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Five Years Later, We Remember How Politicians Unleashed COVID Tyranny

Five years ago, politicians and bureaucrats went berserk and pointlessly ravaged Americans’ freedom. The Covid-19 pandemic provided the pretext to destroy hundreds of thousands of businesses, padlock churches, close down schools, and effectively place hundreds of millions of Americans under house arrest. Despite all the forced sacrifices, most Americans contracted covid and more than a million were listed as dying from the virus.

“Pandemic Security Theater Is Self-Destructive, And Won’t Make Us Safer” was the headline of my first salvo against the pandemic hysteria, published on March 24, 2020 in the Daily Caller. I scoffed at President Trump’s proclamations about being a “wartime president at war with an invisible enemy.” Wartime presidents too easily pretend they’re on a mission from God to scourge all resistance. I warned: “The pandemic threatens to open authoritarian Pandora’s Boxes. Permitting governments to seize almost unlimited power based on shaky extrapolations of infection rates will doom our republic.”

From the start of the pandemic, the Mises Institute was in the forefront of condemning policies that eradicated prosperity in the name of public health. In a May 19, 2020 Mises piece headlined, “Hacksawing the Economy,” I noted, “The political response to COVID-19 is eerily similar to Civil War surgeons’ rationales for hacking off arms and legs…. As long as politicians claim that things would be worse if they had not amputated much of the economy, they can pirouette as saviors.”

Living in the Washington area, I had a front row seat for many of Covid-19’s biggest absurdities. After federal officials whipped up panic, “I Believe in Science” lawn signs popped up like mushrooms, soon accompanied by “Thank You, Dr. Fauci” placards. Those signs looked to me like frightful decorations of a Halloween that never ended.

Thoreau provided my lodestar for the pandemic: “A man sits as many risks as he runs.” I knew that isolation would make me too ornery for my own good. I had survived the flu plenty of times in prior decades and I didn’t reckon covid would deliver my coffin nails. I was a co-leader of a Meetup hiking group which continued hiking almost every weekend throughout the pandemic.

But politicians made such jaunts more difficult. In February 2021, President Biden decreed that face masks must be worn in national parks. Probably 95 percent of the National Park Service’s 800+ million acres is uncrowded 95 percent of the time. The only “evidence” to justify the mandate was that many Biden supporters were frightened or enraged whenever they saw anyone not wearing a mask. The new mandate quickly became an entitlement program for junior Stasi members.

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Is the Jig up for Elite Higher Education?

Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal — and suicidal.

They did so with impunity.

Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s elite movers and shakers that they could always do almost anything they wished.

By the 1970s, non-profit universities had dropped pretenses that they were apolitical and non-partisan.

Instead, they customarily violated the corpus of iconic civil rights legislation by weighing race, gender, and sexual orientation in biased admissions, hiring, and promotions.

Graduation ceremonies became overtly racially and ethnically segregated. The same was true for dorms and “theme houses.”

So-called “safe spaces,” in the spirit of the Jim Crow South, reserved areas of campus solely for particular races.

Affluent foreign students often openly protested on behalf of designated terrorist groups like Hamas.

First-Amendment-protected free speech all but vanished on elite campuses. Any guest speaker who dared to critique abortion on demand, Middle East orthodoxy, biological males dominating women’s sports, or diversity/equity/inclusion (DEI) dogmas was likely to be shouted down, or on occasion roughed up.

University administrators either ignored the violence done to the Bill of Rights or quietly approved when their rowdy students were turned loose on supposed conservatives.

But in their hubris, the universities began a series of blunders that may now end them as they once were.

They began gouging government agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation by grabbing anywhere from 30 to 60 percent of individual campus grants as “overhead.”

Yet they usually charged most private foundation grants a far more modest 15% surcharge — as if a lax government did not object to overcharging.

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What If The America You Pledge Allegiance To Isn’t The One Running The Show?

What if the America you pledge allegiance to isn’t the one running the show? This investigation examines how America’s governance system fundamentally transformed since 1871 through a documented pattern of legal, financial, and administrative changes. The evidence reveals a gradual shift from constitutional principles toward corporate-style management structures – not through a single event, but through an accumulation of incremental changes spanning generations that have quietly restructured the relationship between citizens and government.

