It's so unfair that people have to go to bad government schools! she says. And so she moved to the burbs to get a good education; and so used her political juice to get a friend of the family into a charter school. (Charter schools are not the ideal at all, but at...
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bitcoin is Dead: Finale
Click here for Part 5 For the audio version, check out my podcast A Boy Named Pseu where you can download it on all podcast platforms. (read starts at 8:54) Read full piece here. If bitcoin is dead, then it has no value proposition Bitcoin’s mere existence is its...
Why It’s Time to Ditch New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s resolutions don’t work. According to US News, 80 percent of New Year’s resolutions don’t live to see the light of day by the second week of February. With just eight percent of resolution-makers actually following through, it’s clear that the odds are not...
Half of My Heart Is in La Habana: Life After Flight from Castro’s Cuba
When Mercedes (“Mercy”) Rodriguez arrived in America on a fall day in 1979, the first thing she noticed was how clean and wide the streets were. The 15-year-old Cuban refugee had just arrived on a plane carrying nearly a dozen political prisoners, including her father...
Decrying Income Inequality Is a Tactic to Gain More Power for Government
The 2020 presidential field is saturated with candidates decrying wealth inequality and making the argument to soak the rich. One front-runner, for instance, is constantly denouncing “the millionaires and the billionaires.” Ominously, a New York Times poll found that...
The Hidden Link Between Fiat Money and the Increasing Appeal of Socialism
What causes the seemingly unfounded confidence in socialism we encounter more and more in the news media and among political activists? In the Extinction Rebellion movement, for example, activists are quite certain they have learned that there is an alternative to...
11/22/19 Doug Bandow on Making Peace with the Rest of the World
Doug Bandow explains why the pathological need for neocons and neoliberals in Washington to antagonize other powerful countries is so dangerous for America. Russia and China, he says, can both be our allies. It makes no sense for the U.S. military to be involved in...
WATCH: School Officials Plead with Cop to Stop Attacking 11yo Girl with Special Needs
Farmington, NM — A veteran Farmington police officer was allowed to quietly resign this month in a move to escape accountability after horrifying video footage showed him attacking an 11-year-old girl with special needs. The incident unfolded on August 27, but the...
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