June 26, 2022

fromDailyBell: The reality – which anyone who has lived outside of the West knows through personal experience – is that Western civilization is literally the least racist in the history of the world.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromBryanCaplan/Substack: I’ve long been puzzled by libertarian reverence for “the rule of law.” Why should friends of freedom care about the laws passed by the foolish and evil people who habitually rule over us?
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

fromBrownstoneInstitute: If the FDA’s so-called health standards include things like preventing lung cancer, why on earth are they targeting the devices widely known to be 95% safer (or more) than actual cigarettes?
Regulation Nation

fromAmericanWireNews: The woman who needs Democratic voters to show up for her in Wyoming’s August primary learned the painful lesson that, regardless of how willing she is to betray her Republican base, she is not now, nor will she ever be, one of them.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromNewsmax: Former President Bill Clinton attacked the high court Friday over its Dobbs ruling, asserting that the decision that returns the question of the legality of abortion to the states is putting "democracy at risk."
The Government is Not Us

fromWashingtonFreeBeacon: Rep. Michael Waltz (R., Fla.), a combat veteran and member of the House Armed Services Committee, introduced a measure that would prohibit the teaching of CRT at military academies and K-12 schools run by DOD. Democrats, who are in control of the committee, swatted down the measure.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

June 25, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: Democrats will soon find no further reason to cover for Joe Biden’s own serial abhorrent personal behavior on matters of financial probity, sex, race, and truthfulness. 
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromRutherfordInstitute: The burden of proof has been reversed. No longer are we presumed innocent. Now we’re presumed guilty unless we can prove our innocence beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. 
Police State America

fromMises: Unlike a private-sector service, police do not operate under any contractual obligations to provide services in any particular way. They can choose to do nothing at all, and face no real consequences. 
The Government is Not Us

fromWashingtonExaminer: The president displayed his instructions on how to behave in a meeting. "YOU take YOUR seat" was one. "Thank the participants" was another. 
The Government is Not Us

fromReason: A new report from the Government Accountability Office found that nearly $80 billion was paid out to ineligible beneficiaries or outright fraudsters.
The Welfare State: Promoting Dependency

fromRutherfordInstitute: In New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, the court found that "New York's proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public for self-defense." 
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

June 24, 2022

fromCreators: It wasn't until 1969 that the Supreme Court's modern First Amendment jurisprudence made it clear that whenever there is a clash between the government and a person over the constitutionality of the person's speech, the courts will give every benefit and draw every inference to the speaker, and none to the government. 
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: Two doses of Covid vaccines offer no protection against Omicron infection and may even increase the risk of infection within months, according to a new paper in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromNYPost: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is alarmed by the decline of families and church attendance in black neighborhoods.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromReason: The legislation prohibits firearm sales based on juvenile records and subsidizes state laws that suspend gun rights without due process.
2nd Amendment Assaults

fromCreators: The mistakes and failures of the Great Society programs continue to rack up. Health care policy analyst Sally Pipes provided sobering statistics in an article for Forbes magazine last year.
The Welfare State: Promoting Dependency

fromNationalReview: The Court voted 6–3 to strike down the New York law, which has been in place since 1913 and required that people show a special need to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun outside the home.
2nd Amendment Assaults

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