This analysis prioritizes primary sources, identifies patterns across multiple domains rather than isolated events, and examines timeline correlations – particularly noting how crises often preceded centralization initiatives. By examining primary sources including Congressional records, Treasury documents, Supreme Court decisions, and international agreements, we identify how:

  • Legal language and frameworks evolved from natural rights toward commercial principles
  • Financial sovereignty transferred incrementally from elected representatives to banking interests
  • Administrative systems increasingly mediated the relationship between citizens and government

This evidence prompts a fundamental reexamination of modern sovereignty, citizenship, and consent in ways that transcend traditional political divisions. For the average American, these historical transformations have concrete implications. The administrative systems created between 1871-1933 structure daily life through financial obligations, identification requirements, and regulatory compliance that operate largely independent of electoral changes. Understanding this history illuminates why citizens often feel disconnected from governance despite formal democratic processes – the systems managing key aspects of modern life (monetary policy, administrative regulation, citizen identification) were designed to operate with substantial independence from direct citizen control.

While mainstream interpretations of these developments emphasize practical governance needs and economic stability, the documented patterns suggest the possibility of more fundamental changes in America’s constitutional structure deserving closer scrutiny.

I stumbled across a peculiar reference to the 1871 Act while browsing on Twitter. The post suggested that the United States had undergone a secret legal transformation in 1871, converting it from a constitutional republic into a corporate entity where citizens were treated more like assets than sovereigns. What caught my attention wasn’t the claim itself, but how confidently it was stated – as if this fundamental transformation of America was common knowledge.

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Explosive Update to Biden Autopen Scandal Reveals Unelected Staffer’s Role

As PJ Media previously reported, a bombshell investigation by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project revealed that nearly every document during Biden’s presidency was signed by autopen, with only one authentic signature confirmed — his letter announcing withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race. 

The presidential autopen has been in use since the 1950s, which has sparked ongoing debate over its legality. In 2013, Barack Obama became the first president to use it to sign a bill into law while vacationing in Hawaii. His office justified the move with a 30-page memo from George W. Bush’s legal team, which argued that a president’s physical presence wasn’t necessary as long as the signature was authorized.

But Joe Biden’s cognitive decline raised legitimate questions as to whether he was aware of official documents being signed on his behalf, or if they were even authorized. Speaker Mike Johnson previously revealed that Biden couldn’t even recall signing an LNG exports executive order, raising serious questions about whether someone was signing documents with the autopen without Biden’s authorization. 

According to an explosive report from the New York Post, a senior Biden aide may have been wielding presidential power through liberal use of the autopen and essentially acting as a shadow president. One White House source painted a chilling picture:

One Biden White House source told The Post they suspect that a key aide to the then-president may have made unilateral determinations on what to auto-sign. The Post is not publishing that staffer’s name due to the lack of concrete evidence and refutations by other colleagues. 

The Biden aide, who did not respond to requests for comment, would frequently make mention of what “the boss” wanted, the source said, but compatriots would have “no idea” if it was true because the internal culture was to not ask questions.

Even more disturbing, another source revealed the extent of this aide’s power:

“Everyone” was suspicious of this individual exceeding their authority when claiming to speak for the president, the source said. “But no one would actually say it.” 

“I think [the aide] was using the autopen as standard and past protocol,” The Post’s informant said. “There is no clarity on who actually approved what — POTUS or [the aide].”

A second Biden White House source agreed that the person was suspected of assuming the then-president’s positions and handing down orders without it being clear if they actually had communicated with the commander-in-chief.

“If they’re carrying out the president’s will, it doesn’t seem like an issue,” Attorney Mike Davis, an outside advisor to Trump, told The Post. “If they’re not carrying out the president’s will, it’s a huge issue—it’s criminal.”

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Clinton-Appointed Judge Rules Inmate Who Murdered Baby Must Be Provided Taxpayer-Funded Sex Change at ‘Earliest Opportunity’

Clinton-appointed Judge Richard Young has ordered the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) to provide sex change surgery for a “transgender” inmate who murdered a baby.

The inmate, Jonathan Richardson, who now goes by “Autumn Cordellioné,” is in prison for the reckless homicide of a baby.

Richardson was convicted in 2001 for strangling his then-wife’s 11-month-old daughter to death.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the lawsuit against the Indiana Department of Corrections seeking a sex change on behalf of Richardson in 2023, three years after the baby-killer decided to begin identifying as a woman.

Currently, there is a law in Indiana banning taxpayer-funded sex change procedures for inmates.

