Links for 9-13-24

official assault on First Amendment

⭐️ Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Free speech and the Department of Political Justice. From: Creators. The speech that challenges; irritates; expresses alternative views; exposes the government's lies, cheats and killings is the speech that the First Amendment was written to protect.

Victor Davis Hanson: A forgettable warped debate. From: American Greatness.The sappy Harris won the visuals; the grouchy Trump likely the issues. But the real losers were ABC and its two partisan moderators.

🔎 On the responsibilities that come with the freedom to speak freely. From: Steven Collis/The Volokh Conspiracy. “The best practitioners of the freedom of speech are those who do not assume that everyone who disagrees with them operates from bad motives.”

Freedom of what? Poll finds most Americans still clueless about the First Amendment. From: Activist Post. A fascinating glimpse into what Americans know (and don’t know) about their government and constitutional rights.

🎯 Politicians can’t think in the long-term. From: Owen Ashworth/Libertarian Institute. Mainstream political thought believes that the government should step in to solve everything. You can have disagreements about how to act but, there is no disagreement amongst mainstream political parties about whether to act.

Gas, coal rule U.S. grid despite transition push.  From: Irina Slav/Oil Price. “Gas is the only cost-efficient energy generation capable of providing the type of 24/7 reliable power required..."

🤥 25 lies Kamala Harris told in her debate against Trump. From: Shawn Fleetwood/The Federalist. Somehow, they each slipped past those ABC fact-checkers.

Kamala's housing reparations. From: Betsy McCaughey/World News Daily. → ‘White homebuyers whose parents owned homes can take a hike.’

🚩 The dangers of money printing: Thomas Jefferson and the financial panic of 1819. From: Mike Maharrey/Money Metals. To steal a phrase from Thomas Jefferson, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. government have buried us under a "deluge of paper money."

The Golden State of California is turning brown without continuous electricity. From: Ronald Stein/Heartland Institute. These so-called “green” electricity sources of wind and solar are not clean, green, renewable or sustainable. They also endanger wildlife.

👉 How the Kroger merger could further erode the administrative state. From: Kaelan Deese/Washington Examiner. If Kroger succeeded in its challenge against the in-house adjudications at the FTC, it would mark another toppled pillar in a trend against executive agency regulatory powers.

Houston cop who lied to Justify a no-knock drug raid says he is not responsible for the resulting deaths. From: Jacob Sullum/Reason. Former narcotics officer Gerald Goines faces two murder charges for instigating the home invasion that killed Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas.

📌 VIDEO: Jury Nullification, The Last Line of Defense