April 22, 2019
fromRutherfordInstitute: We get taxed on how much we earn, taxed on what we eat, taxed on what we buy, taxed on where we go, taxed on what we drive, and taxed on how much is left of our assets when we die, and yet we have no real say in how the government runs, or how our taxpayer funds are used.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromFEE: How high does the death toll need to get before people realize that communism, like its sister ideology of Nazism, is despicably evil?
fromActivistPost: FamilyTreeDNA is the first company known to be cooperating directly with the FBI to give its agents access to its genealogy database, according to a BuzzFeed report.
Police State America Government is Watching Every Move You Make
fromFoxNews: He only told the truth and used her own words. Unforgivable.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
fromCharlesHughSmith: There is really only one unforgivable sin in the political realm, and that's destroying the official narrative by revealing the facts of the matter. This is why whistleblowers who make public the secret machinery of the elaborately artful lies underpinning all official narratives are hounded to the ends of the Earth.
April 19, 2019
fromDailyBell: And that doesn't calculate the negative value of tyranny.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromDailyBell: 1. Ignore the problem, 2. raise taxes, 3. default, 4. continue creating inflation.
fromAlt-Market: Whenever disaster strikes economically, free markets are blamed. Whenever something is fixed, even if that fix is a band-aid on a sucking chest wound, government involvement and socialism are applauded.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromAmericanConservative: She's still spinning Russiagate conspiracy tales, even as her ratings crash down.
Media Bias on Parade
fromForbes: On December 31st, NYC raised the minimum wage to $15, a 15% increase from the 2018 level, and a 34% hike from 2017. The result? Close to three-quarters of restaurants in New York City have cut labor input.
April 17, 2019
fromTheFederalist: How negligent media have helped inflate a deadly moral panic over prescription opioids and ignored the real sources of addiction, while hurting people who live with devastating chronic pain.
The War On Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
fromInternationalMan: The infrastructure for this system is already in place in the United States. Under the new system of life by government approval, survival becomes simple: Obey… or die.
April 15, 2019
fromReason: The world is a better place now that it's harder than ever for governments to keep secrets.
April 12, 2019
fromBloomberg: Tens of millions of very foolish people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
fromEricPetersAuto: Free health care, free college tuition, free child care are the beacons for the liberal Left. Everything but the freedom to think for yourself.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromTheSpectator: The Fox News host’s only real crime is daring to be provocative in a dull media world.
Media Bias on Parade
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: A look at the apologetic whining from Democratic presidential candidates for having been born white, advocating borders, failing to champion reparations to blacks and other high PC crimes.
Mar 1, 2019
fromAmericanThinker: Free health care, free college tuition, free child care are the beacons for the liberal Left. Everything but the freedom to think for yourself.
Indoctrination and Censorship
fromTownhall: For years, high-speed rail has drained the state budget of transportation funds that might have easily updated nightmarish stretches of the Central Valley's Highway 99.
Feb 28, 2019
fromForbes: Marijuana legalization advocates came into 2019 expecting it to be a huge year for cannabis, and lawmakers around the country are not disappointing them so far.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
fromPulitzerCenter: In the past two decades, the federal government took in $36.5 billion in assets police seized from the America people, many of whom never were charged with a crime or shown to have drugs.
Police State America
fromNYPost: A war on liberty and the pursuit of happiness is not enough. Democrats go for the trifecta, as 44 vote for infanticide.
Media Bias on Parade
fromAppleInsider: Because of Apple's and other companies' stances on end-to-end encryption, the U.S. government's trouble in intercepting online communications is only accelerating.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
fromKATV: Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump: "So as long as officers know that police involved shooting reviews that are meaningless rubber-stamps, they have no incentive to change their behavior."
Police State America
fromLATimes: A war on liberty and the pursuit of happiness is not enough. Democrats go for the trifecta, as 44 vote for infanticide.
Feb 27, 2019
fromLATimes: Police state advocates are not pleased.
2nd Amendment Assaults
fromOrganicPepper: “The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the tech specs. That was an error on our part," says Google. After all, NSA knew all along.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
fromFoxNews: As Venezuela continues to crumble under the socialist dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro, some are expressing words of resentment against a six-year-old gun control bill that stripped citizens of their weapons.
2nd Amendment Assaults
fromReason: Dyron Rashad Primus is serving 15 years for synthetic marijuana charges.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
fromNewser: Government-subsidized death traps. Apparently rescuers could not get to the trapped driver because there was no door handle on the outside of the door.
