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Forecast 2023 — Get Out of the Way if You Can’t Lend a Hand
Post Date: 2022-12-31 05:02:39 by Charles_Byrd
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It’s hard to contemplate 2023 without spiraling into nausea, tachycardia, and cold sweat. But it is an inescapable duty here to lay out the probabilities ahead. I’ve been doing this forecast thing for some years now, and, of course, I am often wrong, so take some solace in that and relax. Maybe the new year will be all unicorns, rainbows, talking gerbils, and candied violets. 2022 sure was a cold shower. The long emergency I talk so much about finally got up to cruising speed, with the ectoplasmic “Joe Biden” revving our country into economic, political, and cultural collapse — a hat- trick of calamity — and he did it more swiftly and directly than any emperor ...
So Long 2022, Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out
Post Date: 2022-12-31 04:59:24 by Charles_Byrd
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When 2020 was winding down, the mantra was, “good riddance.” There couldn’t be another year that bad. Except 2021 was even worse. And then 2022- you can sense a pattern here. It’s not only the COVID vaccine that’s on “warp speed,” it’s the rush towards an Orwellian world we couldn’t have imagined even five years ago. 2022 was a hard one for me personally. As I’ve written about perhaps too many times, my brother Ricky died suddenly on January 20. But it wasn’t the #DiedSuddenly that was all the rage online until social media banned it. He wasn’t vaccinated, so that bioweapon didn’t kill him, as it has killed untold numbers ...
Did Fake News Scare You This Week?
Post Date: 2022-12-31 04:56:56 by Charles_Byrd
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During my years of political involvement, I have grown expert in ways that the media lie and manipulate. It disgusts me to see. Click for Full Text!
Note From San Francisco
Post Date: 2022-12-31 04:52:27 by Charles_Byrd
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Having seen the redwoods with the boys by day, sampled dim sum last evening, and overdosed nights on San Francisco movies (Bullitt, Vertigo, the underrated Zodiac), I’m headed home tonight. A terrific trip, which I won’t forget. In the coming days you’ll find a new thread on Twitter, along with a two- part article here at TK explaining the latest #TwitterFiles findings. Even as someone in the middle of it, naturally jazzed by everything I’m reading, I feel the necessity of explaining why it’s important to keep hammering at this. Click for Full Text!
Ethics for Inhumans
Post Date: 2022-12-30 17:24:34 by Charles_Byrd
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William MacAskill, a philosophy professor at Oxford and a leading light of the effective altruism movement, has recently been in the news owing to the frenzied and fraudulent finance of his protégé Sam Bankman-Fried, who now awaits trial. The “effective altruists” took seriously the implications Peter Singer drew from his famous thought experiment: Suppose you come across a small child who is drowning in a pond. You can easily rescue the child, but if you do so, you will ruin the expensive pair of shoes you are wearing. If you refuse to save the child, wouldn’t this show you are a heartless brute? But, Singer says, nothing in the moral point of the example ...
The Case for Disbanding Public Health Agencies
Post Date: 2022-12-29 21:28:22 by Charles_Byrd
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During March of 2020, Sweden’s state epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, showed us how public health can be managed ethically by refusing to lockdown Sweden’s residents. The rest of the public health discipline, however, entered the territory in which we now place the universally castigated discipline of eugenics. Eugenics breaches ethics and causes enormous harm to the fabric of mankind. Likewise, lockdowns breach ethics and have terrorized or killed millions of people worldwide. I recently assisted Professor Gigi Foster in preparing a cost-benefit analysis of Australia’s response to covid-19. This analysis, published as a book, shows that the harm caused by lockdowns in ...
Crisis Is the Norm in Domestic War, but This Country and the World Are in Crisis by Design
Post Date: 2022-12-29 20:07:20 by Charles_Byrd
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It should have become obvious by this time that ‘crisis’ management political policy is the new war being waged against society as a whole, in order for the state and its masters to gain total control over every aspect of human life, regardless of the dire consequences to the rest of us. How does it feel to be completely inconsequential to the ruling element of this nation and others, while the wealthy controlling few at the top decide whether you are to work, to travel, to be free, to be with family and friends, to eat, to keep warm, and even to live or die? Those who continue to believe in and support this heinous system of totalitarian governance will likely never have a clue ...
