February 19, 2022                                             

fromJonathanTurley: The media in Washington appears close to a collective faint over the recent filings of Special Counsel John Durham. While the media has largely buried or downplayed the disclosures, Durham keeps adding new details implicating top Democratic figures in what he describes as an ongoing investigation.

fromRealClearPolitics: The lesson here is that you may believe news organizations are dishonest, but you are scratching the surface. They will literally tell any lie as long as they believe it will hurt their political enemies.

fromDailyMail: Sam Brinton goes by the name Sister Ray Dee O'Active while participating in a group called the Order of Perpetual Indulgence - a non-profit group who dress up as nuns to raise awareness of sexual intolerance.

fromSalon: Internal polls find they must respond to GOP attacks.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: From 2012, Stossel debunks the belief that government can solve our problems.      The Government is Not Us

fromPewResearch: Republicans’ confidence in medical scientists is down sharply since the coronavirus outbreak.

February 18, 2022                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”— George Orwell
The Government is Not Us                                                                             Indoctrination and Censorship

fromSpiked: Universities are promoting a culture of racial grievance.    Indoctrination and Censorship

fromTheMostImportantNews: The hot inflation readings led financial markets to price in a better-than-even chance of a 50 basis points interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve next month. Inflation is running well above the U.S. central bank’s 2 percent target. 

fromBreitbart: We need truck drivers a whole lot more than they need us, and they know it. The leverage they hold over our society has always been there, but because truck drivers are men and not babies, they don’t use it.         

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: From 1958, an interview with Mike Wallace. Aldous Huxley’s comments are more relevant than ever as he describes the march toward tyranny that modern Americans are now experiencing.

fromActivistPost: Justin Trudeau is a scared mouse who yearns to be a big bad rat.

February 17, 2022                                             

fromDailyMail: Boudin said the practice could dissuade sexual assault victims from reporting crimes, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. He also said it could violate the constitutional protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, as well as California's Victims' Bill of Rights.
Police State America                                                                             The Government is Not Us

fromRutherfordInstitute: “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”—Frank Zappa            The Government is Not Us

fromAmericanSpectator: Inspired by Joe Biden's plea, the truckers are teaching him an overdue lesson in the limits of government.

fromSpiked: The US media are shamefully smearing the ‘Freedom Convoy’ as a far-right menace. Almost every story in the US media about the Canadian truckers comes with a reference to ‘swastikas’ and ‘Confederate flags’.   Indoctrination and Censorship

fromAmericanGreatness: According to Newsbusters,  the Sunday morning talk shows, including Face The Nation (CBS), State of the Union (CNN), and This Week (ABC), completely ignored the bombshell news.

fromCityJournal: Following the lead of other major cultural institutions, the Metropolitan Museum of Art redefines its purpose as overcoming the racism of Western civilization.

February 16, 2022                                             

fromJonathanTurley/TheHill: What is most concerning now is the unwillingness to consider Canadian truckers as anything other than knuckle-dragging, racist insurrectionists.  

fromAnti-War: A recently declassified Pentagon report on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan has renewed attacks against President Joe Biden from across the political spectrum. Leaked documents have been posted here.

fromBrownstoneInstitute: The sum total of youth Covid policy comes down to this: millions of kids wearing masks in school, being told to stay away from each other and obsessively avoid germs, and receiving vaccines en masse that they likely do not need.

fromCommentary: By describing freedom as an entitlement, Anker has defined liberty as something that is granted by a beneficent public authority—not a natural condition into which we are all born.

fromKiplinger: A perfect storm of COVID-related economic issues mixed with inflation and a stay-at-home workforce is bearing down on small businesses and real estate investors. Don’t wait to take evasive action.

fromPolitico: Many on the left are losing hope — noting both the galloping spread of climate-linked disasters around the world, and the strong possibility that Democrats could lose control of Congress in November.

February 15, 2022                                             

fromBrownstoneInstitute: If the mandates are simply dropped today without calling out the underlying legal and ethical fallacy that was used to justify them, government overreach will have become normalized.

