Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point...
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What Did Society Benefit By Social Distancing?
"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue...
The Secretive Israeli Company Developing A Vaccine For Coronavirus
Shortly after a message to Israelis on May 4 by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced that the Israel Institute For Biological Research (IIBR) had identified a monoclonal antibody that neutralizes the coronavirus. This would be an...
Foreign Aid Can’t Fix Bad Economics
Some myths in politics die hard. We are constantly reminded by the managerial classes that foreign aid is crucial to lifting the developing world out of poverty. With the magic wand of public spending, money is sent to the developing world in hopes of pushing these...
Bubble-Wrapped Americans: How the U.S. Became Obsessed with Physical and Emotional Safety
How America became obsessed with physical and emotional safety – and how damaging it’s been to our culture.
Pentagon Releases Videos Of Encounters Between UFOs and Navy Pilots
From The Observation Post The Pentagon has released three videos of encounters between Navy pilots and unidentified flying objects. "The videos — two were taken in January 2015, while the third dates back to November 2004 — were released “in order to clear up any...
We Don’t Need a Cure to Reopen
Back on March 19th, 2020, I pointed to this piece by Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas at my blog – Coordination Problem — where he states very clearly the reality constraint in public policy deliberations in the current coronavirus crisis. Without committing one way or...
Evil Blossoms Where Conscience Shrinks: The Unforgivable Tragedy of Bush’s Iraq War II
During Iraq War II (2003–2011), in addition to thousands of American soldiers and contractors who died, more than 100,000 Iraq civilians were killed. This number is consistent with independent counts as well as leaked Pentagon data (sources available at Wikipedia)....
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