Crisis
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Red Light Robberies Across America
“‘Taxation by citation’ is a license for bureaucratic tyranny. How much longer will local politicians be permitted to plunder drivers and subvert safety with impunity?” ~ James Bovard
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How Experts Can Fail Even When They Are Right
“Like experts on energy efficiency don’t know where to set your thermostat, experts on health risks don’t know which bundle of risks and precautions is the right one given your goals and values.” ~ Art Carden
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Identity Politics and Systemic Racism Theory as the New Marxo-Nazism
“The new Marxo-Nazism of identity politics and systemic racism theory would turn back the clock and return us to a time and type of society that America and Americans have worked so hard to place in the past of human history.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
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Do Not Trust the Cargo-cult Science
“Trust the science? I am a staunch advocate of the scientific method. But slogans are not science, and they serve primarily to hide weaknesses rather than reveal strengths.” ~ James E. Hanley
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Political Rhetoric Hides the Reality of Peaceful Production vs. Plunder
“Society is composed of one set of people who work and save and who produce and exchange, and another set of people who wish to politically acquire and consume what others have saved and produced.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
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Galileo versus the CDC
“You don’t help scientists learn the truth by shielding them from counterarguments – you largely destroy the most important source of that vital pressure to keep searching for the truth.” ~ Chris Bateman
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A Subtle Catastrophe
“This is not what winning looks like. This looks like yet another President declaring his way to the policy outcomes he wants by executive order, Covid style.” ~ James R. Harrigan
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Remembering the Truly Forgotten, Twenty Years Later
“On the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, more will be said about military service dogs than the thousands of hardworking, productive people killed in downtown Manhattan that day. But money and finance are the font of modernity and the wellspring of American prosperity.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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The Paradox of Turnkey Totalitarianism
“The upshot of Turnkey Totalitarianism is deeply problematic, even though there are evil geniuses among the citizenry. After all, wasn’t it very likely a small group of government technocrats who unleashed the Covid-19 pandemic?” ~ Max Borders
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Stronger, More Robust Natural Immunity Thwarts Any Case for “Vaccine Passports”
“Even taken on their own merits, these prohibitions amount to nothing more than a coin flip against each and every person turned away. Considered in full, they are cruel, discriminatory, and ultimately self-defeating.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Red Light Robberies Across America
“‘Taxation by citation’ is a license for bureaucratic tyranny. How much longer will local politicians be permitted to plunder drivers and subvert safety with impunity?” ~ James Bovard
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How Experts Can Fail Even When They Are Right
“Like experts on energy efficiency don’t know where to set your thermostat, experts on health risks don’t know which bundle of risks and precautions is the right one given your goals and values.” ~ Art Carden
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Identity Politics and Systemic Racism Theory as the New Marxo-Nazism
“The new Marxo-Nazism of identity politics and systemic racism theory would turn back the clock and return us to a time and type of society that America and Americans have worked so hard to place in the past of human history.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
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Do Not Trust the Cargo-cult Science
“Trust the science? I am a staunch advocate of the scientific method. But slogans are not science, and they serve primarily to hide weaknesses rather than reveal strengths.” ~ James E. Hanley
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Political Rhetoric Hides the Reality of Peaceful Production vs. Plunder
“Society is composed of one set of people who work and save and who produce and exchange, and another set of people who wish to politically acquire and consume what others have saved and produced.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
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Galileo versus the CDC
“You don’t help scientists learn the truth by shielding them from counterarguments – you largely destroy the most important source of that vital pressure to keep searching for the truth.” ~ Chris Bateman
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A Subtle Catastrophe
“This is not what winning looks like. This looks like yet another President declaring his way to the policy outcomes he wants by executive order, Covid style.” ~ James R. Harrigan
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Remembering the Truly Forgotten, Twenty Years Later
“On the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, more will be said about military service dogs than the thousands of hardworking, productive people killed in downtown Manhattan that day. But money and finance are the font of modernity and the wellspring of American prosperity.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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The Paradox of Turnkey Totalitarianism
“The upshot of Turnkey Totalitarianism is deeply problematic, even though there are evil geniuses among the citizenry. After all, wasn’t it very likely a small group of government technocrats who unleashed the Covid-19 pandemic?” ~ Max Borders
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Stronger, More Robust Natural Immunity Thwarts Any Case for “Vaccine Passports”
“Even taken on their own merits, these prohibitions amount to nothing more than a coin flip against each and every person turned away. Considered in full, they are cruel, discriminatory, and ultimately self-defeating.” ~ Jon Sanders