How to Repair the American Mind: Solving America’s Cognitive Crisis
Huh - If only states besides Utah did this
“Competing gubernatorial candidates Chris Peterson and Spencer Cox call on Utah to support a peaceful transition of power.”
News & opinion from a libertarian angle
Government IS NOT your friend!
Invoking extremes just makes things worse. Government usually creates more problems to solve the problems it already created.
liberty on the web
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prime sources
climate news
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sample as needed
- Schneier on Security
- Popehat
- Lawfare
- Westphalian Times
- Legal Insurrection
- Simple Justice
- McClatchy D.C. Bureau
- DC Whispers
- Issues & Insights
- Wolf Street
- Intellectual Takeout
- Streetwise Professor
- UnHerd
- of two minds.com
- Jihad Watch
- Simple Justice
- Weekly Authoritarianism List
- Shadowproof
- Attack the System
- Sultan Knish
- Media Myth Alert
- SGT Report
- Natural News
- Unlawful Shield
I had a blog, a big ole political blog with all sorts of entries and spanning two blogging platforms. It went through a catastrophic data scramble. Some content was lost. So here are the old directory links. As I find it useful, I'll probably end up rewriting it and putting in the new blog. But there are some mixups.
scrambled legacy links
NeoWayland is a pagan philosopher, libertarian & part-time trouble maker. Keeping vigil, he shares beacons of individual freedom & responsibility while watching for threats to LIBERTY. There's more to life than just black & white.
❝They Say Scandinavia But They Mean Venezuela❞
“What do Democratic Socialists like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want America to look like? They say they want America to emulate Scandinavian countries like Denmark and Sweden. But do their proposed policies reflect that? Or do they point down a darker path? Debbie D’Souza, a native Venezuelan and political commentator, investigates.”
❝Wonder Woman Got It Wrong. Did You?❞
“Wonder Woman 1984 will be hitting theaters (or streaming services) soon. Gal Gadot was fantastic as Diana in 2017’s Wonder Woman, but… she didn’t get her worldview quite right. She had to learn a powerful lesson about how humanity actually works, and it’s time to explain what Wonder Woman got wrong and why it matters to you.
It’s tempting to oversimplify both great things and terrible things by assigning responsibility to one important player. Diana was convinced that Ares, the God of War, was the mastermind behind World War I. So, logically, killing Ares meant ending the war.Unfortunately, Diana found out that it just doesn’t work that way.And whether you’re celebrating or blaming Obama, Trump, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden or Jeff Bezos, chances are it’s a lot more complex than that. Understanding that it’s not as straightforward as ‘your guy = good, their guy = evil’ is something Diana had to come to terms with… and she almost got there.”
❝The EARN IT Act Is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing❞
“The Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2020, also known as the EARN IT Act, is a dangerous bill introduced by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. If it becomes law, it will end private communication on the internet.
The EARN IT Act is part of a long history of using sex panics to expand state power. If we fall for it this time we may effectively end freedom of expression and open communication on the internet as we know it.EARN IT threatens website providers’ and other intermediaries’ ability to provide end-to-end encrypted services. End-to-end encryption is critical to ensuring private communication and often personal safety.Like so many of the save-the-children bills before it, EARN IT will not combat child sexual exploitation, but it will be the largest expansion of state surveillance powers in recent history, eliminating private communication on the internet."Tip of the hat to The Honest Courtesan.
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Hey, L.A. Times—Don’t Tread on Hillsdale College
“The people of Hillsdale know how to live the good life better than credentialled experts and their computer models. We deserve to be left alone.”OSHA Imposes New Rule For Employer-Required COVID-19 Vaccines
“Contractors criticize mandate to classify adverse reactions as recordable safety incidents”Democrats’ H.R. 1 Election Takeover Would Also Control What Americans And Politicians Say
“Democrats think Americans need the government to protect them from offensive speech, but they push a bill that would be a disaster for free speech. ”When Do Biden’s Gaffes Become Truth?
“Anybody making less than $400,000 a year will not pay a single penny in taxes.”Hollywood Gives Gov. Andrew Cuomo Pass on Sexual Harassment
“Neither Time’s Up, nor Women’s March regulars, care about governor's accusers”The Democratic Party’s Stasi
“The Biden Justice Department is “the shield and the sword”—the motto of East Germany’s Stasi—for the Democratic Party, protecting its own corrupt ranks while terrorizing any and all detractors.”Derek Chauvin files for new trial in death of George Floyd
“Defense attorney Eric Nelson argued that Derek Chauvin's constitutional right to a fair trial was violated”After the Riots: Kenosha struggles months after protest circus left town
“There wasn't a plan in place to handle the volume of people who came to the small city or the momentum that was building as a handful of bad actors turned the protests into a mob-like scene.”Joy Reid and trans activist Charlotte Clymer bash Caitlyn Jenner
“The two condemned Jenner's recent statements suggesting that transgender girls should not be allowed to play sports with biological girls.”Urban Growth Will Continue
“But the post-Covid city may be even more self-selecting.”Corporate News Outlets Again "Confirm" the Same False Story, While Many Refuse to Correct it
“Journalists with major outlets know they spread a false, retracted story about the FBI and Giuliani but refuse to remove it, because their real job is spreading disinformation.”Investors Do Not See “Transitory” Inflation
“The Federal Reserve and European Central Bank repeat that the recent inflationary spike is “transitory”. The problem is that investors do not buy it.”
Added innumerate to lexicon.
Added Julian factor to lexicon.
Added table stakes to lexicon.
Minor update to racism definition.
Updated polygamy definition in lexicon and added references to polygyny.
Added Ides of Diana to ACT.
Edited pagan entry at lexicon.