October 11, 2020

 

Walter E Williams: The fight for free speech

fromCreators: "Tyrants everywhere, from the Nazis to the communists, started out supporting free speech rights. Why? Because speech is important for the realization of leftist goals of command and control. People must be propagandized, proselytized and convinced. Once leftists have gained power, as they have in most of our colleges and universities, free speech becomes a liability. It challenges their ideas and agenda and must be suppressed."
Indoctrination and Censorship

The paradox of prosperity

fromMises: The present fascination with socialism and hatred of capitalism reflects a combination of willful historical blindness, lack of simple common sense, and inexcusable economic ignorance.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

How government literally drives people insane

fromDailyBell: We cannot even simply live on a piece of land without being coerced by government to earn some money in order to pay the property taxes.
The Government is Not Us

Why Biden and Harris refuse to give an answer about court-packing

fromNationalReview: They know the media won’t make them -- and they need to hide their radical agenda.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption                           The Government is Not Us

America's Constitution is our basis for liberty…

fromBridgeValleyPioneer: America is freedom. Destroying freedom destroys America. Once America is destroyed, there is no bringing it back.
The Government is Not Us

John Lennon at 80: One man against the deep state ‘monster’

fromRutherfordInstitute: Years after Lennon’s assassination it would be revealed that the FBI had collected 281 pages of files on him, including song lyrics. J. Edgar Hoover directed the agency to spy on the musician.
The Government is Not Us

 

October 7, 2020

 

Liberal reporter exposes how the media uses 'white supremacists' to 'manufacture hysteria'

fromPJMedia: “Bold, adversarial Progressives love citing unsubstantiated FBI claims when it bolsters their ‘white supremacist’ alarmism and fear-mongering, kind of like when they repeated FBI Russian collusion propaganda.
Media Bias on Parade                 Indoctrination and Censorship

ObamaCare and the Supreme Court -- can the government force us to eat broccoli?

fromFoxNews: With President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, the Affordable Care Act -- ObamaCare -- is back in the news. Andrew Napolitano weighs in.
Regulation Nation

Tax, legal experts say leaker of Trump tax returns could face prison time

fromJustTheNews: "This is every bit as bad as what Nixon did," said Mann, noting the privacy section enacted after the Nixon administration abused tax return information of individuals on the White House "enemies list."
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Breonna Taylor's death shows how drug prohibition transforms murder into self-defense

fromReason: The hail of bullets that killed her can be justified only in a country that uses violence to enforce politicians' pharmacological prejudices.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange                   Police State America

Walter E Williams: Supreme Court and rules of the game

fromCreators: A referee's job, whether he is a football referee, baseball umpire or a Supreme Court justice, is to know the rules of the game and to ensure that those rules are evenly applied without bias.
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

California is a cautionary tale for America

fromReason: California bounds from one crisis to another; most of them being self-imposed.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

October 3, 2020

 

L.A. ordered to pay NRA six figures after losing First Amendment case

fromWashingtonFreeBeacon: A federal district court judge struck down a city ordinance aimed at punishing prospective contractors with ties to the NRA as an infringement on the right to free speech and association.
 

Gavin Newsom beclowns himself finding nonsensical excuses to keep California locked down

fromAmericanThinker: Newsom, who is becoming known to Californians as Nussoloini, is really stretching to find excuses to keep businesses closed and Californians unemployed and reverting to race-pandering.
 

Crumbling case against Assange shows weakness of "hacking" charges related to whistleblowing

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: The entire computer crime case against Assange is based on a brief discussion, between a publisher and source, about cracking a password — but the cracking never actually happened.
 

VIDEO: Tucker Carlson - Masks, Science and Medical Authoritarianism

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Christians in Idaho are arrested for singing outdoor, not wearing masks. A socially-distanced mom is tasered while outdoors, watching her son play football for not wearing a mask. Alex Berenson joins Tucker Carlson to talk about the science surrounding the wearing of masks and what the future may hold.
 

Why it’s fashionable to hate your own country

fromSpiked: This is more about parading virtue than reckoning with history.
 

Prosecutor's password-cracking conspiracy theory against Assange unravels at extradition trial

fromShadowproof: It seems like payback for embarrassing the U.S. government by unraveling their password-cracking conspiracy theory with their own digital forensic expert’s testimony.