March 22, 2021
fromAmericanThinker: The elite have turned the world into a zoo, with themselves as keepers and the rest of us as the animals that must be trained or destroyed.
The Government is Not UsfromGlennGreenwald/Substack: Eager to obtain vindication for the pre-election falsehood they spread about the Hunter Biden story, journalists falsely claim that the CIA blamed Russia for it.
Media Bias on ParadefromRT: A New York Supreme Court judge handed Veritas, known for its undercover and whistleblowing videos, a big “win” this week, allowing a defamation suit against the paper and two reporters to proceed forward.
Media Bias on ParadefromAndrewSullivan/Substack: How the media grotesquely distorted the Atlanta massacres.
Media Bias on ParadefromReason: Politicians on the right and the left are coming for your free speech.
Indoctrination and Censorship The Government is Not UsfromFrontPageMag: A collection of tales from the radicalized classroom.
Indoctrination and Censorship
March 21, 2021
fromAIER: Lockdown proponents committed themselves to something previously unthinkable. To admit error at this point is far too intellectually and psychologically upsetting to consider.
The Government is Not UsfromAreo: Those who decide to take on the responsibility of creating, producing, and distributing media in any form have a moral obligation to resist censorship in all forms.
Indoctrination and CensorshipfromNBCNews: Restrictions on what border agents can share with the media were passed down verbally, say officials. Some have released videos of the border surge anyway.
Indoctrination and CensorshipfromReason: Voters came out for legalizing marijuana, removing criminal penalties for psychedelic use, and treating drug addiction as a public health concern.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary ExchangefromMises: “Poverty in society is overcome by productivity, and in no other way. There is no political alchemy which can transmute diminished production into increased consumption.”
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free MarketfromTownhall: Biden also plans to repeal the Trump tax cuts, which means a tax increase for the middle class and most Americans. He also wants to reimplement the death tax.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
March 20, 2021
fromAutomaticEarth: Your human rights are just a thin veneer that serves to make your reality look nice and shiny, but may be scraped off at any moment.
Individual Liberty: America's First PrinciplefromAmericanGreatness: Leftist administrations see the military foremost as a tool for accelerating their own progressive domestic changes.
Defense Versus The War MachinefromAmericanThinker: No facility inspections, no interviews, no ridealongs for reporters? Every request for information to be processed with the bureaucrats in Washington, who are undoubtedly going to be too busy?
The Government is Not UsfromHotAir: The cure for voter fraud would be a death knell for Democrats. Election integrity is NOT their friend.
Politics and Other Official Acts of CorruptionfromGoodbyeMicrosoft: It's long past time to escape the Goolag. Here's how.
Indoctrination and CensorshipfromTheHill/YouTube: Senator (and medical doctor) Rand Paul holds the tail-chasing expert's feet to the fire.
The Government is Not Us
March 19, 2021
fromReason: Public schools can barely teach kids at all, but their defenders don’t want you trying alternatives.
Indoctrination and CensorshipfromCNN: Tone-deaf governor insists only racists and white supremacists have a problem with him.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
fromCNN: Legislators view the disease as a license to spend like there's no tomorrow.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
fromWashingtonExaminer: Facebook announced that it will restrict the popularity of groups and users that accrue violations and, in some cases, remove them altogether in order to reduce "harmful content and misinformation."
Indoctrination and CensorshipfromGatestoneInstitute: Pentagon generals thwarted by Trump's disdain for endless wars, seem to have found a friendly war monger in Joe.
Defense Versus The War MachinefromCNN: Like CNN and the NY Times, not everything on Babylon Bee is fake news.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
March 18, 2021
fromAmericanGreatness: The left-wing postmodern idea of “truth” as a mere pick-and-choose official narrative is now normal.
Indoctrination and Censorship The Government is Not UsfromTownhall: Glenn Greenwald explains how the Washington Post's media-spread error about Trump's Georgia call shows the deceitful playbook first invented to undermine Trump and promote Russiagate.
Media Bias on ParadefromReason: The road to speech restrictionism is paved with political rhetoric about protecting the proletariat from falsehoods.
Indoctrination and Censorship Individual Liberty: America's First Principle The Government is Not UsfromProPublica: More than 15 hours of testimony failed to answer fundamental questions about the Capitol attack. Among them: Why national security officials responded differently to BLM protesters than to Trump supporters.
Indoctrination and Censorship The Government is Not Us Politics and Other Official Acts of CorruptionfromLibertyPen/YouTube: From a 1995 interview with Ben Wattenburg, Thomas Sowell provides insight as to how ruling class elites use the perception of crisis to increase their powers and promote their self-interests.
