The Supreme Court Gives It All Away In Moore

It's been a long time since these key admissions appeared in a SC ruling, but here they are... Happy Days!

SO, A LOT WENT ON OVER THE LAST TWO WEEKS, providing much grist for the mill. And I'll get to more of it later on in this newsletter.

But the big news for the CtC community (and for every other American who has his or her head screwed on straight) is the Moore decision by the US Supreme Court. In that ruling, the Supremes-- for the first time in a long time, and in no uncertain terms-- affirmed a host of key historical and legal points which most of you first learned here, and which together establish beyond doubt or dispute that everything taught in CtC and here at LHC about the legal nature of the income tax is correct.

I'll present those key acknowledgements in a moment. First, though, let me first make clear that the issue directly addressed in the Moore case-- as understood or characterized by the Court-- is, at most, only a minor and nuanced aspect of the legal nature of the tax (as will be explained in a moment).

A dissent by Clarence Thomas (joined by Neil Gorsuch) tries to make more of the case than the majority are willing to do through a somewhat confused and sketchily-informed re-hash of the somewhat confused and sketchily-reasoned arguments in the 1895 case of Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust upon which the Moores relied ("to tax the fruit-- dividends or rent-- is to tax the tree-- stock or real estate; the tree is personal property; therefore a tax on the fruit is a property tax, thus direct, and thus requiring apportionment"). But theirs is an uphill battle against the majority's insistence on keeping the ruling narrow and dry.

Thomas and Gorsuch's arguments are echoed in a concurring opinion by an equally confused Amy Coney Barrett. But Barrett goes with the majority anyway, based on the technicality of a concession made by the Moores in oral arguments.

IN VERY BRIEF SUMMARY, the Moores argued that an increase in the wealth of a foreign-located company in which they had an ownership interest (and which they reported as "income" on their tax return and remitted a tax thereon, afterward suing for a refund)-- having never been distributed to them as cash or otherwise and thus remaining, as they argued, merely an "unrealized" increase in the value of their asset portfolio-- could not be taxed other than by apportionment. The increased value of the company was, according to the Moores, just an increase in their personal property, from which no "income" had yet been derived.

As the Pollock court would have put it, the Moores had seen their tree get bigger and more fruited, but thus far had picked none of the bounty for severed, personal enjoyment. A tax on fruit still hanging on the tree is a property tax and hence, direct.

The majority of the Supreme Court disagreed. It held that Congress is within its authority, as asserted in Donald Trump's 2017 Mandatory Repatriation Act (MRT)-- and as has long been done under older tax provisions-- to attribute gains at the company level to shareholders and partners and tax accordingly, rather than only apply the tax at the shareholder (or partner) level upon distribution of those gains. Further, as argued by the government and noted by Ketanji Brown Jackson in her concurring opinion, the imposition of the tax in the Moores' case was also valid "as an excise tax on the privilege of doing business through a controlled foreign corporation".

The only real question considered by the majority, then, was whether a company organized like the Moores' could be treated as the particular sort upon which undistributed company assets could be attributed to shareholders. That question was answered in the affirmative.

THE DISSENT BY Thomas (and Gorsuch) argues that what really matters in the case is the "from whatever source derived" language of the Sixteenth Amendment. Thomas and Gorsuch contend that language requires that a gain be severed and put free and clear into the hands of an individual for unfettered enjoyment and disposal in order to be "derived" (and hence qualify as "income" able to be taxed without apportionment). This is unfortunate, indicating that Thomas and Gorsuch, despite being the two brightest lights on the current Court, have let themselves be mentally tangled by the convoluted "reasoning" of the Pollock court.

That older court conveniently overlooked the privilege characteristic of the income excise and of the private profits from the exploitation of public resources which the Cleveland administration was attempting to reach with the revived income tax in the 1890s. In particular, Cleveland was targeting the massive profits from the national railroad ventures begun under the Lincoln administration which had morphed into deeply corrupt and corrupting schemes-- such as the Crédit Mobilier grift-- by which large swaths of government officials were bought off to the benefit of the railroad moguls. Instead, the court resorted to its "taxing the fruit is taxing the tree" nonsense to thwart the application of the tax to the schemes' beneficiaries

OKAY, ALL THAT MURKY WATER has passed under the bridge. Now, let's get to the good stuff.

As noted at the outset, in the course of the court's ruling, attention was turned to a review of the history of the income tax. In its recital, the 7-2 court skewered a number of falsehoods about the tax routinely relied upon by lesser judicial officers and their co-conspirators in tax agencies (and, more shamefully, many "tax professional" outfits), and acknowledged the truths on these matters meant to be concealed by those falsehoods. Taken together, the facts thus acknowledged amount to a contemporary Supreme Court agreement that the income tax is exactly as laid out in detail in CtC.

