February 25, 2021


fromIssues&Insights:  Congressional Democrats are demanding to know what communications giants such as Comcast and AT&T are going to do about “the spread of dangerous misinformation.

Indoctrination and Censorship                                   The Government is Not Us

fromWashingtonExaminer:  If people want a minimum wage so they can afford housing, then relaxing zoning laws is the solution.


fromJonathanTurley:  A proposal to ban video games like “Grand Theft Auto” which depict “motor vehicle theft with a driver or passenger present.” What such bills accomplish is not crime reduction but political protection.


fromFoxBusiness:  It isn’t healthy to be overly invested in Red State versus Blue State comparisons. But the media gleefully went all-in on this game.


fromLibertyPen/YouTube:  The authoritarian Biden Administration is now empowering the Department of Justice to persecute their political opponents as domestic terrorists.


fromReason:  Because politicians cannot arbitrarily demand minimum production. Those cannot produce $15 an hour of value are, in essence, mandated to be unemployed.

            

February 24, 2021


fromAmericanGreatness:  Victor Davis Hanson. Nothing is more dangerous than stronger powers, even inadvertently, sending signals that are interpreted as weakness by weaker powers.


fromAltHouse:  The census update likely means the GOP picks up 5+ seats in the House to take control. The GOP then makes Trump speaker, giving him control over the legislative agenda and impeachment. Fun ensues.


fromReason:  Government agencies have repeatedly proven themselves to be abusive.


fromTheFederalist:  America must learn the lessons of the past year and change our course drastically.


fromSpiked:  Reversing Trump's peace agreement will mean the Afghan War entering its third decade.


fromReason:  This misguided effort to combat "misinformation" is a brazen assault on free speech.

           

February 23, 2021


fromRutherfordInstitute:  If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”― George Orwell. This is the slippery slope that leads to the end of free speech as we once knew it.


fromWashingtonExaminer:  Trump told friends he has hundreds of millions of dollars in backing for a new social media venture that would give him an online presence and protect conservatives from being shut down online.


fromDailyBell:  One of these guiding principles is “disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure” to replace it with “villages that collectively care for one another, and especially our children.”


fromWashingtonExaminer:  A Wisconsin Republican, introduced this month the Smarter Plan for Immigrant Welfare bill to expand guidelines for eligibility for any kind of welfare or government assistance. 


fromMises:  It has long been suggested that employers may respond to minimum wage increases by reducing work hours, spending on training, fringe benefits and working conditions valued by employees.

Regulation Nation                             Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromNeonNettle:  Biological males are taking over women's sports.