The Government is Not UsfromWattsUpWithThat: “We know there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know” — Donald Rumsfeld.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
March 17, 2021
fromTownhall: If leftists are telling something backed up by science, as they claim it is, then the only option is that every single “trans-boy” in America is disinterested in sports. Every sport, always.
Political Correctness and Other NitwitteryfromHotAir: 289 jobs have been lost, 3 store closed. It’s also worth noting that these aren’t minimum wage jobs for students. Those grocery store workers were making an average of $18 per hour.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free MarketfromZeroHedge: Unlike the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 stimulus act, the next initiative, which is expected to be even bigger, won’t rely just on government debt as a funding source.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free MarketfromAIER: Stopping COVID ‘at all costs’ will destroy us societally and globally.
Regulation NationfromReason: Feinstein's latest bill classifies firearms not by what they do but based on how they look.
2nd Amendment AssaultsfromNewsmax: Because there is no guilt by accusation in America. But, he should resign over the unnecessary nursing home deaths.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
March 16, 2021
fromNationalReview: A professor praising communism in the McCarthy era had less to worry about.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle Indoctrination and CensorshipfromTheFederalist: If a child doesn't have to die to save grandma from coronavirus, why would we ever let that child die? A heartbreaking longread from ProPublica challenges the nation.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
fromActivistPost: The resistance to the vaccine is also growing by the day, up to and including health care workers. Are these trained doctors and nurses working the front lines of the pandemic, “science deniers”? We think not.
Indoctrination and CensorshipfromAmericanSpectator: The prospect of inflation in the United States has moved quickly from a fringe idea to become the consensus among the financial literati.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free MarketfromWashingtonExaminer: Conservatives argue that allowing transgender women to play against biological women would present them with an unfair advantage that would hurt biological women, while Democrats argue that such a policy would isolate and discriminate against people who are trying to embrace their gender identity.
Political Correctness and Other NitwitteryfromARCDigital: The problem is not a publisher’s decision to discontinue some titles; it’s the ascendancy of a cultish version of “social justice”.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
March 15, 2021
fromFreeThoughtProject: The New York Times appears to have declared war on traditional critical thinking, which they say “isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation”. Perhaps the most totalitarian piece you will ever read.
fromAlt-Market: Governments and mainstream media outlets in particular have made the manufacture of public consent their top priority. This is what they spend most of their time, money and energy on.
fromReason: What does this have to do with the pandemic? Nothing. Like all things government, it is about power and control.
fromReason: Grocery store company Kroger has announced that it will be closing three stores in Los Angeles as a result of the county's new hazard pay law.
fromTheFrontPage: In a society of victims, knowledge and facts and reason no longer apply.
fromAmericanGreatness: The mendaciously self-declared “antiracist,” Communist race theory grifters even plagiarized cancel culture.
March 14, 2021
fromCollectiveEvolution: Going through the data from UNICEF and UNAIDS, they came to the conclusion that least as many people have died as a result of the restrictions to fight covid as have died of covid.
fromReason: Does the First Amendment prevent school officials from punishing students for off-campus speech. The Biden administration is arguing it does not.
fromAsiaTimes: US-led ‘planet saving’ could become new source of military conflict as oil and gas have so frequently in the past.
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Gutfeld explains how racism has become the popularized knee-jerk explanation for everything and argues we have reached our RASP (Racism Accusation Saturation Point).
fromZeroHedge: Tyranny never sleeps. It keeps marching.
fromBostonHerald: Everyone has agreed not to see that the emperor is fast becoming senile.
March 13, 2021
fromMises: Economist Thomas Sowell once said that the word 'racism' is like ketchup: it can be put on practically anything. Today, that has become page one in the Democratic Party playbook.
fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: As social media empowers uncredentialed people to be heard, society's most powerful actors seek to cast themselves as victims and delegitimize all critiques.
fromEpochTimes: The report conducted by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology said its analysis, supported by large-scale survey data, is able to provide scientific evidences to “campus illiberalism.”
fromEvieMagazine: In addition to watching our boys fail while pushing girls ahead, there has been a mainstream anti-male propaganda campaign taking place, essentially shaming and blaming boys and their masculinity.
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Thought to have been experts a year ago, all have now been revealed as stooges.
fromBigLeaguePolitics: Cronyism has its privileges.
March 12, 2021
fromTheMostImportantNews: Folks are really going to regret putting the warmongers back in control.
fromFoxBusiness: Does the First Amendment prevent school officials from punishing students for off-campus speech. The Biden administration is arguing it does not.
fromTheFederalist: In a totalitarian regime, children's books are not meant to bring joy or inspiration. Their sole purpose is to instill the correct political ideology in the young mind.
fromEpochTimes: Lindell said that with his unnamed social media website, “people will be able to talk and not walk on eggshells.” The site is expected to be up in 4-6 weeks.
fromWendyMcElroy.com: “Sexual inequality” is very real in higher education but not in the way claimed by a publicly ubiquitous narrative of “underprivileged” females in need of “special protection.”
fromJonathanTurley: This major blunder is timed perfectly to exonerate Trump just ahead of the 2024 election.
