Interview by Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe, “Just Asking Questions,” Purpose, February 27, 2025.
Excerpt:
The Division of Homeland Safety…has this idea, you recognize, they name it constructing resilience on the one hand, or pre-bunking on the opposite, which is this concept of introducing a probably controversial or troublesome concept to an viewers early in order that they’ll be extra accepting of it later. So, for example, if it’s often it’s performed in a approach that’s alleged to be prophylactic, such as you warn any person 5 months forward of time that there may very well be, you recognize, Russians may intervene with the election, and that can make folks extra receptive to the concept there’s if you try this story in a while. However typically additionally they prefer to introduce an concept. And that is all about how will we defend folks in opposition to sure sorts of concepts and the way will we conditioned them to simply accept others, like in regards to the vaccine. And both they discuss constructing resilience, which is we would like the the inhabitants to and form of on their very own reject psychologically sure concepts earlier than they’re even posed to them. So there’s lots of signaling that goes on in media…the 60 Minutes [German hate speech] factor felt to me like a basic seeding of a of an concept.
There’s a lot extra there, together with how Google and most different search engines like google and yahoo grew to become a lot much less helpful for individuals who need to know what was really stated and never simply learn some “trusted” reporter’s view.
I not often watch a 1-hour plus interview. This was the exception, partly as a result of I had a foul headache that day and had bother writing. However I’m glad I made the exception. I like to recommend 1.25 time. YMMV.
by Beth Brelje, The Federalist, February 28, 2025.
Excerpts:
Regardless of draconian legal guidelines that punish folks for expressing themselves, United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer lied about his nation’s horrible free speech file throughout a White Home assembly with President Donald Trump on Thursday.
And:
Father Sean Gough, a Catholic priest, was arrested in 2023 for standing silently at a closed abortion enterprise with an indication studying “praying for free speech.” He additionally had an “offensive” bumper sticker, “Unborn lives matter.” He was interrogated by police and criminally charged, in keeping with the Standing for Freedom Heart.
UK pro-life activist Isabel Vaughan-Spruce has been arrested twice for silent prayer outdoors an abortion enterprise.
by Adam N. Michel, Cato at Liberty, February 28, 2025.
Excerpts:
As Republicans work to increase and develop the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) earlier than it expires, politicians will relitigatethe misleading distributional statistics that purport to point out who advantages most from tax cuts. These distribution tables are inherently restricted, usually grossly deceptive, end in distorted coverage outcomes, and make elementary tax reform all however not possible.
And:
The primary two columns in Desk 1 report the Tax Coverage Heart and the Tax Basis’s estimates of the TCJA’s impact on after-tax revenue from the time of passage. This measure tells policymakers if specific teams are made higher off after the modifications. The 2 units of outcomes from the TJCA inform a broadly comparable story: all revenue teams noticed greater after-tax incomes in 2018 following the tax cuts. The primary two measures will not be similar as a result of the underlying fashions use completely different definitions of annual revenue and completely different methodologies for distributing some tax modifications, like the company revenue tax.
The accompanying pic is of Weissmueller, Taibbi, and Wolfe.