All the following is from the court's ruling (opinion written by Kavanaugh), with bold emphases added:

Because income taxes are indirect taxes, they are permitted under Article I, §8 without apportionment. As this Court has said, Article I, §8’s grant of taxing power “is exhaustive,” meaning that it could “never” reasonably be “questioned from the” Founding that it included the power “to lay and collect income taxes.” Brushaber, 240 U. S., at 12–13. In 1861, Congress enacted the Nation’s first unapportioned income tax. 12 Stat. 309. The Civil War income tax was recognized as an indirect tax “under the head of excises, duties and imposts.” Brushaber, 240 U. S., at 15; see also Springer v. United States, 102 U. S. 586, 598, 602 (1881).

In 1895, however, in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co., this Court held that a tax on income from property equated to a tax on the property itself, and thus was a direct tax that had to be apportioned among the States. 158 U. S. 601, 627–628. The Pollock decision sparked significant confusion and controversy throughout the United States.

Congress and the States responded to Pollock by approving a new constitutional amendment. Ratified in 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment rejected Pollock’s conflation of (i) income from property and (ii) the property itself. The Amendment provides: “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.” U. S. Const., Amdt. 16 (emphasis added).

Therefore, the Sixteenth Amendment expressly confirmed what had been the understanding of the Constitution before Pollock: Taxes on income—including taxes on income from property—are indirect taxes that need not be apportioned. Brushaber, 240 U. S., at 15, 18. Meanwhile, property taxes remain direct taxes that must be apportioned. See Helvering v. Independent Life Ins. Co., 292 U. S. 371, 378–379 (1934).

So, "income taxes are indirect taxes"; first enacted in 1861 (and then repealed and re-enacted in 1862); and ""recognized as an indirect tax "under the head of excises, duties and imposts"". Further, "the Sixteenth amendment expressly confirmed what had been the understanding of the Constitution before Pollock: Taxes on income ... are indirect taxes that need not be apportioned".

That last portion means that the status of the income tax as indirect has nothing to do with the Sixteenth Amendment. By confirming what had been the understanding of the Constitution before Pollock, the Amendment confirms what had been the understanding of the Constitution before the Amendment itself.

In fine, the amendment neither creates a tax of any kind, nor authorizes an unapportioned or hybrid tax. More pointedly, the Amendment DOES NOT transform the income tax from a direct one into an indirect one, or into a direct tax uniquely excused from the apportionment requirement. (See express rulings from the Supreme Court and other authorities on this point, with an in-depth discussion, here.)

All the Sixteenth Amendment does is overrule the incorrect notions of the Pollock court.

NOW, HOW MANY TIMES have you seen it said (or implied) by some two-legged roadblock (or simple blockhead) that the income tax began in 1913 with the Sixteenth Amendment? Or that the Sixteenth Amendment authorized a direct tax without apportionment?

Both of these bits of bs have been frequently expressed by corrupt tax agencies, courts and "tax professionals" seeking to excuse the administration of the tax from the limitations and implications of its actual status as an excise (which the Supreme Court has expressly held it to be in other rulings) and pretending instead that it can be administered as a capitation sans apportionment (see what that term actually means, here).

Here are a couple of examples of that corruption (taken from the definitive concise presentation of the true nature of the tax found here-- share,  share, share...):

See, for example,

“[T]he income tax is a direct tax,... See Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., 240 U.S. 1, 19, 36 S.Ct. 236, 242, 60 L.Ed. 493 (1916) (the purpose of the Sixteenth Amendment was to take the income tax "out of the class of excises, duties and imposts and place it in the class of direct taxes").” United States v. Francisco, 614 F.2d 617, 619 (8th Cir. 1980)

On the website and in many of the publications produced by the IRS this same false claim is made, as in the example below:

The Law: The courts have both implicitly and explicitly recognized that the Sixteenth Amendment authorizes a non-apportioned direct income tax on United States citizens and that the federal tax laws as applied are valid. In United States v. Collins, 920 F.2d 619, 629 (10th Cir. 1990), cert. denied, 500 U.S. 920 (1991), the court cited Brushaber v. Union Pac. R.R., 240 U.S. 1, 12-19 (1916), and noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized that the "Sixteenth Amendment authorizes a direct nonapportioned tax upon United States citizens throughout the nation." https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/anti-tax-law-evasion-schemes-law-and-arguments-section-iv (last entry on the page)

These false statements of the Brushaber ruling-- which are not, it should be noted, mere "misconstructions" or even disagreements with what the court says, but rather are outright false ascriptions to the Brushaber court of declarations which are not only the exact opposite of what Brushaber says but are what the court expressly says is not true-- have been used to justify applying or enforcing the income tax upon unprivileged earnings (or the activities which produced them). This resort to falsehoods and deception powerfully emphasizes the fact that no actual authority exists for the application of the tax to unprivileged earnings or activities, and that instead such applications are prohibited.*

*It is to be noted that there is actually a compound lie in the IRS assertion. One part is the repeat of the 10th Circuit's falsehood about Brushaber. The other is the incorporation of the expression, "cert. denied" into that deceitful parroting. Contrary to what is mendaciously suggested by that inclusion, the Supreme Court's denial of certiorari is in no way an affirmation of the circuit court's falsehood: "[I]t is elementary, of course, that a denial of a petition for certiorari decides nothing." Hughes Tool Co. v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. 409 U.S. 363, (1973); see also United States et al. v. Carver et al., 260 U.S. 482, (1923) ("The denial of a writ of certiorari imports no expression of opinion upon the merits of the case, as the bar has been told many times.").

