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The Santa Clause Mindset

by Keith Knight | Oct 14, 2022 | Blog

What kind of imbecile would believe that everyone can acquire and consume massive amounts of resources for "free"? A child that's who. How can someone say "education should be free"? Are all the teachers unpaid volunteers? Did the construction workers who built the school get compensated? They are lying and insinuating free is synonymous with the government confiscating money then paying for the service on behalf of citizens. As if money printing has no downsides and taxation does not exist. Government pays for the military, is the military free? The goalpost then moves to "well it's free at...

The Biden Administration’s Family Separation Policy

by Keith Knight | Oct 13, 2022 | Blog

While I applaud the arrest of rapists, murders, kidnappers, and looters, Joe Biden's administration has separated children from their parents unjustly. Biden's regime has practiced Truancy Laws which separate children from parents for the crime of parents opposing state indoctrination. Biden's administration has enforced drug laws which separate peaceful parents from their young vulnerable children. If Biden's administration catches parents not chipping in for wars based on lies or welfare schemes they oppose, the IRS will separate children from their parents, ripping a child from the...

Texas Officer Fired After Shooting Teen in McDonald’s Parking Lot

by Keith Knight | Oct 11, 2022 | Blog

Imagine the nerve of someone saying "You'll be safe so long as you do whatever I say. Have a problem? Take it up with my coworkers in 4 months." Of course it's a truism that all interests will align if one party disregards their interest. However with the historical record of government mass murder campaigns, we have no reason to believe blind obedience to the state leads to safety or freedom. Police officers constantly brag about "protecting and serving", yet we "civilians" must blindly obey their edicts or get shot. We have no recognized right to give them orders and arrest them if...

Jacobin Magazine Lies About Ludwig von Mises!

by Keith Knight | Oct 11, 2022 | Featured Articles

Five important criticisms are made of Ludwig von Mises in the recent Jacobin article titled, Ludwig von Mises Was a Free Market Ideologue, Not a Hardheaded Thinker. Mises was an ideologue Mises supported workers "bowing" to capitalist masters Lack of support for universal voting proves Mises was opposed to empiricism Nordic countries and the UK's NHS prove that statism is preferable to free markets Mises supported imperialism For a full refutation see the video linked below, in short: The Misesian ideology can be summarized as: Decriminalize all economic activity between consenting adults....

Trump’s Inexcusable Response to the Arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell

by Keith Knight | Oct 9, 2022 | Blog

On Friday a libertarian mentioned that the age of consent is something reasonable minds can disagree on. The Ignoratti had a field day with this, it apparently never occurred to them that governments across the planet and different states in America have different ages of consent. Accused pedophile Republican Dennis Hastert was Speaker of the House and Donald Trump wished pedophile trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell "luck" after she was arrested. To this day, we are waiting for Trump to clarify and retract the statement. A very glassy house to be throwing stones from. Politics turns the...

Lindsey Graham is a Liar

by Keith Knight | Oct 8, 2022 | Blog

Graham believes the terror war is/was inevitable. The reality: ...we now have the first complete data set of all suicide terrorist attacks around the world from 1980 to 2009,...research on who becomes a suicide terrorist showed that virtually none could be diagnosed as mentally ill, while many were religious and, most striking, nearly all emerged from communities resisting foreign military occupation.... From 1980 to 2003, there were 345 completed suicide terrorist attacks by 524 suicide terrorists who actually killed themselves on a mission to kill others, half of whom are secular. The...

Want Health Care for Everyone? End the Regulatory Regime (feat. Blake Masters)

by Keith Knight | Oct 7, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/Yhcm5pegHPE Some critics of the free market argue that property rights are in conflict with “human” rights. But the critics fail to realize that in a free-market system, every person has a property right over his own person and his own labor, and that he can make free contracts for those services. Slavery violates the basic property right of the slave over his own body and person, a right that is the groundwork for any person’s property rights over nonhuman material objects. What’s more, all rights are human rights, whether it is everyone’s right to free speech or one...

The Squad is Wrong About “Inequality”

by Keith Knight | Oct 7, 2022 | Blog

The rapid economic advance that we have come to expect seems in a large measure to be the result of this inequality and to be impossible without it. Progress at such a fast rate cannot proceed on a uniform front but must take place in echelon fashion... At any stage of this process there will always be many things we already know how to produce but which are still too expensive to provide for more than a few... All the conveniences of a comfortable home, of our means of transportation and communication, of entertainment and enjoyment, we could produce at first only in limited...