July 7, 2022

fromWashingtonExaminer: California has its freedoms, too — it's true — but you can only commit assisted suicide so many times before it starts getting old. Is it worth having to live under California taxation just to know that you live in a state that allows ninth-month abortions? Is it worth paying double for electricity and quadruple for rent to live amid homeless encampments just for the peace of mind that none of your neighbors are "Rethuglicans"?

fromDailyBell: The “Disinformation Governance Board” went belly-up last month. Apparently, the Orwellian authoritarianism was just too blatant. But the censorship agenda certainly didn’t go away, it just changed forms. 

fromFrontPageMag: An army of privileged unhappy neurotic women - with an endless amount of spare time.

fromFreeThoughtProject: "Zuckerberg’s company offered its biggest media critics big checks in exchange for exclusive deals. Both sides claimed to be “fighting misinformation” with what was really a shakedown and a cartel."

fromReason: The WNBA player has been detained in Russia on drug possession charges since February.

fromCreators: The agency's policies would boost the black market and Smoking-related deaths.

July 6, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: In truth, “insurrection” has been fueled by the Left since 2015.

fromRealClearHealth: There is no evidence the vaccines stop Covid-19, despite the constant lecturing from the Biden Administration and the mainstream media. In the United States and globally, cases continue to rise and fall without any correlation to the pace or percentage of population vaccinated. Let doctors admit it.

fromSpectatorWorld: The Supreme Court hands more power back to the people.        Regulation Nation

fromEricPetersAuto: Americans just celebrated their independence but from what, exactly? From Great Britain? Why should that be cause for celebration? What have Americans gained thereby? Was it “taxation” – with “representation”? Is this in fact the case? And if so, can it be accounted an improvement?                                                                     The Government is Not Us

fromQuillette: ‘This nagging feeling that she had an unfair advantage arose every time we hit each other in practice. For me, it was like hitting a brick wall.’ But the facts were clear. Jamie was built like a naturally athletic male. She was bigger, faster, and stronger than the rest of us, without regularly working out or eating right.

fromNYPost: Vladimir Lenin supposedly once said, “The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

July 5, 2022

fromCommonDreams: "If Julian Assange is not free, neither are we," said a protester at a Friday demonstration against the WikiLeaks founder's impending transfer. "None of us is free."

fromHotAir: According to the latest Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, seventy-one percent of respondents do not want Biden to run in 2024, leaving 29% — about nine points lower than his current RCP average — backing Biden’s re-election.            The Government is Not Us

fromWashingtonExaminer: If government workers leak private IRS data despite felony penalties, California gun owners’ private data will be leaked too. It is not a question of if, but of when.   2nd Amendment Assaults

fromReason: "We recognize that urgency is a white supremacy value that can get in the way of more intentional and thoughtful work, and we want to attend to this dynamic."

fromSpiked: They enjoy exactly the same rights as the rest of us.

fromJonathanTurley: Hochul is a gift to gun rights advocates.

July 4, 2022

The Rise and Fall of American Freedom



fromTheGastonGazette: In these tumultuous times, it is easy to lose sight of the principles on which this country was founded: independence, tolerance, economic and personal liberty, and avoiding foreign quarrels. Few need convincing that we personally should have liberty, But what about others who are not as wise and saintly as we are? Liberty is not just for Independence Day speeches. Liberty is the most urgent and important issue facing humanity. Liberty is the fundamental question of all human relations and morality. Liberty determines whether we’ll have peace, justice, progress, prosperity, health and happiness; or war, injustice, stagnation, poverty and misery.




July 3, 2022

fromVolokhConspiracy: The principle has implications that go far beyond abortion. Some of them deserve far more attention than they have gotten to this point.

fromTheGarrisonCenter: Characterizing NATO as a “collective security” or “defense” coalition these days is pure fiction. It’s an alliance for global conquest and US/European hegemony, and that’s all it is.

