Someday our descendants will laugh with embarrassment at the people today who pore over weather records prepared to proclaim an existential threat from a fraction-of-1-degree rise in the average global temperature over any previous year "on record," that is, unless...
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TGIF: Safety Can Be Hazardous to Our Health
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 27, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Kudos to Glenn Greenwald, a rare leftist voice of sanity on so many issues, for opening his recent article this way: In virtually every realm of public policy, Americans embrace policies which they know will kill people, sometimes large numbers of people. They do so...
Our Fifty Year Inflationary Legacy
by Ron Paul | Aug 25, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
This month marks fifty years since President Richard Nixon closed the “gold window” that had allowed foreign governments to exchange U.S. dollars for gold. Nixon’s action severed the last link between the dollar and gold, transforming the dollar into pure fiat...
TGIF: Thinking about Energy
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 20, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its sixth "assessment report" earlier this month. As usual it generated its share of alarmist headlines. The report is several thousand pages long, and I'm certainly not qualified to digest, much less...
TGIF: How Science Becomes Religion
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 30, 2021 | Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The popular slogan today is "Believe in science." It's often used as a weapon against people who reject not science in principle but rather one or another prominent scientific proposition, whether it be about the COVID-19 vaccine, climate change, nutrition (low-fat...
Get Politics Out of Our Electric Grid
by Cole Lancaster | Mar 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
The recent cold weather and subsequent load shedding events—purposely cutting power to customers in order to prevent a blackout—has brought electricity to the forefront of policy conversations. Much has been written, yet most miss the mark. Unfortunately, almost every...
News Roundup 2/3/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 3, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Biden undoes a late-Trump regulatory move that would have allowed doctors to more easily prescribe Suboxone to treat opioid disorders. [Link] The CDC says it can issue criminal penalties for travelers not wearing masks. [Link] The Pentagon declares climate...
News Roundup 11/12/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 12, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Axios reports Trump will bring on Col. Douglas Macgregor as a senior Pentagon adviser. [Link] Trump’s changes to Pentagon staff could be a part of his effort to withdraw US troops from bases around the world. [Link] Biden announced a 23 member Pentagon landing...
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The Aircraft Carrier is the Crossbow and Chariot of the Modern Age
The US Navy, of course, is desperately trying to get authorization to build more Ford-class carriers. Ironic that they name the carrier after a violence broker famous for being rather clumsy and unable to navigate around. The first of class doesn't work properly: it...
Here’s an Idea
If you can't tell the difference between 2024 America and 1930s Germany, let's not have a conversation, okay?
Meanwhile, Over in Sadist Land
Palestinian baby rescued from dead mother’s womb dies in Gaza hospital
Kyle Anzalone on Judge Nap: US Troops to Ukraine?
Watch Kyle's latest appearance on Judge Napolitano's show 'Judging Freedom.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG37NaExv_0
If Israel’s Apologists Insist ‘From the River to the Sea’ Is Genocidal…
Apologists for Israel’s genocide in Gaza reject freedom for Palestinians and insist on Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish supremacist state.
I Met a Man
Located nearly three hours drive from Adelaide, the property rested in the South-East. The nearest township a good thirty minutes if you pushed your vehicle over dirty unselaed road. It was a job that a mate threw my way, help out some old timers that he knew through...
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