August 13, 2022

fromMises: "Sooner or later, other people will be in power, and since the elites have shown no restraint in pursuing Trump and his allies, one can be sure that no one else will show restraint, either."

fromNYPost: A former New York Times opinion page editor alleges that her bosses refused to run an op-ed submitted by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) without first getting approval from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The Government is Not Us

fromTheHill: Spending $800 billion more will continue to drive up inflation, pushing it toward 10 percent. The Democrats are already hemorrhaging Black and Hispanic voters from their core base. This will accelerate it, along with other middle-class Americans.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Excerpts from Senate Judiciary Committee testimony on Aug 3, 2022. The pertinent testimony of FBI Director Christopher Wray regarding the politicization of the FBI.
The Government is Not Us

fromCATO: Warrantless surveillance may be novel for technology and media companies, but it is nothing new when it comes to the government’s surveillance of Americans’ financial activity.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make

fromNYPost: A former New York Times opinion page editor alleges that her bosses refused to run an op-ed submitted by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) without first getting approval from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

August 12, 2022

fromMarcThiessen/WashingtonPost: The unprecedented FBI search of former president Donald Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., home might go down as one of the most catastrophic mistakes in law enforcement history — one already widely seen by Republicans as an act of political retribution by a bureau whose relentless pursuit of Trump has destroyed its credibility. It also makes it far more likely that Trump will win the GOP nomination and take back the White House in 2024.         The Government is Not Us         Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromJonathanTurley: The point is not just hypocrisy, it is the concern of what this change is really about.

fromZeroHedge: A careful review of the official transcripts of its eight long hearings shows the committee repeatedly made connections that weren’t there, took events and quotes out of context, exaggerated the violence of the Capitol rioters, and omitted key exculpatory evidence otherwise absolving former President Donald Trump of guilt.

fromReason: DOJ says that policy is rational and consistent with the right to keep and bear arms.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange                                               2nd Amendment Assaults

fromDailyWire: Which is why innocent people now plead the 5th.

fromBreitbart: “Republicans must match this unprecedented action with an equally historic and powerful oversight effort to root out all abuse and corruption within our federal law enforcement.”

August 11, 2022

fromTownhall: "Remember 1998's "Enemy of the State" with Will Smith. In 2022, it's not just the NSA but also the DOJ, FBI, and now IRS coming after us. The only person who can stop that is Donald Trump, who made his plans for a massive government worker purge known in a lengthy piece in Axios."
The Government is Not Us                                                                          Police State America

fromNewser: The language is so strict that not a single electric vehicle on the US market would currently qualify for a full subsidy. "The $7500 credit might exist on paper, but no vehicles will qualify for this purchase incentive over the next few years."

fromQuillette: When high-school students can’t tolerate hearing the name of a book title, we know there’s a problem in education.

fromJonathanTurley: The problem is that the law would add a qualification or condition that is not stated in the Constitution. There are constitutional ways to impeach a president or to bar a former president from future office. The mishandling of official records is not one of them.

fromHotAir: The vaccine mandates have turned out to be dumpster fire as a public policy tool. There has been a steady undercurrent of resistance to the mandates all across the country. This is one result.

fromMattOsborne/Substack: She was startled by the voice of a man while she was in the shower.Poking her head out of the plastic sheet between herself and the man, she saw him wearing a women’s swimsuit, supervising little girls as they stripped off their own swimsuits to pee. “Do you have a penis?” She asked him.