March 11, 2021
fromRutherfordInstitute: “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”— George Washington
fromZeroHedge: Tyrants routinely require a permanent military occupation to protect them from those they exploit represent, especially when the current regime pretends the previous one consisted of domestic terrorists.
fromNationalReview: Either we believe principles are the best means of fairness, or not. Biden, it seems, only believes in them for himself.
fromForbes: Dozens of Colorado’s sheriffs publicly proclaimed the bill unconstitutional, with roughly half of the state’s county governments passing resolutions stating that they do not support enforcing such laws.
fromTheFederalist: New York Times reporters debased themselves by asking Josh Hawley's middle school principal and former prom date for comment on the Republican senator.
fromTownhall: It’s impossible for caravans not to be petri dishes of infection – thousands of people marching for weeks, sharing food and water is the exact breeding ground for disease it sounds like it would be.
March 10, 2021
fromAmericanGreatness: We have become an absurd society obsessed with race but without any mechanism to develop a logical category of victimization and reparation.
fromEpochTimes: The principle of self-censorship is that people, just to be on the safe side, refrain from saying even things that aren’t outright banned by some applicable rules.
fromReason: Banishing him from library shelves is a slippery slope.
fromAmericanThinker: "It's an amazingly offensive position, but, sadly, Democrats have conditioned Blacks for decades to believe in their own helplessness.
fromAmericanThinker: Canceling the history and culture of the freest and most prosperous nation in history as preparation for canceling that nation itself.
fromTechnologyReview: Algorithms are meaningless without good data. The public can exploit that to demand change. Don't forget, government has access to all of the data Big Tech collects.
March 9, 2021
fromDeseret: The people who keep quiet don’t fear the wrath of Trump supporters. They fear the illiberal left.They are feminists who believe there are biological differences between men and women. Journalists who believe their job is to tell the truth about the world, even when it’s inconvenient. Doctors whose only creed is science. Lawyers who will not compromise on the principle of equal treatment under the law. Professors who seek the freedom to write and research without fear of being smeared. In short, they are centrists, libertarians, liberals and progressives who do not ascribe to every single aspect of the new far-left orthodoxy.
fromGlennGreenwald: If the threat of "armed insurrectionists" and "domestic terrorists" is as great as some claim, why do they have to keep lying and peddling crude media fictions about it?
fromAmericanGreatness: The legislation also allows Texans who have been “canceled, censored or deplatformed” to file a lawsuits against the tech oligarchs.
fromCreators: This form of commerce is ancient and ineradicable. As one New Orleans mayor said, "You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular."
fromCaitlinJohnstone: There is only ever one news story on any given day, and it is always the same news story: wealthy and powerful people seek more wealth and power, and narratives are spun to advance these agendas.
fromAlt-Market: Eventually, the establishment will realize that conservatives will be harder to subjugate than they expected. They will discover that a large part of the US military and law enforcement is on our side.
March 8, 2021
fromWallStreetJournal: The Democratic Party wants to mandate ballot harvesting and limit voter verification in order to control future elections.
fromTownhall: The left has some comparative advantages in its war against liberty and tolerance. Chief among these is their boundless imagination for making things up.
fromAmericanThinker: Without any real effort to address the inequities of this rigged system, an angry, messy politics will persist and very well become messier over time.
fromTheFreeThoughtProject: Because there is no government facility in the area and the good samaritan was arrested, there will be no more animals rescued in Petoskey.
fromTownhall: Today the world's largest Che mural (the same image eBay proudly merchants in 5,400 different forms) adorns Cuba's Ministry of the Interior, the headquarters for the Cuba's KGB- trained secret police.
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Canada has taken the authoritarian move to institute ideologically-motivated language in an effort to thwart the reality of biological science. The implications are discussed.
March 7, 2021
fromCreators: The First Amendment is rarely enforced on college campuses today because colleges have largely become places of left-wing orthodoxy
fromQuillette: Whether or not lockdowns are justifiable on public-health grounds, they certainly represent the greatest infringement on civil liberties in modern history.
fromPragerU/YouTube: Lockdowns have never been done in a free society. Never forget, when government gets bigger, the people get littler.
fromEpochTimes: Alan Dershowitz said that Americans who subscribe to all political viewpoints—including liberals—should be pushing back.
fromReason: The national eviction moratorium and Arizona’s business restrictions were based on dubious assertions of authority.
fromAmericanThinker: If the left gets their way, Americans could very well be in danger of losing their right to own firearms and use them for their protection.
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