“I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake,…[A]nd if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.”
– Hillary Clinton (2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging the Election, Observer.com, October 28th, 2016)
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The cumulative acceleration of knowledge by specialists that allows us each to consume more and more different things by each producing fewer and fewer, is I submit, the central story of humanity.
– Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist, p. 46
Matt Ridley’s books have sold over a million copies, been translated into 31 languages and won several awards. His books include The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, Genome, Nature via Nurture, Francis Crick, The Rational Optimist, The Evolution of Everything, and How Innovation Works. He writes a weekly column in The Times (London) and writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal. As Viscount Ridley, he was elected to the House of Lords in February 2013. He served on the science and technology select committee 2014-2017.
Books discussed:
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
How Innovation Works and Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
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“Discrimination,” in the sense of choosing favorably or unfavorably in accordance with whatever criteria a person may employ, is an integral part of freedom of choice, and hence of a free society. But of course in the free market any such discrimination is costly, and will have to be paid for by the property owner concerned.
Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D., For a New Liberty, p. 255
Wilfred Reilly, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University.
Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About by Wilfred Reilly
Wilfred Reilly on Twitter
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Of course, if you own nothing, who will own everything? It will be “the state.” That is communism, a system that has murdered many tens of millions.
– James Perloff, Will Psychopaths Control the Future?
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The human tragedy reaches its climax in the fact that after all the exertions and sacrifices of hundreds of millions of people and the victories of the Righteous Cause we have still not found Peace or Security, and that we lie in the grip of even worse perils than those we have surmounted.
Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm (March 1948) p. xiv
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On one occasion in the 1960s when abortion was still illegal, I witnessed, while visiting a surgical suite as an OB/GYN resident, the abortion of a fetus that weighed approximately two pounds. It was placed in a bucket, crying and struggling to breathe, and the medical personnel pretended not to notice. Soon the crying stopped. This harrowing event forced me to think more seriously about this important issue. That same day in the OB suite, an early delivery occurred and the infant born was only slightly larger than the one that was just aborted. But in this room everybody did everything conceivable to save this child’s life. My conclusion that day was that we were overstepping the bounds of morality by picking and choosing who should live and who should die. These were human lives.
There was no consistent moral basis to the value of life under these circumstances. Some people believe that being pro-choice is being on the side of freedom. I’ve never understood how an act of violence, killing a human being, albeit a small one in a special place, is portrayed as a precious right.
Dr. Ron Paul, Liberty Defined: The 50 Urgent Issues That Affect Our Freedom
Kerry Baldwin is an independent researcher and writer with a B.A. in Philosophy from Arizona State University.
Kerry Baldwin’s Website: https://mereliberty.com/
Book discussed: https://libertarianchristians.com/faith-seeking-freedom/
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On one occasion in the 1960s when abortion was still illegal, I witnessed, while visiting a surgical suite as an OB/GYN resident, the abortion of a fetus that weighed approximately two pounds. It was placed in a bucket, crying and struggling to breathe, and the medical personnel pretended not to notice. Soon the crying stopped. This harrowing event forced me to think more seriously about this important issue. That same day in the OB suite, an early delivery occurred and the infant born was only slightly larger than the one that was just aborted. But in this room everybody did everything conceivable to save this child’s life. My conclusion that day was that we were overstepping the bounds of morality by picking and choosing who should live and who should die. These were human lives.
There was no consistent moral basis to the value of life under these circumstances. Some people believe that being pro-choice is being on the side of freedom. I’ve never understood how an act of violence, killing a human being, albeit a small one in a special place, is portrayed as a precious right.
Dr. Ron Paul, Liberty Defined: The 50 Urgent Issues That Affect Our Freedom
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The MORAL LAW causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Andrew Pierce is the author of the AntiTax Strategy and the Theory of Archotropism. Follow Andrew Pierce on Twitter and SubscribeStar.
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