Defending Capitalism: Part I

Posted on June 16, 2021 by Dan Mitchell – for The Center for Freedom and Prosperity I was a big fan of (and occasional guest on) John Stossel’s TV show, and I’m now a big fan of his videos (see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here). So it was an honor to appear in his latest video about “Capitalism Myths.” It’s a two-part series. […]

Defending Captialism: Part II

Posted on June 22, 2021 by Dan Mitchell In the first video, we discussed three myths about free enterprise. Myth #1 – Capitalists get rich by ‘taking’ money from others. Myth #2 – The rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer. Myth #3 – Monopolies destroyed the free market. Here are the final four myths. […]

Capitalism Makes Us Better Off

John Stossel | Posted: Jun 23, 2021 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com Last week, I debunked three myths about capitalism. Here are four more: Myth No. 4: Capitalism creates unsafe workspaces. “Greedy capitalists” will risk workers’ lives to increase production if government, through agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, doesn’t […]

LPD: Women arrested after stealing $1,400 worth of items from Menards

By 10/11 NOW Published: Jun. 23, 2021 at 11:23 AM UTC|Updated: 27 minutes ago LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – Two women are facing shoplifting charges stemming from incidents throughout the last year. The Lincoln Police Department arrested 30-year-old Morgan Newsom and 40-year-old Alisha Wilson. On January 31, were dispatched to Menards off N 27th Street for […]

Why Evolution is Different

Why Evolution is Different Section 5.1 appeared at Evolution News and Views (www.evolutionnews.org) September 2, 2014 (see also the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJua-0FpmnI). 5.1 Why Evolution is Different In the current debate between Darwinism and intelligent design, the strongest argument made by Darwinists is this: in every other field of science, naturalism has been spectacularly successful, […]

Bill Maher Says College Is A Scam Just Like Scientology

By Michael Haskoor @Tweetskoor Jun 5, 2021 at 11:26am – for Decider.com My cmnt: Maher is right again. College, especially in the liberal arts, is a waste of money and time. The list of worthless degrees grows longer every year. The dumbing down of college is the natural result of full-ride scholarships for athletes who would not be […]

Bill Maher Blasts Young Progressives: ‘The Problem Is That Your Ideas Are Stupid’

By KYLE SMITH – April 26, 2021 – for National Review On HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night, Maher showed once again that he is the only late-night comic who is willing to say things his liberal audience probably doesn’t want to hear. In the course of lavishing praise on President Biden, whom he described as […]

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett building nuclear reactor in coal-rich Wyoming

By Will Feuer June 4, 2021 | 1:08pm | Updated – for The New York Post Billionaire buddies Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are teaming up to build a nuclear reactor — on the site of a coal plant that’s being phased out in Wyoming. Nuclear reactor design company TerraPower, which Gates founded about 15 years ago, and power company […]

CDC claims COVID-19 kills ‘healthy young children’ as doctors push back on vaccinating kids

Authorities should worry about worsening vaccine hesitancy by pushing low-risk kids to get jabbed, med school professors warn. By Greg Piper – June 13, 2021 11:11am – for Just the News My cmnt: the CDC has lost all credibility with many of us and pushing vaccination on children is just the latest load of feces coming […]

Here are all the times Joe Biden has been accused of acting inappropriately toward women and girls

By Eliza Relman and Sonam Sheth May 4, 2020, 9:45 AM – for the Business Insider Joe Biden’s former staffer, Tara Reade, says the former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee, assaulted her in 1993. Reade’s Senate ID card can be seen on the right. Associated Press, Tara Reade Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is facing […]

Silence is Complicity – The Powerful Said Nothing as Harvey Weinstein’s Alleged Victims Piled Up

By JOHN NOLTE – 6 Oct 2017 – for Breitbart News My cmnt: I post this not only because it is so true and still relevant today but because I want to emphasize that all of this #MeToo business was really about an attempt by many of these victims of democrat men to try to […]

Bezos, Musk, Buffet among US’s wealthiest use IRS loopholes to pay zero, little federal income tax

In 2007 and 2011, Bezos did not pay any money in federal income tax. By Nicholas Sherman – June 8, 2021 – for Just the News My cmnt: As a resident of Nebraska we know a little about Warren Buffet. He makes a big show of still living in the same modest house for a jillion […]

Warren Buffet breaks down in tears at the mention of his first wife who died of oral cancer

Buffett and wife Susan lived apart for almost 30 years but never divorced Her friend became billionaire’s mistress and second wife after her death All three sent out joint Christmas cards every year with their three names at the bottom By MEGHAN KENEALLY UPDATED: 16:25 EDT, 13 January 2012 – for The Daily Mail The affable demeanor […]

‘White Lie’ professor Jessica Krug exposes the fallacy of identity politics

The most shocking thing about the Jessica Krug scandal is that people are shocked by it.

