What is wrong with the following logic: Steven Grumbine advocates military spending austerity therefore wants America to get invaded, enslaved, and suffer a genocide. The unjustifiable assumption is that more military spending means we are safer. As Mr. Grumbine and I...
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14 Times Thomas Sowell Destroyed Progressivism ft. Keith Knight Ep. 234
by Patrick Macfarlane | Oct 5, 2022 | Liberty Weekly Podcast, Uncategorized
https://youtu.be/GIZrXF_u25A Keith Knight joins the show to discuss the many ways in which the great Thomas Sowell ripped apart the ideas of progressivism. Episode 234 of the Liberty Weekly Podcast is Brought to you by: LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and...
TGIF: True Liberals Are Not Conservatives
by Sheldon Richman | May 20, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The relevance of F. A. Hayek's essay "Why I Am Not a Conservative," the postscript to his important 1960 book, The Constitution of Liberty, is demonstrated at once by the opening quote from Lord Acton: At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its...
Defining Left and Right w/LB Muniz
by Tommy Salmons | Mar 22, 2022 | Year Zero
LB of the Been Awake podcast joined me to discuss the terms left and right. LB is a great thinker and podcaster and we wanted to dig into the essence of what the terms left and right mean politically. As Orwell noted, politics neuters language and weaponizes words, so...
Hearing the Other Side: Progressivism & Voluntaryism. Steven D. Grumbine & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Dec 23, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/MHnw5F1RmLE The Jimmy Dore type of leftist (the ones who are anti-state but also support social safety nets) could have most to everything they want in an anarchist society in the form of mutual aid societies. Those are the types of leftists that are...
The Secret to Saving Progressivism!
by Keith Knight | Jan 26, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/UDodvhgygd8 Gary Chartier is a left anarchist, consultant, speaker, coach, writer, philosopher, and teacher. http://www.garychartier.net/ https://c4ss.org/...
124: Just A Different Authoritarian
by Tommy Salmons | Jul 24, 2020 | Year Zero
Tommy gives his opinion on the Portland incident before diving into the differences between Fascism, Socialism, and Progressivism. Though America displays many tenets of Fascism and Socialism it is neither. But there are those actively trying to change that....
Year Zero 98: Isms and Regulatory Capture
by Tommy Salmons | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog, Year Zero
In episode 98 Tommy takes on the idea that any one ism should be argued as superior over another. When people argue capitalism v socialism v communism v progressivism v fascism they are forgetting that they are arguing in favor of forced integration or forced...
How the left put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court
by Sam Peters | Oct 17, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
You might think that the left would have learned its lesson after blundering into the election Donald Trump in 2016, but it seems two years to reflect on their defeat has not been enough time for Progressives to rethink the strategy that handed them the biggest...
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Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
What Kind of Liberal?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
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