the internet; the use of banks and payment processors as censorship tools; a rising cultural tendency towards censorship of any ‘problematic’ content; the linkage of a largely baseless ‘sex trafficking’ narrative with sex work and pornography.
Indoctrination and Censorship                                            The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

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