July 22, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: Since when has changing an inept messenger ever changed a disastrous message?

fromWashingtonTimes: Unregulated shantytowns persist around the nation — made up of tents, tiny houses, RVs or ramshackle shelters. “It is just a matter of time before signs start sprouting up in the homeless areas of America proclaiming the existence of Bidenville,” advises presidential historian and author Craig Shirley.

fromJohnStossel/NYPost: When the processors shut down, some ranchers who couldn’t get to a federally approved slaughterhouse ended up killing their own animals.                           Regulation Nation

fromJasonWhitlock/TheBlaze: BLM does not care about the lives of black people. The hashtag is the modern-day KKK hood, a disguise to conceal the bigotry, depravity, and greed of its supporters.

fromReason: That new crime, which is punishable by up to 15 years in federal prison, includes receipt of firearms by "prohibited persons."

fromFEE: President Rajapaksa’s fertilizer ban was not the only factor behind Sri Lanka’s economic crash. But it's definitely part of the story.

July 21, 2022

fromWallStreetJournal: The President may do it anyway. But thanks to the High Court’s recent West Virginia v. EPA decision, lower courts will be well-equipped to decapitate the executive beast.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromBrownstoneInstitute: Why should a college student be subject to a vaccine mandate if they already have post-infection immunity, or an unvaccinated person have travel restricted when the vaccinated have higher infection rates?
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromWashingtonExaminer: A new poll in the Casper Star-Tribune shows Republican and Jan. 6 committee star Rep. Liz Cheney losing big to challenger Harriet Hageman in the Wyoming House GOP primary.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

fromCreators: The bipartisan safer Communities Act increases the penalties for violating arbitrary firearm bans.
2nd Amendment Assaults

fromZeroHedge: Climate doomsday predictions have been presented by establishment paid scientists and activist hysterics for decades, and not a single one of these predictions has ever come true.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromGallupPoll/JustTheNews: American faith in public education nearing an all-time low, according to poll.
Indoctrination and Censorship

July 20, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: In yet another example of the double-standard of justice from this vengeful regime, Trump supporters are trapped in a legal circle of hell in the nation’s capital.
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process                                                           

fromCity-Journal: The shift from ad revenue to digital subscriptions has turned journalism into post-journalism.

fromEricPetersAuto: Government doesn’t like it when people evade paying, as by driving a car that uses very little or even no gas at all. Notwithstanding the government’s pushing of such cars.

fromTheUnherd: A change in prison policy towards trans inmates had a predictable result.

fromJonathanTurley/TheHill: "Democratic leaders seem to be planning to make everywhere a special or “sensitive place” so that few places outside the home are protected by the constitutional right."

fromReason: Only you can be relied upon to protect you and your loved ones.

July 18, 2022

fromTheFederalist: Discontent with left-wing policy failures is triggering massive protests all over the world. Just don’t expect to read all about it in the New York Times.

fromVictorDavisHanson/RealClearPolitics: In a run-up to what is likely to be a 2024 presidential bid, California Governor Gavin Newsom is trying to market California as America's true "free" state.

fromCreators: Green tyranny has finally provoked mass reactions, and the first government has fallen after imposing insane policies that wrecked the food supply.

fromSpiked: The MSM’s continued downplaying of the Biden scandals is now the biggest scandal of all.

fromTheFederalist: Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz placed blame on woke elected officials in Democrat-run cities for the abrupt closure of 16 stores located primarily on the West Coast.

fromAmericanThinker: Green tyranny has finally provoked mass reactions, and the first government has fallen after imposing insane policies that wrecked the food supply for its people.

July 18, 2022

fromReason: The unanimous decision is a good first step for getting law enforcement out of prescription decisions.

fromRealClearPolitics: For large segments of the left, the climate change issue has become more like a religion than a policy debate. Pesky facts like technological limitations and costs are thrown aside in favor of magic.

fromSpiked: Campus censorship is out of control. But too many academics have their heads in the sand.

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: Vaccinated people are now more likely to be hospitalized or die from Covid, even after adjusting for fact they're older than the unvaccinated, according to official government estimates from the Canadian province of Manitoba.

fromPostMillennial: The 13 Democratic members reported their individual debts in 2021 and 2020, in amounts that range from as little as $15,000 to as much as $300,000.

fromNYPost: Researching my family’s past has given me a sense of belonging to this nation. I am part of the large story of striving and success that has built the American dream.