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: The fawning media coverage notwithstanding, uptake has been pitifully low.

fromTheDailyBell: We live in a failed state. There’s no baby formula GMO feed on shelves for hungry infants. Inflation is out of control. Supply lines are collapsed. Those are just a handful of the legion of ills. Meanwhile, instead of addressing those crises, the ruling class is most interested in fixing “racist hair discrimination”.

fromAmericanThinker: Without actually promising or committing anything, Joe Biden has led many young people to believe that the federal government will cancel the loans they take out to finance a college education.

fromTheFreeThoughtProject: Federal law enforcement agents and their partners seized over 5.5 million cultivated marijuana plants and made more than 6,600 marijuana-related arrests in 2021, according to the DEA.

July 2, 2022

fromTheFederalist: The January 6 show trial is partly about persecuting political opponents. But it’s also about covering up the truth of the 2020 election.

fromCreators: We freedom-lovers believe women (and men) own their bodies and should have control over what happens to them. But we also believe that one of the few legitimate roles for government is stopping murder. If a fetus is a life, abortion is legally murder.

fromAmericanThinker: Michelle has been following a formula scarily like the one that got Barack Obama elected president.  Like her husband, Michelle served as the keynote speaker at a Democrat Convention.  Barack's 2004 breakout speech introducing John Kerry made him a viable candidate four years later.  Michelle's 2020 speech on behalf of Joe Biden established her as the favorite next nominee.

fromTheUnherd: If universities once made promises to teach their undergraduates how to think, they now aim to teach them what to think.                                                                  Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromMattTaibbi/Substack: “Guns up! Shoot back!” As News2Share chronicles via a pair of Mississippi events, black pro-gun marchers exist in a no-coverage zone.

fromZeroHedge: Tucker Carlson has done it again. The Fox News host laid bare the Biden administration's escalating war against political enemies. "Here's a list of the things they've done, because no one has assembled them," said Carlson.

July 1, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: How odd that leftists are destroying the very customs and traditions whose loss will come back to haunt them when Democrats lose the Congress in November.

fromRealClearPolitics: As it should be. "Love your country but never trust your government." The wise words of Robert Novak have never rang truer.

fromMilitary.com: The Army is tossing its mandate for potential recruits to have a high school diploma or GED certificate to enlist in the service, in one of the most dramatic moves yet in the escalating recruiting crisis hitting the entire Defense Department.

fromIntelligent.com: Incentives matter. (1/3 of Dem. leaning students say they will walk away from him if he doesn't keep his campaign promise. No wonder the Dems are pushing for debt forgiveness.)

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: Put aside the side effects, which are now increasingly visible at the national level; the failure of the shots to work as promised is just too obvious. If governments want to mandate these for kids, they’re going to have to put tanks in the streets, and even Pfizer doesn’t have enough lobbyists to pull that off.

fromTheHill: Despite four jabs of COVID "vaccine" and treatment with Pfizer's miracle drug, the old doc is sick with the virus and feeling "really poorly."

June 30, 2022

fromBrownstoneInstitute: Imagine, if you will, the following system. Government is managed by elected representatives who are in turn elected by the people. Government is further restrained by checks and balances between three branches, each of which is accountable ultimately to the people who live under the laws. Unlike the ancient system of government in which the only people who were truly free were the aristocracy, under this new system, every adult citizen has political rights. No one rules over anyone without accountability.

fromIssuesInsights: Newsom has said publicly that he has no presidential ambitions. But it’s no secret that he’s been groomed for White House occupancy by rich, progressive San Francisco elites. And now he’s “picking exactly the kinds of fights that presidential candidates like to pick” and is “clearly laying the groundwork for a presidential run,” in 2028 if not 2024.

fromWashingtonTimes: The results of pro-economic growth, supply-side policies are clear.

fromTheReload: The leaked information includes the person’s full name, race, home address, date of birth, and date their permit was issued. The data also shows the type of permit issued, indicating if the permit holder is a member of law enforcement or a judge.

fromSFGate: The court held that the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the doctor knew or intended to prescribe the drugs in an unauthorized manner.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange                                                            Regulation Nation

fromAmericanGreatness: In her latest diatribe in favor of abortion, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is calling on the federal government to install Planned Parenthood clinics and other pro-abortion facilities in national parks.

