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Feb 25, 2019
The case for legalizing blackmail
fromMises: Don't confuse blackmail with extortion. Extortion is about applying pressure under threat of bodily harm. Blackmail is about applying pressure under threat of simply revealing the truth.Phony Houston drug warrant prompts FBI investigation and review of 1,400 cases
fromReason: Lying to justify a search that killed two people could be a capital crime.NYC fast-food workers stunned some are being fired after $15 minimum wage hike
fromFEE: Serving as ground zero for the $15 minimum wage battle, New York City saw its fast-food workers also serve as the subjects in an experiment that completely ignored the laws of economics.The top four reasons California Is unsustainable
fromForbes: California is moving ever farther left and wants the nation to pay for it. Economically, it is on a high-speed rail to unsustainability.VIDEO: Away with Pretenses - Unabashed Media Bias
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: From Tucker Carlson Tonight, commentary from Lara Logan and Brit Hume on how the pretense of objectivity no longer exists in modern journalism.To reduce money in politics, slash the size of government
fromReason: Reformers always have a new scheme to take “the money out of politics," but it usually just makes the government larger and campaign spending increase.
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Feb 22, 2019
How socialism broke Venezuela
fromCommentaryMagazine: The tragic journey from Perez to Chavez to Maduro.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
FBI plotting to keep DNA of ENTIRE population on file to create ‘nation of suspects’
fromDailyStar: President Donald Trump has signed the Rapid DNA Act into law which means the police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime.
The Government is Not Us Government is Watching Every Move You
Our disastrous obsession with equality
fromMises: “A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.” — Milton Friedman
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
Victor Davis Hanson: Changing reality with words
fromTownhall: Beware of euphemisms. Radical changes in vocabulary are usually admissions that reality is unwelcome or indefensible.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Study: Crackdown on prescriptions drove up Hep. C infections
fromFreeBeacon: Government regulations succeeded only in transforming Oxycontin users into heroin addicts.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange Regulation Nation
Arizona trying to become first in U.S. to require citizen DNA
fromActivistPost: The ruling class finds it in their interest to know more about their human livestock.
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Feb 21, 2019
The United States should legalize prostitution
fromCollegian: Sex working is the most dangerous job in the country, even more so than logging or oil workers. Despite the general taboo associated with prostitution, legalizing it would benefit everyone more than expected.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
Houston narc who lied to justify a deadly drug raid had been accused of perjury
fromReason: There may be a consequence for the lying narco cop responsible for the deaths of two innocent people and the injuries to five other state agents.
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process
Trump wants taxpayers reimbursed for billions thrown away on California's high speed rail scheme
fromCNBC: Politicians lied about every aspect of the plan to rob federal taxpayers. The costs, feasibility and speed bear no resemblance to what had been promised.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
Supreme Court to hear biggest gun rights case since 2010
fromReuters: The U.S. Supreme Court took up its biggest gun rights case in nearly a decade, agreeing to hear a challenge to New York City’s strict limits on handgun owners transporting their firearms outside of the home.
2nd Amendment Assaults
Oregon on track to be 1st state with mandated rent controls
fromAP: Now Oregon property owners are as helpless to dictate rents as they are to dictate taxes.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
How people in 1968 used jury nullification to block unreasonable arrests
fromCATO: There wasn’t much doubt that the men had been doing what the law prohibited. Yet Long Island juries found them not guilty. That’s a phenomenon often called jury nullification.Feb 20, 2019
Record high name government as most important problem
fromGallup: Thirty-five percent of Americans name the government, poor leadership or politicians as the greatest problem facing the U.S. This is the highest percentage Gallup has recorded for this concern.
The Government is Not Us
After innocent couple murdered over cop’s lies, Houston police vow no more no-knock raids
fromFreeThoughtProject: After a no-knock raid, based on lies, led to the murder of an innocent couple, Houston police chief Art Acevedo vows to no longer use them.
