August 28, 2021                                             

fromEricPetersAuto: There are many good – sound – reasons for objecting to forcing anyone to get “vaccinated” that have nothing to do with sickness, as such, but rather with this business of forcing people to take medicine or submit to medical treatment of any kind whatsoever. It sets a precedent by affirming the principle that it is ok to force people to take medicine and submit to medical treatment. 

fromSpiked: Governor Gavin Newsom's hapless reign exposes the rot at the heart of America's liberal elite. 

fromFoxNews: National media wakes up to fact that Republican Larry Elder could be California's next governor. 

fromRealClearPolitics: Arrogance is the mask incompetence wears. And so, as the human tragedy unfolds for millions of Afghanis because of his failure to take basic steps to protect them, Biden's spine stiffens. 

fromBigLeaguePolitics: Journalist Glenn Greenwald recently appeared on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight where he explained why he believes the media is turning on Joe Biden, after the surrender of Afghanistan. 
Defense Versus The War Machine                                                    Media Bias on Parade

fromZeroHedge: Headlines like "Vaccinated people appear to be getting the coronavirus at a surprisingly high rate" once got you banned from social media. Now, they are finding their way into the national discussion. 

August 27, 2021                                             

fromTheFederalist: In Biden’s remarks to the press, he was either openly deceiving the American people or he is completely unaware of conditions in Kabul. 

fromFrontPageMag: While the Taliban barbarically repress women in Afghanistan, toxic feminists wage a war against American men. 

fromIssuesInsights: Biden’s plans, if you can call them that, to get Americans out of Afghanistan have been an epic disaster. It’s almost impossible to exaggerate the incompetence and duplicity of Biden and his administration. 

fromAmericanMilitaryNews: In Biden’s remarks to the press Friday, he was either openly deceiving the American people or he is completely unaware of conditions in Kabul. 
The Government is Not Us                                                      Defense Versus The War Machine

fromRealClearPolitics: Before Joe Biden, Don Knotts was the personification of weakness. 

fromMises: Why is the vaccination campaign so important to governments that they have increased pressure to vaccinate to such an unprecedented extent? Who has an interest in the global vaccination campaign? 
The Government is Not Us                                                       Indoctrination and Censorship

August 26, 2021                                             

fromWashintonExaminer: Now that the Taliban are going door to door, hunting and executing Afghans who worked for the United States, Democrats want everyone to know that U.S. conservatives just as dangerous or worse. 

fromCity-Journal: Reluctant to set the public free, policymakers and the public-health bureaucracy set unachievable and unnecessary goals. 

fromTheFederalist: The raw abuse of authority shows that the actual agenda is often 'my choice, your compliance,' whether the issue is abortion, COVID-19, or anything else. 

fromFoxNews: 'We're seeing now what happens when countries tolerate authoritarians, even for a moment.' 

fromDailyExpose: When the mainstream media covers a story of someone who has suffered a serious reaction to one of the Covid-19 injections they only interview people who still believe in the Covid-19 vaccine religion. 

fromReason: By criminalizing peaceful transactions between consenting adults, drug prohibition creates opportunities for Goines-style fakery that would not otherwise exist. 

August 25, 2021                                             

fromIssuesInsights: Biden wasn't just portrayed as competent and empathetic. He was supposedly experienced, thoughtful, trustworthy, had sound judgment, would unite the country, and restore America’s standing in the world. 

fromCreators: The very supportive media environment around President Joe Biden has turned suddenly sour over this administration's shoddy handling of Afghanistan. For four days, the president disappeared from public view. Then he gave a speech on Aug. 16, took no questions and retreated again. 

fromRealClearScience: Speaking the truth about the vaccines, however, should not be that hard. We have to be willing to adapt to new data, even when it does not fit neatly into prior messaging. 

fromReason: The West needs markets in water, not allocations based on political considerations. 

fromAmericanThinker: While an army of authoritarian rule-keepers populate our airports, it's puzzling that the same passion for laws and safety seems strangely absent at America's southern border.
Regulation Nation                                                             The Government is Not Us                 

fromFreeThoughtProject: Although disappointing, this should come as no surprise given the fact that the DNC nominated the “Queen of the police state” Kamala Harris for Vice President. 

