"Umm, umm, ummm! I'm telling on you! I'm gonna get you in trouble!" - Nickie and Melissa, Mrs. Tuttle's kindergarten class, 1981. Now look here, I think everyone who can possibly stay at home to try to "flatten the curve" and short-circuit this novel coronavirus, the...
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US Navy Evacuating Aircraft Carrier Infected by Coronavirus
by Scott Horton | Mar 31, 2020 | Blog
ABANDON SHIP! While you're at it: abandon the empire.
Free Ross!
by Scott Horton | Mar 27, 2020 | Blog
Trump administration to federal prisons: Increase home confinement for inmates to slow coronavirus spread
Doctors In Italy: We No Longer Help Those Over 60
by Steven Woskow | Mar 22, 2020 | Blog
This is why people that work in U.S. health care are trying so hard to keep the number of cases down. When medical systems become overwhelmed, they have to make heartbreaking decisions about who lives and who dies. "As his department receives coronavirus patients who...
Year Zero 103: Shortages and Distribution with Gord
by Tommy Salmons | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog, Year Zero
Tommy invited fellow truck driver, Gord, on to discuss panic buying, shortages, and obstacles truckers are facing in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic.
US Coronavirus Cases Surpass 10,000, Doubling in Two Days
by Scott Horton | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog
CNBC: "The number of actual cases in the country is likely significantly higher, state and local officials say. Testing in the U.S. has been hampered by delays and a restrictive diagnostic criteria that limited who could get tested. "On March 1, there were roughly 100...
Bank Run!
by Scott Horton | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog
CNN: Do NOT take a bunch of cash out of the bank because of coronavirus Pretty sure you just talked me into it.
The Coming Coronavirus Critical-Care Emergency
by Scott Horton | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog
A New Yorker reporter has been talking to authors of studies about numbers of ICU beds available around the U.S. There will almost certainly be chaos and triage in hospitals around the country.
Coronavirus Doctor Says Lung Scans For Young Patients ‘Nothing Short of Terrifying’
by Scott Horton | Mar 17, 2020 | Blog
From the NY Post: A Belgian doctor working to battle the coronavirus says he’s treated several seriously ill young patients — and their lung scans were “nothing short of terrifying,” according to reports. Dr. Ignace Demeyer, who works at a hospital in Aalst, said an...
Year Zero 102: Coronavirus; The Panic and The Pandemic
by Tommy Salmons | Mar 16, 2020 | Blog, Year Zero
Tommy takes a jab at easing fears surrounding the Coronavirus and tries to explain why the panic is worse than the virus itself.
The Great Bonnie Kristian on Coronavirus
by Scott Horton | Mar 13, 2020 | Blog
Specifically, The Great Bonnie Kristian on libertarians on Coronavirus.
Troops in Afghanistan Have Coronavirus Symptoms but No Tests, Congressman Says
by Scott Horton | Mar 13, 2020 | Blog
They don't have the flu, and they're near Iran and a local village where people have been diagnosed with it, so there's reason to think maybe.
The Good News
by Scott Horton | Mar 10, 2020 | Blog
The WSJ says that China and South Korea seem to have already peaked in their Corona virus outbreaks. It seems it never did break out in Shanghai. But apparently only due to totalitarian travel restrictions and Orwellian surveillance. Update: Oh shit. The bad news:...
Look On The Bright Side
by Steven Woskow | Mar 9, 2020 | Blog
It's not all bad news: "The comments came days after spread of the coronavirus forced the weeklong closure of two F-35 related facilities in Italy and Japan―a sign the outbreak had begun to impact operations within the American defense industrial base."
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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...
Crime and Poverty
“The theory that crime is caused by poverty is not supported by the known facts. The very poor, in fact, tend to be just as law-abiding as the rich, and perhaps more so. To argue otherwise is to libel multitudes of people who keep to decency under severe difficulties,...
Don’t Be Silent
We should reject the fashionable idea that one should never write or post anything that possibly could be used by bad people for bad purposes. That admonition brings two things to mind. First, it fails its own test. If good people avoid a topic because even...
Can There Be Only One Race?
I'm old enough to remember this 1960s Lay's Potato Chips commercial. (Hell, I'm almost old enough to remember when plays were in black and white!) In the commercial a man (Bert Lahr, the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz) faces a challenge from the devil, who has a...
How Not to Defend “Capitalism” Against” Socialism”
I challenge you to show me a lamer "debate" over "capitalism" and "socialism." (Don't worry; it's not about Bill Maher.)
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