April 13, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: Americans privately fear these rules, while publicly appearing to accept them. The onslaught of nitwittery is overwhelming. 

fromRutherfordInstitute: Those living through this present age of government lockdowns, immunity passports, militarized police, SWAT team raids, police shootings of unarmed citizens, roadside strip searches, invasive surveillance and the like might feel as if these events are unprecedented. They are not.

fromTownhall: The fourth wave is going to kill us all. We have variants. We have cases reportedly surging. We have vaccines, but even if you get the shot you have to remain inside and remain in total fear.
The Government is Not Us                             Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromPacificLegalFoundation: The Biden administration seeks to make weapons manufacturers responsible for crimes instead of criminals. Their assault on individual rights is relentless. 
2nd Amendment Assaults                              The Government is Not Us

fromAmericanSpectator: There’s not a single thing that Biden has done that the former Bronx barista, now leftist heartthrob, would not find simpatico.

fromWashingtonExaminer: West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed a bill removing the sales tax on gun and ammunition purchases across his state, making his state a stronghold for the Second Amendment. 

April 12, 2021                                             

fromPacificLegalFoundation: Supreme Court will declare whether the Fourth Amendment means what it says.  
The Government is Not Us                             Police State America


fromMises: Capitalism isn't just better because it makes us materially better off. Capitalism also helps us forge a more humane and civil society.  

fromWashingtonExaminer: The Supreme Court is weighing whether it will take up two cases that could clarify the limits of the Second Amendment. 

fromTheFederalist: Democratic Party attempts to make all things racist appears to be successful political strategy in the short term but is a recipe for national disaster in the long term.  

fromTheFederalist: In pursuit of the Democrat's wet dream to establish single party control.  

April 11, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: It will be a long time, if ever, before the truth about what happened—and didn’t happen—on January 6, 2021 is fully and fairly explained. 

fromAmericanThinker: American progressives have a long and ugly history of abusing the government’s police power over people’s bodies. 
The Government is Not Us                                                Police State America

fromKoin: “People shouldn’t have to go to the game and worry about if they’re sitting next to a Joe Biden supporter or a Donald Trump supporter,” he said. 

fromReason: Joe's governing philosophy is also shared by the cancer cell: growth for the sake of growth. 

fromZeroHedge: VIDEO: Joe Biden was asked by a reporter "will you stack the courts?" - he replied that voters "don't deserve" to know his stance until after the election. Lie, cheat and steal is clearly his playbook. 

fromAmericanMind: You don’t want to chain your kids up in the basement and seal all the doors? Rather not ship them to an ice floe off Greenland? Then, friends, you’re going to need to become a master of anti-wokeness. 

April 10, 2021                                             Special All Nitwittery Edition

fromTheFederalist: It's long past time our elected politicians use the powers they have to protect their constituents from the powerful and wealthy private interests who have so casually set us in their sights. 

fromWashingtonExaminer: The authors explain that “racial inequity” in hospitals is negatively affecting patients and propose solutions such as “cash transfers and discounted or free care” for minorities only. 

fromEpochTimes: In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Fay Vincent argued that Robert Manfred likely made the decision to boycott Atlanta without first examining the substance of the election reforms. 

fromAmericanMilitaryNews: It stands to reason that only gays would prefer the men's facility. 

fromEpochTimes: A look back at how American exceptionalism was always part of Coca-Cola’s identity, until it wasn’t. Or, how woke Coke became a joke.

fromAmericanThinker: The entertainment industry is dead set on making its products the complete opposite of entertaining...for your own good. 

 April 9, 2021

fromAmericanGreatness: Our politicians, the media, and the unelected bureaucrats cry wolf over “domestic terrorism” without understanding that, in a real confrontation, theirs is the losing hand.
Indoctrination and Censorship                             The Government is Not Us

fromReason: So far it's crickets from The New York Times and The Washington Post.

fromDailyMail: Abbott became the second Republican governor to snub President Joe Biden's proposed vaccine passports in issuing an executive order prohibiting the government from requiring Texans show proof of inoculation.

fromTheFederalist: Everyone knows why Democrats don’t want voters to show ID. It has nothing to do with racism, and everyone knows it. So why are we playing this stupid game?