According to a Fox News report, the ACLU argued that the law violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment.”

Judge Young sided with the ACLU on March 5 and ordered taxpayers to foot the bill for the murderer’s vanity surgery.

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Trump Admin Demolishing Biden’s Illegal Alien Processing Centers

The Trump administration has launched its demolition of the previous administration’s processing centers for facilitating the illegal alien invasion of our country.

The Biden-Harris centers for processing illegal aliens are set to tumble down as the Trump border crackdown continues, per Breitbart on March 14. This could save the American taxpayer millions of dollars every single month. No longer will the Border Patrol function as a welcoming committee instead of law enforcement, thanks to Trump and his border czar Tom Homan.

The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) chief celebrated the continuing securing of our border. “Due to the unprecedented drop in apprehensions of illegal aliens as a result of President Trump’s leadership, CBP is reducing the number of temporary, soft-sided processing facilities where illegal aliens have been held in specific locations along the southwest border,” stated Pete R. Flores, the acting CBP commissioner. 

Flores added, “CBP no longer has a need for them as illegal aliens are being quickly removed. The U.S. Border Patrol has full capability to manage the detention of apprehended aliens in its permanent facilities. Manpower and other resources dedicated to temporary processing facilities will be redirected toward other priorities and will speed CBP’s progress in gaining operational control over the southwest border.”

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Did the Behavioral Health Industry have Insider Knowledge About the Trump Assassination Attempt in Butler, PA?

AbleChild has been closely following the FBI investigation into the parents of Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old dead suspect in the attempted assassination of President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. Despite no lawsuits or legal actions filed against the Crooks family, the parents have retained Quinn Logue, a high-profile Pittsburgh law firm, raising questions about their involvement and prompting President Trump to call for deeper scrutiny. The FBI is investigating whether Matthew and Mary Crooks had prior knowledge of their son’s plans. How is that going?

AbleChild sees troubling parallels between this case and past mass shootings, including the Sandy Hook, Newtown, Connecticut killings in 2012. In Sandy Hook, AbleChild was asked by a local mother to investigate whether Adam Lanza was on psychiatric drugs. Despite suing Connecticut’s Chief Medical Examiner for Lanza’s mental health and toxicology records, AbleChild was unable to obtain the release due to financial limitations. The mental health records have never been fully released. The investigation revealed disturbing patterns: Dr. Paul Fox, one of Lanza’s psychiatrists, fled to New Zealand shortly after surrendering his medical license in the U.S. amid allegations of sexual misconduct with a teenage patient. AbleChild has long raised concerns that the behavioral health industry may have helped Fox leave the country to avoid scrutiny. He continued practicing psychiatry in New Zealand until media exposure forced him to resign and return to the U.S., where he was later arrested by Homeland Security for sexual assault. AbleChild played a vital role in pushing for his arrest.

These patterns—missing toxicology reports, autopsy delays, corrupted crime scenes, and lack of evidence transparency—are eerily similar to the Butler investigation. Such failures allow major players in the behavioral health and psychiatric drug industry to avoid accountability while shifting blame elsewhere. These industries often exploit tragedies to demand more funding or push agendas like restricting gun rights. President Trump should really take a closer look at the upcoming spending bill and the shocking amount of money allocated to the behavioral health industry despite their failed mental health outcomes. They just might be key players in the assassination attempt to kill him.

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Transgender Brain Studies are Fatally Flawed

Earlier this week, City Journal published the tragic story of Yarden Silveira, a young detransitioner—someone who pursues hormonal and/or surgical “sex change” procedures but then seeks to reverse course—whose life ended abruptly after suffering severe complications from a gender-related genital surgery. What led Yarden to adopt a transgender identity in the first place? In 2014, after encountering the growing wave of pro-trans narratives in popular culture, Yarden told his family that he believed he had a “female brain.” Though initially uncertain, his mother was ultimately convinced by scientific papers that suggested that her son could have a female brain trapped in a male body, and that this mismatch caused him unimaginable distress.

“A trans woman (such as myself) was born with a male body, but she has always had her female brain. Literally born with a female brain,” Yarden wrote in 2016.

This belief was widespread back then—and it still is. On January 31, Wisconsin Public Radio featured an interview with a mother, Carri, concerned about President Trump’s new executive order banning federally funded medical and surgical “sex change” procedures for minors. Carri spoke about her daughter, who identified as transgender at 15 and was allowed to medically transition. She said, “Those hormones really helped match his brain with his body which, to me, that’s just the basic level of care we can provide individuals that identify as trans.”