IT'S A SHAME that the Moore court didn't run the whole track in its ruling and spill all the beans directly. But as shown, they spilled plenty enough for any vigorous and studious advocate or litigant to slap down (or upside the head) ongoing agency or judicial abuse, or even, perhaps, prior such abuse.

Moore's admissions are also plenty enough to successfully awaken any grown-up who can be button-holed for an hour by an organized presentation (as has just been given by way of this post). So please, people, compose a decent "why you should read this" subject line and intro, and send this article EVERYWHERE.

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Regarding A Few Other Recent Events

...from among the many worthy of comment in our increasingly interesting times.

LAST WEEK SAW "THE DEBATE" between a Donald Trump who largely refused to answer any questions and a Joe Biden who largely was incapable of answering any questions. The win was attributed to Trump, due to Biden's extreme disability, but frankly, I thought the affair was most notable for making starkly obvious that there is rarely even a hint of maturity or gravitas to be found in American politics.

Both candidates lied incessantly. Both blustered incessantly. Neither offered any real policy proposals, relying instead on vague aspirational declarations, at most.

I would have liked to see Trump repeat the promises he made to the Libertarian Nominating Convention in May, which may have been his best political moment ever. I would also have liked to see him deliberately and unashamedly distinguish himself from Biden's destructive pandering to bent special interest groups, thereby demonstrating a recognition that culture matters and Western Civilization is worth protecting.

Instead, we are left to conclude that, as usual, November's election will be just another effort to prevent the more dangerous group from taking (or retaining) power.

All in all, the "debate" display was pretty disheartening.

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SPEAKING OF TRUMP, I have yet to see a single ad for Donald Trump's candidacy here in Michigan-- a key battleground state. I wonder if Trump & team are counting on attitudes toward Joe Biden's age to win Trump the election without having to spend money or stake out positions.

If Trump IS reasoning that the age thing is enough, I think he is making a big mistake. Nobody-- not even hard-core Democrats-- thinks that Joe Biden is setting policy and making decisions in the White House. But Biden's supporters and independent and uncommitted voters alike don't care who's making the decisions. They just care that the decisions they favor are being made and implemented.

If Trump wants to win, he needs to definitively distinguish himself with fairly detailed statements of policy contrary to the Biden status quo, and give voters reason to believe he really means to follow through if elected.

Among other things, and in particular, Trump needs to distinguish himself from Biden's prosecution of war against Russia and his joined-at-the-hip (but subordinate) posture toward Israel. And by definitive and credible statements, not vague nonsense like, "I'd end the Ukraine war on day one!" (unless that statement is followed by the explanation that Trump would stand down on day one and tell Zelenskyy to do so, as well); nor bluster about "defeating Hamas" or intimidating all the populations of both the Middle East and most of the rest of the world bristling with outrage and steadily-increasing militarist posture toward Israel.

I don't expect any of that, though, even if Trump's ads DO start to run. Pity.

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ON A MUCH MORE POSITIVE NOTE, the Supreme Court finally sh*t-canned its prior and despicable "Chevron doctrine". That's the policy under which courts have been deferring to self-serving executive-agency determinations of the meaning and limitations of the laws in the name of which they wield power over the citizenry (and under which Congress has deemed itself excused from actually crafting real legislation).

The ramifications of this way overly-belated back-pedal need a full column to be done justice, and that will have to wait for another time. But this is big and good.

Be happy about this one.

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ANOTHER GOOD RULING from the very busy high court last week was on the cynical application of the "obstructing an official proceeding" charge in regard to Jan. 6, 2021 protestors at the Capitol. The language of the "obstruction offense" (presented below by the Supreme Court in its ruling) plainly doesn't apply to anything done by those protestors:

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 imposes criminal liability on anyone who corruptly “alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding.” 18 U. S. C. §1512(c)(1). The next subsection extends that prohibition to anyone who “otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so.” §1512(c)(2).

If nothing else, the "corruptly" provision excludes the J6 crowd, who had no relationship to the "official proceeding" they have been accused of obstructing, and hence cannot have "obstructed" corruptly even if it could be proven that "obstruction" of any kind was their purpose (itself a pretty heavy lift, when by all evidence of which I am aware, all that any of them sought was a fair consideration of the evidence of election-rigging numerous members of Congress were prepared to present to the whole body prior to a certification vote).

A lot of injustice suffered by a lot of men and women will be mitigated by virtue of this ruling, and some otherwise future injustices will be prevented. One can only hope that punishment of those responsible for this manifestly improper application of the charge will follow, in order to deter such grotesque abuse of office in the future.

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I HAVE ALREADY DONE an email blast last week on the welcome release of Julian Assange from his long and law-defying torment. In that email I celebrated for Julian and his family, but lamented the hole left in the rule of law by Assange being compelled to plead guilty to a fabricated and false crime in order to be spared further and likely fatal abuse.