fromReason: Three recently approved plans show what politicians have learned (or failed to learn) since Colorado became the first state to allow recreational use. 

fromTownhall: Just the thought of such causes visions of sugarplums to dance in Pete Buttigieg's head.
The Government is Not Us                              Regulation Nation

 April 8, 2021

fromRutherfordInstitute:  Now that the government has gotten a taste for flexing its police state powers by way of a bevy of lockdowns, mandates, restrictions, contact tracing programs, heightened surveillance, censorship, overcriminalization, etc., we may all be long-haulers, suffering under the weight of long-term COVID-19 afflictions.

fromTownhall:  For a uniter, President Joe Biden has a remarkable knack for figuring out new and destructive ways to divide Americans. His latest attempt to further split us falls back on one of his favorite themes: race. 

fromAmericanThinker:  The transgender movement is well known for shaming, harassing, and silencing all those feminists who have a rational, objective critique of the normalization of gender dysphoria.

fromEpochTimes:  He said it does not matter that Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and others are not the only ways in which to distribute speech as long as their power to do so is unequaled.

fromReason:  Did January 6th provide tyrants the pretense they need to trample the liberty of political opponents?

fromAmericanGreatness:  The myth of Biden the healer, and Trump the cruel divider, got Biden elected. But the fantasy that Biden had the answers to problems that Trump created is a far greater delusion.

April 7, 2021

fromMises:  In a country where the traditional definition of virtue has “evolved” and the search for metaphysical truth has largely been sidelined, millions of Americans seem to believe that there is no higher truth than the Science and that there are no more virtuous citizens than those who deferentially submit to the experts and the societal planners.

fromNationalReview:  By keeping its television production operations centered in Atlanta, is CNN consenting to voter ID (known as "Jim Crow-on-steroids" to some historical illiterates)?

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack:  A family in Oakland just suffered a horrific crime in their home -- one similar to but far worse than one I had recently -- and deserves much help in recovering.
The Government is Not Us                       Police State America

fromAmericanThinker:  The lie that George Floyd was murdered by racist police officers has made its way around the world several times over, leaving countless violent riots and more than $2 billion in property damages.

fromFoxNews:  Mainstream media "news" once again identified as deceptive propaganda.

fromDailyMail:  Beth Colgan, a UCLA law professor, told The Los Angeles Times that it would be shocking if a judge had allowed the FBI to search every box in the sealed warrant.
The Government is Not Us                       Police State America

April 6, 2021

fromWallStreetJournal: They’re denouncing Georgia’s election law, but have they read it?



fromAmericanThinker: Data visualization shows hotspots – like red wine stains on a white tablecloth.  😲 Isn’t it interesting that 634 people with the same birthday, including the year, live at seven addresses?

fromReason: A federal appeals court rejects a highly implausible redefinition of machine guns

fromWallStreetJournal: They contend that to identify objective reality is an act of white supremacy. 

April 5, 2021

fromTheFederalist: Are Americans supposed to accept that the government, private employers, and businesses such as airlines and Costco may stop you and demand that you show your COVID-19 papers? 

fromNBCNews: New voting integrity measures have been signed into law in Georgia, Iowa, Arkansas and Utah. 

fromEpochTimes: Since we are to believe Joe Biden is the most popular in president in history (10 million votes more popular than Obama), either these dislikes must have been made in error or the site was hacked. 🙄

fromReason: The role of the state is to protect rights and guard against fraud, not to preventing risky choices. 

fromTheHill: Evidence of this view can be found in the Second Amendment itself. First, there are no “except” clauses in the text. It simply says the right to bear arms “shall not be infringed.” 

fromTheFrontPage: When the only way to fight racism accusations is with more racism accusations. 

