Source: The Hill
by Jonathan Turley

“For months, President Biden, Democratic politicians, and some in the media have hammered away at ‘Trump’s Big Lie’ of the 2020 election. They insist that former President Trump began months before the election to plant a false narrative that changes in election laws were part of an effort to ‘steal’ the election. However, in the last few weeks, Biden and others are pushing their own ‘Big Lie’ that state election laws are now being changed to steal the 2022 and 2024 elections. What is most striking is how these claims are detached from the actual laws themselves — the power of this claim being based entirely upon its repetition rather than its foundation.” (01/19/22)

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/590343-the-other-big-lie-how-biden-and-democrats-fuel-doubts-about-the-2024

Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Bryan Leonard, Josh Abbott, & Brian Garber-Yonts

“Fisheries managers have increasingly adopted rights-based management (i.e., ‘catch shares’ or ‘individual transferable quotas’ [ITQs]) to address economic and biological management challenges under prior governance regimes. Despite their ability to resolve some of the symptoms of the tragedy of the commons and improve economic efficiency, catch shares remain controversial for their potentially disruptive social effects. One criticism is that the benefits of rights-based reforms are unequally distributed across vessels and between fishery participants (e.g., crew and hired captains) and that stakeholders that do not receive an allocation of harvest rights may see their remuneration decrease. Yet, empirically assessing these claims is difficult in almost all ITQs due to poor availability of longitudinal cost, earnings, and employment data.” [abstract — full paper available as PDF download] (01/19/22)

https://www.perc.org/2022/01/19/the-distributional-outcomes-of-rights-based-management-in-fisheries/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Tommy Salmons

“Over the last few years (after Trump’s surprising victory) the decision as to what information and news the masses ingest is being monitored by the elites and corporate press. The rise of alternative media, especially large podcasts, has fueled their panic, and pushed their attempts to control the narrative into overdrive. The big tech companies took it upon themselves to determine what was allowable discourse. They ran mass censorship [sic] campaigns against anyone that said anything that challenged the power and prestige of the elites. What was once common speech among friends and colleagues is now hate speech. Comedians, politicians, and independent media personalities were depersoned and ostracized from the public square, social media platforms.” (01/19/22)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-war-over-your-mind/

Source: Fox News
by David Marcus

“As the first year of Joe Biden’s presidency comes to an inglorious close the litany of failures he has racked up in a mere 12 months is nothing short of astonishing. On almost every issue that the American people care about he has made things worse — and in regard to many of them, drastically so. … Amid all of this disappointment, one curious question stands out. Why hasn’t any significant member of his administration been fired? Presidential administrations are traditionally like football teams. If the losses keep coming, if the squad fumbles and bumbles at every turn, then coaches, players, even general managers get sacked. While Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump was accused of using his signature phrase, ‘you’re fired’ a bit too often, Biden doesn’t even seem to realize it is an option.” (01/19/22)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-fire-first-year-david-marcus

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“No one can deny that we Americans live crisis-filled lives. Right now, there is a major crisis in Ukraine with Russia. There is also an ongoing crisis with China. Other foreign-policy crises, such as with Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, Cuba, Iraq, and North Korea. There is a terrorism crisis. Healthcare crisis. Social Security crisis. Drug-war crisis. Immigration crisis. Debt crisis. Inflation crisis. Fiscal crisis. Monetary crisis. There is a common denominator to all these crises — the federal government and, specifically, the welfare-warfare state political-economic system under which we live.” (01/19/22)

https://www.fff.org/2022/01/19/crisis-filled-lives/