But having since seen the specifics of Assange's actual plea, I am a bit relieved of that despair. Not because his ordeal no longer stands as stark warning to other journalists tempted to reveal crimes of the United States (and the UK)-- it does, sadly.

However, in his "acceptance of responsibility" Assange at least mitigated the facial damage imposed on his integrity by the coerced plea.

Responding to the judge's question of what he had done to violate the law, Assange said: “Working as a journalist, I encouraged my source to provide information that was said to be classified. I believed the First Amendment protected that activity, but I accept that it was a violation of the espionage statute.” He then added: “The First Amendment was in contradiction with the Espionage Act, but I accept that it would be difficult to win such a case given all these circumstances.”

Good job, Julian, under the circumstances (although what you did was NOT a violation of the Espionage Act, even on its own terms-- see this and read it through, people, please!).

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FINALLY, BIRD FLU!!!

Run for your lives!!!

Before you run too far, though, since the possibility of another plandemic certainly does seem to lie just over the horizon right now, please review and share the debunk of "emergency power" authority you will find here.

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Tools For Leveraging The CtC Superpower

You've got magic in your hands, if you will use it...

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The Income Tax Law, In Seven Pages

Really.

HERE IS THE LAW, IN 7 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW THE SCHEME WORKS, IN 8 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW TO OVERCOME THE SCHEME AND ENFORCE THE LAW, IN 256 PAGES.

Share these all, everywhere you can. Be your most creative self in sending and "selling" these links. Do memes; make gifs; respond to everything in the news that would be or have been better had the state been small, or if Americans kept their money for their own uses.

If you pay attention to the news and train yourself to apply these perspectives, you will see a dozen things of which you can make use in awakening other Americans to the virtues of having the income tax correctly administered. Please, for my sake, for your own sake, for the sake of your children and their future, make that use.

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Not Letting This "Crisis" Go To Waste...

...an important action item opportunity.

FRIENDS, THE SPORADIC EASINGS of the despotic measures to which most of the country has been subjected under since the onset of the COVID-19 hobgoblin narrative should not be allowed to bleed off the head of steam you probably had been developing. The offenses happened, and they're far from over. Stay hot.

And while you are all warmed up, and while others, if they're smart, are just as hot, I'd like you to send an email (and Facebook post, or whatever) with the following content to everyone you can (with a request that they pass it along, in turn):

[Name], since March of 2020 you've watched as over-fed state power has been used to literally destroy classical Western civilization and impose a new despotic paradigm. No dissent or debate permitted-- no permission or agreement sought.

YOU KNOW where this will end up if the arrogant state power being used to make this happen isn't radically diminished in size, influence, resources and popular support, and exposed as an opportunistic exploiter of legal ignorance (an ignorance which it has been nurturing in the average mind for decades).

Those things having not yet happened, you should be quaking in your boots-- and you probably are.

Isn't it time-- and past time-- for you to begin helping to make those desperately-needed defensive changes take place? There is only one way these things can happen short of a who-knows-what we'll-end-up-with explosion of violence. I'm going to show it to you.

Read this little two-page document. Click on the links at the end.

When you're done with that reading, you'll know what to do next.

BTW, REMEMBER, ALSO, THAT EVERY AMERICAN has lately been given a stark lesson in the fact that government officials at all levels will lie to you and violate the law without batting an eye. They will do so any time it serves their agenda, and you don't call them out for it.

If you know anyone who has been persisting in denial on the truth about the income tax, you know such nonsense is usually be grounded in some version or another of, "That can't be true..." or "They would never do something like that...". Now's the time to put a pin in that delusional bubble.

As the C19 hoax has starkly shown, "that" certainly CAN be true, and they certainly WOULD do something like that.

Use this evidence in all your outreach efforts.

"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

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Regarding Trolleries

(Deceitful efforts to discourage Americans from learning the truth about the "income tax")

FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE 2003 when CtC was first published, the government has engaged in a concerted effort to frighten people away from its truths. This effort involves official government websites and press releases touting an occasional court ruling that appears to be at odds with some CtC-revelation (but without details sufficient to expose the real substance of the ruling)-- and sometimes even more mendacious behavior.

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Are the presentations and resources offered on this site and in my other work of any value to you?

Tim Kendrick has posted a video on YouTube regarding donations. I didn't know what to do about it to begin with; I don't do what I do intending for anyone to feel obligated in any way.

But of course, no one IS obligated. I will continue to make my work freely-available here, and in my books for only the cost of a cheap paperback.

Thus, even though I post it here below, Tim's very thoughtful personal resolution and encouragement to others is just an invitation for consideration by those who may not be conscious of the fact that I can't do what I do without support. No one is to feel any pressure from it; if it moves anyone to act let it be solely because it seems right.

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How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community

It's simple:

KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES

BE FAMILIAR WITH THE SCAMS, THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS, AND THE TROLL-POLLUTION

TAKE CHARGE IN YOUR STATE FORUM, HELPING EVERYONE TO THINK CLEARLY AND STAY ON TOPIC

All-in-all, just be the sort of person for others that you would go to yourself for trustworthy leadership.