The Price Of Sophistry
Post Date: 2022-12-28 23:31:01 by Charles_Byrd
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In modern usage, the terms sophism and sophistry are used interchangeably with “inaccurate” or “deliberately misleading.” A sophist is someone who relies upon fallacious arguments or reasoning to win a debate. Someone can be accused of sophistry because they are too stupid to see the flaws in their reasoning. Other times they are accused of deliberately misleading arguments. The motivation is malice rather than stupidity or carelessness. This negative view of sophistry was not always so. We get the word from the Greeks who used the word to mean teacher. A sophist hired himself out to rich families to instruct their sons in philosophy, math, rhetoric and music. The ...
Charity, Better Than Government
Post Date: 2022-12-28 22:35:21 by Charles_Byrd
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It’s the season for giving. Click for Full Text!
China has announced several significant changes to how it will manage Covid-19 outbreaks. Strict lockdowns affecting entire communities will no longer be implemented, while those arriving in the country will not be subjected to quarantine, the Chines
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:44:07 by Charles_Byrd
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Humans are both predatory and cooperative. Jonathan Haidt, whose works on moral psychology include The Righteous Mind, says that we are “90 percent chimp, 10 percent bee.” Chimpanzees are violent and competitive, with little ability to cooperate. Bees coordinate effectively and seem willing to sacrifice for the sake of the hive. Much political theory follows Thomas Hobbes, who wrote that living without a government would mean enduring a “war of all against all.” Without an overriding authority, the chimpanzee component of human nature would not permit us to live peacefully with one another. Click for Full Text!
The U.S. spends $4 billion a year subsidizing ‘Stalinist-style’ domestic sugar production
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:25:26 by Charles_Byrd
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In the United States, fewer than 4,500 farm businesses produce sugar. Yet they cost taxpayers up to $4 billion a year in subsidies. The U.S. sugar program is a Stalinist-style supply control initiative that limits imports through quotas and domestic production through what are called marketing allotments. Click for Full Text!
What’s another $1.7T in the omnibus when you’ve taken the national debt to $31.4T?
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:19:14 by Charles_Byrd
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Congress concluded last week the annual shenanigans with funding the government. And while the body’s refusal to get the omnibus done before the 59th minute of the 11th hour is grounds for harsh criticism, its shirking and dodging is only a tiny part of the problem, which is how utterly irresponsible DC is with its checkbook. The $1.7 trillion omnibus itself was loaded with laughable pieces of pork — self-named monuments for various legislators; a chauffeur for the IRS commissioner — but it’s just the latest in a long trend for DC’s free spending and ever-growing government bureaucracy. Click for Full Text!
Objection, Professor Harari! Logic Proves the Existence of Free Will
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:11:45 by Charles_Byrd
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Yuval Noah Harari, professor of history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is not only a best-selling author but also a top advisor to Klaus Schwab, founder and front man of the World Economic Forum (WEF). In 2018, Harari wrote: “Unfortunately, ‘free will’ isn’t a scientific reality. It is a myth inherited from Christian theology.” Click for Full Text!
Christmas: The Shot Heard 'Round the World
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:05:07 by Charles_Byrd
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Here we are at Christmas, and the hustle bustle has given me some thoughts. Most aren’t very festive ones, so heads up— this will start as a sort of long and nostalgic Festivus post, a nod to the Seinfeld holiday for the “rest of us,” and conclude with battle commentary, although I’m no Victor Davis Hanson. As I see it, the face of Christmas hasn’t exactly been a holly, jolly scene so far. First, I live in Atlanta, a city that has experienced increasing crime under those who believe in decreasing consequences. I’ve navigated stores full of stony, masked faces, with my own unmasked face stoically turning to stone as well. Our traffic is epic, although ...
Natural Law or Chaos
Post Date: 2022-12-27 00:32:19 by Charles_Byrd
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I have started watching a video series entitled “Welcome to Negative World.” That would be our world. The speakers are Aaron Renn, Joe Rigney, and James Wood. I am only into the second video of seven, so I cannot speak to the value of the entire series. However, I am so far finding it of value. I discovered the series via a video by Paul VanderKlay, where he examines the first video in the series. The second video in the series is a talk given by Joe Rigney: The Three Worlds and the Tao. He presents the case for natural law as what has been broken in our society – yes, there was always sin, but it is today where the sin is codified, celebrated, even mandated by the law. ...
