September 9, 2021                                             

fromBrownstoneInstitute: One of the important rules about how fear works is that the fearful individual focuses obsessively on the feared object. There is a good evolutionary reason for this: when in danger it is important not to get distracted by other things and to focus 100 percent on the threat and how it can be extinguished.

fromMises: When we look at the massive spending bills and the fact that over 23% of dollars have just recently been ushered into existence, it leaves many asking why has there not been proportionally drastic inflation?

fromAmericanThinker: In Israel, “One of the most vaccinated countries in the world has this week seen its highest number of coronavirus cases ever.” And these cases are not mild. In a country with over 80 percent of adults vaccinated, a majority of hospitalized patients are in serious condition with close to 15 percent on ventilators.

fromAmericanConsequences: In August, YouTube froze Sen. Rand Paul’s YouTube channel. That’s just wrong. 

fromCreators: The only promises Biden kept throughout his botched exit from Afghanistan have been to the Taliban. All "We The People" have gotten from our befuddled president is deception, distortion and spin. He repeatedly looked into television cameras and insisted no Americans will be left behind in Afghanistan. 

fromQuillette: We see increasingly muscular attempts by democratic governments to censor the internet; the use of banks and payment processors as censorship tools; a rising cultural tendency towards censorship of any ‘problematic’ content; the linkage of a largely baseless ‘sex trafficking’ narrative with sex work and pornography.
Indoctrination and Censorship                                            The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

September 8, 2021                                             

fromReason: How spending got out of control and words lost their meaning.

fromPolitico: Tucked into the bipartisan infrastructure package in Congress is a provision that would green-light, for the first time, a national pilot program for a vehicle miles traveled fee. You get smaller, they get bigger.

fromIntelligencer: How one Joe may save America from another Joe. A failed presidency is looking inevitable.

fromAmericanGreatness: In just a few months Joe Biden has wrought a series of disasters that will invoke outrage that dwarfs the concocted anger directed at Donald Trump.

fromDailyMail: Today, the Taliban declared total victory in the 20-year war that ensued after America invaded Afghanistan to avenge the 9/11 atrocity, claiming they had seized control of Afghanistan's Panjshir province, the last of 34 provinces to hold out against them. America's defeat to just 75,000 murderous medieval thugs is complete.

fromYourNews: This is becoming a trend. The fact it is happening at college games is quite encouraging.
The Government is Not Us                                              Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

September 7, 2021                                             

fromMises: Virtually all of the specific economic policies advocated by the Italian and German fascists of the 1930s have also been adopted in the United States in some form, and continue to be adopted to this day.

fromReason: The FDA joins Big Tobacco to ban vaping and therefore erode the rights of millions of current and former smokers to access a safer alternative that could literally save their lives.
Regulation Nation                                                             The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

fromTownhall: Why is forcing every American to get vaccinated so important at the exact moment Israel proves the vaccine they're pushing is a dramatic, dangerous and deadly failure? And it's not just Israel. In the UK, a majority of the COVID-19 deaths last month were among vaccinated people. And the UK death rate from COVID-19 today is dramatically higher than a year ago -- when there was no vaccine.

fromMises/YouTube: Society is a complex system. The number of uncertainties that exist are impossible to isolate, which makes the future impossible to predict with certainty. This is particularly true for complex systems such as the economy, public health, and the global climate.

fromNYPost: In March, Newsom labeled the recall effort “white supremacist.” His campaign website claims the drive is powered by “a partisan, Republican coalition of national Republicans, anti-vaxxers, QAnon conspiracy theorists, anti-immigrant activists, and Trump supporters.”

fromTheRutherfordInstitute: Once upon a time in America, parents breathed a sigh of relief when their kids went back to school after a summer’s hiatus, content in the knowledge that for a good portion of the day their kids would be gainfully occupied, out of harm’s way and out of trouble. Those were the good old days.