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The Media War on Canadian Truckers: Is Freedom Public Enemy Number One?

by James Bovard via Mises.org The denigration of the Canadian trucker protest convoy exemplifies how freedom is now the biggest villain of the covid-19 pandemic. A Washington Post cartoonist portrayed the trucker convoy as “fascism” incarnate while another Post column derided the “toxic ‘Freedom Convoy.’” Anyone who resists any government command is apparently now a public […]

Cannabis and Alcohol: An Industry Comparison

by Aran Ali via Visual Capitalist The following content is sponsored by Tenacious Labs. Cannabis and Alcohol: An Industry Comparison As cannabis continues to build legalization momentum in the U.S., it also finds itself entering a new chapter, and one that steps away from its prohibition past. The industry is now on a path similar […]

Justin Trudeau Ducks the Great Trucker Revolt

by Jeffrey A. Tucker via Brownstone Institute  The resistance reveals itself always in unexpected ways. As I type, thousands of truckers (numbers are in flux and are in dispute) are part of a 50-mile-long convoy in Canada, headed to the capital city of Ottawa in protest against an egregious vaccine mandate imposed by Prime Minister […]

President Biden Is a Tool of Big Pharma

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy The lunatic occupant of the Oval Office has arbitrarily yanked from use the only “establishment approved” Covid treatment, monoclonal antibodies. As Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis correctly states: Biden’s “indefensible edict takes treatment out of the hands of medical professionals and will cost some Americans their lives. […]

Lamenting China’s 2021 Cancel Culture

What China lost and what it still has. by Austrian China via Substack View from China with an Austrian School of Economics Perspective In our next post, Man Tianmai (漫天霾) reflects on what China lost in 2021 – too many goodbyes, as he puts it. Due to a long list of unfamiliar references, this can […]

The DC Rally and the Rise of the Resistance

by Jeffrey A. Tucker via Brownstone Institute By long American tradition, protest movements manifest themselves most fully in gatherings in Washington, D.C, starting at the Washington Monument and culminating in speeches at the Lincoln Memorial. At long last, after two years of astonishing attacks on fundamental rights that most everyone once believed were protected by […]

It’s Time to Break Up New York State

by Nicolas Gregoris via Mises.org Neil Sedaka said it best – “breaking up is hard to do”. Ask any 16-year-old and they’ll tell you that’s certainly true, but Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) recently made headlines when she suggested not just a breakup, but a “National Divorce” on social media. Of course, there was the […]

Boiling the Frog

by Jeff Thomas via International Man “There was, of course, no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, The Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate, […]

Equality and Fairness for All but Property Owners

by Laurence M. Vance via Mises Institute The grossly misnamed Equality Act is a government attack on the rights of private property, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, free enterprise, and freedom of contract. According to the official summary of bill (H.R.5): This bill prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in […]

“Capitalism Has Failed”

by Jeff Thomas via International Man Today, more than at any time previously, Westerners are justifying a move toward collectivist thinking with the phrase, “Capitalism has failed.” In response to this, conservative thinkers offer a knee-jerk reaction that collectivism has also had a dismal record of performance. Neither group tends to gain any ground with […]

US Surveillance Bill 6666: The Devil in the Details

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE H.R. 6666, the COVID-19 Testing, Reaching And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act, was introduced and referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, May 1, 2020, by Rep. Bobby Rush, D-III The bill, had it passed, would have authorized the CDC to award grants for testing, contact tracing, monitoring and […]

How We Will Win

by Jeff Deist via Mises Institute You do not defend a world that is already lost. When was it lost? That you cannot say precisely. It is a point for the revolutionary historian to ponder. We know only that it was surrendered peacefully, without a struggle, almost unawares. There was no day, no hour, no […]

The Tyrant Says He Means Well

by Adam Dick via Ron Paul Institute Tyrants just about always say they mean well in imposing tyranny. Sweeping prohibitions, coupled with harsh enforcement, the tyrants say, are necessary to advance important conditions, such as health, economic wellbeing, or defense from an enemy’s menace. So it goes as well with United States President Joe Biden […]

Regulatory Capture is Killing Us, and We Are Two Steps Away from the Totalitarian Fascist Regulatory States of America

by James Lyons-Weiler via Popular Rationalism From the EPA to the FDA, the massive influence of corporations on the agencies tasked with regulating them has proven to be a deadly experiment in American-Style Fascism. When the airline industry has a disaster, it goes under review by the National Transportation Safety Board. When corporations dump a […]