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The Latest Media Assault on Freedom

by James Bovard April 1, 2022

Prominent journalists are calling for the media to champion a “pro-democracy” bias in how they portray politicians and government agencies. But tub-thumping for democracy — or at least for politicians who claim to be pro-democracy — is a poor substitute for exposing the proliferation of government abuses. Freedom will be the victim if journalists grasp a new pretext to ...

Humilitainment: How to Control the Citizenry Through Reality TV Distractions

by John W. Whitehead March 29, 2022

“Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours…. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a ...

Dystopian Movies Fit for a Dystopian World

by John W. Whitehead March 25, 2022

“The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we’re part of the medium. The scary thing is, we’ll lose our right to ...

Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency

by John W. Whitehead March 16, 2022

“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes.”—Thomas Paine The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned dollars have run the gamut from wasteful pork barrel legislation, ...

The Battle of Golden Spurs

by Scott McPherson March 11, 2022

The political and social order of the Middle Ages was feudalism. Land ownership was the pinnacle of wealth and power, and from it was derived, at least for men, the obligation of service to a liege lord as a knight in battle. Not even high birth could replace the importance of land. Without land, a human ...

Things Are Getting Worse, Not Better

by John W. Whitehead March 9, 2022

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Let me tell you about the state of our nation: things are getting worse, ...

Corrupt Federal Statistics Cover Endless Cons

by James Bovard March 1, 2022

Federal agencies don’t count what politicians don’t want to know. President Joe Biden and other Democrats perennially invoke “science and data” to sanctify all their COVID-19 mandates and policies. But the same shenanigans and willful omissions that have characterized COVID data have perennially permeated other federal programs. The rule of experts? During his update on his Winter COVID Campaign in December, ...

Thus Always To Tyrants

by Scott McPherson February 25, 2022

In 2018, U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) made headlines when he casually referred to “nukes” as a reasonable way to arbitrate a dispute with millions of Americans who might resist enforcement of a federal ban on the private ownership of semiautomatic rifles. “It's not the 18th century,” he snarked, dismissing the notion that armed citizens were in ...

Dystopia Disguised as Democracy

by John W. Whitehead February 23, 2022

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the ...

The Government’s Kill Switch for Your Car, Your Freedoms and Your Life

by John W. Whitehead February 11, 2022

“A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power.” — Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle If we haven’t learned by now, we should beware of anything the government insists is for our own good. Take the Biden Administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Given the deteriorating state of the nation’s ...

Make Canada Great Again?

by Scott McPherson February 9, 2022

A minor revolt may be brewing in Canada. And like many others before it in history, the cause will be arrogant elitists indifferent to the suffering of their fellow citizens and always eager to push the limits of their power. It may, in fact, grow from merely protest to political realignment, with surprising results for the establishment. Like a ...

Freedom Is a Stabilizing Influence

by Scott McPherson February 3, 2022

The nativists at Breitbart are sounding the alarm. “Reports: U.S. Society Grows More Divided Amid Diversity” was a headline at Breitbart on January 28. The reports noted come from the Associated Press and the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. Both suggest a growing divide between different people in the United States, and apparently foreigners are to blame. According to the ...