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The Rise and Fall of Quality Improvement in America

Steven Kritz / February 3, 2024 / Government, Society, Vaccines / 8 minute read

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Today, they are actively trying to bulldoze the Constitution, believing that they have achieved a critical mass of support to carry this out successfully. They may be right. However, if they are successful, the useful idiots who created the critical mass will become nothing but useless eaters, once the progressive goals are achieved, and a totalitarian state is firmly in place. Hopefully, these people will realize before it’s too late that this will not improve their quality of life (QI), and as such, are not good national or individual trajectories.

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Your Tax Dollars for Davos

Aaron Day / February 2, 2024 / Policy, Society / 12 minute read

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Amidst these events, Congressman Scott Perry introduced the “Defund Davos Act.” Initially, I was shocked to learn that we, as taxpayers, were funding the WEF at all. However, further investigation revealed that since 2013, we have provided at least $60 million in taxpayer funding to the WEF.

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Feel-Good Leftist Abstractions Destroy Communities

Thomas Harrington / February 2, 2024 / History, Society / 9 minute read

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So yes, it is undoubtedly true that since the French Revolution, if not before, the political Left has been plagued by an unfortunate tendency to impose unproven and abstract new ideas upon society through coercive means. They generally do so because they, not entirely wrongly, see tradition mostly in terms of its ability to stymie man’s ceaseless gift for improving (or is it divinizing?) himself and the overall condition of the world.

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Is This a Free Democratic Society?

Tom Jefferson,

Carl Heneghan / February 1, 2024 / History, Society / 5 minute read

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The time has come to get rid of the whole lot of them. It is not difficult to eliminate cowards trying to cover their tracks and empty heads, suggesting the latest idiotic policy to circumvent it. We keep calling them out with the help of the populace they rule over. We need your help to keep going, but we must confess that the clowns being deposed by Mr Dawson have given us a leg up.

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Where Are We Now?

Julie Ponesse / January 30, 2024 / History, Society, Vaccines / 28 minute read

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I learned how easy it is for us to betray one another and how COVID exposed the fault lines in our relationships. But I also saw humanity all around. I saw hugs and connection and immense warmth everywhere I went. I saw the worst side of humanity and the best, and I witnessed the indomitable power of inconvenient truths. The COVID-19 battleground has certainly created its heroes and villains, and we have all taken sides about which is which.

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We Can’t Ban Our Way to a Better World

Charles Krblich / January 27, 2024 / Censorship, Law, Society / 5 minute read

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It is clear beyond any doubt that bans simply don’t work. I was a child during the “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign. Drugs were banned, and yet always available. Chicago has banned guns for years and yet has incredibly high gun violence. We banned smiles, playgrounds, and normal personal interaction for years in order to ban Covid and we still catch Covid.

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Room Filtration Didn’t Work Either

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 26, 2024 / History, Society, Technology / 6 minute read

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Yes, you remember those days. Let’s say you have installed a new HVAC system. That’s good but it does not quite do the trick. You still must stay away from everyone. You have to mask up, outdoors even. You have to wash your hands constantly. You have to spray everything down with sanitizer. I mean, it seems like your whole life is consumed by fear of disease.

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President von der Leyen’s WEF Speech is Sheer Manipulation

David Thunder / January 25, 2024 / Censorship, Government, Society / 4 minute read

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Few would question the claim that artificial intelligence, bots, and various malicious actors can leverage social media and other digital “information highways” to confuse, disorient, and manipulate citizens. However, the President of the European Commission, like any smart politician, knows how to milk a crisis to expand her own power, and her January 16th speech at Davos was a tour de force in crisis manipulation.

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The DOJ Quietly Prosecutes the Covid Resistance

Brownstone Institute / January 24, 2024 / Government, Policy, Society / 3 minute read

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There is no indication that the powerful will be held accountable for the damage they imposed. Instead, the Biden Administration has decided to target citizens who resisted its irrational edicts. The same edicts for which they insist they must be granted an “amnesty.” Such actions only increase the devastation from a disastrous policy response.

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Did Liberalism Fail the Test of Covid?

Toby Rogers / January 24, 2024 / History, Philosophy, Society / 10 minute read

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I am completely obsessed with the question of whether liberalism failed in response to Covid. As I’ve written before, I think it is perhaps the most important question in the world right now. If liberalism failed then we are now seeking an alternative to liberalism. If liberalism did not fail (or was lynched) then perhaps we are seeking a return to liberalism (or the introduction of “true” liberalism for the first time). I believe that figuring out this question will provide a map to guide us out of the valley of death that we are currently in.

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Will We Ever Get the Truth?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 22, 2024 / History, Philosophy, Society / 7 minute read

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Donald Trump will certainly get the Republican nomination. With that the issue of truth and honesty about what happened on March 13, 2020, and beyond will likely not be pushed by the executive branch even if Trump wins.

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To Get US Residency Requires the Covid Jab

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 21, 2024 / Government, Society, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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This Covid vaccine is being gradually added to every list of requirements that is available, from immigration to the childhood schedule to school attendance. This is despite how the shot has completely failed to perform up to the promise of the first year. This is fully known by vast swaths of the world’s population, and yet US bureaucracies persist in their impositions without the slightest sense that they ought to acquiesce to the reality that everyone knows.

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