 April 4, 2021

fromCreators: A federal appeals court rejects a highly Implausible redefinition of machine guns. 

fromTabletMag: A new documentary about former Executive Director Ira Glasser explains how the once-storied civil liberties organization came to embrace the ideology it was built to fight. 

fromReason: The Founders could not have imagined the Commerce Clause covering an eviction moratorium. 

fromCreators: A federal appeals court rejects a highly Implausible redefinition of machine guns. 

fromTabletMag: The late scholar Judith Shklar warned that liberalism can degenerate into a cult of victimhood that permits our sadistic desires to be passed off as unimpeachable virtue. Her warning is newly urgent today. 

fromBabylonBee: "He has always been so docile and well behaved–always limiting his interactions to sniffing and friendly licks. He’s never bitten anyone like this.'” (satire) 

April 3, 2021

fromLibertyPen: My resistance centers around three basic reasons: misinformation, censorship and bullying.


fromCATO: Personal freedom around the world has seen a notable decline since 2008, according to the Human Freedom Index 2020. Overall freedom has also declined, though to a lesser degree, over the same time period.


fromAmericanSpectator: Why should we protect stable allies who won’t protect themselves?

fromAntiWar: Military made contracts anticipating years of war.

 April 2, 2021

fromFEE: A cursory overlook of the justice system’s operations reveals that the expansion of police powers almost always impacts marginalized communities more harshly - communities the Democrats claim to stand for.

fromMises: “The Great Reset” is the latest deceptive euphemism for totalitarian socialism that is being promoted by yet another group of wealthy corporate elitists who think they can centrally plan the entire world economy.

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: Powerful media figures now invoke sexist and racist tropes to cast themselves as so fragile and marginalized that critiques of their work constitute bullying and assault.

fromMeaww: If fakes of state-required ID are plentiful, the cause of liberty is served.

fromAIER: A recent global study found that obesity is a “driving factor in COVID-19 deaths,” and that Covid-19 death rates are an astonishing ten times higher in countries where most adults are overweight.


April 1, 2021

fromNationalReview: It’s an entirely legitimate question raised by the Left’s increasingly rigid opposition to basic voting safeguards.

fromFEE: The results are in—and they overwhelmingly vindicate the free states over the authoritarian experiments.

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: The repressive objective of the Democratic-controlled Congress is to transfer the power to police and censor political discourse from these tech giants to themselves.

fromVisualCapitalist: Great graphics, great perspective.

fromAmericanGreatness: In four years this self-destructive Americaphobic nightmare will be over and a regime led or at least supported by Donald Trump will be back.

fromDailyCaller: Truly, no sporting event or business is safe from becoming a racial football.

March 31, 2021

fromTheFederalist: In an age when Americans have grown used to casually shrugging away their freedoms at the whim of TV pundits, this kind of propaganda is seriously dangerous.

fromAmericanGreatness: Racism is the deductive bias against an entire racial group. It is often birthed by dislike of particular individuals of a given group that supposedly justifies, by extension, disliking or indeed hating all of them.

fromReason: Tesla, the crown jewel of crony capitalism, receives protection from their Big Tech buddies.

fromEpochTimes: Perhaps it will take on the role Radio Free Europe once played overseas.


fromFoxNews: 'Where’s Durham? Is he a living, breathing human being? Will there ever be a Durham report?' Trump said.

March 30, 2021

fromReason: Even Joe Biden and Barack Obama were willing to acknowledge this basic fact just a few years ago.

fromFoxNews: A tale of unabashed nepotism from America's most corrupt mayor.

fromJustTheNews: Is ID requirement a voter suppression tactic or a responsible security measure? Georgia is ground zero for settling debate, future of American elections.

fromFoxNews: GOP senators reveal shocking images of migrants, babies packed in border facilities

fromAmericanConsequences: P.J. O'Rourke on what we SHOULD have learned about central planning.

fromZeroHedge: Biden taps wife of swing-voter Joe Manchin to federal post ahead of infrastructure push.

                  

March 29, 2021


fromOffGuardian:  Light up the lone candle on the saddest birthday cake in the world! The most destructive public policy of the century is growing up and doesn’t look like slowing down. 

The Government is Not Us

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack:  A letter from House Intelligence Committee members demands answers from the DNI about illegal breaches of the wall guarding against CIA and NSA domestic activity. 

Government is Watching Every Move You Make


fromAmericanConsequences:  If any expert had told you a year ago that people who were fully vaccinated would still have to mask up and avoid human contact whenever possible, that would’ve been considered absolutely nuts.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromForbes:  A move to further diminished the individual liberty afforded by both the 2nd and 4th Amendments. 