Leadership is a challenge. But it's not complicated, and you can do it.

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Are You Having Trouble Spreading The Word?

SKEPTICISM (SOMETIMES INVOKED BY FEAR) IS TO BE EXPECTED when you're trying to explain to someone that everything they've been encouraged their whole lives to believe about something as entrenched and significant as the income tax is basically nonsense. So here's a way to help cut through the resistance:

Ask your listener how he or she would react if you were to show an announcement from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue admitting that the tax doesn't apply to the earnings of most Americans and is misapplied most of the time because people don't understand how it works? Or how about if you showed a ruling from the Supreme Court saying the same?

Now you just have to explain that you're going to show exactly those things-- but because the state really doesn't want people to know this, these things haven't been said quite as forthrightly as we would all wish. It's going to take a bit more work to take these admissions in than is sufficient for just reading a press release. But it'll be worth the effort...

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The Liberating Truth About The 16th Amendment

IF YOU'RE NOT SPREADING THIS LINK with every bit of energy you can, to school libraries, homeschool families and community groups, your neighbors, your family members, your pastors and co-congregationalists, journalists, lawyers, CPAs, members of congress, tax-agency workers, Wikipedia, Anonymous, WikiLeaks, the Tax Foundation, everyone in the "tax honesty" movement, the 9/11 truth movement, other activist movements and everyone else, you have only yourself to blame for your troubles with the tax, and a whole lot else of which you might complain. It's on you.

WRITE A NICE, FRIENDLY AND BRIEF introductory note explaining what will be seen at the link-- cryptic is bad; excited is good-- and then send this WMI (weapon of mass instruction) far and wide.

Remember: Real Americans don't accommodate fog, lies and a sliding scale of adherence to the rule of law. Real American men and women stand up for the truth and the law, come what may, knowing that it is only by setting the bar at the top and enforcing it, come what may, that liberties are secured.

"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

-Thomas Paine

OUTREACH!!!

JOB ONE, PEOPLE!!! SPREAD. THE. WORD.

ONLY ONE THING WILL WIN YOU YOUR LIBERTY: Spreading the truth. Accordingly, I've assembled outreach resources into a new, dedicated page. Find it here, and please, USE THESE TOOLS!! I can't do this all by myself.

"In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

-George Orwell

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Other Voices (followed by an important afterword)

How Did A Small Group Do This?

by Jeffrey A. Tucker

A very interesting study appeared last week by two researchers looking into the pandemic policy response around the world. They are Drs. Eran Bendavid and Chirag Patel of Stanford and Harvard, respectively. Their ambition was straightforward. They wanted to examine the effects of government policy on the virus.

In this ambition, after all, researchers have access to an unprecedented amount of information. We have global data on strategies and stringencies. We have global data on infections and mortality. We can look at it all according to the timeline. We have precise dating of stay-at-home orders, business closures, meeting bans, masking, and every other physical intervention you can imagine.

The researchers merely wanted to track what worked and what did not, as a way of informing future responses to viral outbreaks so that public health can learn lessons and do better next time. They presumed from the outset they would discover that at least some mitigation tactics achieved the aim.

It is hardly the first such study. I’ve seen dozens of such efforts, and there are probably hundreds or thousands of these. The data is like catnip to anyone in this field who is empirically minded. So far, not even one empirical examination has shown any effect of anything but that seems like a hard conclusion to swallow. So these two decided to take a look for themselves.

They even went to the next step. They assembled and reassembled all existing data in every conceivable way, running fully 100,000 possible combinations of tests that all future researchers could run. They found some correlations in some policies but the problem is that every time they found one, they found another instance in which the reverse seemed to be true.

You cannot infer causation if the effects are not stable.

After vast data manipulation and looking at every conceivable policy and outcome, the researchers reluctantly come to an incredible conclusion. They conclude that nothing that governments did had any effect. There was only cost, no benefit. Everywhere in the world.

Please just let that sink in.

The policy response destroyed countless millions of small businesses, ruined a generation in learning losses, spread ill health with substance abuse, wrecked churches that could not hold holiday services, decimated arts and cultural institutions, broke trade, unleashed inflation that is nowhere near done with us yet, provoked new forms of online censorship, built government power in a way without precedent, led to new levels of surveillance, spread vaccine injury and death, and otherwise shattered liberties and laws the world over, not to mention leading to frightening levels of political instability.

And for what?

Apparently, it was all for nought.

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...and then proceed to the afterword below...

Afterword

TOWARDS THE END OF HIS OBSERVATION, Tucker asks;

When will the whole truth emerge? It could be decades from now but we already know this much for sure. Nothing we were promised about the great mitigation efforts by governments turned out to achieve anything remotely what they promised. And yet even now, the World Health Organization continues to uphold such interventions as the only way forward.