Jessica Krug, Rachel Dolezal and America’s white women who want to be Black

Identities are tricky. They can be assigned to us — and sometimes we assert them. They are socially constructed, but they’re not entirely fictive.

Rachel Dolezal: ‘I’m not going to stoop and apologize and grovel’

Two years ago, she was a respected black rights activist and teacher. Then she was exposed as a white woman who had deceived almost everyone she knew. Why did she do it? By Decca Aitkenhead Sat 25 Feb 2017 04.00 EST – for The Guardian Rachel Dolezal: ‘I began to see the world through black […]

Rachel Dolezal, who posed as black, ‘vindicated’ by Black Lives Matter movement

By Jon Levine – July 4, 2020 – for The New York Post She still sees herself as black — and yearns to play a role in the push for racial equality. But Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who claimed to be African-American in 2015, sparking a national scandal, shrugs off the years of shaming that […]

Gina Carano’s Firing Is the Product of Yet More Calvinball

By CHARLES C. W. COOKE – February 11, 2021 11:24 AM – for National Review Mandalorian cast members Pedro Pascal and Gina Carano at the premiere of the television series in Los Angeles, Calif., November 13, 2019 (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) Gina Carano, the actress who plays Cara Dune on Disney+’s The Mandalorian, has been fired by Lucasfilm for her social […]

Scenarios for an early Trump return to power: the feasible, the far-fetched and the fantasy

With the former president reportedly discussing a return to office “sooner than you think,” what are some of the theoretical pathways back to the White House? By Sophie Mann – Updated: June 7, 2021 – 10:26pm – for Just the News The ever-churning rumor mill surrounding former President Donald Trump has, in recent days, produced a new […]

Healthy Polar Bears and Thriving Tigers: The Common Climate Tale

Vijay Jayaraj | Posted: Dec 12, 2020 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com Editor’s note: this column was coauthored by Calvin Beisner. My cmnt: I included the chart below to show that the climate always changes but man-made global warming is a scare tactic that is not happening. The climate warms and cools all the time. […]

Roadwork ahead: Joe Biden’s electric vehicle future heading for huge potholes

By Haris Alic June 2, 2021 – for News Daylight My cmnt: All right enough of this nonsense. Electric cars are NOT the future. In typical democrat, Lib-think they kick a problem down the road and consider it solved. The first problem is electricity generation. Libs hate both coal and natural gas and nuclear powered […]

I’m 21 and live in a 72-square-foot NYC apartment that costs $1,345 a month. Here’s what a day in my life looks like.

Via Hendrix Tue, June 1, 2021, 2:29 PM·8 min read – for Yahoo News or Insider.com My cmnt: In Tokyo, Japan business men and office workers commute at the beginning of each work week into Tokyo to their places of employment. It is too expensive and time consuming to commute every day so they stay […]

The Supposed ‘Hero of the Pandemic’ Was Actually the Villain

Katie Pavlich | Posted: May 28, 2021 11:40 PM – for Townhall.com My cmnt: Fauci is a lying, little troll. He lied about AIDS in the 80s, lied about sexual hook-ups with strangers during the Covid pandemic being up to the discretion of the participants while demagoguing the unnecessary step of closing all of the […]

Liberal vs. Leftist

What’s the difference between a liberal and a leftist? By Dennis Prager for Prager U on Facebook This question stumps most people because they think liberal and left are essentially the same. But they’re not. In fact, liberalism and leftism have almost nothing in common. But the left has appropriated the word “liberal” so effectively […]

Why the hot new alcohol trend is cutting back — or even quitting

A recent study by the American Psychological Association reported that nearly a quarter of adults were drinking more to manage stress during the pandemic By Kerry J. Byrne – May 29, 2021 – for The New York Post My cmnt: As I noted in a previous post on drinking alcohol I am a lifelong teetotaler. So now, […]

Effort to recall Lincoln mayor, council members underway; opponents implore residents to decline to sign

Riley Johnson Nov 23, 2020 Updated Dec 29, 2020 – for The Lincoln Journal Star The effort to recall Lincoln’s mayor and a majority of the City Council because of their actions during the pandemic officially launched Monday outside City Hall, the site of an August hearing that galvanized recall organizers to seek the ousters. LNK Recall organizers […]

