@truthliveshere2013 Facebook. Remember in 2011 when tens of thousands of Democrats surged on the Wisconsin Capitol building in Madison and physically occupied it for more than two weeks? We were told: “This is what democracy looks like.” Remember in 2016 when Obama was President and hundreds of BLM blocked interstate
Mark Angelides libertynation.com How far can political persecution truly go in the United States of America? When it becomes verbal open-season on supporters of the current president, it is perhaps safe to say that things have gone too far. Not content with shutting down the voices of individuals and
Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com I hail from the Naki and when I first left school, after a brief stint as the bog boy in a car sales yard’s chop shop, I came into the employ of one of the local cow cockies. He was a third-generation farmer who was
Robert Hutchinson mercatornet.com Robert J. Hutchinson is the author, most recently, of What Really Happened: The Death of Hitler. In 1933, the newly-elected Nazi Party used a firebomb attack on the German parliament building, the Reichstag, as an excuse to push through what was called the Reichstag Fire Decree
Ron Paul ronpaulinstitute.org Last week’s massive social media purges – starting with President Trump’s permanent ban from Twitter and other outlets – was shocking and chilling, particularly to those of us who value free expression and the free exchange of ideas. The justifications given for the silencing of wide
Simon Black sovereignman.com I imagine that every single one of us has had a huge argument with a loved one at some point in our lives. Sometimes it’s because of some issue that’s deeply personal to us. But the other person just doesn’t get it. We’
The Great Digital Terror in the US continues unabated. Like so many Soviet commissars, more and more “politically suspect” US citizens are being purged and un-personed by the billionaire oligarchs of Silicon Valley. Former Republican congressman Ron Paul says he’s been blocked by Facebook from managing his account over
Star Parker papundits.wordpress.com Star Parker is a columnist for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation and she is the president of CURE, Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education. While sitting in the Delta lounge in the Atlanta airport waiting for my flight back to Washington, a white
When even Mexico’s president is going in to bat for Donald Trump, you know that Facebook has royally screwed up. Facebook joined the big tech pile-on to crush free speech and un-person Trump from the internet. While New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern showed her true authoritarian colours by likewise
Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado and was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in
Kristine Marsh newsbusters.org Last Friday evening, Twitter permanently banned President Trump from their platform. Google, Apple and Amazon immediately followed suit by booting the “free speech” platform Parler, which conservatives flocked to as an alternative to Twitter, from its respective app stores and web services. But the liberal hosts
Whereas New Zealand’s prime minister and foreign minister rushed to join the clucking claque of pearl-clutching cretins cheering on the un-personing of US President Donald Trump, at least a few in Australia’s government have scrabbled hard and found the withered remains of what once passed as “principles”. The