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: A brief recap of events regarding what we now know about COVID.

fromZeroHedge: "Ultimately the ATF is fighting a battle that it cannot win..."


fromPostMillennial: Tucker Carlson went on an extended, incredible monologue about the truckers’ strike in Canada and the ongoing efforts by both the Canadian government and their counterparts in the United States to demonize, vilify, and hurt the protest movement over mandates and restrictions.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: From 2002, author-politician Harry Browne discusses his ground-breaking book, identified by many as among the most liberating books ever penned. 
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle                                                    The Pursuit of Happiness

February 14, 2022                                             

fromZeroHedge: In short, the decline in freedom worldwide is higher now than at any time in human history prior to the late 20th century, when the iron curtain fell.

fromAmericanGreatness: the hysterical squeaking of Justin Trudeau, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and the other political mannequins was pathetic—a sign of impotence, not strength.           The Government is Not Us

fromReason: Not only won’t they blow your mind, but they may even save it (sometimes legally).  The Pursuit of Happiness 

fromEpochTimes: The report discusses “potential vulnerabilities in Dominion ImageCast X ballot marking devices,” or electronic voting devices, according to the government.   The Government is Not Us

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: In 1992, Paul Harvey shared a secret that integrity required he be silent for 25 years.


February 13, 2022                                             

fromCaitlinJohnstone: Propaganda isn’t just about manufacturing consent for wars and ridiculous governmental measures we’d never normally accept. That’s what most people think of when they hear that word, but there’s so very, very much more to it than that.

fromNYPost: Everyone who did not get at least an 8% wage increase, in effect, took a pay cut. 

fromAmericanGreatness: Republican leaders should vow to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and commence a clean sweep of the swamp’s pro-government extremists.   The Government is Not Us

fromAmericanThinker: 1984 is here. “Wrong-thought” has been criminalized. If not stopped—and reversed-- this is the end of the Great Experiment and the Land of Opportunity.  

fromJonathanTurley: The impact of such advocacy journalism is evident in every poll where the faith in the media has plummeted. Indeed, the “Let’s Go Brandon” movement is as much a criticism of the media as it is Biden.

fromFoxNews: Residents in Venice, CA say they are embarrassed by homeless crisis.

February 12, 2022                                             

fromTheFreeThoughtProject: People don’t want outsiders reading their private messages. It’s a clear and obvious point, but one place it doesn’t seem to have reached is the U.S. Senate.

fromReason: The agency further undermines its credibility by desperately trying to back up conclusions it has already reached.    Indoctrination and Censorship

fromTheUnherd: The most disastrous failing of the experts has been their lack of curiosity about the actual results of the policies.

fromMichaelShellenberger/Substack: The city is carrying out a bizarre medical experiment in which they are helping homeless drug addicts use drugs. ‘It’s handing a loaded gun to a suicidal person.’

fromCharlesHughSmith: The only thing left is the tiresome waiting for the implosion of the entire travesty of a mockery of a sham.

fromReason: As it turns out, the actions of law enforcement justified the shirt.
Police State America                                                            Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

February 10, 2022                                             

fromAmericanThinker: America may be headed for a new type of energy crisis. While fracking technology still gives us relative energy independence, there is a distinct possibility that an electricity energy crisis awaits us.


fromAIM: America may be headed for a new type of energy crisis. While fracking technology still gives us relative energy independence, there is a distinct possibility that an electricity energy crisis awaits us.

fromWashingtonExaminer: The companies, long viewed as neutral platforms and marketplaces for their respective products and services, are increasingly behaving as left-wing activist organizations due to public criticism made against them by certain social media users and influencers, conservatives say.

fromMises: The American version of this story is coming soon.

fromNewmax: Democrats have always been about creating dependency. First welfare, now this.