Feb 26, 2019
fromLATimes: California's tyrannical politicians cannot stop minding YOUR own business.
fromActivistPost: Modern technology is changing the approach to justice right before our eyes, as well as the See Something, Say Something citizen watch program. This is the new surveillance state.
fromZeroHedge: The socialist goals of equality will have been achieved once everyone starves to death.
fromFreeThoughtProject: A study of gun statistics across the country found that concealed carry permit holders break the law far less than police officers.
fromCreators: This type of hoax is part and parcel of the left's broad agenda of victimology, fraudulence and gimmickry, plus gross media gullibility, incompetence and political attention seeking.
fromDailyBell: “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” -Frank Herbert, Author of Dune
Feb 25, 2019
fromMises: Don't confuse blackmail with extortion. Extortion is about applying pressure under threat of bodily harm. Blackmail is about applying pressure under threat of simply revealing the truth.
fromReason: Lying to justify a search that killed two people could be a capital crime.
fromFEE: Serving as ground zero for the $15 minimum wage battle, New York City saw its fast-food workers also serve as the subjects in an experiment that completely ignored the laws of economics.
fromForbes: California is moving ever farther left and wants the nation to pay for it. Economically, it is on a high-speed rail to unsustainability.
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: From Tucker Carlson Tonight, commentary from Lara Logan and Brit Hume on how the pretense of objectivity no longer exists in modern journalism.
fromReason: Reformers always have a new scheme to take “the money out of politics," but it usually just makes the government larger and campaign spending increase.
Feb 22, 2019
fromCommentaryMagazine: The tragic journey from Perez to Chavez to Maduro.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromDailyStar: President Donald Trump has signed the Rapid DNA Act into law which means the police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime.
Feb 21, 2019
fromCollegian: Sex working is the most dangerous job in the country, even more so than logging or oil workers. Despite the general taboo associated with prostitution, legalizing it would benefit everyone more than expected.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
fromReason: There may be a consequence for the lying narco cop responsible for the deaths of two innocent people and the injuries to five other state agents.
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process
fromCNBC: Politicians lied about every aspect of the plan to rob federal taxpayers. The costs, feasibility and speed bear no resemblance to what had been promised.
Feb 20, 2019
fromGallup: Thirty-five percent of Americans name the government, poor leadership or politicians as the greatest problem facing the U.S. This is the highest percentage Gallup has recorded for this concern.
The Government is Not Us
fromFreeThoughtProject: After a no-knock raid, based on lies, led to the murder of an innocent couple, Houston police chief Art Acevedo vows to no longer use them.
Police State America
fromRedState: FBI officials, like Andrew McCabe, found that the media was more than willing to oblige. Correspondents would happily publish any “leaks” officials were willing to provide.
Feb 19, 2019
fromTheDailyBell: One of the key themes from George Orwell’s dystopic novel 1984 is that the Party can do and say whatever it wants. And more importantly, you must believe it, with all your heart. No matter how absurd.
The Government is Not Us
fromCreators: Why is Donald Trump's approval rating surging? Look at what he is compared to.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
fromCreators: "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
fromChristianScienceMonitor: Because juror deliberations are private, and rarely discussed afterward, it’s unclear how much nullification may be happening even without juries being instructed.
Feb 18, 2019
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: A tribute to the ability of politicians to rip off taxpayer money and grab citizen land with no accountability.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
fromCNSNews: The federal government collected a record $1,665,484,000,000 in individual income taxes in calendar year 2018, according to the Monthly Treasury Statements for the year.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
fromRutherfordInstitute: Mind you, it is not because of violent crime, which remains at an all-time low, or because of terrorism, which is statistically rare. The real danger comes from the U.S. government its powers to has granted to its standing army to steal, cheat, harass, detain, brutalize, terrorize, torture and kill.
The Government is Not Us Police State America
fromCreators: She tweeted that "men are not women," and for that, Meghan Murphy, feminist journalist, was banned from Twitter. The truth qualifies as "hate speech" for some of the gnomes at Twitter HQ.
Feb 14, 2019
fromWND: Among the endorsers of this Green New Deal is Sen. Cory Booker, who compares the battle to stop climate change to fighting the Nazis in World War II.
Feb 13, 2019
fromFEE: It’s readily apparent today that Americans are of widely different views on what a right is, how many we have, where rights come from, or why we have any in the first place.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
fromABCNews: Sheriffs in a dozen Washington counties say they won't enforce the state's sweeping new restrictions on semi-automatic rifles until the courts decide whether they are constitutional.
2nd Amendment Assaults
fromGreenvilleNews: Not since the days of the Sheriff of Nottingham have cops so openly practiced state-sponsored theft.
Police State America
fromForbes: The proposal would remove it from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), impose more taxes on sales and create a system of permits for businesses to engage in cannabis commerce.