Jul 22
The U.S. government is the world’s largest advertiser. It spends hundreds of millions annually to announce and promote its positions and claims. And this above-ground spending pales in comparison to the government’s secret spending. It was revealed during the Frank Church Senate hearings in the 1970s that the CIA spent one-third of its budget on …
Jul 20
Sean Anderson, one of the last four occupiers of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon in 2016, was recently riddled with bullets by multiple law enforcement agencies after a traffic stop. Government agents are spinning the story as a confrontation with the militia activist, but have thus far refused to release any dashcam or …
Jul 16
With few exceptions, social media “fact checkers” are used by major media platforms to replace inconvenient (to government) facts with pro-government talking points. Now Facebook is attaching a “misleading” stamp on posts that point out that the coronavirus death rate is in the range of tenths of 1% or lower. The “fact checkers” claim “The …
Jul 12
The great LewRockwell.com writer Charles Burris has some keen insights into the development of modern pro-government “conservatism.” As government grew throughout the twentieth century, a strain of “conservatism” arose which seemed to support this vast new growth of government programs while quibbling at the margins with tax rates, or advocating more imprisonment or ever-more-powerful surveillance. …
Jul 11
Government’s unquenchable thirst for money and power continues despite America’s cratering economy. Throughout the government’s COVID-19 impositions, no one at local, state or federal levels has lost a paycheck. Many government employees have received their paychecks in spite of having no work whatsoever to do. But the cratering economic stability of the country is already …
Jul 11
British science writer Matt Ridley has an optimistic view of the Earth’s future. Ridley points out that the Earth has been getting greener and healthier, probably due to the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere–thanks to humans. Forests and trees have been increasing. The Earth now has significantly larger areas dedicated to forests, wilderness, …
Jul 09
“When those seeking power can’t convince the populace of the merits of their ideas, they start putting people who disagree in jail, hoping that fear will keep the rest in line.” So writes Anthony Watts of Wattsupwiththat.com. Watts will surely be one of the first people arrested and imprisoned if professors at the University of …
Jul 06
New York City, once the world’s flagship of commerce and capitalism, is now a sewer of government control, rioting and misery. New York’s governing officials ordered most businesses closed for months. A story in the Daily Mail reports that 500,000 New Yorkers–disproportionately hard-working middle-class residents–have already fled the Big Apple. Streets once teeming with tourists …
Jul 02
Study the above graph carefully. It shows deaths from all causes (by week) in Arizona over the past 3 years. There was a deadly flu outbreak in 2017-18 which killed some 80,000 Americans. The graph suggests that the flu death rate in 2018 was likely worse than the death rate from coronavirus thus far this …
