January 4, 2022                                             

fromFoxNews:  Incoming NYC mayor says he will keep de Blasio's vaccine mandates in place.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack:  The rationale for prioritizing some races over others for access to COVID medications crumbles upon close examination.
The Government is Not Us                                                            Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromInternationalBusinessTimes:  WaPo reported governors in Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kansas and Tennessee have extended unemployment benefits to those who lost their job for noncompliance with a COVID mandate.  Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromReason:  What does it mean to grow up under constant parental surveillance?  Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromOICanadian:  Julian Assange is buried by the English “Justice” in a maximum security prison. The buried thing is not a tricky appeal to a word that shakes us but a sober description of the cell in which – little by little, hour after hour – the founder of WikiLeaks is serving the death sentence that they have reserved.

fromQuillette: An article proving that men and women are biologically different is in itself a sign of our times.

January 3, 2022                                             

fromAlt-Market:  If the past year has confirmed anything it is that the mainstream media is thoroughly dishonest.

fromRutherfordInstitute:  “Tyranny does not flourish because perpetuators are helpless and ignorant of their actions. It flourishes because they actively identify with those who promote vicious acts as virtuous.”

fromLibertyPen/Rumble:  The extradition and prosecution of Julian Assange is about nothing more than the Deep State’s desire to chill investigative journalism in order to shroud misdeeds, miscalculations and corruption from public view. If they succeed in setting this precedent, press freedom will be doomed and only government-approved propaganda will be allowed to the people.

fromSovereignMan:  For the end of 2021, we collected the best—or worst— stories that we wrote about this year. Enjoy… perhaps with the alcohol of your choice to ease the pain.

fromTheFederalist:  Obviously, they are more worried about protecting criminals than victims. 

fromAP:  Minimum wage increases, animal protections, police accountability, cutting and increasing taxes are all part of a series of new laws taking effect across the country on Saturday, the first day of 2022.

January 2, 2022                                             

fromLibertyPen/Rumble:  The desire to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange is about nothing more than to chill investigative journalism on actual government activity in order to shroud it from public view. If their attempt is successful, it will set a precedent that will spell the end of press freedom.

fromFreeThoughtProject:  The Guardian was one of WikiLeaks’s partner organizations, being fed bombshell after bombshell, revelations that helped build its brand and its audience. Yet, far from standing up for free speech and an open society, it was in the lead in attacking WikiLeaks and its founder. 
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromZeroHedge:  "Marines are allowed to apply for a religious exemption, but so far not a single application regarding the COVID-19 vaccine, or any vaccine for that matter, has been approved."
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery                                                                The Government is Not Us

fromFoxNews:  While medical professionals have acknowledged social influences on health, critics of new equity plans argue that they go too far in directing doctors to act as political activists.

fromJudgeNap:  The deep state consists of those parts of the government that do not change in response to elections and are not transparent or answerable to voters.

fromLibertarianInstitute:  "What science cannot ever determine, precisely because it is not a hard-science question, is that vaccination should be compulsory. This is a normative question about human dignity and bodily autonomy, an inherently philosophical one that bottoms out in our values."

January 1, 2022                                             

fromFoxNews:  Media pundits and publications spun on inflation, critical race theory, and more.    Media Bias on Parade

fromReason:  Too many government dollars chasing too few goods.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromAlexBerenson/Substack:  Even at the peak of their protection earlier in 2021, COVID vaccines barely reduced the risk of hospitalizations in vaccinated people who had “breakthrough” infection.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromAmericanSpectator:  Two hundred and fifty years ago, we had leaders like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Today, we have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Perhaps we need to rethink Darwin.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromWSJ:  From Covid lockdowns to crime and cops, the political-media consensus was wrong. 
Media Bias on Parade

fromJustTheNews:  Brown University study forecasts a generation with lower IQs, diminished social skills.
The Government is Not Us

December 31, 2021                                             

fromAntiWar:  The message sent to journalists could not be clearer or more chilling: what happened to Assange could happen to you too!
Defense Versus The War Machine                                                       Indoctrination and Censorship

fromHumanEvents: Forcing one and all to douse themselves with rushed-out vaccines with universally acknowledged higher-than-usual side effect rates was always a questionable choice. 

fromAmac:  Here are six of the most egregious examples of how wokeism ruined sports in 2021.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromTwitchy: It used to be that a NewYorker hit piece by a CNN writer would be harmful. Now: it doesn't matter. They've so whittled their credibility that the targets of their smears have larger audiences than they do.   Media Bias on Parade

fromKnewz:  More fuel to propel rising prices.

fromPolitico:  “The public health agency’s previous estimate that the rapidly spreading variant accounted for 73.2 percent of cases nationwide on Dec. 18 is now revised down to 22.5 percent .." Yet, policy and warnings are unaffected. Government health experts sound most intelligent when they succeed in remaining silent.

