The Gospel According to Alex Jones: Fear, Fame, and the Invisible “They”

Alex Jones doesn’t report the news—he baptizes it in panic and sells you iodine tablets afterward. On Tucker Carlson, he was back in the pulpit, bellowing about a Globalist Death Cult fueling the next civil war. You could almost smell the brimstone through the screen. The man could turn a stubbed toe into a government …

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The Engineered Collapse of Free Speech: 25 Years of the Overton Window, Part II

The Engineered Collapse of Free Speech: 25 Years of the Overton Window, is a 3-part series where Dave Cloft examines free speech issues within the Overton Windo paradigm. Today, Part 2, 2001-2025: A Quarter Century of Engineered Shifts

Big Gov Advocates Lobby the Wrong People – and Censor Everyone Else

The Only Way Big Gov Advocates Know It’s always hilarious watching Big Government advocates selectively whine about access to this or that government process. Because they almost always do it exactly backwards. To wit: This just happened: “(T)he (Donald Trump Administration’s) General Services Administration (GSA) quietly removed a tool from Regulations.gov that allows advocacy groups …

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What Is Ground Truth

In younger years I believed the nightly news, newspapers, 60 Minutes, and wire services actually provided the real deal, ground truth news of the day. I knew there was a bias, but I thought the slant was measured by only a few degrees. Nowadays, I don’t know where to get news that even approximates ground truth. Somewhere among the cacophony of voices screaming in cyberspace, there’s reliable information. Real news. Where is it?

The Woke Mind Virus: Cognitive Dissonance and the Rejection of Truth

We’re living in an age where statements once considered common sense are now controversial. To say that men and women are biologically distinct, or that children shouldn’t be exposed to sexually charged material, or that free speech applies to everyone — these used to be unifying ideas. Today, they’re met with outrage, cancellation, or accusations of hate. What changed?

From ‘Science’ to Silence: The COVID Narrative Collapse and the PsyOp We All Lived Through

Once upon a time—say, about four years ago—if you so much as breathed the phrase “lab leak” or dared question the holiness of Dr. Fauci’s ever-changing gospel, you’d be digitally drawn and quartered by Big Tech. YouTube would demonetize you faster than a fact-checker could say “misinformation,” and Facebook’s Ministry of Truth would slap a …

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