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Why I Ended Liberty Weekly and Started Vital Dissent
Since episode 234 was the last episode of Liberty Weekly. I thought it'd be fitting to sit down and work through exactly what that means. When I started the project in June 2016, I had no idea how long it would last or what it would turn into. The best thing about the...
10/7/22 Matt Taibbi on the State of Journalism Today
Download Episode. Scott talks with journalist Matt Taibbi about a number of articles and videos posted recently at his substack publication TK News. First, they talk about the misleading journalism behind stories of Russia granting whistleblower Edward Snowden...
Our Leaders’ Oppressive Moralism
As Deepak Chopra said, “God gave man the truth. Then the Devil came in and said, “Hey, let’s organize it and call it ‘religion’.” The bumper sticker version is more blunt: “Dear Lord, save me from your followers.” Yet there are secular (worldly) fanatics too. Because...
How Do You Solve a Defector Like Leana Wen?
For well over two years now, people across the world have been forced by their governments and "experts" to muzzle their faces with cloth masks, take shots that didn't stop them from catching, spreading, or dying from COVID-19, and adhere to a laundry list of utterly...
Capitalism is Being Strangled
It was out of a revulsion for tyranny and a hunger for liberty that Americans were inspired to revolution. We don’t like being told what to do. We went to war to secure the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.In our founding document, liberty was...
9/11 ‘Truthers’ and ‘Never Forgetters’ Both Help Grow the Government
There are two camps in the 9/11 war. Both are wrong. As a result, almost no one learns anything from the tragedy that occurred on and after September 11, 2001. One camp is the “never forget” crowd. These are the proponents of Washington, D.C.s’ imperial, worldwide...
Inflation as State-Sponsored Terrorism
Remember the quaint old days of 2019? We were told the U.S. economy was in great shape. Inflation was low, jobs were plentiful, GDP was growing. And frankly, if covid had not come along, there is a pretty good chance Donald Trump would have been reelected. At an event...
A Permanent Solution to Deep State Tyranny
The following is a section from The Voluntaryist Handbook, organized by Keith Knight. One need look no further than to the examples of North and South Korea or East and West Germany to see that the freer people are, the wealthier they can become through mutually...
7/22/22 Doug Bandow on Biden’s Saudi Trip and Awful Middle East Policy
Download Episode. Scott talks with Cato Institute Senior Fellow Doug Bandow about an article he wrote recently for The American Conservative. Bandow gives his take on Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia. He thinks the Saudis were purposefully disrespectful to the U.S....
Living With the Cuban Revolution, 60 Years Later
In his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick has a chapter named "The Tale of the Slave" in which he explains the nine phases from the most restrictive to more liberating states of slavery. He writes that even though enslaved people have certain forms of...
‘Assault Weapons’ Ban: First Step on the Road to Tyranny
President Joe Biden is seeking to revive his presidency by demolishing the Second Amendment. In a televised address last Thursday, Biden called for a ban on assault weapons, which he portrayed as the epitome of evil. Vice President Kamala Harris caterwauled that...
Refuting the “Good War” Narrative. Dr. Thadeuss Russell & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/UXADj372WU0 On Sept. 1, 1939, 70 years ago, the German Army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, Britain declared war. Six years later, 50 million Christians and Jews had perished. Britain was broken and bankrupt, Germany a smoldering ruin. Europe...
The Harrowing Conversations
I sometimes coach (MMA etc) cops and military types. They know my opinion on certain things and I am not shy about expressing them. I at times feel a hypocrisy in working with them and have even mentioned that to them. Those few I work with, are "nice" men. Easy to...
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