Good question and comment, but especially the last line, as the "bird flu" (H5N1) is taking position to be this election cycle's mail-in ballot pretext, and/or this year's whipped-dog-syndrome reinforcement exercise for a Western Civ population that might otherwise recover so completely from the 2020 exercise as to start saying, "NO!" en masse, and to mean it.

I encourage everyone to work HARD on that recovery. There is not enough being written or spoken about on this issue, largely because the usual ploy of distraction-overload is strongly at work and is having its usual effect.

IN MY SECOND ARTICLE of this edition, I comment very briefly about the H5N1 rollout, mostly just to direct attention to the highly-important piece I wrote parsing out the truth about the so-called "emergency powers" claimed by despots once something like a pandemic has been declared and flogged a bit by the complicit MSM. Let me do so again, here.

That piece is simple, clear, and far-reaching. It REALLY NEEDS a wide airing, which can only happen by virtue of YOU sending the link around with as compelling a subject line or brief intro as you can provide in front of it.

This is a simple ask, especially if you take the time yourself to read (or reread) the paper and remind yourself of its simplicity and its significance.

Please put in this small effort.

The liberty you save may be your own.

P.S. DO YOU WANT THIS ARTICLE to make a difference? It only will do so if YOU PASS IT ON TO OTHERS. Please do that.

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A Little Extra

EVEN AS ARDENT A STATIST as Abraham Lincoln, in announcing his willingness to burn the Southern states to the ground in order to keep them paying the tariff for the benefit of Northern interests in his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, paid at least lip service to the Founders design of leaving control over the fuel available to feed the fires Washington wants to light in the hands of the individual citizenry when he said, "Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means..."

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Lawyers: It's Way Past Time For You All To Queue Up!

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-John O'Neil Green, JD

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Are You Ready For More Power?

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And don't miss:

Was Grandpa Really a Moron

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Learn The Liberating Truth About The Tax

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Do you know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?

I mean someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated, far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?

Do you know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (sixteenth) edition of CtC!

Selected Features From Recent Editions:

A new video resource:

The Income Tax Is An Excise Tax, And Excise Taxes Are Privilege Taxes

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The video above is meant to make this unnecessary, but in the meantime...

Dealing With A Little Tax Agency Corruption

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Among other thoughts on current events, including the still-persistent MSM denial of election-rigging in 2020,

Does Everyone Know That Nuclear-Armed Russian Subs Have Taken Up Positions Off The US Coast?

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Israel And War Crimes

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Never needed more than now:

One Of The Best And Most Important Speeches I've Heard In A Long Time

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In an otherwise pretty dark time, let's enjoy some

Victories With Which To Warm The Heart

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Among other thoughts on current events, including the Trump trial and verdict,

From Ron Paul To RuPaul

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Gloat While You Still Can

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Among other thoughts on current events,

An Important Message To The Christian Community

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The Distortion Of Campus Protests Over Gaza

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Among other thoughts on current events,

Support For Israel Is Giving Christianity A Bad Name

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The FBI and CIA Are Enemies of the American People

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Since the Swamp isn't able to discipline itself voluntarily in accordance with George Washington's wisdom,

It's Time For A New Law

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Further...

It's Time To Demand The Courts Show Respect For The Fourth Amendment

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Would Israel Go Nuclear Against Iran?

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Back in the saddle after my extended hiatus, I am pleased to start with:

A Couple Of Notable New Victories

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I must share a few more thoughts on current events, since...

The Dangerous Craziness Continues

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Can Ukraine and Gaza be Saved?

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Apologetically,

So, It's Been A While Since I Last Posted...

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Of Course We Should Mock The State

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Amongst comments on other current topics...

A Prescription Against Today's Dangerous "DEI" Infection

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Yemen Strikes: Biden Knows Only Congress Can Declare War

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A couple of recent wins over the obnoxious "partial refund" ploy means...

Ending The Year With A Nice Christmas Present

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Though I rather would do so, it would be irresponsible to speak of anything but the madness in the Middle East...

A Few Final Thoughts (For This Year) On Current Events

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

How Haley's Hawks Brought Carnage To Ukraine

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Though I rather would do so, it would be irresponsible to speak of anything but the madness in the Middle East...

Israel: It Gets Worse And Worse

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Uncle Sam Doesn't Have One Thin Dime For Joe Biden's $106 Billion War Package

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With a heavy heart, I find myself compelled to say:

Good-Bye, Ron DeSantis

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The US Empire's PR Crisis in Gaza

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In the interests of inspiration and encouragement when Leviathan needs shrinking more than ever before...

It's Time To Share More Victories

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Although it is a subject so polluted by mis- and dis-information that I hate to even think about it, I feel compelled to offer...

A Few Comments On Israel And Hamas

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Government Evades The Constitution

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Continuing with my Twentieth Anniversary celebration, I offer:

Another Code-Cracking Freebie

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Re: cancel culture crimes; Newsom's "trans" admission; and selected observations from the debate...

A Few Comments On Current Events

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Blobitis

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As the assault upon it continues unabated, I offer:

A Word To Its Critics From Western Civilization

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A few weapons for fighting on behalf of Western civilization, including...

