Recently Kamala Harris tweeted a video where she's talking nonsense about "equity" and "equality" -- pandering to the left's progressives -- which ends with her saying, “equitable treatment means we all end up in the same place." End up at the same place. Well, it's...
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The Threat of a Digitized Currency
If some Congress members get their way, the Federal Reserve may soon be able to track many of your purchases in real time and share that information with government agencies. This is just one of the problems with the proposed “digital dollar” or “fedcoin.” Fedcoin was...
How Could I Have Known?
ex-California Senator Barbara Boxer: "DHS was a mistake, I regret voting for it! I never imagined a President like Trump when I voted to create The Department Of Homeland Security." But, where were the libertarians? Why didn't they speak up. We are right were we...
Dem, GOP Zionists Are The Tiniest Little Crybaby Millennial Snowflakes
For all their shameful excesses, the Antifa Social Justice Cancel Culture Warriors have nothing on those Americans who prioritize serving the interests of the foreign nation of Israel. Here Florida GOP state legislators are going after a Florida State University...
Two replies to shut down the “healthcare and housing are human rights” argument
There is no shortage of politicians and other armchair philosophers insisting that things like healthcare and housing are “human rights.” Anyone watching the Democratic presidential debates, or having spent five minutes on social media, has no doubt heard this refrain...
Three Underrated Arguments Debunking Marx’s Labor Theory Of Value
Though widely dispensed of in the field of economics, the notion of “wage slavery” is still commonly held among progressives and socialists of many stripes. It is not uncommon, especially on social media, to run into people insisting that employers are “stealing” part...
When It Comes To War Their Is One Political Party
Are you a Republicans or Democrat? In Washington D.C. their is no distinction when it comes to war. Both party's support it . Presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, could force a House vote next week that would require President Donald Trump to withdraw the...
Why Facts and Data Are Less Persuasive Than Moral Appeals
When’s the last time you heard somebody say: “that statistical table really changed my view of how society should be organized”? Probably never. That’s because facts don’t persuade, but emotions do. People’s views are shaped by their moral intuitions first, reasoning...
What Murray Rothbard Could Teach Bernie Sanders about Rights
The idea that there exists some sort of moral authority for the state to provide for the poor is nothing new. FDR declared nearly 90 years ago that True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. In 2019, progressives and democratic...
Immigration Tyranny and Cruelty Come Home
I can’t help but wonder if what has happened to Theresa Todd will cause conservative-leaning libertarians to abandon their support of immigration controls, the system of immigration central planning, cruelty, and tyranny that both conservatives and progressives have...
How Progressive Policies Enable Discrimination
While progressives claim to want to eliminate discrimination, some of their favored policies make discrimination more likely to occur. Take the case of rent control. Earlier this year Oregon became the first state to pass statewide rent-control legislation. The goal...
Obamacare’s Unhappy Anniversary
Last month marked nine years since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (popularly known as Obamacare) became law. Obamacare’s proponents promised that the law would reduce costs, expand access, and allow us to keep our doctors if we liked our doctors. The...
Trump Tells the Truth: Sanctions Cause People to Suffer
This week President Trump admitted what the Washington policy establishment of both parties would rather be kept quiet. Asked why he intervened to block a new round of sanctions on North Korea, he told the media that he believes the people of North Korea have suffered...
News Roundup 1/24/19
Venezuelan Regime Change The US recognizes Juan Guaido as interim president of Venezuela. [Link] Juan Guaido declares himself interim president of Venezuela. [Link] Venezuelan president Maduro cuts diplomatic ties with the US and gives US diplomats 72 hours to leave...
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