Police State America
Victor Davis Hanson pronounces the coup against Trump dead, then performs an autopsy
fromRedState: FBI officials, like Andrew McCabe, found that the media was more than willing to oblige. Correspondents would happily publish any “leaks” officials were willing to provide.
Media Bias on Parade Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
‘Free expression/free speech’ for students being muzzled
fromInsideSources: Years of Supreme Court decisions have left student expression rights at a crossroads, even as justices have expanded safeguards for nearly every other area of free expression.
Indoctrination and Censorship
How the Feds are using civil asset forfeiture to threaten free speech
fromReason: Sex, publishing, and quasi-legal theft collide in the Backpage prosecution.
Police State America
A look into the legal distinction between sex trafficking and prostitution
from1011Now: Prostitution is a consensual, but illegal, voluntary exchange. Human trafficking, is modern day slavery. Big difference.Feb 19, 2019
How 1984 turned into an instruction manual
fromTheDailyBell: One of the key themes from George Orwell’s dystopic novel 1984 is that the Party can do and say whatever it wants. And more importantly, you must believe it, with all your heart. No matter how absurd.
The Government is Not Us
Wayne Allyn Root: Democrats can't hide crazy
fromCreators: Why is Donald Trump's approval rating surging? Look at what he is compared to.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
Walter E Williams: Plunder - An American way of life
fromCreators: "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
Beyond guilt or innocence, should jurors weigh if law is worth enforcing?
fromChristianScienceMonitor: Because juror deliberations are private, and rarely discussed afterward, it’s unclear how much nullification may be happening even without juries being instructed.
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process
VIDEO: Cops smell weed on 16yo boy, so they beat the hell out of him
fromChristianScienceMonitor: The primary danger of smoking pot comes from police.
Police State America The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
Motive revealed In Smollett case: Actor concocted hate crime after racist letter failed to impress
fromZeroHedge: Pimping the "Trump and his supporters are racists" narrative at all costs.Feb 18, 2019
VIDEO: Off the Rails - California's High Speed Boondoggle
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: A tribute to the ability of politicians to rip off taxpayer money and grab citizen land with no accountability.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
Feds collect record individual income taxes in calendar 2018--as debt climbs
fromCNSNews: The federal government collected a record $1,665,484,000,000 in individual income taxes in calendar year 2018, according to the Monthly Treasury Statements for the year.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
These are dangerous times, and the government is to blame
fromRutherfordInstitute: Mind you, it is not because of violent crime, which remains at an all-time low, or because of terrorism, which is statistically rare. The real danger comes from the U.S. government its powers to has granted to its standing army to steal, cheat, harass, detain, brutalize, terrorize, torture and kill.
The Government is Not Us Police State America
You can't say that on Twitter
fromCreators: She tweeted that "men are not women," and for that, Meghan Murphy, feminist journalist, was banned from Twitter. The truth qualifies as "hate speech" for some of the gnomes at Twitter HQ.
Indoctrination and Censorship Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
The ‘war on drugs’ is causing great damage
fromTheGuardian: Readers discuss the best way to combat the violence fueled by the drugs trade.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
Majority of California residents want to leave: poll
fromBreitbart: Sixty-two percent of respondents realize the Golden State's best days are in the past.