A Legislative Model For Dealing With The "Trans" Infestation

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

How To Start The Final World War

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It's the twentieth anniversary of the book's publication, and now it's time for:

CtC Online

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For the benefit of everyone in this community, I ask you all to participate in:

An Important Action Item

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Contemplating Russia's ban on destructive "trans" nonsense; a path to redemption for Disney; 'Oppenheimer'; and a little legal red meat, I have...

A Few More Thoughts On Selected Timely Topics

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Discarding Illusions, Ending Wars

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Out from beneath their concealing bushels, we have:

Some Bright Candles With Which To Illuminate The World

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Contemplating "national security" secrets; the need to call things by their right names: Section 230; and other matters, I have...

A Few More Thoughts On Selected Timely Topics

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The Criminalization Of Dissent (Revisited)

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Pay attention, people!

It's Declaration Day

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A brief touch upon some of the many things that could be said...

On The 60th Anniversary Of The Deep State's Dark Awakening

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The Cancer Of The National-Security State

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The lesson to learn from...

Why Tucker Carlson Got Fired

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

That Annoying W-2 Form

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To the counter-productive benefit of the war-mongers,

Even Well-Intentioned Commentators Persist In Getting The Ukraine Story Wrong

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While continuing to sit on the front porch and watch the world go by, I've had...

A Few More Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Memorial Service

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Recent revelations pose a serious challenge to American grown-ups:

The FBI Is Clearly Dirty And Rogue... What Are You Going To Do About It?

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While continuing to sit on the front porch and watch the world go by, I've had...

A Few More Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The Impending Thermidor Reaction In Jacobin America

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More early educated filers have emerged, so...

Let's Enjoy A Few More Recent Victories, And An Excellent New Video

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While continuing to sit on the front porch and watch the world go by, I've had...

A Few More Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

There Is Cosmic Wisdom In This Simple Question

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Thanks to an early educated filer, even before "tax day" I can announce:

The First Victories For 2022 Are Posted

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While sitting on the front porch and watching the world go by, I've had...

A Few Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Nothing To Bragg About

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Mass murder in Nashville raises this disquieting question:

Do We Have More Time Bombs Walking Among Us?

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Democracy dies amid a din of state propaganda and narrative management. Hence,

America Needs A New Law

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

This Has Got To Stop

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So...

It's A Girl!! (Along With Other Good Things To Celebrate)

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The Campaign Speech That Brandon Should Have Given

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You'll want to sit down for this one, and then afterward, stand up.

The Ugly Face Of Gender Confusion Disorder

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"Social distancing" originated as a middle-school science project. There's another such juvenile notion being enthusiastically promoted...

A Few Words About "Chatbots", And AI In General

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Guns: When "Constitutional Carry" Isn't

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On a proper reading of the civil rights laws,

If Any Discrimination Is To Be Illegal, Ideological Discrimination Surely Qualifies

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It's time the grown-ups go on offense and get America on the path to...

Recovering From The Madness

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

This Time It's Different

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As this year's "tax season" commences...

A Few Words About Corruption And American Civic Responsibility

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A bad idea born of ignorance has once again reared its ugly head.

Regarding The So-Called "Fair Tax"

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The issue of Kamala Harris's qualification for office is becoming very important, because...

It Looks Like Joe Biden Might Be Getting The Hook

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

DeSantis Hammers NHL Over Discriminatory Job Posting

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The folks who have been using it to disenfranchise and manipulate us think so, but what about you?

Do You Think The FBI Deserves A New HQ?

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Biden's Latest JFK Document Dump Is A JOKE

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It's still a proper season in which to report:

Nice Victories By CtC-Educated Americans

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With winter coming on, it's a good time to remember:

The Biggest Snow-Job In History

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Americans Dumbed Down on Russia

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It's a proper season in which to report:

A Nice Victory In Tax Court

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The assault on liberty and the rule of law continues apace...

A Few Observations On Current Events

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The Road To Totalitarianism (Revisited)

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Two new entries in the Site Map Legal Resources section:

Responding To Tax Agency "Proposals"

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Republicans And The Growth Of Government

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Complications Of The Ukraine War' and 'The Authorities Are Our Enemies'

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As Americans prepare to go to the polls...

It's A Good Time To Share Some More Victories

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The madness continues, and worsens:

Again, On The Situation In Ukraine

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Slouching Toward Endgame

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Among other clarifications and corrections,

What Pro-Lifers Mean By "No Exceptions For The Life Of The Mother"

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The madness continues, and worsens:

On The Situation In Ukraine And The Nordstream Sabotage

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Though only responsible themselves for one of two crimes being committed,

Aliens Wandering Around Texas ARE Illegals, Judge Napolitano

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"Trans care" crimes; mislabeling abortion; "identity politics"; and so-called "emergency powers"...

More Comments And Observations, In Brief

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Uncle Sam's Long Trail Of Wreckage

Because they seem necessary:

Cognitive Inoculations Against Selected Misunderstandings, Misinformation And Madness

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Global Uprising

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Humbly offered:

A Legislative Agenda For The Protection Of America's Kids And Culture

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A few comments on crickets, lesser meal worms, and the like, along with some great...