December 30, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness:  Can we muster the fighting spirit and a willingness to push back against the administrative tyranny that rings round all of modern life?
The Government is Not Us

fromReason:  If only they would apply that lesson to other goods and services.  The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

fromFoxNews:  Nicolle Wallace: I wear masks everywhere 'except when I sit down'.    Media Bias on Parade

fromAmericanThinker:  While it’s nice to see her start to cannibalize her base, Thunberg’s mindlessness emotionalism reminds us that having children in charge never works well.

fromTheFederalist:  Events happened this year that would have been believed impossible not long ago, with new lows and technological advances.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromLibertyPen/Rumble:  During an attempted insurrection, a violent pro-Trump mob battered a Capitol police man with a fire extinguisher and sprayed him with toxic chemicals as they beat him to death. What a sterling example of the white supremacy and hate by domestic terrorists! If only it were true.

December 29, 2021                                             

fromBenShapiro/RealClearPolitics:  In 2021, Americans learned that it's easier to flip the switch on toward top-down control and government dependency than to turn it back off.
The Government is Not Us

fromReason:  Should the no-fly list include another 70 million Americans?
The Government is Not Us

fromOrganicPrepper:  How is it possible to survive a nation with inflation rates of 20%/month and 1700%/year? The answer? The underground economy. 
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromPostMillennial:  The Daily Beast quietly retracted a headline about an alleged “Boogaloo” member after baselessly reporting that he had admitted to “posing as BLM supporter white shooting up Minneapolis cop station.”
Media Bias on Parade                                                                         Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromDeadline:  Fox News again was the top rated cable news network, overcoming an early-in-the-year wins by CNN and MSNBC in various viewership categories. The network was also the top cable network overall.

fromBigLeaguePolitics:  Twitter users chimed in to voice opposition to the WEF’s authoritarianism, making it clear they don’t intend to function as peasants for the corrupt and sinister elites.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

December 28, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness:  The Left is being consumed by its own hatreds and hubris.  Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromZeroHedge:  "The robber is the government, because it’s the government that’s creating the inflation that is causing the cost of living to go up. But the cost of living is going up, yet consumers have even less savings to afford that increase in the cost of living.   Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromNewsmax:  "This is like getting in your car and you see a kid running out in front of you, and you immediately slam your foot on the brakes, but by accident, you put your foot on the gas and you killed the child."   Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

fromCreators:  A recent study by the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank, ranked California 48th out of the 50 states in personal and economic freedom. The study also examines fiscal policy and regulatory policy. For the first time, California's population decreased last year, resulting in the loss of a congressional seat.
The Government is Not Us

fromTheDailyBell:  Don't look over there, just take the jab.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromBreitbart:  "This is like getting in your car and you see a kid running out in front of you, and you immediately slam your foot on the brakes, but by accident, you put your foot on the gas and you killed the child."

December 27, 2021                                             

fromZeroHedge:  Only serial media misinformation and lies turned a ragtag band of misfits into an existential threat to the nation.           Media Bias on Parade

Americans swept up into massive digital data dragnet
fromRutherfordInstitute:  Police use Warrantless real-time cell phone data to track travel, movement. 

fromAmericanGreatness:  The myth that January 6 was an insurrection that aimed to “overthrow the government” must not be allowed to stand. It's time to counter the Big Lie.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble:  US Border Patrol whipping down-trodden Haitian immigrants was a perfect story for the mainstream media to amplify the systemic racism narrative they seek to promote. If only it were true.

fromEpochTimes:  The report found that claims made by government leaders that mandatory vaccination will reduce or stop the spread of COVID-19 are not supported by either medical science or real-life experience. 

fromNYPost:  Our oblivious commander-in-chief makes it unanimous. 

December 26, 2021                                             

fromSpiked:  In 2022, we must defend bodily autonomy.

fromNYPost:  Sen. Joe Manchin was burned in effigy by progressive Democrats and pundits after he announced on Sunday that he would not support President Biden’s Build Back Better bill.

fromDailyMail:  The 50-year-old is wanted in the US for embarrassing the U.S. government by exposing incompetence and malfeasance.

fromNYPost:  "If students are to be educated, rather than indoctrinated, parents will have to stand up to the transgender militants. No one else has the nerve."

fromSpiked:  The classroom will be the key battleground in the 21st-century culture.

fromReason:  It's unwise to try to force consumer spending habits in defiance of the market.

December 24, 2021                                             

fromTheUSSun:  "The implant could carry all sorts of information about a person, from Access and Visa details to your National Insurance number, blood type, medical records etc., with the data being updated where necessary."

from1945:  Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) drew a bit of controversy earlier this month when he and his family posed for a Christmas greeting in which the Congressman, his wife, and their children all posed holding large guns. The greeting also included the phrase “Santa, please bring ammo.”

fromReason:  Researchers are hoping to learn about the behavioral economics that drive gambling addictions in humans by teaching pigeons how to play slot machines. And federal taxpayers are paying for it.   The Government is Not Us

fromLibertyPen/Rumble:  Race car driver Bubba Wallace feels threatened when he mistakes a garage door pull for a noose and the all-too-willing media can’t wait for investigation to launch into its systemic racism narrative.

fromCBSNews:  The drugmaker says it works to block the ability of the virus to make copies of itself. It reduces chances of hospitalization by 90 percent.

fromZeroHedge:  Elon Musk slams Liz Warren and woke culture in epic Babylon Bee interview. Why Babylon? "I'm not perverted enough for CNN..."