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Feb 14, 2019
Green New Deal: A Democratic suicide note
fromWND: Among the endorsers of this Green New Deal is Sen. Cory Booker, who compares the battle to stop climate change to fighting the Nazis in World War II.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
Senate has uncovered no direct evidence of conspiracy between Trump campaign and Russia
fromNBCNews: The two and a half year long Democratic Party witch hunt comes up snake eyes.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
VIDEO: Tucker Carlson - Environmental Crisis: The Last Straw
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Across the nation, the movement to ban plastic straws is gaining momentum. Tucker Carlson looks at the danger posed to Americans by this tubular menace.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
National debt hits a new record high: $22 trillion
fromReason: A new record, but one that won't stand for long.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
Cory Booker: ‘This planet simply can’t sustain’ people eating meat
fromWashingtonFreeBeacon: The latest clown to pile into the car says he "is vegan because eating eggs 'didn't align with my spirit'.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
Indoctrination and Censorship
Students' free speech rights need to be strengthened
fromNWI: In 1965, the court reasoned, “It can hardly be argued that students shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” What happened?Indoctrination and Censorship
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Feb 13, 2019
Rights and non-rights: a simple way to distinguish the two
fromFEE: It’s readily apparent today that Americans are of widely different views on what a right is, how many we have, where rights come from, or why we have any in the first place.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
2nd Amendment Assaults
Some Washington sheriffs refuse to enforce new gun laws
fromABCNews: Sheriffs in a dozen Washington counties say they won't enforce the state's sweeping new restrictions on semi-automatic rifles until the courts decide whether they are constitutional.2nd Amendment Assaults
Police can seize cash in the mail. An innocent man found out the hard way.
fromGreenvilleNews: Not since the days of the Sheriff of Nottingham have cops so openly practiced state-sponsored theft.
Police State America
Senator files '420' marijuana bill to legalize it federally
fromForbes: The proposal would remove it from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), impose more taxes on sales and create a system of permits for businesses to engage in cannabis commerce.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
Study: voter ID laws don’t stop people voting
fromFreeBeacon: Strict voter ID laws do not suppress turnout, a new paper finds, regardless of sex, race, Hispanic identity, or party affiliation.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Abuse of Force: Body camera video shows man tased 11 times by officers in Arizona
fromKSHBKansasCity: Multiple independent law enforcement experts, who agreed to review the incident, said the officers’ conduct was unlawful, potentially criminal.Feb 11, 2019
The real reason 4 cops got shot in Houston last week
fromDailyBell: When you look deeper at the case, you realize these cops didn’t get shot because of anti-police rhetoric. They got shot because they invaded an innocent couple’s home without announcing themselves.
Police State America
Green new deal—same old progressive policies
fromReason: Using climate change to justify government-guaranteed jobs, health care, and housing.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
Jackboots in the morning: No one Is spared from this American nightmare
fromRutherfordInstitute: Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now— rest assured, these same practices can and will be used against you when the government decides it wants.
Police State America
Bezos protests invasion of his privacy, as Amazon builds sprawling surveillance state for everyone else
fromTheIntercept: If the surveillance powers of the NSA, FBI or other agencies were used to obtain incriminating information about Bezos due to their view of him as a political enemy ...
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
New York police killed her son, then refused to answer her questions. The law they’re hiding behind.
fromReason: An obscure provision designed to protect personnel records makes it nearly impossible to hold the state’s cops accountable.
Police State America Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process
The libertarian case for a border wall
from71Republic: Though the wall would require a small amount of force, its long-term savings in government spending shows a principled and pragmatic necessity.
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Feb 7, 2019
California Democrats are united in their efforts to continue damaging gun rights
fromUSNews: Lawmakers take aim at law-abiding citizens. Increasingly, gun ownership itself is becoming a crime.
2nd Amendment Assaults
Documents indicate CNN was tipped off about the FBI's arrest of Roger Stone
fromTargetLiberty: Stone’s attorneys are asking the House and Senate Judiciary Committees to provide answers to the American people on how someone could have obtained sealed grand jury indictments.
Media Bias on Parade Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
Welcome to the literal nanny state
fromActivistPost: Oregon and Washington are making an unprecedented move that could go to yet another level of overreach – home inspections for new parents.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery Regulation Nation
Massive Harvard study contradicts anti-pot propaganda told to us for decades
fromZeroHedge: It has long been stated that cannabis is a “gateway” drug, which leads users to experiment with other drugs, leading up to the most deadly, such as heroin. But the researchers in the study found ...