Pictures Worth A Thousand Words

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Mike Pompeo and CIA Sued for Illegal Surveillance of Assange's Visitors

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It may seem strange to hear this, but,

A "Right To Abortion" Is NOT A "Right To Kill An Unborn Child" (Or Fetus, Or Whatever Label You Prefer...)

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With all the darkness out there it's a good time to lighten things up, so...

Let's Celebrate Some Victories By The Good Guys!

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

White Slaves And Other Inconvenient Historical Facts

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It's about time...

A Welcome IRS Admission Debunking The "ARG44" Hoax

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Selected observations on current topics, starting with:

What The Evidence Suggests Is REALLY Going On In Washington, And Why

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This is not mere rhetoric:

What A REAL "Existential Threat" Looks Like

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Regarding the inherent anti-Americanism of EVs and the illegality of "preferred pronoun" punishments,

A Couple Of Quick Comments

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

How Sex Became Gender

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Sharing interesting information about a few things, including:

Key Facts About "Fossil Fuels"; A Miracle Medical Treatment; More...

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Purveyors of gender confusion have succeeded in a disturbing imposition of,

Life Imitating Art

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Going To War For Globalism

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As I celebrate more real American heroes, I have to ask,

How Many Times Does This Have To Be Said?

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The Founders understood, and we should, too:

Why Americans Need Weapons Of War

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See Prior Editions In Their Entirety:

Newsletter Archives

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Get All Newsletters As They Are Published:

Newsletter Delivery Options

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Btw, a copy of CtC from anywhere except the link above may not be a current edition. CHECK. It matters. Also, there ARE no e-book, Kindle or .pdf versions of CtC. Don't get taken in by efforts to sell you-- or even give you for free-- any such thing.

Get The Short, Easy Intro To The Liberating Truth About The Tax

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A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud

You NEED to defend yourself and your kids against this now-high-inertia effort to destroy liberty.

Watch this fascinating 12 minute video on how climate data are misrepresented.

Then share this link with everyone you can

H/T to Jonesy for circulating this fun little meme and video link.

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Which Storm Is It Going To Be For You? 1776's? Or 1984's?

Choose wisely and well, and may the FOURCE be with you.

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No one can guarantee success in all they do in life. But anyone can guarantee that they DESERVE success in anything they do.

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Rick Van Camp's Excellent Outreach Letter

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Notes And Tips For Educated Filers

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A Two-Minute Review Of CtC

David Bindel reminds us that there's either the rule of law, or there isn't.

HEY! SAYING IT AGAIN!! DON'T YOU WISH YOUR INSPIRING BEING-THE-STORM VIDEO was posted? This is easy to do, and very important (plus it can get you some great LHC swag!). See (and carefully read) these guidelines and encouragements.

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Eric Copenhaver With A Great Video Testimonial

SEE MORE GREAT VIDEOS.

Learn how (and why) to share YOUR testimony, here.

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The Best Response To Tax Agency Bad Behavior

This simple step will make a world of difference in how things end up.

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IRS Desperation Gets Truly Bizarre As CtC Warriors Continue To March Forward

A "Notice of Deficiency" for... $0. The most imaginative writer in Hollywood couldn't dream this stuff up.

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JFK conspiracy? No problem... Income Tax conspiracy? C'mon, man, don't be silly! How could that ever happen?!

Cognitive dissonance in action.

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Do You Know Who Pays For All That "Patriot Theater" At The Stadium?

Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all just statist consent-engineering propaganda.

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The 'Watching the Watchmen Amendment'

If you're not talking this one up everywhere and helping generate a buzz, you don't really want liberty and the rule of law...

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Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free' commentaries?

Set Your Church Free

Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's ministerial community. This must change.

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You're a passenger on a riverboat that relies on regular contributions of fuel from the passengers to keep moving forward. You see an unsurvivable waterfall ahead, and note a soon-to-be-irresistible current growing stronger each day. What does common sense suggest?

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Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

CtC Warrior SanDiegoScott has put together a great little 20-question quiz to test your knowledge of the law regarding the United States "income" tax. Test yourself, test your friends and family! Test your accountant and tax attorney, and help them learn the liberating truth!!

Click here to take the test

Click here for more Tax IQ tests

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"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

-James Madison

How About You?

Are You Governing Yourself?

Get The Knowledge, Reclaim Your Power, And Stand With The Founders

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There is little more important to the long-term health of America than how our children are educated...

HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS!

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Some Observations Regarding Educated And Accurate Filing

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IGNORANCE TAX: An unnecessary income tax exaction suffered out of ignorance as to lawful objects of the tax and the means of its application by someone too lazy, frightened or misled to learn how it really works and to what it really applies.

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"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

The Choice Is This Stark

Wear this new T-Shirt proudly, and tell the enemies of the law that if they don't like Constitutional limits, they should find someplace else to live!

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'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant "Rule of Law defiers"...)

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The willingness of some people to trade liberty for convenience is without limit...

Regarding "Tax Reform"

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