“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit451
FH DEMANDS CENSURE AND BOYCOTT … Factual Harassment wants to call your attention to a blatantly racist television commercial by GEICO Insurance. You can watch the basketball themed ad that first aired in 2019 on YouTube, however, please be forewarned that it contains shocking and offensive adult content. FH finds GEICO’s commercial guilty of five …
ENDANGERING INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY … If you haven’t read Ben Shapiro’s new book, The Right Side Of History, we highly recommend it. Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew and conservative political thinker, reminds us that Western civilization and its unique human rights were built upon the twin ideals of Judeo-Christian values and ancient Greek natural law, …
DESPITE 90% NEGATIVE MEDIA COVERAGE … According to the latest Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll released on April 10, 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-seven percent (47%) disapprove. (Rasmussen has the well-deserved reputation as the most accurate pollster, based on being the closest of all major polling organizations in predicting …
WESTERN EUROPEAN MEMBERS MUST SPEND MORE ON DEFENSE AND BECOME SELF RELIANT … As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) celebrates its 70th birthday, we are calling out delinquent and freeloading members of the alliance who are draining the U.S. of valuable resources and jeopardizing NATO’s ability to provide an effective defense against military attack. …
IT’S THE CLEANEST, LOWEST COST & MOST RELIABLE ENERGY SOURCE … For six decades, nuclear energy has provided carbon-free, economical and reliable power to millions of Americans. Nuclear accounts for roughly one fifth or 20% of the total 4,177,810 thousand megawatt hours of electrical power generated annually by all energy sources in the U.S. Natural …
THEY’RE NEEDED TO ADDRESS “EMERGENT SHOOTER LOOPHOLE,” BUT NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF SECOND AMENDMENT AND DUE PROCESS RIGHTS … For FH followers interested in understanding Red Flag Laws (RFLs) or Emergency Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), why we need them, what their impact is on constitutional rights, what position the NRA is taking, and where …
ONE WITH BETTER BALANCE, PROACTIVITY & OUTCOMES … President Trump is threatening to shut down the southern border if Mexico does not immediately halt all illegal immigration into the U.S. As reported in Politico, Trump said: “Mexico is going to have to do something, otherwise I’m closing the border. When you close the border, you …
BY STUDYING SUCCESSFUL UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS IN OTHER DEMOCRACIES … In a January 2019 Pew Research Center poll, 69% of Americans say Health Care should be a top priority for the President and Congress. Americans feel this way because Obamacare has failed. Health care coverage premiums and deductibles have risen through the roof while …
AND TWITTER’S VAGUE RATIONALE DOESN’T MAKE SENSE … It has been nine days since we posted the news that Twitter suspended this blog’s account, @FHarassment. Here are screenshots of the original Twitter suspension notices … Twitter users cannot talk or chat with a live person at Twitter Support. The only avenue for resolving any type …
“RUSSIAGATE IS THIS GENERATION’S WMD” … False intelligence about Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in 2003 and collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign in 2016, legitimized without corroboration by the main stream media, resulted in disastrous and deadly consequences. We encourage you to read Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi’s indictment of the mainstream media …
OR HAS IT LOST ITS MOJO IN 2019? … There has been a lot of news lately about the so-called inverted yield curve and its reputation for predicting recent recessions, so we thought our followers might appreciate a brief tutorial on bond yields and our assessment of their economic forecasting value in 2019. The bond …
AMERICA NEEDS A ‘WIN OR COME HOME’ STRATEGY … To paraphrase John McCain: After 18 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, should the taxpayers of America be satisfied with a stalemate? We don’t think so! Americans naturally expect a better outcome when the cost of those wars — in treasure and blood — has …
IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT … The 2016 presidential election was one of the most controversial because Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hilary Clinton in the decisive electoral college vote, but became only the fifth of 45 presidents elected without winning the popular vote. According to FactCheck.org, the five elected presidents who did …
WHY IS TWITTER SILENCING OUR CONSERVATIVE VOICE? … One of the things we do to expand our audience and disseminate FH content is to tweet replies to other opinions that include a link to a FH posting on the subject. We’ve been doing this since the blog started in September 2018. This morning, Twitter suspended …
DEMS WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES … In late-November 2000, we visited longtime friends in Oakton, Virginia. On Thanksgiving day, they invited us to play in their neighborhood’s annual Turkey Bowl football game. We looked forward to this Fall classic. Dressed in warm sweats and old sneakers, we walked a block in chilly but dry …
THE MISSING BROADCAST OF AG BARR COMMENTS ON TRUMP’S NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARATION … On 15 March 2019, Attorney General Barr told President Trump in the Oval Office that his national emergency declaration was clearly lawful, and exactly what Congress intended when they passed the National Emergencies Act, giving presidents broad discretionary authority to identify and …
SORRY, TRUMP DID CONDEMN RIGHT-WING HATE GROUPS … Ever since the August 2017 violent protest in Charlottesville, Virginia left one woman dead and dozens injured, Democrat politicians and the biased mainstream media have called President Trump a racist, neo-Nazi and white-supremacist, and blamed him for inciting horrible tragedies like the recent massacre of muslim worshipers …
HOW TO STOP FUTURE CHRISTCHURCH MASSACRES … A 28-year-old Australian man identified as Brenton Harrison Tarrant has been accused of killing 50 people at the Al Noor and Linwood Islamic Centre mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on 15 March 2019. Whenever a massacre of innocent human life occurs, our natural coping mechanism is to search for the extraordinary …
THE BLUE STATE REDISTRIBUTION PLAN … The Democratic-Socialists in the 116th United States Congress are right — we have a moral obligation to eliminate or at least reduce income inequality. Plans proposed by Democratic-Socialists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders involve top personal income tax rates of 54% – 70%, plus higher corporate, capital gains …
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TOWARD DEMAND AND AGAINST SUPPLY SIDE THEORY … An excellent editorial opinion in the March 5, 2019 edition of the Wall Street Journal, Tax Reform Unleashed the U.S. Economy, by Phil Gramm and Michael Solon, describes how the Trump tax cuts have driven up economic output and, if the trend continues, should easily pay for …