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
The winter is wreaking havoc on electric vehicle batteries
fromZeroHedge: Disgruntled owners of Tesla Model 3s have been widespread on social media and online forums, talking about numerous issues they’ve had with cold weather on their vehicles.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Welcome to California, land of 1,000 laws — and that’s just this year
fromTheHill: Given the current composition of the state legislature, there’s no telling what lawmakers will attempt next.
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Feb 6, 2019
Donald Trump: ‘We’ve got to get out of these endless wars’
fromBreitbart: President Donald Trump detailed his position Sunday on withdrawing troops United States from Afghanistan and Syria.
Defense Verses The War Machine
Major DNA testing company sharing genetic data with the FBI
fromBloomberg: FamilyTreeDNA is the culprit. Unwitting citizens are paying to have their genetic information sent to the FBI and other government databases.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
Are you a woman traveling alone? Marriott might be watching you.
fromReason: The surveillance tactics that have been adopted by hotel chains are part of a disturbing partnership between hospitality businesses and federal law enforcement to track the movements of people, especially women.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
How the drug war eats the poor
fromVice: According to a new report by the NGO Health Poverty Action, prohibition drives poverty and criminality in places like Brazil and India.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
Hawaii considers ban on cigarette sales
fromABC30: Vice cops look for new products as busybodies seek to mind YOUR own business.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
Capitalism has been the bane of poverty worldwide
fromReviewJournal: Bill Gates noted that the proportion of people on Earth living in extreme poverty has declined from 94 percent in 1820 to below 9 percent today. “Most of the credit … must go to capitalism and free trade.”
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Feb 5, 2019
A no-knock raid in Houston led to deaths and police injuries. Should police rethink the practice?
fromTexasMonthly: The official HPD narrative is the only one we’ll have. Acevedo said none of the officers had been wearing body cameras during the raid. Tuttle and Nicholas will never be able to tell their side of the story.
Police State America
Government to Facebook pipeline reveals a corrupt mix of social media and the state
fromFreeThoughtProject: The official HPD narrative is the only one we’ll have. Acevedo said none of the officers had been wearing body cameras during the raid. Tuttle and Nicholas will never be able to tell their side of the story.
Indoctrination and Censorship
‘Cooling is warming’: climate hoaxters panic as US freezes, media provides cover
fromWaatsUpWithThat?: But here is my personal favorite headline from, where else?, NBC News…. “Yes, it can be this cold outside in a time of global warming.”
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
How to cop proof your cell phone
fromTargetLiberty: The official HPD narrative is the only one we’ll have. Acevedo said none of the officers had been wearing body cameras during the raid. Tuttle and Nicholas will never be able to tell their side of the story.
Police State America Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
Marine vet films traffic stop from his porch; California cop gives him a concussion
fromReason: Adrian Burrell was well within his rights to record the officer.
Police State America
Walter E Williams: Is reality optional?
fromCreators: Suppose I declare that I am a king. Should you be required to address me as "Your Majesty"? You say, "Williams, that's lunacy! You can't prove such nonsense." You're wrong. It's proved by my declaration.Feb 4, 2019
Walter E Williams: Demonizing white men
fromCreators: The new racism. "There are only two ways to explain the silence by people who should know better. Either they agree with the sentiments expressed or they are out-and-out cowards."
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
‘I’m not going to enforce that’: sheriffs disobey new anti-gun laws—refuse to disarm citizens
fromPJMedia: We see "the behavior of a police state where the laws are written to help the government achieve its ends, not to guarantee the freedom of the people — and where police break the laws they are sworn to enforce."
2nd Amendment Assaults
⭐ VIDEO: The proper social system for man.
fromAynRandInstitute/YouTube: A short lesson from Ayn Rand herself.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
VIDEO: Don't talk to cops
fromRegentUniversitySchoolofLaw/YouTube: Information is Power. Know Your Rights
Police State America Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
Apocalyptic debt crisis in America: 63 of America’s largest 75 cities are completely broke
fromSHTFPlan: Most of the debt is due to unfunded retiree benefits such as pension and health care costs. That means those depending on that money, likely won’t see a dime of it.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
Kamala Harris hopes you'll forget her record as a drug warrior and draconian prosecutor
fromPJMedia: The senator and presidential hopeful went to bat for dirty prosecutors, opposed marijuana legalization, and championed policies that endanger sex workers.