July 17, 2022

fromBreitbart: Only 28 percent of Americans have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the public education system according to a Gallup poll. Most baffling is why so many?

fromWashingtonExaminer: Intolerant “liberals” keen to “save the planet” are ruining it — officiously preventing the poor from lifting themselves out of poverty, forcing wealthy nations to retreat from comfort and efficiency into backwardness, even killing people by the thousands.

fromReason: Too many cities and towns are still treating food trucks like second-class businesses.

fromJustTheNews: With each passing day, new irregularities, security vulnerabilities and illegalities are being unmasked by bombshell revelations from courts, legislators and other investigative bodies like the FBI and DHS.

fromTheCollegeFix: Wood was dressed as a Confederate general and Sharland, who is British, as a British “hanging judge” from the 17th century, with a black robe, white wig and a noose as a prop.

fromTheForeignDesk: China’s government propaganda newspaper Global Times described leftist President Joe Biden’s visit to the Middle East on Wednesday as an attempt to go “cap in hand” asking Gulf states to produce more oil – an apparent mockery of Biden’s inability to harness his leadership to lower fuel prices.

July 16, 2022

fromRutherfordInstitute: We are witnessing the gradual dismantling of every constitutional principle that serves as a bulwark against government tyranny, overreach and abuse.

fromJonathanTurley: Harvard instructor Alejandra Caraballo calls for people to “accost the Justices every time they are in public.” The tweet from Caraballo is the latest example of academics seeking to harass these justices because they hold opposing constitutional views.

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: You tried to take away my rights and segregate me. And no, you don't get to pretend you didn't.       The Government is Not Us

fromReason: Several states are imposing new restrictions on gun possession.

fromLAMag: Paul Koretz says banning gas stations will better prepare Californians for the electric-car future. The state has promised to stop selling fossil-fuel vehicles by 2035 and has invested heavily in electric vehicles.

fromJonathanTurley: ..for Elementary Children. LAUSD is excited to receive an emormous donation of LGBTQIA-themed books that are developmentally appropriate for elementary and span schools.

July 15, 2022

fromPolitico: The revelation highlights the many ways that police can get footage from Ring doorbells, and how often it happens without consent. The line between private Big Tech companies and government continues to blur.
Police State America                                                               Government is Watching Every Move You Make

fromAndrewNapolitano/Creators: Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature?    The Government is Not Us

fromDailyMail: The leaked materials concerned software tools the Central Intelligence Agency used to surveil people outside the U.S., through such means as compromising smartphones and internet-connected TVs.

fromAmericanThinker: The astronomically unbalanced ratio of liberals to conservatives in America's professoriate is a serious problem.

fromGetPocket: Some people are incredibly likable because of the things they do. And some people are incredibly likable because of the things they don't do.

fromTheFederalist: Politico was forced to update a story after baselessly implying that the Florida Department of Education hired a consulting firm for services promoting critical race theory.

July 14, 2022

fromChrisFreiman/Substack: Libertarians are no doubt dismayed by the FDA’s recent ban on Juul vaping products and the news that the Biden administration is planning to mandate lower nicotine levels in cigarettes. But libertarians shouldn’t be the only ones opposed to state-enforced nicotine restrictions.

fromJonathanTurley/USAToday: The president's call to "vote, vote, vote, vote" is the same as the court's call. However, the result might not be clear as the president suggests in a country where only 34% support abortion in the second trimester and only 19% in the third trimester.


fromOrganicPrepper: It’s not just alternative media sites like ZeroHedge or Mercola. Mainstream media turns on their own people the second they ask the wrong questions.

fromBrownstoneInstitute: There is also rising awareness of government excesses in violating freedoms and liberties. In a global survey of 52,000 people by the Democracy Perceptions Index, in 50 of the 53 countries surveyed, people expressed net agreement (that is, agreement minus disagreement) with the proposition: “their government has gone too far in limiting people’s freedoms.”

fromJustTheNews: From debunked incitement claim to refuted hearsay allegation about a Trump lunge for wheel of presidential vehicle, panel has provided high-visibility forum for fictions and fallacies.

fromLewRockwell: Many, especially libertarians, might respond that Twitter as a private company has the right to do business with anyone they wish. That is true, but only to the extent that Twitter is actually acting as a private entity. The real question is to what degree has Twitter and the other social media companies been directly doing the bidding of government?

July 13, 2022

fromJudicialWatch: The DOJ move against the citizenship qualification is "another effort by this administration to put Americans last, and to put migrants and those here illegally in the country first."

fromBombThrower: Today’s elites are caught in a dilemma: nobody wants what they’re selling.

fromReason: Out of 27,900 research publications on gun laws, only 123 tested their effects rigorously.

fromEricPetersAuto: Electric cars and “vaccines” are similar in that both have delusional defenders – believers who are immune to reason, hostile toward damning facts – who cling to their beliefs with a devotion that is cultic.

fromDailyMail: Bragg campaigned on "ending mass incarceration," but that promise apparently does not apply to Jose Alba. The story exploded as the city comes to terms with the emptiness of progressive claims to be the side that defends the vulnerable.                                                                                 The Government is Not Us

fromResponsibleStatecraft: Lawmakers this week will rubber stamp a bill authorizing tens of billions more to the Defense Department that it didn’t even ask for.

