December 22, 2021                                             

fromRealClearPolitics:  Glenn Greenwald discusses why WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a "pioneer" of journalism and a "dissident in the noblest and bravest sense of that term."

fromTheFederalist:  "Now, after pushing kids away from vocational education in past decades, public schools water down the academic qualifications so much as to make them meaningless."

fromRonPaul/Mises:  Fauci, and the Big Pharma billionaires are trying to make a last stand, desperate to push omicron as a justification for further tyranny and profits.

fromCommentary:  As early as September 2020, the “experts” were starting to say aloud what was previously the exclusive province of cranks and conspiracy theorists: The temporary emergency measures necessitated by the pandemic were never going away.

fromCNN:  The legal papers are directed to Kavanaugh because he has jurisdiction over the appeals court that made the ruling. He is likely to refer the matter to the full court. The court asked for responses by December 30 to the mandate challengers' request.

fromReason:  A new report says 83 percent of the world's population is less free today than it was in 2008, and the gap between the world's most and least free countries is growing.

December 21, 2021                                             

fromReason:  We seem to be entering a new era of yellow journalism, in which ad hominem attacks and conspiracy-mongering are more valued than truth and accuracy.

fromAmericanGreatness:  The bill for the arrogance and incompetence displayed by leftist elites is now coming due.

fromRutherford:  What if Jesus had been born 2,000 years later?

fromAmericanThinker:  If there were three quick lessons I wish people would understand about government, they are these: (1) Governments do whatever is necessary to secure and expand their own power and wealth. (2) Governments have no capacity for morality and will lie about anything large or small. (3) Governments always put their own interests ahead of those they purport to govern.

fromAlexBerenson/Substack:  Scientists advising the government of South Africa - where Omicron is now the dominant strain - say tracing and quarantining the contacts of infected people is a waste of time.

fromReason:  After Build Back Better assumes its position on the junk heap of bad ideas, Democrats turn to institutionalizing the 2020 election manipulations that opened the system to fraud.

December 20, 2021                                             

fromNYPost:  President Joe Biden has stopped claiming the surge is “seasonal,” though mostly he just ignores the crisis, perhaps because his policies clearly caused it.

fromReason:  One man provides evidence that "reasonable Democrat" is not an oxymoron.

fromAmericanGreatness:  "Uncontrolled inflation is no mere annoyance; it is a disease that turns every single day into a fight for survival. It brings out the worst in people."

fromHotAir:  Why is this happening? Because California wants more money. According to the California Public Utilities Commission so many people have installed solar to get out of paying their monthly electric bill that utilities can’t cover the cost of maintaining the distribution system.

fromDailyMail:  Industry leaders want immediate lifting of the cultivation tax placed on growers, a three-year holiday from the excise tax and an expansion of retail shops

fromLibertyPen/Rumble:  Anonymous sources are often used to conjure fake news. Two such instances are illustrated here.