Last week, myself and a great group of antiwar veterans, led by BringOurTroopsHome.us testified before a committee of the Texas Senate in favor of new Defend the Guard legislation proposed by Rep. Bryan Slaton. (Admittedly, my statement was not so well received as a...
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4/2/21 Jacob Sullum on the Trial of Derek Chauvin
Scott interviews Jacob Sullum about the trial of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd. Sullum highlights two important features of the prosecution's case so far: the first is that paramedics testified to Floyd's already being dead when they showed up, and the...
News Roundup 4/2/21
US News Facebook bans the 'voice of Trump' from the platform. [Link] The Senate is moving forward with a proposal to give DHS more power. [Link] NATO says it is concerned about a Russian military buildup near Ukraine’s border. [Link] The State Dept. Spokesperson says...
Pascal’s Wager for COVIDystopic Times or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the Coronapocalypse and Eat Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
Being of a naturally skeptical bent, I have harbored doubts from the very beginning about the upheaval of the entire world rationalized by politicians everywhere because of a virus which kills less than 1% of the people it infects. I watched in amazement as country...
Scott Horton Testifies Before Texas House Committee
Legislation that would require Congress to declare war before the Texas National Guard would be sent into active combat status is moving through the legislative process. House Bill 2701, by State Rep. Bryan Slaton (R–Royse City), was heard on Monday before the House...
Epistocracy and the Nature of Political Knowledge
Many intellectuals and philosophers have suggested that society would be better ruled if political power was concentrated citizens according to their knowledge. For instance, Plato proposed a system of governance, called Noocracy, where decision making is in the hands...
COVID-19 Passports, Step by Step
With reports that President Joe Biden’s administration is planning for imposing a vaccine passport mandate in America, expect to see in the media a deluge of vaccine passport propaganda. What will that propaganda look like? A template illustrating several elements you...
A Cancer Battle Nears Its End
In October of 2018 I was diagnosed with an aggressive, Stage 3 Lymphoma. Chemotherapy started by December of that same year. It was a winding path toward that discovery. Luckily for me, a good friend had the identical diagnosis three years before me and had made a...
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