Ohio's COVID-19 lockdown is illegal, a state judge ruled today, because it exceeds the powers granted by the statute under which it was imposed. Responding to a May 8 lawsuit filed by the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law on behalf of 35 gyms, Lake County Court of...
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The CIA’s Murderous Practices, Disinformation Campaigns, and Interference in Other Countries Still Shape the World Order and US Politics
by Glenn Greenwald | May 22, 2020 | Featured Articles
In the weeks before the 2016 presidential election, the most powerful former leaders of the Central Intelligence Agency did everything they could to elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump. President Obama’s former acting CIA chief Michael Morrell published a...
Will the Political Class Be Held Liable For What They’ve Done?
by James Bovard | May 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
Politically-dictated lockdowns and prohibitions have recently destroyed tens of millions of American jobs. Politicians have effectively claimed a right to inflict unlimited economic damage in pursuit of zero COVID-19 contagion. The perverse incentives driving the...
Coronavirus Overkill, as Stats, New Facts Belie Panic
by Cheryl K. Chumley | May 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
Stay home, stay away from strangers, shut down the schools and for God’s sake, whatever happens, do not touch plastic or stainless steel. That was COVID-19, April. Now? A few hop, skip and jump days later? Oops. Oopsies. Oppose-daisies. “Coronavirus ‘does not spread...
600 Doctors Warn Trump: Lockdown May Be More Deadly Than Coronavirus!
by Daniel McAdams | May 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
Hundreds of doctors have sent a letter to President Trump warning that the nationwide lockdown is killing thousands of Americans. It may end up more deadly even than the coronavirus it is intended to defeat. Doctors understand that you don't kill the patient to save...
The Case of General Michael Flynn: The Use of Law as a Political Weapon
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
The audacious corruption of the FBI and the US Department of Justice (sic) is demonstrated by their frame-up of the three-star general, former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump. US Department of...
The Shutdown May Soon Collapse in Pennsylvania Thanks to Local Resistance
by Zachary Yost | May 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
As in the rest of the country, life in Pennsylvania has been greatly disturbed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the chaos that has resulted from the state government’s attempts to handle the situation. On March 16, Governor Wolf ordered that all “nonessential” businesses...
Turn Out the Lights, Russiagate is Over
by Ray McGovern | May 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
Seldom mentioned among the motives behind the persistent drumming on alleged Russian interference was an over-arching need to help the Security State hide their tracks. The need for a scapegoat to blame for Hillary Clinton’s snatching defeat out of the jaws victory...
Coronavirus 'Contact Tracers' – The Tools Of Dictatorship
by Daniel McAdams | May 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
Thanks to trillions in "bailout money" passed by Congress, thousands of "contact tracers" will soon descend on the country demanding to test people for the coronavirus, to track down those they've been in contact with, and potentially to impose involuntary quarantine....
The Wimps of Major League Baseball
by Robert Wenzel | May 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
Major League Baseball is apparently going to replace "Take me out to the ballgame" with "Watch us cower before empty stands from the safety of your television". MLB has put together a draft health-and-safety manual in the wake of the COVID-19 panic, reports Yahoo...
Hacksawing the Economy: How Lockdowns Are in the Tradition of Civil War Surgeons
by James Bovard | May 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
Politicians and government health officials’ justification for decreeing shutdowns of vast swaths of American life has been deterring the spread of COVID-19. According to Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, almost 40 percent of households earning less than $40,000...
Avoid The Beef Shortage With This One Simple Trick – With Guest Rep. Thomas Massie
by Daniel McAdams | May 18, 2020 | Featured Articles
With the ominous warnings of a meat shortage as the coronavirus scare destroys supply lines, US Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) has a great idea of how we can insure the safety and availability of food sources. Massie also pulls back the screen to reveal how...
Home of the Brave?
by Jeff Harris | May 18, 2020 | Featured Articles
The United States of America was founded by brave men and women. People who were willing to put their very lives on the line to take a calculated risk in order to enjoy a better life of freedom, liberty and economic opportunity. They were not immune to fear but were...
Listening to the Coronavirus 'Experts' Has Led to Death and Despair
by Ron Paul | May 18, 2020 | Featured Articles
On April 21st the Washington Post savaged Georgia governor Brian Kemp’s decision to begin opening his state after locking down for weeks. “Georgia leads the race to become America’s No. 1 Death Destination,” sneered the headline.The author, liberal pundit Dana...
The Media and Pundits Are Lying: The Flynn Unmasking Was Uncommon and Unusual
by Larry C. Johnson | May 17, 2020 | Featured Articles
The Deep State propaganda machine is spinning at hyperdrive. You are being repeatedly told that unmasking is common. Nothin unusual here. Move along. Reminds me of the scene from the Naked Gun when faux detective Frank Drebin tried to tell people they were not seeing...
Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s Conscription of Restaurants to Surveil Diners
by Adam Dick | May 17, 2020 | Featured Articles
Isn’t lifting the prohibition on reopening businesses that were required to close in the coronavirus crackdown supposed to provide greater respect for individual rights? It seems that that is not the view of some politicians, including Washington Governor Jay Inslee....
Do the Most Severe Lockdowns Coincide to the Highest COVID-19 Death Rates?
by Winslow T. Wheeler | May 16, 2020 | Featured Articles
The organization Our World in Data is running an article on the severity of government lockdown policies used to deal with the Covid-19 disease, “How Are Governments Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic?”. It is shows rankings of the severity (“stringency”) on nine...
In Times of Crisis, We Need Freedom More Than Ever
by Edmund Shieh | May 16, 2020 | Featured Articles
In the past few weeks, all around the world, governments have held their own citizens hostage in the name of “protecting the people.” What they have failed to understand is that, every restriction they put in place comes at a cost. By forcing the lockdown on its...
The US is Dramatically Overcounting Coronavirus Deaths
by harley | May 16, 2020 | Featured Articles
Over 86,500 people have reportedly died in the United States from the Coronavirus, and the fear generated by those deaths is driving the public policy debate. But that number is a dramatic overcount. Our metrics include deaths that have nothing to do with the virus....
Laying Waste To The American Economy And The Doctors’ Plot
by David Stockman | May 15, 2020 | Featured Articles
Today the Wall Street Journal has a story on how the debt-ridden households of America are coming to the end of their ropes. But its MSM narrative for the default calamity now gathering a ferocious head of steam could not be more ass-backwards: Lenders are declining...
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