R.G. Collingwood on the Collapse of Civilization
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:54:45 by Charles_Byrd
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R.G. Collingwood, a philosopher, historian, and archaeologist who taught at Oxford in the first half of the twentieth century, was much esteemed by Ludwig von Mises, especially for his essay “Economics as a Philosophical Science” and, more generally, for his work in the philosophy of history. In this week’s column, I’d like to consider a point that Collingwood makes in his “Fascism and Nazism,” published in Philosophy in 1940, that helps us answer a vital question that confronts us today. The question is this. The case for a complete free market and a noninterventionist foreign policy is an excellent one. Mises showed conclusively that socialism cannot work, ...
Maybe 'Marshal Law' Can Save the Republican Party?
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:34:03 by Charles_Byrd
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In the "Marshal Law" comic-book series, Law is the last name of a law- enforcement officer "with superpowers in the city of San Futuro, the near- future metropolis built from the ruins of San Francisco following a massive earthquake," according to Wikipedia. I've never read these comics, but they offer a satirical take on superhero characters and our government. Perhaps some Republican officials mixed up the Marshal Law character with the term "martial law"—defined by Investopedia as "the substitution of a civil government by military authorities with unlimited powers to suspend the ordinary legal protections of civilian rights." Click for ...
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town Is the Most Libertarian Christmas Special
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:30:09 by Charles_Byrd
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On it's surface, the 1970 Christmas classic Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town is a origin story for the titicular jolly elf. Like the other Rankin/Bass stop- motion animated holiday classics (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Little Drummer Boy) of the era, Santa Claus uses a popular mid-century Christmas song as a jumping-off point for a kid-friendly story about Chirstmas cheer, magical animals, and overcoming adversity. But Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town is also a parable about prohibition, black markets, and the awful consequences of arbitrary laws enforced by nanny states. It casts Santa Claus as a heroic individualist who disdains nonsensical regulations, operates by his own ...
Top 4 Predictions for 2023
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:24:52 by Charles_Byrd
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International Man: What important trends do you see unfolding in 2023? Doug Casey: Perhaps the biggest turning point in recent modern history will turn out to be 2020. Governments and their minions found novel ways to gain huge amounts of control. These things were well underway before 2020, but since Covid, they’ve all gone hyperbolic. That trend will accelerate this year—albeit with some much-delayed pushback. Click for Full Text!
What If Christmas Is Real?
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:23:03 by Charles_Byrd
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What if Christmas is a core belief in the birth of Jesus Christ who lived among us and many times offered a freely given promise of eternal life that no believer should reject or apologize for? What if Christmas is the rebirth of Christ in the hearts of all believers? What if Christmas is the potential rebirth of Christ in every heart that will have Him, whether currently a believer or not? Click for Full Text!
Charity: Biblical and Political
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:16:14 by Charles_Byrd
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Charity is defined as an “act of loving all men as brothers because they are sons of God.” This is a purely personal matter; an act voluntarily performed by one person for another; an act of faith in God and His commandments for governing our relationships with our fellow men. When we keep this concept in mind, it becomes a simple matter to distinguish between true charity and the spurious schemes that now masquerade under its name. The original concept of charity as an expression of love, now appears to have been largely replaced by a concept of government-guaranteed security…. [But] how can charity — the love of a person for his fellow men — ever be connected ...
The Mainstream Media and the U.S. Military
Post Date: 2022-12-20 16:39:06 by Charles_Byrd
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I served in the U.S. military for 20 years, and for the last 15 years I’ve been writing articles that are generally critical of that military and our nation’s drift into militarism and endless warfare Click for Full Text!
Yes, Jesus Would Have Been Branded a Domestic Extremist
Post Date: 2022-12-20 16:23:17 by Charles_Byrd
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The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary traveled to the little town of Bethlehem so that they could be counted. There being no room for the couple at any of the inns, they stayed in a stable (a barn), where Mary gave birth to a baby boy, Jesus. Warned that the government planned to kill the baby, Jesus’ family fled with him to Egypt until it was safe to return to their native land. Click for Full Text!
If we believe in limited government, we must save the Electoral College.
Post Date: 2022-12-19 19:15:17 by Charles_Byrd
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The Electoral College is under bitter attack by Democrats and has been for decades. After the 2000 presidential election, Hillary Clinton told reporters, “it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president.” Twenty years later, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren advocated abolishing the Electoral College while running for president. The Electoral College is a friend to those who believe in limited government and our federalist system. We must save it. Click for Full Text!
Motherhood Isn’t Fatal
Post Date: 2022-12-18 16:23:57 by Charles_Byrd
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Abortion advocates have said over and over that having a baby will derail a woman’s plans for college and a successful career. According to the pro-abortion mantra, women must sacrifice the lives of their unborn children to succeed in life. Click for Full Text!
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