The power of this narrative in persuading people to pursue, or to allow their children to pursue, irreversible medical procedures cannot be overstated. But the notion that males can have “female brains,” and vice versa, rests on a flawed interpretation of “brain sex” studies that in no way demonstrate or even suggest a definitive biological basis for “gender identity.” Little effort has been made to correct this misleading assertion.

The theory is advanced for relatively straightforward reasons. Civil rights lawyers, activists, and researchers contend that people who identify as transgender possess a “brain sex” misaligned with their physical body, thereby establishing a biological basis for “gender identity” akin to immutable traits like race. This framing carries significant legal weight, as U.S. civil rights law offers strong protections for characteristics considered “innate” or rooted in biology.

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Trump Department of Education Launches Investigations into 45 Universities for Race-Based Exclusionary Practices and 7 for Race-Based Segregation

The Trump administration is about to unleash a massive crackdown against the widespread discrimination whites and Asians are enduring on America’s college campuses.

This morning, the Department of Education opened Title VI investigations into 45 universities for allegedly engaging in race-exclusionary programs in their graduate programs and seven colleges for race-based segregation and using impermissible scholarships.

This makes 52 schools that are trying to return to the dark days when America was separated on the basis of skin color.

Below is the list of colleges engaging in race-exclusionary practices. Note the huge number of state colleges on this list.

  1. Arizona State University-Main Campus
  2. Boise State University
  3. Cal Poly Humboldt
  4. California State University – San Bernardino
  5. Carnegie Mellon University
  6. Clemson University
  7. Cornell University
  8. Duke University
  9. Emory University
  10. George Mason University
  11. Georgetown University
  12. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  13. Montana State University-Bozeman
  14. New York University (NYU)
  15. Rice University
  16. Rutgers University
  17. The Ohio State University-Main Campus
  18. Towson University
  19. Tulane University
  20. University of Arkansas – Fayetteville
  21. University of California – Berkeley
  22. University of Chicago
  23. University of Cincinnati – Main Campus
  24. University of Colorado
  25. University of Delaware
  26. University of Kansas
  27. University of Kentucky
  28. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  29. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
  30. University of Nebraska at Omaha
  31. University of New Mexico – Main Campus
  32. University of North Dakota – Main Campus
  33. University of North Texas – Denton
  34. University of Notre Dame
  35. University of Nevada – Las Vegas
  36. University of Oregon
  37. University of Rhode Island
  38. University of Utah
  39. University of Washington-Seattle
  40. University of Wisconsin-Madison
  41. University of Wyoming
  42. Vanderbilt University
  43. Washington State University
  44. Washington University in St. Louis
  45. Yale University

Here are the seven schools under investigation for allegedly using impermissible race-based scholarships and race-based segregation. The University of Alabama and the University of Minnesota are the most prominent names.

  1. Grand Valley State University
  2. Ithaca College
  3. New England College of Optometry
  4. University of Alabama
  5. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  6. University of South Florida
  7. University of Tulsa School of Medicine

Do you see your college on either list?

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Hillary-Trained Socialists Countrywide

On the day of Donald Trump’s first inauguration in 2017, Hillary Clinton used some of her former staffers and started a nationwide organization to train young socialists to run for positions in state politics, to take those “down ballot races”. To spread communism at the “ground level”. THAT is why we must care.

Her organization is called “Run For Something”, (RFS). RFS solicits, trains, and pays for bringing young progressives (aka, Marxists) into public office. As Wikipedia says,

“Run for Something is a progressive American political organization dedicated to recruiting and supporting young candidates running for down-ballot office. Its mission is to get young progressive candidates from non-traditional backgrounds to run for and win state and local offices, and create a next generation slate of political candidates that will seek higher office” in the years ahead.

I did a deep dig into this years ago, and their training unabashedly includes teaching their young people to lie. A young woman running for Chattanooga TN school board in 2018 had signs all over town claiming that she was a Republican. Fortunately she lost, but she spoke openly about the trained scam, but all units of local governance were not that lucky.

The first year that the young commies were out there running for office, they won over 600 races around the country. They fought against even other Democrats who were considered too “old school Democrat”, i.e., not Leftist enough. Judgeships, School Board seats, city council chairs, and even state legislatures were filled with Hillary’s young Communists.

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