December 23, 2021                                             

fromWashingtonExaminer:  It will hear arguments on an expedited basis over President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine-or-test measure for companies employing 100 or more workers. It will also hear a case challenging vaccine mandates for healthcare workers.

fromBreitbart:  Forty percent of U.S. adults rate current economic conditions as fair, 42 percent as poor, and 67 percent say the economy is getting worse.  

fromZeroHedge:  The Biden Administration's attempt to force millions of American workers to either get vaccinated or risk losing their jobs has backfired spectacularly.  The Government is Not Us

fromTheFederalist:  Rather than return to lockdowns and school closures — to say nothing of canceling holiday gatherings — there’s every reason to believe we’ll be able to weather this surge with minimal disruption.

fromBrownstone:  Will the same policies that failed against a more virulent strain succeed in containing a more transmissible strain? The answer is self-evidently no. 


December 22, 2021                                             

fromRealClearPolitics:  Glenn Greenwald discusses why WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a "pioneer" of journalism and a "dissident in the noblest and bravest sense of that term."

fromTheFederalist:  "Now, after pushing kids away from vocational education in past decades, public schools water down the academic qualifications so much as to make them meaningless."

fromRonPaul/Mises:  Fauci, and the Big Pharma billionaires are trying to make a last stand, desperate to push omicron as a justification for further tyranny and profits.

fromCommentary:  As early as September 2020, the “experts” were starting to say aloud what was previously the exclusive province of cranks and conspiracy theorists: The temporary emergency measures necessitated by the pandemic were never going away.

fromCNN:  The legal papers are directed to Kavanaugh because he has jurisdiction over the appeals court that made the ruling. He is likely to refer the matter to the full court. The court asked for responses by December 30 to the mandate challengers' request.

fromReason:  A new report says 83 percent of the world's population is less free today than it was in 2008, and the gap between the world's most and least free countries is growing.

December 21, 2021                                             

fromReason:  We seem to be entering a new era of yellow journalism, in which ad hominem attacks and conspiracy-mongering are more valued than truth and accuracy.

fromAmericanGreatness:  The bill for the arrogance and incompetence displayed by leftist elites is now coming due.

fromRutherford:  What if Jesus had been born 2,000 years later?

fromAmericanThinker:  If there were three quick lessons I wish people would understand about government, they are these: (1) Governments do whatever is necessary to secure and expand their own power and wealth. (2) Governments have no capacity for morality and will lie about anything large or small. (3) Governments always put their own interests ahead of those they purport to govern.

fromAlexBerenson/Substack:  Scientists advising the government of South Africa - where Omicron is now the dominant strain - say tracing and quarantining the contacts of infected people is a waste of time.

fromReason:  After Build Back Better assumes its position on the junk heap of bad ideas, Democrats turn to institutionalizing the 2020 election manipulations that opened the system to fraud.

December 20, 2021                                             

fromNYPost:  President Joe Biden has stopped claiming the surge is “seasonal,” though mostly he just ignores the crisis, perhaps because his policies clearly caused it.

fromReason:  One man provides evidence that "reasonable Democrat" is not an oxymoron.

fromAmericanGreatness:  "Uncontrolled inflation is no mere annoyance; it is a disease that turns every single day into a fight for survival. It brings out the worst in people."

fromHotAir:  Why is this happening? Because California wants more money. According to the California Public Utilities Commission so many people have installed solar to get out of paying their monthly electric bill that utilities can’t cover the cost of maintaining the distribution system.

fromDailyMail:  Industry leaders want immediate lifting of the cultivation tax placed on growers, a three-year holiday from the excise tax and an expansion of retail shops

fromLibertyPen/Rumble:  Anonymous sources are often used to conjure fake news. Two such instances are illustrated here.

December 19, 2021                                             

fromReason:  The USA maintains a decent international reputation as a haven for personal freedom. But that's cold comfort in a world growing less free, in which Americans themselves are alarmed about the status of their liberty.

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack:  The same corporate outlets that most vocally profess concern over disinformation are the ones spreading it most casually. NBC's Assange report is the perfect case study.

fromTheFederalist:  Lots of politicians are big, fat liars. Joe Biden is merely one of the most obvious.

fromPolitico:  The idea that a handful of corporate malefactors are driving widespread inflation is a fairy tale intended to shift political blame.  Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromFoxNews:  Time for the White House to admit that its policies have failed and are getting people killed.  

fromJonathanTurley:  The guilty verdict does not simply mean that Smollett is a liar or someone who engaged in disorderly conduct. He is a race baiter.

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