August 19, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: Those who warn most of some mythical civil war are those most likely to incite one.

fromWallStreetJournal: Politicians and trial lawyers are sticking up companies across the pharmaceutical supply chain like Bonnie and Clyde.

fromEricPetersAutos: Are you grateful that a gallon of gas only costs about twice what it cost two years ago (when it actually cost less, in terms of what it cost to buy, when adjusted for 9.5 percent inflation) rather than nearly three times as much? The Biden Thing hopes you will be – in the manner of being grateful to the mobster who only breaks one leg rather than both.       Inflation Nation

fromReason: Perceptions that the national police agency is at war with half of the population have eroded its standing, while Biden administration plans to super-size the tax-collection agency further sour public perceptions.

fromBreitbart: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that at least $20 billion will be taken from working and middle class Americans earning less than $400,000 a year as a result of the increased IRS audits.

fromAmericanThinker: Thanks to the BLM effect, Griner may have lost her sense that there will be negative repercussions when a Black person commits a criminal act. And in carrying that mindset to Russia, she turned herself into a perfect pawn for Putin.

August 18, 2022

fromRutherfordInstitute: “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” — President Harry S. Truman

fromCreators: The public should be frightened that Democrats are passing new legislation to weaponize the already abusive Internal Revenue Service.

fromEricPetersAuto: They will be replaced by more “eco-friendly” electric cars – air-fingers-quotation marks to emphasize the lie of the thing, since there is nothing “eco friendly” about replacing a 500 pound V8 engine – as in the Charger and Challenger – with a 1,000-plus pounds of environmentally hazardous materials that consume a gratuitously excessive amount of power – in the form electricity that is generated almost entirely by burning hydrocarbon fuels, just like a V8 engine.

fromWashingtonFreeBeacon: Perhaps, when we know all the facts, we will find that the FBI raid on Trump’s Florida home was justified. Until then, we reserve our right to question the integrity of the federal law enforcement officials who have demonstrated their willingness to behave like political hacks and abuse the power with which they are entrusted to punish their political opponents.

fromReason: If all of the ballot initiatives succeed, pot will be legal in 25 states.

fromTheNationalPulse: COVID-19 lockdowns could be responsible for claiming 20 times more lives than they were advertised to save, according to a new analysis published in the International Journal of Environmental Research.

August 17, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: Is the attorney general disingenuous or simply naïve?

fromTownhall: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) is calling for the repeal of the Espionage Act, arguing the act has been “abused from the beginning to jail dissenters of WWI.” In a tweet, Paul said it is “long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment.” 

fromSashaStone/Substack: To watch our Department of Justice raid a former president’s home months before the midterms, where the Democrats were expected to do very badly, looks suspect to anyone.

fromWallStreetJournal: Democrats spent last week swearing that only high earners would be squeezed under their plan to beef up the Internal Revenue Service. It took only a few days for the CBO to put that narrative to rest. A quick analysis from the budget scorer confirms that the audit expansion will ensnare the middle class.

fromMises: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the US was 9.1 percent in June. Taking into account that the government lies about inflation, it is better to consider Shadow Government Statistics’ CPI (based on the 1980s CPI methodology), which was (as of July 13) about 17 percent.

fromJonathanTurley: We still do not have sufficient information to judge the basis for the raid or the prospects for prosecution despite the often breathless coverage.  The affidavit remains key to ending this speculation and quelling conspiracy theories. That is why Attorney General Merrick Garland should call for its unsealing.

August 16, 2022

fromReason: As the response to the Mar-a-Lago raid illustrates, Republicans are inconsistent in the other direction.

fromTheGuardian: Inflation is the top challenge facing small businesses this year, according to a report issued by the National Federation of Independent Businesses this past month, with a whopping 91% admitting that rising prices are having either a “substantial” or “moderate” impact on their companies.

fromRealClearPolitics: Nothing symbolizes the decline of the American republic better than the weaponization of justice that we saw last week when the FBI raided the home of former President Trump. And nothing better represents the divide that now exists between Democrats and Republicans than the fact that some people still have faith in the FBI.

fromZeroHedge: Though progressives routinely express horror over that idea that the federal government profits from student loans, a new analysis by the government's own watchdog finds taxpayers will lose $197 billion on loans made over the past 25 years.


fromHotAir: First shots are now difficult to get and second shots will be banned in September.

August 15, 2022

fromZeroHedge: The false information was conveyed in responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for the results of surveillance, and after the CDC claimed COVID-19 vaccines are being monitored “by the most intense safety monitoring efforts in U.S. history.”
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fromGatestoneInstitute: The investigative reporting by these two organizations [the New York Times and the Washington Post] was so thorough and groundbreaking it turned up things that were not even there.

fromLibertarianInstitute: There were plenty of dubious factors that could have tipped the scales for a Biden victory, including machinations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They have a long history of abuse.

fromNationAndState: Just one more example of how the attack dog media from the Trump administration has morphed into the lapdog media for Biden and the Deep State.

fromAdvancingTime: This bill is another case of a slight majority -- all consisting of Democratic Party toadies -- shaping society and transferring wealth through subsidies and edicts from high.

fromPolitico: Donald Trump has more than $100 million in his political war chest. But he has something even more valuable — an active FBI investigation against him.

