August 19, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: Those who warn most of some mythical civil war are those most likely to incite one.

fromWallStreetJournal: Politicians and trial lawyers are sticking up companies across the pharmaceutical supply chain like Bonnie and Clyde.

fromEricPetersAutos: Are you grateful that a gallon of gas only costs about twice what it cost two years ago (when it actually cost less, in terms of what it cost to buy, when adjusted for 9.5 percent inflation) rather than nearly three times as much? The Biden Thing hopes you will be – in the manner of being grateful to the mobster who only breaks one leg rather than both.       Inflation Nation

fromReason: Perceptions that the national police agency is at war with half of the population have eroded its standing, while Biden administration plans to super-size the tax-collection agency further sour public perceptions.

fromBreitbart: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that at least $20 billion will be taken from working and middle class Americans earning less than $400,000 a year as a result of the increased IRS audits.

fromAmericanThinker: Thanks to the BLM effect, Griner may have lost her sense that there will be negative repercussions when a Black person commits a criminal act. And in carrying that mindset to Russia, she turned herself into a perfect pawn for Putin.

August 18, 2022

fromRutherfordInstitute: “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” — President Harry S. Truman

fromCreators: The public should be frightened that Democrats are passing new legislation to weaponize the already abusive Internal Revenue Service.

fromEricPetersAuto: They will be replaced by more “eco-friendly” electric cars – air-fingers-quotation marks to emphasize the lie of the thing, since there is nothing “eco friendly” about replacing a 500 pound V8 engine – as in the Charger and Challenger – with a 1,000-plus pounds of environmentally hazardous materials that consume a gratuitously excessive amount of power – in the form electricity that is generated almost entirely by burning hydrocarbon fuels, just like a V8 engine.

fromWashingtonFreeBeacon: Perhaps, when we know all the facts, we will find that the FBI raid on Trump’s Florida home was justified. Until then, we reserve our right to question the integrity of the federal law enforcement officials who have demonstrated their willingness to behave like political hacks and abuse the power with which they are entrusted to punish their political opponents.

fromReason: If all of the ballot initiatives succeed, pot will be legal in 25 states.

fromTheNationalPulse: COVID-19 lockdowns could be responsible for claiming 20 times more lives than they were advertised to save, according to a new analysis published in the International Journal of Environmental Research.

August 17, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: Is the attorney general disingenuous or simply naïve?

fromTownhall: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) is calling for the repeal of the Espionage Act, arguing the act has been “abused from the beginning to jail dissenters of WWI.” In a tweet, Paul said it is “long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment.” 

fromSashaStone/Substack: To watch our Department of Justice raid a former president’s home months before the midterms, where the Democrats were expected to do very badly, looks suspect to anyone.

fromWallStreetJournal: Democrats spent last week swearing that only high earners would be squeezed under their plan to beef up the Internal Revenue Service. It took only a few days for the CBO to put that narrative to rest. A quick analysis from the budget scorer confirms that the audit expansion will ensnare the middle class.

fromMises: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the US was 9.1 percent in June. Taking into account that the government lies about inflation, it is better to consider Shadow Government Statistics’ CPI (based on the 1980s CPI methodology), which was (as of July 13) about 17 percent.

fromJonathanTurley: We still do not have sufficient information to judge the basis for the raid or the prospects for prosecution despite the often breathless coverage.  The affidavit remains key to ending this speculation and quelling conspiracy theories. That is why Attorney General Merrick Garland should call for its unsealing.

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