October 16, 2021                                             

fromPolitico:  A downside of authoritarian lockdowns. The congested supply chain is disrupting the holiday season and creating a political and economic headache that could undermine Biden’s economic recovery plans.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromTheGuardian:  Households struggle to afford medical care and food, with figure rising to 59% for those with income under $50,000 a year.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromWashingtonExaminer:  School attempted to give cover to boy in a dress who raped and sodomized a ninth-grader in the girl's bathroom. Then, the school board had the girl's father arrested for bringing the matter up.
The Government is Not Us                                                     Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromAmericanThinker:  The Soviet government even went so far as to make up fictitious psychological illnesses like “sluggish schizophrenia” to justify the forcible psychiatric incarceration of people who committed no obvious wrongs but were simply brave enough to criticize the Soviet regime or to reject communism altogether. Our government has now entered a very similar business, a softer form of politicizing lunacy to be sure, but no less absurd or sinister.
The Government is Not Us                                                                      Police State America

fromJonathanTurley:  The co-mingling of funds is the latest contraction of President Biden’s repeated claims that he was unaware and uninvolved in past dealings by his son.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromTheDailyMail:  Another government-manufactured crisis. Approximately 24,000 employees have until the Monday before Thanksgiving to get the shot or risk being fired under President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate.
The Government is Not Us                                                                          Regulation Nation

October 15, 2021                                             

fromTheRutherfordInstitute:  We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the so-called name of the national good by an elite class of governmental and corporate officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of their actions. We, the middling classes, are not so fortunate.

fromAmericanThinker:  Any political party that espouses ever greater power for the central government, socialist-centric economic policies and continual erosion of individual freedom is an existential threat to the nation.

fromFEE:  Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle are among the cities to see public school enrollment plummet for a second consecutive year.

fromWashingtonPost:  Incentives to not work are proving more enticing than those to work.

fromTheFederalist:  If the standard for anti-woke demands now creeps into your emails and text messages to your friends, it’s an entirely new standard to justify your cancellation.

fromFrontPageMag:  The two consistent themes of pandemic mismanagement have been the horrendous authoritarian overreaches, and the refusal of the elites to abide by their own rules.

October 14, 2021                                             

fromBecker'sHospitalReview:  Amid health system and state COVID-19 vaccination requirements, numerous workers have been fired for noncompliance, and many others have resigned or quit.

fromReason:  Is the problem government cash or have we entered a new paradigm?

fromCaitlinJohnstone:  Our political systems are set up to herd people into a two-party system that is controlled on both sides by plutocrats. The news media that people rely on to form ideas about what’s going on and how they should vote are controlled by the plutocratic class and heavily influenced by secretive government agencies.

fromReason:  The federal government and police are finding new ways to use drones to invade privacy.

fromTheSpectator:  Science is about rational disagreement, the questioning and testing of orthodoxy and the constant search for truth. With something like lockdown – an untested policy that affects millions – rigorous debate and the basics of verification/falsification are more important than ever. 

fromNBCNews:  When it comes to sex, Superman's son doesn't rule out anyone these days.

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