America's losing its free speech consensus. From: Reason. Americans shouldn't have to fight to the death to defend their foes' right to speak, but they should at least stop trying to censor, shame, shun and destroy each other.
🎯 U.S. attack on Julian Assange and the truth. From: LA Times. Julian Assange must be set free to stop the attack on press freedom.
Ideology and the will to dominate. From: Law & Liberty. “Russell Kirk called ideology ‘the politics of passionate unreason’ because ‘it denies the possibility of truth in politics or in anything else.’ That is, whereas true ideas correspond with reality, ideology distorts reality to conform with its ideas.
Stimulating inflation: US government wasted billions of dollars in pandemic relief unemployment spending. From: Southern Maryland Chronicle. Tthe inspector general for the U.S. Department of Labor, revealed in a hearing to Congress that nearly $200 billion out of $900 billion in total federal and state unemployment insurance benefits given out during the pandemic could have been improper payments, most of which was due to fraud.
💰 The high cost of cheap money. From: The Dispatch. “We’ve spent most of the 21st century artificially stimulating the economy with artificially low interest rates — with cheap money on easy terms — and there was always going to be a price to pay for doing so.”
“The new normal”: New York to lower math and English proficiency standards due to poor test results. From: Jonathan Turley. It is akin to shortening the 100 yards dash to 50 yards to stay competitive on speed.
👀 First, they spied on protesters. Then churches. You’re next. From: John & Nisha Whitehead/The Rutherford Institute. If you give the government an inch, it will always take a mile. This is how the slippery slope to all-out persecution starts.
Better flying. From: John Stossel/Creators. Your flight is delayed? Blame your government. OK, it's not always government's fault. Sometimes it's weather or mechanical problems. But often we suffer horrible flight delays because politicians won't relinquish power.