June 29, 2022

fromTheFederalist: The White House is refusing to share details about its coordinated efforts to engage in a federal takeover of election administration.

fromAmericanThinker: Much of the state of the American economy isn’t numbers as much as what you see, feel, and experience as a consumer.

fromJonathanTurley: The voicemail, discovered on Hunter’s discarded laptop, reveals that Joe Biden was following the stories of his son’s alleged influencing peddling and specifically his Chinese dealings.                         Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromAP: A political shift is beginning to take hold across the U.S. as tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party’s gains in recent years are becoming Republicans.

fromZeroHedge: My body, my choice? Dismiss mindless hypocrite who argues for abortion on the grounds of "my body!" but demands mandatory vaccinations.

fromVolokhConspiracy: The California AG endorses denying licenses based on the applicant's "hatred" or "racism." [Ed: clever. Calif. almost certainly knows it will lose on a Constitutional challenge but it can further discredit SCOTUS as "wanting" to arm racists.

June 28, 2022

fromZeroHedge: Like a stunned adolescent whose reckless incompetence totaled the family car, the Left seems shocked that America proved so fragile after all.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromZeroHedge: While Twitter routinely bans conservatives, those who challenge the government-sanctioned Covid-19 narrative, or the results of the 2020 US election, threatening to assassinate a Supreme Court justice is just fine. "I'm going to assassinate supreme court justice Clarence Thomas," tweeted user @redfrnn after Friday's Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The self-appointed arbiter of hate speech proclaimed the tweet "hasn't broken our safety policies."

fromMattTabbi/Substack: While the media world wept over Amber and Johnny, a lawsuit filed by a feminist group over prison sexual abuse remained earth's most ignored scandal.

fromReason: Democrats passed trillions in pandemic relief but continue to cry poor.

fromFreeThoughtProject: "Know if I hang myself, a la Jeffrey Epstein, it will be no fault of mine." - John McAfee. It has been an entire year since John McAfee died — allegedly by suicide — in a Spanish prison and since that day, authorities have refused to release his body.                                                               The Government is Not Us

fromFoxNews: "Know if I hang myself, a la Jeffrey Epstein, it will be no fault of mine." - John McAfee. It has been an entire year since John McAfee died — allegedly by suicide — in a Spanish prison and since that day, authorities have refused to release his body.

June 27, 2022

fromBreitbart: According to a massive survey that looked at the state of media all across the world, America has the least-trusted media on Planet Earth.
Media Bias on Parade

fromAmericanGreatness: Here are two big reasons and five simple tips.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromAmericanThinker: The Coinage Act of 1792 ordered the establishment of the first U.S. Mint and a specific list of various coins to be struck in the near future. These coins would be made of either gold, silver, or copper.  They all would have something in common.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromReason: The president's $5.8 trillion budget shows he wants more of the same government spending that is already sending prices soaring.

fromFreeThoughtProject: The president's $5.8 trillion budget shows he wants more of the same government spending that is already sending prices through the roof.
2nd Amendment Assaults

fromEricPetersAutos: There is one button every new car ought to have – to turn off every saaaaaaaaaaaaaafety “technology” in the car, all at once. No more having to find a button – for each of these various “technologies,” whether it’s Lane Keep Assist, Brake Assist, Back-up Assist or (the very latest) Speed Limit Assist.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