Photo essay: Biden voters protest and riot in Lincoln

My cmnt: Propagandized, guilty, white college educated young women believe everything fed to them by the MSM and the democratic party in the bubble they live in. They will never protest actual violence against black people in this country perpetrated by abortion and black-on-black riots, crime, shootings and murder in democrat-run cities with the strictest […]

A costly night of violence, vandalism and chaos tops $10 million in damages

My cmnt: I’ve been to dozens of completely peaceful Pro-Life protests (except for the counter protesters using bullhorns to yell in our faces) in Lincoln over the decades. We clean up after ourselves, are compliant with police orders, march prayerfully and quietly, have permits, and most of us are Republicans. My cmnt: During the ‘summer […]

Lincoln mauled: One night of crime, more than $10 million in damage

By Peter Salter Jun 3, 2020 Updated Mar 26, 2021 – for The Lincoln Journal Star The glass-fronted office building near 14th and H streets should be busier this week, filled with some of the 20 staffers of the Nebraska Association of County Officials. They should be there tweaking software for county assessors, fielding questions from far-flung […]

Warrant out for Lincoln man accused of smashing windows while dressed as Deadpool during riots

By Lori Pilger Nov 20, 2020 Updated Dec 31, 2020 – for the Lincoln Journal Star A warrant has gone out for the arrest of a 25-year-old Lincoln man, wanted in connection to nearly $17,000 in damage to windows along Lincoln Mall early May 31. Police say the destruction was caught on video, the man […]

Revisiting Lincoln racial justice demonstrations, riots 6 months later

Lincoln Journal Star Dec 7, 2020 Updated Apr 20, 2021 Shot fired amid the criminal chaos of May 30, 2020 nearly hits Lincoln officer Lori Pilger Dec 2, 2020 Updated Feb 24, 2021 My cmnt: I will keep this brief as I’ve posted much about this already on this site. The original sin of the […]

What if the Super Bowl was treated like the 2020 Presidential election

THIS JUST IN… THE NFL FOUND 23 ADDITIONAL POINTS FOR THE CHIEFS FROM MAIL-IN TOUCHDOWNS, AND, BASED ON OUTCRY FROM LIBERALS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, HAS AWARDED THE SUPER BOWL WIN TO THE CHIEFS. We all went to bed last Sunday at midnight thinking Tom Brady had won the Super Bowl. Now we read on the […]

Sinéad O’Connor: How I survived hellish night with ‘devil’ Prince

By Larry Getlen – for The New York Post May 28, 2021 | 12:50pm | Updated My cmnt: Sinead’s life was one, apparently, of abuse starting at a young age. She’s obviously looking for or running from something. Sinéad O’Connor was already a world-famous singer with a No. 1 record — but that didn’t stop a man she barely knew […]

Death and double standards: Harder to attribute mortality to vaccine than to COVID?

Comorbidities are downgraded as causal factors in death when they overlap with COVID, whether the latter is verified or even merely suspected. By Andrew Davies – May 29, 2021 – for Just the News My cmnt: This article may be a little hard to understand. What is being stated here is that while even an unverified […]

LPD: AR rifle found with teens during traffic stop, driver arrested

By 10/11 NOW Published: May. 27, 2021 at 10:02 AM UTC|Updated: 3 hours ago LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – A Lincoln woman was arrested on a weapons charge and child abuse during a traffic stop with six teenagers inside her vehicle, according to the Lincoln Police Department. LPD said an SUV, which frequented a home under […]

Five Myths About the AR-15

By Derrek Sigler 08.13.20 – for All Outdoor We’ve all heard this one before, that “AR” stands for “Assault Rifle.” We all know full well that that is definitely false. “AR” stands for ArmaLite Rifle, coming from the AR designation used in the model and serial numbers used by all firearms produced by the company, which […]

Whatever happened to the White Athlete?

By S.L. PRICE – Dec 8, 1997 – Sports Illustrated archives What do you do for a living?” Each time Kevin Little hears the question, he suffers a small crisis. He would love to say straight out, “I run fast. I am a sprinter.” But Little is tired of facing disbelief, tired of the skeptical […]

The NFL’s Racial Divide

Teams don’t consciously build rosters based on race, it just ends up that way BY JASON REID AND JANE MCMANUS for The Undefeated It really seems ludicrous coming from Christian McCaffrey, one of college football’s most decorated players over the last two seasons. Yet there he was at the NFL combine last month, explaining he hasn’t gotten his due. “A […]

Is it in the Genes?

