Links for 12-9-24

Dems suffering from pardon envy

👉 Pardon envy: Democrats vie to make the Biden pardon list. From: Jonathan Turley. The White House is reportedly exploring giving preemptive pardons to figures ranging from Dr. Anthony Fauci to Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).

Matt Taibbi: Trust in the media can't be fixed. From: Ian Schwarts/Real Clear Politics. Not one journalist has come forward to say “yeah, we screwed up.”

👀 You’d better watch out: The surveillance state is making a list, and you’re on it. From: John & Nisha Whitehead/Rutherford Institute. Mass surveillance is the Deep State’s version of a “gift” that keeps on giving…back to the Deep State.

How an assassin escaped one of the most surveilled cities in the world. From: Alyssa Lukpat/Wall Street Journal. Police say that after the fatal shooting, the suspect likely fled New York City by bus.

🚩 Congressional Committee condemns (nearly) every feature of the COVID response. From: Jeffrey A Tucker/Brownstone Institute. The conclusion of the report: nothing worked and everything tried resulted in more damage than the pandemic could ever have achieved on its own.

Capping credit card interest rates is a bipartisan blunder. From: Thomas Savidge/The Daily Economy. “Interests rates reflect the risk of lending. Under price controls, card companies will reduce credit limits and lend to fewer borrowers.” (12/06/24).

🔎 Average American household has more than $10,000 in credit card debt. From: Carleen Johnson/The Center Square. “Nearly half of Americans still have debt from the holidays from last year.”

Socialist insecurity. From: Eric Peters Autos. Many people are under the impression – or pretend to believe – that they have a Social Security “account” and that they have been “contributing” to it for many years. That they have money saved up, in other words.

🎯 Sanctuary cities need to listen to their citizens. From: Silvio Canto Jr/American Thinker. These cities are now crime-ridden and running deficits because they can’t afford this anymore.

House overwhelmingly passes ‘crucial communism teaching act.’ From: Stacey Robinson/The Epoch Times. The legislation seeks to educate American youth on the dangers of communist and totalitarian ideologies by allowing survivors to tell their stories firsthand...

⭐️ In transgender case, can SCOTUS cut to the moral heart of the issue? From: Josh Hammer/Creators. As recent as a decade ago, this would have been considered so obvious as to not even require legislation.

John Fetterman is right about the Left. From: Adriana Ramírez/Post Gazette. There is a phrase in Spanish that I love, “no tiene pelos en la lengua,” which translates to “that person has no hair on their tongue.”

📌 SHORT: What’s More Important than Happiness?