Since the first assault on Turkey’s finances in 2018, which I wrote about multiple times (here, here, and here), I’ve been the lone voice telling everyone that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a lunatic but he’s a lunatic with a plan. That plan is to de-dollarize the...
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Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network...
Episode 428: Japan Succumbs To The Hysteria w/ Graham Smith
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jun 8, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
50 Minutes PG-13 Graham Smith is an American ex-pat living in Japan who describes himself as an Agorist. Pete asked Graham to come on to talk about Japan's reversal of their CV-19 policy where they have fallen in line with the W.H.O. Graham also talks about using...
Event 201
by Jordan Gambrell | Apr 22, 2020 | Blog
This is some scary, fascist stuff... Remember that time when some of the biggest companies and international government agencies got together to discuss how the coronavirus would lead to a global pandemic, and then systematically decided what the global response...
Q&A Show
by Scott Horton | Apr 16, 2020 | Blog
I talked with an expert about the Coronavirus, and then I talked with Pete about that.
Feds Keep Stealing PPE From Local Hospitals
by Scott Horton | Apr 16, 2020 | Blog
FEMA Accused Of Hijacking Protective Gear For First Responders In Massachusetts Town And tests too: Feds seize coronavirus test kit materials bound for Bellingham hospital and Northwest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4smim2MNvF8
Medicining While Black
by Scott Horton | Apr 15, 2020 | Blog
Watch a cop jack up a doctor for preparing to go out testing homeless people for the Coronavirus. Well, to the cop, he was just another n-- out there causing trouble. Here's a profile of the only hero in this story. Since the cop has full immunity for any crime he...
Florida ER Doctor Loses Custody of Daughter Due to Coronavirus
by Scott Horton | Apr 11, 2020 | Blog
What the hell is this, England? “I was just shocked that the judge would take this stance without talking to medical experts and knowing the facts and take it so lightly, take my child from me and not think of the effect on her, her mental and psychological...
Full Text of Peter Navarro’s Memos on Coronavirus
by Scott Horton | Apr 7, 2020 | Blog
They had all the prior knowledge and advice about how to handle it that they needed way back in January. And did nothing. And here Scott Sumner has a great summary of the government's failings in this crisis.
Plasma From Coronavirus Survivors Helps Severely Ill Patients
by Scott Horton | Apr 7, 2020 | Blog
The Guardian: "Doctors have found tentative evidence that seriously ill coronavirus patients can benefit from infusions of blood plasma collected from people who have recovered from the disease."
Israel Health Minister Who Claimed Coronavirus Was ‘Divine Punishment’ Against Gays Has It
by Scott Horton | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog
Yeah well these things happen.
Laughing Gas Vs. Coronavirus?
by Scott Horton | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog
Sounds fun to me.
Three Pieces Of Legislation That Are Making The Coronavirus Worse
by Steven Woskow | Apr 4, 2020 | Blog
There are 3 pieces of legislation that are making the Coronavirus 10x worse than it ought to be. 1. 1997 Balanced Budget Act: Capped the number of residents and physicians. 2. 2011 Affordable Care Act: Made it illegal for physician ownership of hospitals. 3....
Coronavirus in N.Y.: Toll Soars to Nearly 3,000 as State Pleads for Aid
by Scott Horton | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog
New York Times: "In the 24 hours through 12 a.m. on Friday, 562 people — or one almost every two-and-a-half minutes — died from the virus in New York State, bringing the total death toll to nearly 3,000, double what it was only three days before. In the same period,...
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My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
War and Delusion: A Critical Examination
In this episode of the Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo sits down once again with Laurie Calhoun. Laurie is a philosopher, a cultural critic and an author. She is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, where she regularly writes articles analyzing...
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