Links for 9-24-23

defending the right to be left alone

⭐️ Why I’m a libertarian. From: Eric Peters Autos. Every single political movement promises everything except the one thing libertarianism defends for everyone: Your right – and everyone else’s right – to be left alone.

Intelligence analysis is broken and politicized. From: American Greatness. Latest bribery allegations severely undermine CIA credibility and may gravely damage national security

🚩 Biden's border policies have made every U.S. city a ‘border town.’ From: Robert F. Kennedy Jr./Newsweek. Current policies are failing our country and putting an intolerable strain on American cities that have already faced unprecedented challenges in the last three years.

California passes 11% gun, ammo excise tax critics say is unconstitutional. From: The Center Square. State that won’t keep criminals locked up makes it more expensive for citizens to defend themselves.

Gov. Newsom attacks federal judge as child-killing, extremist, right-wing zealot owned by the NRA. From: Jonathan Turley. Judge Benitez earned the ire of California’s presiding asshat by ruling yesterday that the state’s limit on high-capacity magazines violates the Second Amendment.

🎯 The COVID narrative flunked the critical thinking test. From: Brownstone Institute. The essential problem has never been about one’s IQ. Many highly intelligent people (in an academic sense) swallowed a very dubious narrative, while others less academically gifted did not. The real divider was the ability and inclination to think critically.

The Biden-Schumer military-promotion blockade. From: Wall Street Journal. They, not Tommy Tuberville, endanger readiness for the sake of abortion politics.

How will the Biden Administration cope with its loss In Ukraine? From: Moon of Alabama. What will happen when everyone recognizes and acknowledges, if silently, that the war on Russia has failed?

👮🏻‍♂️ All over America, blue cities are facing a severe shortage of police officers. From: End of the American Dream. It turns out that we really do need the police.

Wisconsin forces female inmates to live with man who raped his 10-year-old daughter. From: The Federalist. It’s like sentencing a mosquito to a nudist camp.

📌 SHORT: Joe’s Senior Moments of the Week