STUDIES HAVE FOUND PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES THAT MIGHT HELP EXPLAIN WHY BLACKS OUTPERFORM WHITES IN CERTAIN SPORTS–BUT SCIENTISTS ARE WARY OF JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS By S.L. PRICE – Dec 8, 1997 – Sports Illustrated archives The best athletes on the planet are black. Stop the conversationright there and few will argue the point. It’s always the […]

No amount of alcohol is good for your overall health, global study says

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Updated 1:09 PM EDT, Fri August 24, 2018 My cmnt: Please forgive me for posting anything on my site from CNN. It’s not like I ever look at or listen to CNN it’s because my local newspaper reprinted this article that I saw it. So mea culpa and onto some clarifications before […]

Matt Sturges before and after

Lilah Sturges Releases Lumberjanes Graphic Novel Latest in the series insists emotional vulnerability is cool now BY RAY EMERSON, 7:00AM, WED. OCT. 17, 2018 For the Austin Chronicle My cmnt: Matt Sturges is a creative writer. Being able to imagine what it would be like to present yourself to the world as a woman takes a lot of imagination […]

Caleb Kennedy ousted from ‘American Idol’ following controversial social media post

By By George Costantino for Good Morning America ABC – May 13, 2021 My cmnt: Here we have the Cancel Culture rearing its ugly head once again. This 16 year old boy posted a 3 second video when he was TWELVE. He is not even doing what the MSM and hysterical, hypocritical loony left are accusing […]

Nebraska’s early push to reopen schools during COVID has other states playing catch-up

By Joe Dejka May 16, 2021 Updated May 17, 2021 – 14 min to read – Omaha World Herald Nebraska reopened its schools last August despite the advice of some medical experts, protests from teachers unions and worries it could ignite COVID-19 outbreaks. As the extraordinary school year comes to a close, education leaders say reopening […]

Video shows wild beatdown at Little Caesars in Georgia

By Joshua Rhett Miller and Sam Raskin – May 18, 2021 – for The New York Post The savage beatdown of a woman in a Little Caesars in Georgia was caught on video — showing the suspect dragging the victim out of the pizza shop by her hair and a toddler jumping in to stop the fight. The […]

COVID ground zero? The Wuhan lab-leak theory and the Fauci connection

U.S. government funding, bat coronavirus research, reports of sick workers, alleged involvement with gain-of-function experiments. By Daniel Payne – May 19, 2021 – for Just the News My cmnt: Type “Wuhan lab” into the search field on this site to see other posts on that smarmy little weasel Fauci’s involvement with the Chinese Wuhan lab leak […]

Michelle Malkin: Get Up Off Your Knees

Michelle Malkin – 06/02/2020 – for V Dare Dear law-abiding Americans: You have done nothing wrong. Being white is not a crime. Being a Trump voter is not a crime. Being a police officer sworn to “protect and serve” every day is not a crime. Being a non-white police officer proud to uphold and enforce law and order is not a crime. […]

Another Fauci Lie About Masks and the COVID Vaccine Comes Back to Bite Him

So, it was all theater. It was all for show. And yet we have another reason for why Dr. Anthony Fauci has to go. How long will we be subjected to the schizophrenic regime of this dude? We have talk from Democrats about Trump and the ‘big lie’ concerning the 2020 election. On COVID, it’s […]

Transgender Golfer Sets Sights on Competing in LPGA

By PENNY STARR 17 May 2021 – for Breitbart news Hailey Davidson is being touted as a transgender woman who could be the first to play professional golf with the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) after winning a mini-tour competing against biological women. Hope for playing on the pro circuit were boosted after the United […]

Florida Republicans Are Making It Easier To Vote And Harder To Cheat

By Rep. Byron Donalds Contributor May 07, 2021 5:27 PM ET – for The Daily Caller Florida Republicans, led by Gov. Ron DeSantis, took a bold step this week to protect election integrity. By signing Senate Bill 90 (SB 90) into law Thursday, DeSantis codified common sense election reforms that will make Florida’s elections even […]

Not So Woke: NFL Brain Injury Lawsuit Claims Black Men Have Lower Cognitive Skills than White Men

By WARNER TODD HUSTON – 17 May 2021 – for Breitbart.news Critics of the National Football League claim that black players are unfairly excluded in receiving payouts from the $1 billion brain injury settlement fund because the league has weighted the scoring system it uses to determine who gets how much of the settlement. The […]

MINNEAPOLIS VS. THE EVIDENCE

April 7, 2021 by Ann Coulter Apparently, no one is watching the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer on trial for the murder of George Floyd. Otherwise, the media couldn’t get away with their spectacular lying to the public about how the prosecution is killing it. It’s quite the opposite. In fact, in […]