Free Things From The Government Are Never Free

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes American school children are instructed that the late 19th century, the Gilded Age, was dominated by “robber barons“ who made great fortunes creating monopolies that exploited the poor and middle classes. Howard Zinn‘s best-selling textbook, which introduced generations of Americans to their own history, informed them that “ordinary people who […]
Next UK government faces payouts to dozens of Rwanda flight detainees | Immigration and asylum

Even if the deal collapses after the election, the next government would still be faced with paying huge sums to asylum seekers being held for deportation to Rwanda. The asylum seekers are suing the Home Office, who claim they were illegally detained before being allowed to make the first flight to the East African country. […]
The US Government Sent Millions of Grant Dollars to Alleged COVID ‘Patient Zero,’ Documents Show

In June, The New York Times ran an exposé detailing the tragedy that we may never know the origins of COVID-19. “For three years, the U.S. government has been tied in knots over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, frustrated that China’s hindrance of investigations and unwillingness to look critically at its own research have […]
Johnson, Trump, GOP plot ambitious agenda hinged on total control of government

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, met with Senate Republicans on Wednesday to begin formulating an ambitious agenda for Washington if former President Trump is re-elected and Republicans regain control of the Senate and maintain their majority in the House. Republicans in Congress are increasingly confident about the prospects of the November election given President Biden’s […]
GOP, Trump ‘Running Against the American System of Government’

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said on “Deadline” Tuesday that former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are “at war against the American political system.” “If the Biden administration has weaponized the justice system of this country to only attack Republicans and conservatives and never Democrats, I think today they’ve proven that they’re doing an […]
US government and Soros team up with Ukrainians to attack Blaze Media, Musk, and Tucker

Yesterday, Blaze News reported:text” is placing Blaze Media, Glenn Beck The outlet is on the enemies list for spreading “Russian propaganda and disinformation.” While posing as an independent journalism organization, Tweeted “Insist […] “The claim that Texty.org’s editorial team is trained or funded by the US government is a complete lie.” Last night, Return revealed […]
How Government Turned Universities and Businesses into DEI Bureaucracies

The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on May 13, announced that they would be diverting the $2.3 million that the university spends on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies toward campus safety amidst protests over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. UNC-Chapel Hill joins a list of universities like the University of Florida and the University […]
‘He’s out of his mind’: AOC is afraid Trump will put her in jail if he wins the presidency, calls government a ‘business’

Squad member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez worries that former President Donald Trump could land her in prison if he wins the November presidential election. New York Post. She recently spoke with Kara Swisher on her show.Enter Kara SwisherThe episode was released on Thursday, and the interview covered several topics, including AI, Gaza and the upcoming presidential election. […]
Belgium headed for new government as PM set to resign after general election | Belgium

Belgium is heading for a new government after a general election in which an expected surge by the far-right Vlaams Verand party failed to materialize and the outgoing coalition government led by liberal Prime Minister Alexander De Croo lost the ability to form a majority. Mr Vlaams-Belan’s main rival, the nationalist New Flemish Union (N-VA), […]
Labour might be a racing certainty, but it faces some big hurdles in government | William Keegan

ohOn the day before the 1992 general election, the bookmakers in Ascot were offering odds of 6 to 1 on John Major’s Conservative Party to win. I was with the economist Roger Bootle, and we agreed that Labour, with a large lead in the opinion polls, was bound to win. Even at those odds, there […]