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Is Free Speech a Relic in America?

James Bovard / December 13, 2023 / Censorship, Government, Policy / 10 minute read

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Is the First Amendment becoming a historic relic? On July 4, 2023, federal judge Terry Doughty condemned the Biden administration for potentially “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.” That verdict was ratified by a federal appeals court decision in September 2023 that concluded that Biden administration “officials have engaged in a broad pressure campaign designed to coerce social-media companies into suppressing speakers, viewpoints, and content disfavored by the government.”

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The Crazy Covid Copulation Exemption

James Bovard / December 7, 2023 / Government, Policy, Public Health / 4 minute read

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The crazy Covid copulation exemption deserves far more ridicule than it will ever receive. When politicians are permitted to selectively nullify freedom, the injustices will be exceeded only by the absurdities. As historian John Barry, author of The Great Influenza, observed: “When you mix politics and science, you get politics.”

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Locking in Mandated Medicine by Short-Circuiting Democracy

J.R. Bruning / November 28, 2023 / Government, Law, Policy / 12 minute read

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What we see in command medication and digital is a general failure to require and include in these policies a place for the production of scientific information that might challenge or contradict claims of safety. The feedback loops are not sophisticated, open, and transparent enough. They never will be.

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Join the Resistance

Brownstone Institute / November 28, 2023 / Government, Philosophy, Policy, Society / 8 minute read

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The challenges of our time are completely different from the past. We must counter ruling-class opinion on empirical, legal, and practical grounds. We need all hands on deck to make it clear: we will not relent, no matter how many strange edicts are issued from above, no matter how many big shots tell us otherwise, no matter how many tricks and ploys come our way.

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Milei's Task Ahead: Defeating the Bureaucracy

Milei’s Task Ahead: Defeating the Administrators

Craig Pirrong / November 27, 2023 / Government, Law, Policy / 5 minute read

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Even if he avoids Trump’s fault of repeatedly appointing those hostile to his agenda to the positions in the bureaucracy he can hire and fire, Milei will still face the immense task of bringing those myriad bureaucrats outside his direct reach to heel.

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Can Milei Defeat the Bureaucratic Hordes?

Charles Krblich / November 25, 2023 / Government, Policy, Society / 6 minute read

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Milei may be the real deal. He is uniquely qualified to end the out of control inflation affecting Argentina. However, if he is able to enact real cuts to the bureaucracies, will he be able to withstand the political, media, and legal attacks sure to come?

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Conflicts of Interest in Science: History of Influence, Scandal, and Denial

Paul Thacker / November 24, 2023 / History, Pharma, Policy / 36 minute read

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As far back as 2000, experts questioned the ability of academic institutions to regulate financial conflicts of interests when they were so reliant on billions of dollars annually from industry. University leaders avoid discussing the imperative to regulate financial conflicts because they fear losing revenue.

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WHO’s Edict Caused the Lockdown Disaster

Bill Rice / November 23, 2023 / Government, Policy, Public Health / 19 minute read

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The W.H.O’s rousing endorsement of the “China model” of lockdowns should have been considered “junk science” before the governments of the world pulled the trigger on these “virus-mitigation” mandates, civil-liberty-eviscerating dictates which also caused a public health disaster for the people of the world.

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The New York Times Finally Admits to the Harm Done to Children

Jennifer Sey / November 22, 2023 / Education, Media, Policy / 7 minute read

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If a normie like me could read and interpret the data available since March 2020 and know that not only would closed schools be incredibly harmful to the most vulnerable children, but that their risk from Covid was thousands of times less than an elderly person, then certainly the science desk at the New York Times should have been able to do so.

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Courts Pave Way for New York Quarantine Camps

Bobbie Anne Flower Cox / November 20, 2023 / Law, Policy, Society / 7 minute read

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The reason the public has dubbed this regulation the “quarantine camp regulation” is because the language makes it clear that the DOH can pull you from your home and hold you anywhere they deem appropriate.

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Why So Many Countries Followed China’s Lockdown Example

Ron Brown / November 16, 2023 / Government, Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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If the novel coronavirus isn’t really so novel, this would explain why the lockdowns didn’t work. We had already known that lockdowns don’t work in other viral pandemics. Even China eventually gave up its Zero Covid Policy after it was obvious that lockdowns weren’t working. My friends owe me some explanations to justify their lockdown views. Maybe Fauci isn’t off the hook after all.

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Europe’s New Digital Identity Wallet: Security or Tyranny?

David Thunder / November 13, 2023 / Government, Policy, Society / 5 minute read

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Obviously, advocates of a European digital ID will publicly claim they are only interested in promoting the security of our transactions and protecting our privacy. But since these are the very same people who dare to claim that medical segregation and coercion via vaccine passports “reassures us of (the) spirit of an open Europe, a Europe without barriers,” their assurances regarding citizens’ privacy and liberties have no credibility whatsoever.

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