July 12, 2022

fromRedState: Bottom line? Even the Times is now laying out what we’ve known for a long time — that Biden is not up to the job, Biden’s team knows it, and they’re doing all they can to cover.

fromMises: A common error in economics is to label increases price increases inflation. 

fromNYPost: When parents protested at school board meetings, the Biden administration coordinated with the National School Boards Association to mobilize the entire weight of the federal government against them.

fromAmericanGreatness: These humanitarian rich feel just terrible about the sins of America, but not terrible enough to sacrifice any element of their privileged lifestyles—the just deserts they feel for being so righteous.

fromJohnStossel/Rumble: The Southern Poverty Law Center claims it protects us from"hate groups."

fromZeroHedge: Seth Dillon will not back away from making fun of irrational and dangerous ideology.

July 11, 2022

fromAmericanGreatness: If Trump is the candidate, Americans will vote for him not in spite of January 6, but in part because of it—especially the deep-state response to it.

fromAmericanThinker: From unjustly denied VA benefits, to trigger warnings on the U.S. Constitution, to cancelled July 4 fireworks, some kind of assault on America is taking place.         The Government is Not Us

fromNYPost: Red states like Florida and Texas, meanwhile, followed the science and never went all-in on COVID restrictionism, keeping their economies and schools open as much as possible.

fromFoxNews: If not nitwittery, will someone explain where the baby comes out in a non-female birthing parent?

fromTheFederalist: New report finds that boys who have an absent father are less likely to graduate college, more likely to idle in their 20s, and more likely to go to jail.

fromZeroHedge: The Supreme Court has spoken: there will be no consequences for cops who brutalize the citizenry and no justice for the victims of police brutality.

July 10, 2022

fromRutherfordInstitute: The Supreme Court has spoken: there will be no consequences for cops who brutalize the citizenry and no justice for the victims of police brutality.

fromNBC: An Italian review of COVID studies found that boosters restore vaccine effectiveness against omicron initially, but that protection falls off quickly. Anyone remember back when a vaccine provided immunity?

fromHollywoodInToto: “All the woke comics are … terrible. That’s why the funniest parody comedy now is coming from The Babylon Bee.” — Joe Rogan.

fromWattsUpWithThat: The European Commission has labeled nuclear and gas as sustainable. Critics are calling the step “greenwashing” and say it could threaten the bloc’s bid to become climate-neutral by 2050.

fromTheFederalist: The Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a ruling on Friday that deems unmanned absentee ballot drop boxes illegal under Wisconsin election law.

fromZeroHedge: Courtesy of Reuters we know: more than 5 million barrels of oil that were part of the historic U.S. SPR release were exported to Europe and Asia last month, including top US geopolitical nemesis in the global arena, China, even as U.S. gasoline and diesel prices hit record highs.

July 9, 2022

fromReason: The agency is now taking small steps to allow foreign formula manufacturers to import their goods.

fromEricPetersAuto: Imagine if every gas station had to be physically connected, via pipeline, to a refinery – and you will begin to see the improbability of their electric vehicle equivalents. And then you will begin to understand why “electrification” is about diminishment – of the dispersed, convenient and highly individualized system Americans have taken for granted.

fromSpiked: From the Netherlands to Sri Lanka, people have had enough of the elite’s green hysteria.

fromFreeThoughtProject: Earlier this year, the Arizona House Appropriations Committee approved a bill that would criminalize filming cops on the job, dealing a massive blow to First Amendment rights. The following month, the Senate passed it, and on Wednesday, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed it into law.

fromAmericanThinker: Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in sharp contrast to Flores, was hailed as a political "star" by the same NYT. The Times’ profile of Rep Ilhan Omar, an Islamist who despise the U.S., was very complimentary: they portrayed her as a principled revolutionary who is tackling discrimination. This is why the NYT has no credibility left. They merely preach to the converted and delude themselves into thinking that they are influencers.

fromAmericanGreatness: After the much-hyped Durham probe ends with a whimper and House Democrats ratchet up their public pursuit of Trump associates, the Republican base wants action, not more sternly worded letters.

July 8, 2022

fromAxios: There are many ways for the conservative court to rein in federal agencies, and while there may not be a clear consensus on precisely which of those avenues to take at any given moment, one way or another, federal agencies exerting broad-based powers are already losing — and are almost certainly going to keep losing.

fromVictorDavisHanson/AmericanGreatness: There are historical downsides—economic, cultural, social, and military—to nations that shun child-raising. Our popular culture reflects this multifarious growing reluctance to raise children. And currently only 65 percent of children grow up in families with both parents.

fromTheFederalist: If politicians are serious that they’re sick of ‘living with this carnage,’ the Highland Park shooter should be executed immediately.

fromAmericanThinker: And may we have a thousand more like him!

fromReason: The political class still hasn't come to grips with the idea that subsidies don't fight inflation.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market                                                      Inflation Nation

fromRealClearPolitics: Reps. Flores & Ocasio-Cortez. Flores is the antithesis of AOC. She embodies an authenticity that the “It Girl” of the liberal-left sorely lacks.                           Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

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