In the name of protecting public health, California requires that an individual who seeks to perform any kind of hairstyling service must complete nine months (1,600 hours) of classes at a state-approved cosmetology school, at a tuition cost of at least $5,000, before...
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Evolving Worldviews
by Tommy Salmons | Feb 17, 2023 | Year Zero
In the first hour I join Justin on Fact Check this Podcast to discuss my evolving worldviews, and in the last 2 hours Kyle and I continue this conversation based off the conversation with Justin. Fact Check this Podcast In Liberty and Health The Marc Clair Show...
AOC is Dumber Than I Thought: Minimum Wage Edition
by Keith Knight | Jan 7, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
Progressives will admit higher prices hurt those with the lowest incomes, but when it comes to raising the price of labor they ignore that very economic reality: Charging more for X discourages X from being consumed. When you raise the price of employing someone:...
Who Gave Government the License to Issue Licenses?
by The Libertarian Institute | Dec 4, 2022 | Blog, Libertarian Institute Roundtable
https://youtu.be/K5j4_CwtW8I On November 4th, the Kansas City, MO Health Department sent police to confiscate food that was to be distributed to homeless people, throwing it in trash bags and pouring bleach on it to make it inedible, Fox 32 reports. The food,...
The Santa Clause Mindset
by Keith Knight | Oct 14, 2022 | Blog
What kind of imbecile would believe that everyone can acquire and consume massive amounts of resources for "free"? A child that's who. How can someone say "education should be free"? Are all the teachers unpaid volunteers? Did the construction workers who built the...
Want Health Care for Everyone? End the Regulatory Regime (feat. Blake Masters)
by Keith Knight | Oct 7, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/Yhcm5pegHPE Some critics of the free market argue that property rights are in conflict with “human” rights. But the critics fail to realize that in a free-market system, every person has a property right over his own person and his own labor, and that...
Transhumanism and Time Preference w/Kyle Matovcik
by Tommy Salmons | Oct 5, 2022 | Year Zero
Kyle Matovcik joined me again to discuss the ideology leading to trans humanism and how the internalization of immediate gratification leads to a transhumance existence. Kyle Twitter A Common Crown Liberty and Health Dimebag Kaczynski Discord Libertarian Institute 19...
The State is the Health of War
by Keith Knight | Jul 30, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/WnvtYw_QKQE Critics often dismiss private law by alleging that disputes between enforcement agencies would lead to combat — even though this happens between governments all the time! In truth, the incentives for peaceful resolution of disputes would...
Caution or Catastrophe: Public Health’s COVID Response
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Feb 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, proponents of lockdowns, shelter-in-place orders, mask mandates and other coercive government interventions have characterized these measures as benevolently “erring on the side of caution.” Now, as the grim toll of those public...
U.S. Inflation Climbs To 7.5%
by Steven Woskow | Feb 10, 2022 | Blog
Rents rose 0.5% last month in another of a series of sharp increases since last summer. The cost of rent — the biggest expense for many households —has jumped almost 4% in the past year. Food prices also increased again, up almost 1% in January. The cost of groceries...
Supreme Court Live Oral Arguments On Biden Vaccine Mandates
by Steven Woskow | Jan 7, 2022 | Blog
The Supreme Court will live broadcast the oral arguments on whether or not to halt some of Biden's vaccine mandates. https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx Attorny Robert Barnes and Eric Hunley are covering this live. Robert Barnes is covering the...
“I Hold It That A Little Rebellion Now And Then Is A Good Thing”
by Steven Woskow | Jan 6, 2022 | Blog
“This uneasiness has produced acts absolutely unjustifiable,” Jefferson wrote, “but I hope they will provoke no severities from their governments.” He didn’t approve of the insurrection, but he feared how the authorities might respond. “Unsuccessful rebellions indeed...
Vaccines, Autonomy, and Mandates: A Libertarian Analysis
by David D'Amato | Dec 30, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Prefatory Note Given the subject matter discussed below, I believe it prudent to state at the outset that I am not at all opposed to vaccinations themselves: indeed, I have received a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as all other normal-course vaccinations recommended for...
COI #205: Biden’s Failures on Covid and Yemen
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 27, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #205, Kyle Anzalone breaks down Biden's failure to reign in Covid and the Saudi “pariah” state. The US is facing staffing shortages in the medical field. Recently, a federal court reinstated a Biden rule requiring healthcare workers to take a Covid vaccine....
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Roland Fryer’s Shocking Conclusion
https://youtu.be/2nLWCLsmpJ4 On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account. We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which...
The US Government Has Been Lying About How to Lose Weight for Decades
https://youtu.be/TUADs-CK7vI Fat Fiction Movie Website Research by Ann F. La Berge: How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America Turns out a low-carb diet does far more to help people lose weight than a low-fat diet.
The “Rich Get Richer” Myth
Some 94 percent of Americans who reach “top 1 percent” income status will enjoy it for only a single year. Approximately 99 percent will lose their “top 1 percent” status within a decade. Now consider the top 400 U.S. income-earners—a far more exclusive club than the...
The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
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