June 26, 2022

fromDailyBell: The reality – which anyone who has lived outside of the West knows through personal experience – is that Western civilization is literally the least racist in the history of the world.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromBryanCaplan/Substack: I’ve long been puzzled by libertarian reverence for “the rule of law.” Why should friends of freedom care about the laws passed by the foolish and evil people who habitually rule over us?
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

fromBrownstoneInstitute: If the FDA’s so-called health standards include things like preventing lung cancer, why on earth are they targeting the devices widely known to be 95% safer (or more) than actual cigarettes?
Regulation Nation

fromAmericanWireNews: The woman who needs Democratic voters to show up for her in Wyoming’s August primary learned the painful lesson that, regardless of how willing she is to betray her Republican base, she is not now, nor will she ever be, one of them.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromNewsmax: Former President Bill Clinton attacked the high court Friday over its Dobbs ruling, asserting that the decision that returns the question of the legality of abortion to the states is putting "democracy at risk."
The Government is Not Us

fromWashingtonFreeBeacon: Rep. Michael Waltz (R., Fla.), a combat veteran and member of the House Armed Services Committee, introduced a measure that would prohibit the teaching of CRT at military academies and K-12 schools run by DOD. Democrats, who are in control of the committee, swatted down the measure.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

June 25, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: Democrats will soon find no further reason to cover for Joe Biden’s own serial abhorrent personal behavior on matters of financial probity, sex, race, and truthfulness. 
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromRutherfordInstitute: The burden of proof has been reversed. No longer are we presumed innocent. Now we’re presumed guilty unless we can prove our innocence beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. 
Police State America

fromMises: Unlike a private-sector service, police do not operate under any contractual obligations to provide services in any particular way. They can choose to do nothing at all, and face no real consequences. 
The Government is Not Us

fromWashingtonExaminer: The president displayed his instructions on how to behave in a meeting. "YOU take YOUR seat" was one. "Thank the participants" was another. 
The Government is Not Us

fromReason: A new report from the Government Accountability Office found that nearly $80 billion was paid out to ineligible beneficiaries or outright fraudsters.
The Welfare State: Promoting Dependency

fromRutherfordInstitute: In New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, the court found that "New York's proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public for self-defense." 
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

June 24, 2022

fromCreators: It wasn't until 1969 that the Supreme Court's modern First Amendment jurisprudence made it clear that whenever there is a clash between the government and a person over the constitutionality of the person's speech, the courts will give every benefit and draw every inference to the speaker, and none to the government. 
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: Two doses of Covid vaccines offer no protection against Omicron infection and may even increase the risk of infection within months, according to a new paper in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Indoctrination and Censorship

fromNYPost: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is alarmed by the decline of families and church attendance in black neighborhoods.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromReason: The legislation prohibits firearm sales based on juvenile records and subsidizes state laws that suspend gun rights without due process.
2nd Amendment Assaults

fromCreators: The mistakes and failures of the Great Society programs continue to rack up. Health care policy analyst Sally Pipes provided sobering statistics in an article for Forbes magazine last year.
The Welfare State: Promoting Dependency

fromNationalReview: The Court voted 6–3 to strike down the New York law, which has been in place since 1913 and required that people show a special need to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun outside the home.
2nd Amendment Assaults

June 23, 2022

fromWashingtonExaminer: Have you been following the court case Biden v. Texas? It's not in the headlines every day, but court filings in the case are giving us the best picture yet of what the Biden administration is doing on the U.S.-Mexico border. And the news is very, very bad.
The Government is Not Us

fromJohnStossel/Creators: A woman tells the cop who stopped her in a carpool lane she's allowed to drive there because her pronouns are "they" and "them."
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromQuillette: The comedian's new Netflix special has its weak spots. But when it comes to goring gender ideology's sacred cows, no one does it better.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromNYPost: In a win for parents and school-choice advocates, the US Supreme Court overturned a Maine law Tuesday that denied religious schools access to state tuition assistance available to students attending secular private institutions.

fromAmericanThinker: For over a half century, American institutions of higher education have been guilty of promoting oikophobia -- hatred of one’s own people and, more generally, Western civilization. 
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromTheFederalist: Sports Illustrated now pushes banal, predictable, anti-religious propaganda.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

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