The Congressional Budget Office is about to release a report. Spoiler alert: It won’t be pretty.
— Read on reason.com/blog/2018/04/09/trillion-dollar-deficits-are-back-and-he

The average man lacks the imagination to realize that the conditions of life and action are in a continual flux. As he sees it, there is no change in the external objects that constitute his well-being. His world view is static and stationary. It mirrors a stagnating environment.
— Read on mises.org/wire/static-mentality

Banksters still breaking the rules with impunity

Feminist Democrat: I’m Politically Homeless | The American Conservative
— Read on www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/feminist-democrat-politically-homeless/

Facebook has been censoring the pro-Trump comedy duo of Diamond and Silk, supposedly out of concern that they are “unsafe to the community,” but more likely because they are two funny and influential black women who strongly support President Trump.
— Read on pjmedia.com/trending/facebook-deplatforms-diamond-silk-theyre-unsafe-community/

The war on free speech is on.

Some of the few budget hawks remaining in Congress will try and make a big deal about it, but they will be whispering in a hurricane.
— Read on pjmedia.com/trending/cbo-projections-will-show-trillion-dollar-deficits-far-eye-can-see/

The American Mind is as Closed as Ever | The American Conservative
— Read on www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-american-mind-is-as-closed-as-ever/

But the fact that favoritism lies at the heart of progressivism makes this Republican administration’s lurch to economic favoritism more troubling. It is perfectly possible for both parties to become largely coalitions of rent-seekers. It has happened in other nations. That development would create a more divided America where classical liberals have no political home.
— Read on fee.org/articles/classical-liberalism-doesnt-play-favorites/

Zuckerberg prepares for congressional testimony about Facebook’s handling of user data.
— Read on patriotpost.us/articles/55234-facebook-congressional-bluster-or-the-real-deal

Iowa is offering some alternatives for citizens priced out of ObamaCare. Leftists hate it.
— Read on patriotpost.us/articles/55219-another-crack-in-the-obamacare-wall

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