February 9, 2022                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: What’s needed is a platform that guarantees freedom of speech for America’s pro-America majority. Nunes’ goal is to provide the central node in a pro-free speech communications infrastructure.

fromReason: Already abused for political purposes, the power of government shouldn’t be expanded based on lies.

fromCreators: 👉 Inflation results "from too much money chasing too few goods," explains Henderson. "If government's spending more money, that's more money chasing too few goods."

fromOrganicPrepper: Is the installation of one of the largest surveillance programs in US history truly about nothing other than traffic fatalities? Let us consider the facts.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble From 1999, Dr. Sowell fields questions regarding the educational system.

fromZeroHedge: Nine-out-of-ten viewers are gone. Its top-rated anchor, ​Chris Cuomo, gone. Its network president, gone. Its integrity in shambles. They have reaped what they had sewn.

February 8, 2022                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: Maybe the Russians are doing what the Pentagon and State Department say they are doing.  But our mantra should be “Don’t trust unless you can verify.”

fromPolitico: Upcoming cases in Wisconsin and especially Pennsylvania could have a major effect.

fromGlennGreenwald/Rumble: Defenders of online censorship sayprivate companies have the right to make the decisions they want. That's not what's happening. Dems are pressuring companies to censor for them. 
Indoctrination and Censorship                                                              Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromWallStreetJournal: An innocuous question masks a demand for conformity with a regressive set of ideas.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: Prof. Friedman explains how free markets are a necessary precursor for individual liberty.

fromWashingtonExaminer: Male violent offenders and rapists have been given special accommodations because they identify as women, and presumably, those in charge of these provisions are afraid of transgender activists.

February 7, 2022                                             

fromReason: Lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average. “Lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”

fromAmericanConservative: As the continued coronavirus lockdowns come to be gradually recognized as the grave error that they were, we must acknowledge the discomfiting fact that every single elite institution in the world got the pandemic response spectacularly wrong.

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: All factions, at certain points, succumb to the impulse to censor. But for the Democratic Party's liberal adherents, silencing their adversaries has become their primary project.    Indoctrination and Censorship

fromReason: Obviously, the governor needs to leave his fancy Sacramento-area compound more often to see what's going on throughout the state.

fromTownhall: A new Senate report from the Foreign Relations Committee has the figure at around 9,000 minimum.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: Rothbard examines the irrational implications of the premise "we are the government."

February 6, 2022                                             

fromNYPost: For more than a century, lefties have talked about a working class revolt. But if you really paid attention, the actual role of the working class in their working-class revolution was not to call the shots — not at all — it was to do what it was told by the “intellectual vanguard” of the left.

fromZeroHedge: After enabling violent, far-left extremists, GoFundMe 'steals' millions from the freedom convoy.

fromAnti-War: Andrew Napolitano on potential use of Pegasus spyware. "Pegasus permits its users to type in anyone’s cell number and, without requiring a response from the operator of the mobile device, gain complete access to the full contents of that device." One of the government entities that purchased Pegasus is the FBI.
Police State America                                                                                                 The Government is Not Us

fromCaitlinJohnstone: Please watch the embedded video in which journalist Matt Lee accuses State Dept. spokesman Ned Price of veering into "Alex Jones territory" by making the claim that Russia plans to stage a "false flag" attack with "crisis actors" -- Price then sneeringly calls Lee a Russian propagandist.
Defense Versus The War Machine                                                                      The Government is Not Us

fromReason: The 22-year-old man was shot by a Minneapolis police officer during the execution of a no-knock warrant on which he was not named.

fromConsortiumNews: The Republican senator cited Russian “threats,” but said going to war with Moscow over Ukraine was not in the interests of the U.S..

February 5, 2022                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: If we haven’t learned by now, we should beware of anything the government insists is for our own good. Take the Biden Administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

fromTheMachineGunnest: This is one of the most powerful examples of how in the world of anti-gun politicians and their associates, the law only applies to the little guy and not to the ruling class.

fromTheHill: As hard as it is to imagine, President Biden’s political fortunes are about to get worse.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: From 1997, Paul Harvey delivers a dose of perspective in regard to statistics and the actual condition of Americans.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: A simple display of clear thinking.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: The government is not happy with the software's "rolling stop" function.

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