2nd Amendment Assaults               The Government is Not Us          Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromCaitlinJohnstone:  A commentary on the sad state of journalism in America. 

Media Bias on Parade

fromBoredPanda:  More depictions of black people winning, laughing and being successful would be a refreshing and more realistic view of America, but counterproductive to the race-baiting left's agenda. 

Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

                 

March 27, 2021


fromGlennGreenwald/Substack:  The conspiracy theory that the media pushed since before Trump’s inauguration — to the point where it drowned out most of U.S. politics and policy for years — had no evidentiary foundation.

Media Bias on Parade

fromPolitico:  Unlike immigration, infrastructure or even guns, no senators are talking across the aisle about whether any compromise can be had.

The Government is Not Us

fromReason:  As is the case with many of our Constitutional liberties, federal judges have ruled the 2nd Amendment doesn't mean what it says.

2nd Amendment Assaults                             The Government is Not Us

fromActivistPost:  Identical headlines for what appears to be entirely different news outlets is definitely sketchy, but when you click the articles, you see that the text is identical with only numbers and state names plugged in.

Media Bias on Parade

fromReason:  The measure could also make it illegal for states to create new tax credit programs, such as those used for expanding school choice.


fromAmericanThinker:  Trump-haters ignored Biden's senility and Harris' record of being the most progressive member of the Senate. The media wanted rid of Trump and proactively hid what was behind the door.

Media Bias on Parade                      Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

                

March 26, 2021


fromAmericanThinker:  Imagine a business model where the government mandates that customers must use a service or product, but then exempts the producing company from any liability.

Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromOANN:  Government giveaways are never cheap. Government has no money of its own. It must confiscate all of its resources from individuals through taxation or by expanding the money supply (destroying buying power).

Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromFrontPageMag:  Another opportunity to shore up their sagging “white terror threat” narrative is lost.

Indoctrination and Censorship

fromReason:  The president has ordered the Education Department to consider rescinding reforms aimed at protecting the due process rights of accused students.

Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

fromEpochTimes:  A political tyrant who despises the notion of a country comprised of free men and dictates that his chosen morality be yours.

The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

fromGetOutspoken:  The highly specific language is unprecedented and also appears on the websites of all 15 executive departments.

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

               

March 25, 2021


fromCreators:  The Atlanta lie is part of the greater lie that there is a national epidemic of white supremacist anti-Asian racism.

Media Bias on Parade                             Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromAIER:  More taxes coming as well. The Biden administration has adopted the philosophy of the cancer cell: growth for the sake of growth.

Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market                      Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromMises:  Social justice warriors accuse the police of systemic racism, while pushing for revolutionary changes in police procedure that cement extreme bias into law enforcement—a bias that will fall heavily upon black men.

Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

fromAmericanThinker:  While they previously had been somewhat restrained in their efforts to transform the nation, any pretense of subtlety has now been abandoned.

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromEpochTimes:  A predictable knee-jerk reaction when any opportunity to make government bigger and citizens littler presents itself.

2nd Amendment Assaults

fromWashingtonExaminer:  Fauci seemed to argue that no amount of vaccine uptake can free us from the need to wear masks, pointing to coronavirus variants.

The Government is Not Us

              

March 24, 2021


fromAIER:  "Its message has never, sadly, been more timely. This time, threats to freedom justified by terrorism then, have reclothed themselves in the trappings of a medical pandemic."

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption                       The Government is Not Us

fromCityJournal:  There’s no proof that lockdowns save lives but plenty of evidence that they end them.

The Government is Not Us

fromMattTabbi/Substack:  A brief list of the many times government officials have pimped misinformation about Russia. Isn't it time to start asking for proof?

The Government is Not Us

fromCNNBusiness:  Most troubling for Joe and Company is that this is being done by their own lapdogs.

Indoctrination and Censorship

fromReason:  New Mexico could be the 16th state to legalize pot, while Texas considers tinkering with its onerous penalties and Pennsylvania continues to arrest cannabis consumers.

The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

fromForbes:  After campaigning to legalize pot and choosing a former pot user as VP, Joe canned staffers who admitted to ever using marijuana in the past. Was transparency or drug use the disqualifying factor?

The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange                                    The Government is Not Us
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