August 16, 2022

fromReason: As the response to the Mar-a-Lago raid illustrates, Republicans are inconsistent in the other direction.

fromTheGuardian: Inflation is the top challenge facing small businesses this year, according to a report issued by the National Federation of Independent Businesses this past month, with a whopping 91% admitting that rising prices are having either a “substantial” or “moderate” impact on their companies.

fromRealClearPolitics: Nothing symbolizes the decline of the American republic better than the weaponization of justice that we saw last week when the FBI raided the home of former President Trump. And nothing better represents the divide that now exists between Democrats and Republicans than the fact that some people still have faith in the FBI.

fromZeroHedge: Though progressives routinely express horror over that idea that the federal government profits from student loans, a new analysis by the government's own watchdog finds taxpayers will lose $197 billion on loans made over the past 25 years.


fromHotAir: First shots are now difficult to get and second shots will be banned in September.

August 15, 2022

fromZeroHedge: The false information was conveyed in responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for the results of surveillance, and after the CDC claimed COVID-19 vaccines are being monitored “by the most intense safety monitoring efforts in U.S. history.”
The Government is Not Us                                                                    Indoctrination and Censorship

fromGatestoneInstitute: The investigative reporting by these two organizations [the New York Times and the Washington Post] was so thorough and groundbreaking it turned up things that were not even there.

fromLibertarianInstitute: There were plenty of dubious factors that could have tipped the scales for a Biden victory, including machinations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They have a long history of abuse.

fromNationAndState: Just one more example of how the attack dog media from the Trump administration has morphed into the lapdog media for Biden and the Deep State.

fromAdvancingTime: This bill is another case of a slight majority -- all consisting of Democratic Party toadies -- shaping society and transferring wealth through subsidies and edicts from high.

fromPolitico: Donald Trump has more than $100 million in his political war chest. But he has something even more valuable — an active FBI investigation against him.

August 14, 2022

fromRealClearPolitics: The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Take the FBI's deliberately asymmetrical application of the law. This week the bureau surprise-raided the home of former President Donald Trump -- an historical first.

fromIAINews: Given the relentless onslaught of pandemics, incessant political buffoonery, climate change, discrimination, exploitation, and generalized torment, in the wise words of Audre Lorde, “what depraved monster could possibly be always happy?”

fromElGatoMalo: The government has changed in a manner the framers did not anticipate. we have become a government not with a weak executive but with an exceedingly powerful one.

fromZeroHedge: The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been pushing hard for a 'cashless society' in a post-pandemic world, though physical money has made a comeback in at least one European country as consumers increasingly use notes and coins to help them balance household budgets amid an inflationary storm.

fromTownhall: Asked whether the “FBI raid on President Trump” increased motivation to vote in the 2022 midterm elections, 70 percent of likely general election voters said yes. Among Republicans, 83.3 percent said the raid motivated them to turn out on Election Day, while 71.7 percent of independent voters said the same.

fromAmericanGreatness: If the Mar-a-Lago raid proves anything, it is that the establishment still fears Donald Trump. What might the political class do yet to preserve its power?

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