August 24, 2021                                             

fromWashingtonTimes: We’re so far beyond media bias that we’ve entered the Twilight Zone, where nothing is as it seems. Imagine, if you will, hundreds of thousands of illegals streaming into the United States and are being bused around the country with little media coverage. Forget it, look over there, another story on the Jan. 6 “armed insurrection,” the “worst threat to democracy” since George Washington misplaced his false teeth. 
Media Bias on Parade                                                                    Indoctrination and Censorship

fromAmericanThinker: How many of the people who rushed to get the jab would have taken it if they knew then what we know today? 

fromQuillette: Far too few American public-school children are prepared for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This leaves us increasingly dependent on an inflow of foreign talent. 

fromJonathanTurley: Not only was there no claim that Babbitt was believed to be armed, but there were officers directly behind her and in front of her at the time. As I noted earlier, if the officer intended to shoot Babbitt, it would not likely meet the standard for a justified shooting under governing cases like Tennessee v. Garner (1985). 

fromAmericanGreatness: Afghanistan explodes the technocratic legitimacy of our administrative masters. 

fromMises: This began the era of a global fiat money, debt-fueled economy. Since then, crises are more frequent but also shorter and always “solved” by adding more debt and more money printing. 

August 23, 2021                                             

fromTheFederalist: In the face of actual violence from real terrorists, the best our tech and media elite can do is mutter inane platitudes. 
Indoctrination and Censorship                                                    Media Bias on Parade

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: In the words of our leaders themselves, a reminder that the government is not us. 

fromReason: It is better for consumers to have companies like FedEx or Burger King, which set their own terms rather than lobbying for business models dictated by commissioners. 

fromFinancialTimes: America appears to be a rudderless ship with a doddering fool at the helm. 

fromDailyMail: Transcripts from unaired segments reveal he mistakenly said his son Beau served in the Navy in Afghanistan not the Army elsewhere. 

fromAlexBerenson: Before you even CONSIDER a third shot, please read this. 

August 21, 2021                                             

fromOANN: The Biden administration revealed there are no plans to evacuate Americans outside the Afghan capital of Kabul. Officials from various departments including State and Defense, told Senate staffers they don’t know of a way to get those Americans past Taliban checkpoints. 

fromTheChristianPost: A Republican congressman has sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey denouncing the social media giant's double standard for banning the former president from its platform but allowing the Taliban. 
Media Bias on Parade                                                                 Indoctrination and Censorship


fromNYPost: Defense contractors, who had no financial incentive to properly train an Afghan military to operate independently of them, made off handsomely along the way. 

fromAmericanSpectator: Power to the people, unless it puts progressives out of power. 

fromRutherfordInstitute: The government has a history of shamelessly exploiting national emergencies for its own nefarious purposes. Terrorist attacks, mass shootings, civil unrest, economic instability, pandemics, natural disasters: the government has been taking advantage of such crises for years now in order to gain greater power over an unsuspecting and largely gullible populace. This COVID-19 pandemic is no different. 

August 20, 2021                                             

fromTheFederalist: Adding extreme social leftism to the usual political greed and stupidity has been catastrophic, from the military to education to border security. 

fromRealClearEnergy: Embracing Green New Deal-style environmental policies, Biden’s approach to domestic energy production cripples hard-working Americans while increasing our reliance on foreign nations. 

fromAmericanGreatness: Forces more powerful than the Taliban, in places far more strategic, will now leverage a cognitively challenged American president, an ideologically driven but predictably incompetent administration, a woke Pentagon, and politically weaponized intelligence communities. 

fromDailyMail: He also said he would have still pulled troops from Afghanistan without former President Donald Trump's deal to get everyone out by May 1 in a reversal of his finger-pointing at his predecessor for the chaos. 

fromReason: The case is the latest example of people who say their savings were seized in airports, despite it being perfectly legal to fly domestically with large amounts of cash. 

fromWashingtonExaminer: Plenty of vice presidents have been actively destructive. But aside from that cackle driving down Democratic turnout, no other vice president has been remotely this useless in this century. 