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Feb 1, 2019
Andrew Napolitano: An American nightmare
fromPJMedia: We see "the behavior of a police state where the laws are written to help the government achieve its ends, not to guarantee the freedom of the people — and where police break the laws they are sworn to enforce."
Police State America
Have gun, can't travel
fromReason: New York City’s arbitrary restrictions on transporting firearms give SCOTUS a chance to curtail rampant disrespect for the Second Amendment.
Second Amendment Assaults
The war on cash ramps up in EU
fromEconomicPolicyJournal: The 'war on cash' cContinues as a major halt to Eurozone issuance of €500 notes begins. The U.S. has already abolished currency denomination over $100. The pretense is always crime.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
Whatever Mueller finds, gag-orders and no-knock raids should appall everyone!
fromTheDailyBell: This should raise red flags to the most rabid left-wing liberal, the staunchest thin-blue-line conservative, or anyone in between who cares one iota about personal freedom or an impartial justice system.
Police State America
Record cold forces rethink on global warming
fromPJMedia: The precepts of environmental religion inconvenienced by reality.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Police in Houston promise to go after and ‘track’ those who criticize police
fromFreeThought Project: "We’re going to be keeping track of all of you, and we’re going to make sure that we hold you accountable every time you stir the pot on our police officers."Jan 31, 2019
Free speech liberalism is dying in its birthplace
fromTheAmericanConservative: Britain, the home of Swift and Mill, is increasingly clamping down on expression.
Indoctrination and Censorship
TAKEN: How police departments make millions by seizing property
fromGreenvilleOnline: In South Carolina, civil forfeiture targets black people’s money most of all.
Police State America
The Trump administration’s crackdown on marijuana legalization might end under Bill Barr
fromTheSpokesmanReview: Trump’s nominee to replace Sessions as attorney general confirmed that he won’t be continuing that push to crack down on legal pot if he is confirmed by the Senate.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
The 100-mile rule runs contrary to reasonable searches
fromTheSpokesmanReview: Federal agents board buses and perform “show-us-your-papers checks” that are exactly the kind of fishing expedition the Fourth Amendment seems designed to prevent.
Police State America
Chronic pain patients gather to protest opioid regulations
fromGreeleyTribune: When law enforcement policy, not medical evaluation, decides who gets painkillers, the citizens suffer.
Police State America Regulation Nation
Make individualism great again
from71Republic: Across the country, we are witnessing a decline of the influence of individualism in our society with the effects of this being purely negative.Jan 29, 2019
America’s public schools have become socialist indoctrination factories
fromAmericanThinker: How is it that the same generation that has benefited more from capitalism than any other in human history is also the generation most willing to destroy it?Washington state lawmaker wants to ban dwarf tossing, says it 'ridicules and demeans'
fromReason: What's actually demeaning is thinking you know what's best for an entire group of people.
Regulation Nation
VIDEO: Deep State Double Standard - The Persecution of Roger Stone
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: The Mueller investigation doggedly persecutes Trump associates over crimes not associated with Russian collusion but rather stimulated by his own inquisition.
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
One way outraged Americans can beat Robert Mueller
fromAmericanThinker: Jury nullification can be used to rebuke abuses of power committed by unaccountable, out-of-control special counsels like Robert "Gestapo" Mueller.
Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process Police State America
America's stubborn left clings to Nicolas Maduro despite all evidence
fromReason: It's time to admit the failure of Venezuela's "21st century socialism."
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
California governor calls for a tax on the very water citizens drink
fromTheFreeThought Project: Communities throughout the state struggle with dangerous pollutants in their supply, but opponents of the suggested tax say there is no need to tax residents in order to solve the problem.
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