News and Views: February 10, 2025

Media Should Investigate Federal Waste Instead Of The People Uncovering It   The corporate media have had years to tell the public the extent of government glut, but why would they when they were on the take themselves, enjoying fat government handouts? As Federalist writer Logan Washburn recently reported, the federal government has paid Politico $34.3 million since 2015; Reuters, $10.6 million since 2020; The New York Times, $2.7 million since 2008; and $1.7 million to The Washington Post since 2014.  

   It is a conflict of interest for the media to receive money from the same government it is ostensibly covering.

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How To Commit Democratic Party Suicide -VD Hanson 

Was conducting a media barrage of Hitler-Trump invectives, or lowering the bar of demonization that likely led to two assassination attempts of Trump a good way to win an election?

   Apparently not, given the Democrats have now lost the presidency, the House, and the Senate. The Supreme Court is conservative. They have no power to subpoena anyone; they cannot block any nomination. Much of their old administrative state control is eroding. All the main issues—the economy, energy, border security, illegal immigration, crime, DEI/woke, and foreign policy—poll against the Democrats. The more they shouted that biological men must be able to compete as transgendered females in women’s sports, the more that 80% of the public disagreed, women were turned off, and the absurd idea was exploded by Trump.

   The power of the administrative state, the legacy network news, print media, and Silicon Valley’s social media and search engines, the billions that poured into the Biden and Harris campaign all went for naught. Image

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How American Education Promotes Sloth 

Sadly, efforts to inculcate a strong work ethic are likely doomed for the simple but unspeakable reason that they will be politically unpopular. Imagine the outrage if truant officers rounded up children and forced them to attend school? The obstacles to enforcing tougher school discipline are also probably insurmountable. This is particularly true for black students since disproportionately suspending or expelling them is politically unthinkable. Parents demanding traditional orderly, safe schools just relocate or rely on private schools rather than demand school boards impose strict discipline. And good luck to professors who begin failing students and demanding that everyone attend the lectures. How many students would enroll in such classes?

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USAID Funds Ended up at BLM (and You Might Not Believe Where Else) 

The Greatest Heist of All Time: The Level of Corruption That Elon Musk and His DOGE Team Are Uncovering Is Absolutely Mind Blowing    Did you know that approximately $1,000,000,000 in obviously fraudulent payments flow through the U.S. Treasury’s payment system every week?  Until Elon Musk and his DOGE team stepped in, nobody in the government was doing anything about this theft.  Please read all the way to the end of this article for the details.  Suspiciously, the Democrats are desperately trying to get the courts to keep Elon Musk and his team out of the U.S. Treasury’s payment system.  Why is that?  What are they working so hard to hide?

    The truth is that Elon Musk and his DOGE team are beginning to scratch the surface of the greatest heist of all time, and the Democrats are starting to get very nervous.  If they are allowed to complete what they have started, the American people will finally learn what has really been going on in Washington and nothing will ever be the same after this.

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A Ministerial Miranda? Washington State Democrats Target Priests in Latest Attack on Religion  Washington Democrats are adding a fifth stage for confessions under a new law.  If passed, examination, confession, absolution, and penance will be followed by arrest. The blatantly unconstitutional legislation would target priests who learn of any “reasonable” basis to believe that a child “has suffered abuse or neglect.” Putting aside the obvious violation of the sanctity of the confessional, it presents a novel problem for priests if they both encourage the faithful to unburden themselves while at the same time reminding them anything that they say can and will be used against them in a court of law.

UK: Muslims can openly criticise Christians, so why not the opposite?  As an open-air preacher, I frequently have to critique Islam, not because Muslims are my particular focus – I am preaching to every person I see in the high street – but because Muslims approach me and directly challenge my Christian beliefs. Furthermore, they do not hesitate to tell me exactly what they think about the falsehood of the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity.

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The CDC’s Big Mistake 

Despite revised guidelines, and documented flaws in their opioid data, the CDC continues to publish flawed data.  The influence of the 2016 guidelines continues to spread.  We now have a return of opioid-free surgery, as well as the opioid-free emergency room.

   Many medical professionals fear prescribing appropriate opioids from the misguided belief that opioid prescriptions are uniquely lethally dangerous, or fear facing legal battles like the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court Ruan case.

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The Most Dramatic Narrative Shift in Modern History 

The Covid operation was an audacious global attempt to deploy all the power of government – in all the directions from and to which it flowed – in service of a goal never before attempted in history. To say that it failed is the understatement of the century. What it did was unleash fires of fury the world over, and whole legacy systems are in the process of burning down. 

How deep is the corruption? There are no words to describe its breadth and depth. 

   Who is regretting this? It’s the legacy news media, the legacy academic establishment, the legacy corporate establishment, the legacy public-sector agencies, the legacy everything, and this regret knows no partisan or ideological bounds. 

   And who is celebrating this or, at least, enjoying the upheaval and cheering it on? It’s the independent media, the genuine grassroots, the deplorables and nonessentials, the pillaged and oppressed, the workers and peasants who were forced to serve the elites for years, those who have been truly marginalized through decades of exclusion from public life.