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December 5, 2019
The destruction of American liberty
fromFFF: There is no way to reconcile a system of mandatory charity with the principles of a free society.
The Welfare State: Promoting Dependency The Government is Not Us
Newspaper will stop reporting any news “traumatic” to snowflakes
fromDailyBell: The Daily Northwestern student paper, staffed by these aspiring journalists, recently apologized for covering a “traumatic” event on campus -- a speech by former Trump official Jeff Sessions.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
VIDEO: Top 10 Lies from the Democratic Debate
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Number one is epic, even by political standards.
Walter E Williams - Scientists: Dishonest or afraid?
fromCreators: Environmentalists attribute the recent increase in forest fires to global warming. Not so, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
VIDEO: John Stossel: Government bans ambulance competition
fromReason/YouTube: 35 states have laws that let established businesses block new businesses. Consumers are the true victims of such policies.
California's restrictive gun laws still can't prevent shootings
fromReason: Instead of reducing the dangers posed by criminals, California's gun restrictions have increased the threat posed to decent people by the law itself.
November 23, 2017
Thankful for Property Rights on Thanksgiving Day
from LibertyPen/YouTube: Private property became the foundation for building the most prosperous nation in the history of the world. A John Stossel column.Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
Statewide ban on e-cigarettes indoors in New York starts today
from Syracuse.com: The heavy-handed government nannies will allow free people to vape in their private homes -- for now.Regulation Nation The Government is Not Us
With TSA on the ropes, holiday travel may be a bear
from Politico: A potentially record-setting uptick in travel this Thanksgiving will coincide with TSA's implementation of new screening rules.The Government is Not Us
Feminist supports making false rape allegations against men
from Downtrend: Feminist writer Emily Lindin: Here’s an unpopular opinion: I’m actually not at all concerned about innocent men losing their jobs over false sexual assault/harassment allegations.Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
VIDEO: Milton Friedman - The Minimum Wage
from LibertyPen/YouTube: In just over two minutes, Friedman explains the driving force behind the counter-productive practice of minimum wage.Regulation Nation Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
VIDEO: Owen Benjamin - Fighting Back the Thought Police
from LibertyPen/YouTube: From the Tom Woods Show, Comedian/commentator Owen Benjamin shares how he successfully dealt with attacks from the PC thought police.Indoctrination and Censorship Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
October 3, 2017
Freedom of conscience is the foundation of all freedom
from Liberty.me: The essence of freedom is the ability to be true to oneself.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
⭐️ Flip-flopping on free speech
from NewYorker: Great piece on the fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.
Indoctrination and Censorship
Indoctrination and Censorship
Marijuana prohibition turns 80
from NORML: The government propaganda that has dictated marijuana policy for the past eight decades is withering, but still prevails in some of the union's most backward states.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
California seeks ban on fossil fuel cars, laying the groundwork to ban human driven cars
from Activist Post: Looks like the nitwits who make up California's ruling class would have out-of-state drivers check their cars at the border since no fuel will be sold. That should be great for tourism.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Smart billboards target individual motorists and spy on license plates and cellphones
from MassPrivatel: A new age of "advertised spying" is dawning.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
PC Stalinism: the EU bans cartoons critical of the EU
from Spiked!: In a move totally unsurprising to anyone who has been paying attention, the EU has shown its authoritarian colors by banning cartoons from one of its own exhibitions.
Indoctrination and Censorship
Indoctrination and Censorship
Jacob Sullum: Prohibition Kills
Government bans make drugs more dangerous. Remember the guy who bought 80-proof vodka that turned out to be
190-proof Everclear and died from alcohol poisoning? Probably not,
because that sort of thing almost never happens in a legal drug market,
where merchants or manufacturers who made such a substitution, whether ... MOREThe Nanny State Sets Its Sights On The Stogie Set
by James Bovard. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is finalizing regulations that could ban the sale of most of the cigars currently available in the United States. The FDA
last year uncorked a 241-page, 70,000 word barrage of proposed
restrictions on the sales and marketing of tobacco products. Some
congressmen are pushing back against the ... MOREMeet Chuck Schumer, The Next Senate Minority Leader
by Nick Gillespie. A partial listing of some of things that the NY political hack has tried to ban. It's long been said that the most dangerous place in Washington is between Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and a TV camera. With news of the resignation of the historically awful Sen. Harry
Reid (D-Nev.), the odds are good that Schumer will now ascend ... MOREKatie Pavlich: More Than 50 Senators Condemn The ATF Proposal To Ban Use Of AR-15 "Green Tip" Ammunition
ATF shoots self in foot. Late Monday afternoon, 52 Republican Senators sent a letter to ATF Director B. Todd Jones condemning the agency's latest proposal to ban commonly used AR-15 "green tip" ammunition and slammed the justification being used to do so, saying the legal framework under the Law Enforcement Officers Protection ... MORE
Montana Poised To Ban Government License Plate Cameras
by J.D. Tuccille. Cops in Big Sky Country aren't happy about it,
but Montana lawmakers look ready to ban the use of license plate
cameras by government agencies to track motorists' movements.
The legislative move comes after a stream of revelations of local,
state, and federal tracking and databasing of Americans' movements
by car, without cause ... MOREBill Bennett's Confusing Defense of Pot Prohibition
by Jacob Sullum. An old statist looks to defend the status quo. “With marijuana,” declare William J. Bennett and Robert A. White in Going to Pot,
their new prohibitionist screed, “we have inexplicably suspended all
the normal rules of reasoning and knowledge.” You can’t say they didn’t
warn us. The challenge for Bennett, a former drug czar and ... MOREPublic Health Nannies Won't Admit: E-Cigs Save Lives
by Bill Godshall. In sharp contrast to the Trib's fear-mongering headlines and Adam Smeltz's news story “Western Pa. cancer specialists call for electronic cigarette crackdown”
, the scientific and empirical evidence indicates vaping is 99 percent
less hazardous than smoking cigarettes, is more effective for quitting
smoking than are FDA- ... MOREGreg Gutfeld: New E-Cig Study Goes Up In Smoke
E-Cig attack vaporizes. The New England Journal of Medicine ran a letter linking e-cigs to
cancer and the panicky media gobbled it up like a pot brownie. But how
sturdy is this research? What might happen if you tapped lightly on
their findings? Yes, under closer scrutiny, this blockbuster collapsed faster than Michael Moore in a spin class. According to ... MORE
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