August 14, 2022

fromRealClearPolitics: The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Take the FBI's deliberately asymmetrical application of the law. This week the bureau surprise-raided the home of former President Donald Trump -- an historical first.

fromIAINews: Given the relentless onslaught of pandemics, incessant political buffoonery, climate change, discrimination, exploitation, and generalized torment, in the wise words of Audre Lorde, “what depraved monster could possibly be always happy?”

fromElGatoMalo: The government has changed in a manner the framers did not anticipate. we have become a government not with a weak executive but with an exceedingly powerful one.

fromZeroHedge: The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been pushing hard for a 'cashless society' in a post-pandemic world, though physical money has made a comeback in at least one European country as consumers increasingly use notes and coins to help them balance household budgets amid an inflationary storm.

fromTownhall: Asked whether the “FBI raid on President Trump” increased motivation to vote in the 2022 midterm elections, 70 percent of likely general election voters said yes. Among Republicans, 83.3 percent said the raid motivated them to turn out on Election Day, while 71.7 percent of independent voters said the same.

fromAmericanGreatness: If the Mar-a-Lago raid proves anything, it is that the establishment still fears Donald Trump. What might the political class do yet to preserve its power?

August 13, 2022

fromMises: "Sooner or later, other people will be in power, and since the elites have shown no restraint in pursuing Trump and his allies, one can be sure that no one else will show restraint, either."

fromNYPost: A former New York Times opinion page editor alleges that her bosses refused to run an op-ed submitted by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) without first getting approval from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The Government is Not Us

fromTheHill: Spending $800 billion more will continue to drive up inflation, pushing it toward 10 percent. The Democrats are already hemorrhaging Black and Hispanic voters from their core base. This will accelerate it, along with other middle-class Americans.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Excerpts from Senate Judiciary Committee testimony on Aug 3, 2022. The pertinent testimony of FBI Director Christopher Wray regarding the politicization of the FBI.
The Government is Not Us

fromCATO: Warrantless surveillance may be novel for technology and media companies, but it is nothing new when it comes to the government’s surveillance of Americans’ financial activity.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make

fromNYPost: A former New York Times opinion page editor alleges that her bosses refused to run an op-ed submitted by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) without first getting approval from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

August 12, 2022

fromMarcThiessen/WashingtonPost: The unprecedented FBI search of former president Donald Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., home might go down as one of the most catastrophic mistakes in law enforcement history — one already widely seen by Republicans as an act of political retribution by a bureau whose relentless pursuit of Trump has destroyed its credibility. It also makes it far more likely that Trump will win the GOP nomination and take back the White House in 2024.         The Government is Not Us         Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromJonathanTurley: The point is not just hypocrisy, it is the concern of what this change is really about.

fromZeroHedge: A careful review of the official transcripts of its eight long hearings shows the committee repeatedly made connections that weren’t there, took events and quotes out of context, exaggerated the violence of the Capitol rioters, and omitted key exculpatory evidence otherwise absolving former President Donald Trump of guilt.

fromReason: DOJ says that policy is rational and consistent with the right to keep and bear arms.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange                                               2nd Amendment Assaults

fromDailyWire: Which is why innocent people now plead the 5th.

fromBreitbart: “Republicans must match this unprecedented action with an equally historic and powerful oversight effort to root out all abuse and corruption within our federal law enforcement.”

August 11, 2022

fromTownhall: "Remember 1998's "Enemy of the State" with Will Smith. In 2022, it's not just the NSA but also the DOJ, FBI, and now IRS coming after us. The only person who can stop that is Donald Trump, who made his plans for a massive government worker purge known in a lengthy piece in Axios."
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fromNewser: The language is so strict that not a single electric vehicle on the US market would currently qualify for a full subsidy. "The $7500 credit might exist on paper, but no vehicles will qualify for this purchase incentive over the next few years."

fromQuillette: When high-school students can’t tolerate hearing the name of a book title, we know there’s a problem in education.

fromJonathanTurley: The problem is that the law would add a qualification or condition that is not stated in the Constitution. There are constitutional ways to impeach a president or to bar a former president from future office. The mishandling of official records is not one of them.

fromHotAir: The vaccine mandates have turned out to be dumpster fire as a public policy tool. There has been a steady undercurrent of resistance to the mandates all across the country. This is one result.

fromMattOsborne/Substack: She was startled by the voice of a man while she was in the shower.Poking her head out of the plastic sheet between herself and the man, she saw him wearing a women’s swimsuit, supervising little girls as they stripped off their own swimsuits to pee. “Do you have a penis?” She asked him.

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.
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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.
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