August 19, 2021                                             

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: Using the same deceitful tactics they pioneered in Vietnam, U.S. political and military officials repeatedly misled the country about the prospects for success in Afghanistan. 
The Government is Not Us                                           Defense Versus The War Machine

fromTownhall: Biden reportedly had reports that the situation on the ground was not what he was telling the American people. At some level, we knew throughout the summer that Afghanistan could collapse. Biden insisted otherwise. In April, he said this withdrawal will not be hasty or chaotic.  

fromIssuesInsights: On his first day in office, President Joe Biden embarked on a campaign to rein in domestic oil and gas production. On his 204th day in office, he was pleading with OPEC to increase its production to stem the sharp rise in gasoline prices, to which OPEC said no dice. 

fromReason: Even government officials can occasionally admit the need for limits to their thievery. 
Police State America                                                    Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

fromAmericanThinker: How can any American trust the Intelligence Community in determining the true capabilities and intentions of nations armed with nuclear weapons and the means to launch them? 

fromAmericanGreatness: The only real question here is whether our government is populated by idiots or criminals. 

August 18, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: The collective madness that ensued from the pandemic, the quarantine, the self-induced recession, the George Floyd killing and subsequent months of riots, the election year, and the resurgence of variants of the Chinese-engineered coronavirus, all ignited the fuse of formerly inert socialist dynamite. And the ensuing explosion of revolutionary fervor in just a few months has made America unrecognizable. 
Regulation Nation                                                                  The Government is Not Us

fromReason: Many things once done as a matter of right are now privileges to be dispensed by those in power.
Regulation Nation                                                                  The Government is Not Us

fromTheFederalist: Biden's failure to fulfill corporate media's promises of his competence has made them look deeply foolish as he displays the folly they predicted of Trump.

fromEricPetersAuto: "It is clear the object is not public health but the oppression of the public – by the government."

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: Along with a group of heterodox writers, this move is designed to expand the reach of our journalism, support free speech platforms, and enable more reader interaction.

fromRealClearPolitics: FNC's Tucker Carlson comments that the lesson we have learned from the unceremonious end of the Afghanistan war is that we are "led by baffoons" and "imposters" who have "no idea what they're doing."

August 17, 2021                                             

fromHotAir: And so, a precedent for government control of the individual's body is established. Endless inoculations and vaccination passports are helpful tools in the proper herding the human livestock.

fromWashingtonTiimes: The real problem with Dr. Paul is that he openly calls on American citizens to stand up for their constitutional liberties at a time when they are under unprecedented assault by unelected bureaucrats (Fauci).

fromWallStreetJournal: Why would an American president want to subsidize foreign oil production while simultaneously damaging our own production capacity?
The Government is Not Us                                   Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromYahooNews: The belief is that campaign appearances by Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, get-out-the-vote assistance and efforts on social media should be able to thwart the recall attempt.

fromBreitbart: Anything that might derail the inflationary pork-filled infrastructure bill should be applauded.

fromAmericanGreatness: Majority leaders urged the radical Dems to switch their votes so as “to create the illusion of a united front on the issue of public health at our southern border within the Democrat Party.”

August 16, 2021                                             

fromAlt-Market: “The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.”
The Government is Not Us                                                 Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromWolfStreet: Now it’s new vehicles, restaurants, energy.  Game of Whac-A-Mole as some price spikes slow while others begin. But it’s a lot worse than it seems.

fromWolfStreet: Americans are growing angrier by the day, but in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or the Tea Party movement over a decade ago.

fromBrownstoneInstitute: Free people produce crucial information. If it proves true that a failure to vaccinate is the path to hospitalization and death, broad societal vaccination will soon enough be a reasonable aim.

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: The NSA's independent investigator, Robert Storch, is a long-time D.C. bureaucrat, making it unlikely he'd formally investigate frivolous allegations of "unmasking."

fromJonathanTurley: Now, they refuse to report a major new development with the release of a videotape that purportedly shows Biden claiming that one of his laptops was stolen by Russians for blackmail purposes
Media Bias on Parade                                                                  The Government is Not Us      

August 14, 2021                                             

fromTheHill: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been suspended from YouTube for a week over a video claiming that masks are ineffective against COVID-19. He violated the publisher's indoctrination policy.

fromCampusReform: Racist backers of the notion hold that proficiency levels for math and reading present an unfair challenge for minority students, essentially arguing that that they possess inferior learning and thinking capacity.

fromActivistPost: As Britain’s High Court handed the United States a win in its bid to extradite Julian Assange, human rights defenders renewed calls for the Biden regime to drop all charges against the WikiLeaks founder.

fromSpiked: Eco warriors claim to care about inequality. But they are attacking the world’s poorest.

fromTownhall: As the Biden administration's policies continue to spur inflation, Americans have already seen the impact at the gas pump and in the grocery store over the summer. Data dashboards used to monitor the price of goods and services show inflation spiking at its fastest rate since the 1990s.

fromZeroHedge: Do not take anything you hear from government or media at face value. The "news" they dispense is not designed to inform but rather to persuade you to think a certain way.

