Links for 10-18-23

stop giving ground to barbarians

🚩 Don’t make Walmart workers fight crime: Boot out the politicians who killed public safety. From: NY Post. Our social fabric is unraveling. The carnage and decay will accelerate until the officials who wrecked public safety reverse course — or get booted from office.

The entire premise of Trump’s J6 trial is an affront to free elections and rule of law. From: John Daniel Davidson/The Federalist. The imposition of a gag order on Trump means a judge can decide what the GOP front-runner can and cannot say in a presidential campaign.

🎯 Postcards from a police state: 22 years of blowback from the USA Patriot Act. From: Rutherford Institute. For those who remember the days and months that followed 9/11, there is an unnerving feeling of déjà vu about the Hamas attacks on Israel.

Inflation won't go away until congress gets the deficit under control. From: Reason. The Federal Reserve's higher interest rates were supposed to trigger changes to fiscal policy. So far, that hasn't happened.

🙄 Los Angeles now plans to give vouchers to homeless people to stay in hotels — it could give them squatters rights. From: Daily Mail. The ordinance would compel any of the roughly 1,000 hotels set within the city with vacancies to house homeless people alongside paying guests.

US carmakers slam Biden's fuel efficiency plans. From Irina Slav/Oilprice. The plan "exceeds reason and will increase costs to the American consumer with absolutely no environmental or fuel savings benefits."

🚗 How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy. From: Goats and Soda. Imagine an entire population of people who cannot survive without scrounging in hazardous conditions for a buck or two a day.

Biden Health Department forces ALL employees to use ‘preferred pronouns.’ From: Summit News. Policing speech to promote gender dysphoria.

🤐 Obama-appointed judge’s gag order restricts Trump from targeting Jack Smith — and from ‘directing others’ to do so. From: Daily Caller News. Falsities can be rebutted, but stifling truth requires censorship.

If it risks 20 million lives . . . From: Eric Peters Autos. We’ve all heard the evil mantra that a thing is worth imposing on everyone if it “saves even one life.” How about when the thing imposes the risk of death on 20 million people?

📌 VIDEO: John Stossel: California’s Green Dream

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