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Scholar, Gentleman, Freedom Fighter and Poetic Justice Warrior Murray Rothbard’s Radically Unique Sense of Life.

April 8, 2020

Murray's 1973 book, The Libertarian Manifesto, "More than any other of his works, this book explains why Rothbard seems to grow in stature every year. His influence has vastly risen since his death, and why Rothbardianism has so many enemies on the left, right, and center."

Flatten The Curve! Who Talks Like That? Those Without Empathy Or Sympathy.

April 7, 2020

Who talks like that? Who uses terms like "flatten the curve" in conversation? Geeks. Mathematicians. Dispassionate technicians who don’t care about people. Theorists. Those with no empathy, and no sympathy.

Hard To Believe: San Francisco Quarantines The Homeless In Commandeered Luxury Hotels.

April 6, 2020

Many of these future luxury hotel guests are hardcore drug addicts. How will the city manage their drug needs in the midst of a pandemic? It’s likely, for instance, that many guests will overdose in their rooms. Others may detox, alone and in agony.

If You’re Not A Libertarian After This Crack-Up, You Should Have Your Head Examined.

April 5, 2020

Having wrecked citizens' economic situations via lockdown, politicians - who bring new meaning to self-unaware - arrogated to themselves even more of the wealth always and everywhere produced in the private sector with an eye on sending checks to individuals and businesses.

It’s The Bureaucratic Mindset That Is Killing Us: Over-Credentialed, Entrusted With Too Much Power, And Dangerously Incompetent.

April 4, 2020

Backed by the media, Fauci and company have contended that actions by anybody, ordinary citizens, elected officials, or physicians that do not follow proper bureaucratic procedures are illegitimate. Who the hell do they think they are? We belong to ourselves. Not to them.

Integrity is Not Negotiable. Neither is Classical Composer Alma Deutscher’s Fidelity to Her Music

April 3, 2020

What Deutscher and Roark have done is expose the smallness of their detractors. By refusing to accept the arbitrary premise that human life is repugnant, they refuse to accept as guilt, their own existence. They refuse to accept that their freedom to create masterpieces is predicated on subservience to the public good. Their integrity is non-negotiable.

Why Ayn Rand Laughs – Talented and Dedicated Workers Keep Our Polite Society Humming Along

April 2, 2020

Now is a good time for us to imagine, what if those who work inside the cab of big rig or delivery van, ICU or urgent care clinic, warehouse or supermarket decided to go on strike? Most likely, they would be vilified by national and social media nitwits for price gouging.

Crisis and Leviathan is Why We Need Modern Poetic Justice Warriors Like Robert Higgs

April 1, 2020

Europe's governments that made life difficult for traders tended to lose their business, and hence a tax base, to competing jurisdictions. Such losses motivated rulers to curb their predation and to allow businessmen room to maneuver.

End The Shutdown Now.

March 31, 2020

There is no conflict between humanitarian and economic concerns; in fact they are flipsides of the same coin. A poorer America will be a much less healthy America, one more vulnerable to future illness and disease.

Here are 4 Big Social Changes That Will Follow After The End Of The Coronavirus Panic.

March 31, 2020

The projections of the models are worthless at best, misleading at worst, and provide the fuel for government misbehavior. The credibility of models and modelers has taken a fatal blow.

A Politician Admits: We Were Wrong. Sorry To Have Ruined All Your Lives.

March 30, 2020

We are enacting extremely severe measures in an effort to do something. However, we have very little evidence-based data on how to guide our next steps. There is a possibility that many of our aggressive measures could be doing more harm than good,

The COVID-19 Models Are Inaccurate. So Are The Climate Change Models.

March 29, 2020

Professors of medicine at Stanford said “projections of the death toll” reaching 2 million to 4 million “could plausibly be orders of magnitude too high.” They believe “epidemiological modelers haven’t adequately adapted their estimates to account for” a number of important factors.

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Raushan Gross: Socialism Cannot Work, Not Even in an AI-Driven Economy

The Right to Repair: Shouldn’t Americans Have the Right to Fix Their Own Stuff?