So, MoveOn.org, the liberal and very-tied to the Democratic Party pressure group, took the huge step today of asking the Dem presidential candidates to boycott the upcoming AIPAC meeting in DC.
So they agreed: Warren, Harris, Sanders, O’Rourke, Schultz are all skipping the thing.
This is historic. And it also portends a wonderful, terrible fight in the upcoming primary season.
Not that I’m predicting real change. But at least a good fight about it finally.
I think your Technopoly has finally arrived.
Read Lew all about it here: https://mises.org/library/lost-fifth-volume-conceived-liberty
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One of those subjects that is a constant divider in libertarian circles is abortion. Dave Smith talked about it recently and people started asking me questions about how I view it. I don’t think I have any original arguments on the subject so I found someone who did.
Kerry Baldwin is the host of the Dare to Think Podcast and truly blew my mind with her take on the subject. Especially since I think she destroys the “Eviction” teaching on the subject.
How the Prolife Movement is Aborting a Prolife Era
The Christian Feminist View of Abortion
Libertarianism, Abortion, and Fetal Self-Ownership (1 of 2)
Libertarianism, Abortion, and Fetal Self-Ownership (2 of 2)
And also my internet works again.
Sorry about the absence. It’s all nobody’s fault.
Also the Scott Horton Show podcast feed here at the Institute has been canceled by iTunes, I guess because it was the same as the one on scotthorton.org. So please go sign up there if you want to hear the new interviews. Another few weeks and I’ll be at 5,000.
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I asked Vin Armani to return to the show to talk about a video he released a couple weeks ago in which he talked about ‘The Mandela Effect,’ the ‘Consensus Crisis,’ Social Media attacks on ‘conspiracy theories’ and Bitcoin.
We talk about all of that and look at the ‘Blue Check Mark’ response to Tim Pool’s appearance on Joe Rogan’s Podcast.
Legendary Thrasher editor Jake Phelps is dead. Media doesn’t say how he died. I’ve heard a few different things.
Patrick O’Dell, producer of the great Epicly Later’d documentaries, sends him off for Vice here.