August 13, 2021                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: The American people, the permanent underclass in America, have allowed themselves to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny being laid down right under their noses by the architects of the Deep State.

fromCaitlinJohnstone: You're only one person, and the machine is so very powerful and so very deeply dug in, so all you can do is one person's best in each moment. Seize every opportunity you can find to spread awareness and throw sand in the gears of the machine, and rest assured that you've done all you can.

fromReason: Mandates, instead of incentives, were always going to drive people away. After all, mandates are only required when persuasion has no chance.

fromFoxNews: "California has not had sufficient security measures in place to prevent this level of fraud."

fromEpochTimes: "It isn’t due to modest warming, but rather to decades of federal and state mismanagement of publicly owned forests throughout the Western United States, leaving those forests in tinderbox conditions."

fromRealClearPolitics: The two meta-problems—the breakdown of order and erosion of public confidence — are deeply intertwined because we count on our leaders and institutions to give us reliable information, provide a stable environment (so each of us can go about our lives), and abide by the same rules we all do.

August 12, 2021                                             

fromDailyMail: It gives Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg the ability to award grants to local and regional entities 'to carry out pilot projects' of the VMT tax. The DOT would calculate drivers' payments quarterly.

fromDailyWire: “We don’t have to accept the mandates, lockdowns, and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and bureaucrats. We can simply say no, not again.”

fromAmericanThinker: Mike Lindell has organized a Cyber Symposium that he claims will prove the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and he’s giving $5 million to anyone who can disprove his data. Lindell plans to unveil computer data in front of politicians, cyber experts, and reporters.

fromReason: Recycling a government press release is not good journalism.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange                                  Police State America

fromZeroHedge: The record number of job openings stands out in stark contrast to Americans who are still collecting various pandemic emergency unemployment claims, which in the latest week was just above 11 million.

fromNYPost: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just released its latest climate report, and reactions from politicians and media pundits could not have been more predictable.

August 11, 2021                                             

fromReason: They'll never be satisfied in a world of balanced risks.

fromReason: As early as 2026, new cars will have to come equipped with "advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology."

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: The real-world data - from Israel, the United States, and everywhere else - are clear. Vaccine protection from infection fades within months against both the original coronavirus and the Delta variant. 

fromTheHill: Thirty-one percent of registered voters in the Aug. 2-3 survey named inflation as what concerns them the most when thinking about the future of the economy. This was followed by the national debt, at 22 percent, and unemployment and income inequality, at 15 percent each.

fromVisualCapitalist: A great way to grasp issues is to see them.

fromMises: Far from being in a position of overwhelming strength, China and its Communist leadership face imminent multifront domestic crises that will threaten the existence not only of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) but the existence of the Chinese state as a unified whole.

August 10, 2021                                             

fromCreators: Hate speech bans are unconstitutional in the United States, whose founders had the wisdom to recognize that giving government the authority to censor its citizens is more dangerous than allowing bigots to spew bile in a marketplace of ideas where reasonable people can refute and rebuke them.

fromTheHill: Biden acknowledged the obvious: any new order to extend the moratorium would be unconstitutional. Yet, he added that he was able to find “several key scholars who think that it may and it’s worth the effort.”


fromTownhall: Employers consistently report that new hires fare poorly in writing and critical thinking — essentially, two sides of the same coin. The shift began in the 1980s, as a new form of literary criticism knows as “deconstructionism” caught on in English departments across the country.

fromNationalReview: Two new independent polls on California’s September 14 recall election have a startling explanation for why Governor Gavin Newsom is in trouble. His support among minority communities is crumbling as issues such as crime, COVID restrictions, and a huge unemployment-benefits scandal dominate the race.

fromReason: The original formulation of OxyContin didn’t create the opioid crisis, argues psychiatrist Sally Satel, and removing it from the market didn’t make the problem go away.

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