Just like my parent’s generation knew where they were when JFK was killed or Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, we GenXers remember where we were when the Challenger broke up in its ascent to the heavens and when the Juice was loose – the…
Read More Weller: The Country’s Friday Roundup, April 4th, 2024
On Today’s show, OJ is dead, the DNC is at war with RFK Jr, the error rates of the monthly jobs figures are enormous, and the politicization of the Supreme Court. Justin Weller is the Founder and Editor of The Country and host of the podcast…
Read More The Country: OJ, DNC Is At War With RFK Jr, Jobs, And The Supreme Court
This morning, another positive jobs report came out from the BLS. They’ve reported 303,000 new jobs created in March, the highest initial report since September. Unemployment also went down a tick to 3.8%. The CNBC crowd is doing cartwheels this morning and every one is…
Read More The Ridiculous Error Rates Of The Monthly New Jobs Reports
In the blockbuster movie scene that is NBC News’ attempts to remain a news organization, the hero just lost his last, dying grasp of the cliff’s edge and fell to his death. The gloves are off, and no one there is pretending to embrace objectivity,…
Read More Weller: Does NBC News Have Any Newspeople Left?
A LOT happened this week and we were only able to write about a bit of it. So here comes the roundup! Final thoughts on the Impeachment Hearing and subsequent developments, AOC doesn’t think that RICO is a crime, Blasey Ford is back, Hunter might…
Read More Weller: The Country’s Friday Roundup
Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee continued its hearings for the Impeachment Inquiry of President Joe Biden. Eighteen members of the House had five minutes to ask questions of two of Hunter Biden’s former business partners, Jason Galanis and Tony Babulinski appearing on behalf of the…
Read More Weller: No One Hears Each Other At Hearing
The Big 50! Today, we cover all of the latest happening in Murthy v. Missouri and the Censorship Industrial Complex and review the government’s lack of a case against TikTok. Plus, the bloodbath kerfuffle. Justin Weller is the Founder and Editor of The Country and…
Read More The Country: Bloodbath!, Defund The Speech Police, Ironic Propaganda And TikTok Travesty
When the Bolsheviks (later, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) seized power from the Russian monarchy and installed Vladimir Lenin as their premier, they did so while claiming to champion freedom. Yet one of their first major actions was the Decree on the Press…
Read More Weller: Defund The Speech Police
The Supremes wrestle with government censorship while The NY Times spreads blatant propaganda. John Stuart Mill, the great eighteenth-century philosopher who championed the rational belief in the individual, in opposition to unlimited state and social control, wrote in On Liberty: The only part of conduct of any one,…
Read More Weller: Censorship And Propaganda Abound
In a swift vote with little debate, the House of Representatives voted 352-65 to force TikTok’s Chinese owners (ByteDance, a Chinese internet company) to either divest ownership of the company to US interests or face a complete ban from operations in the United States. The…
Read More Weller: Will TikTok Be Convicted Without Trial?