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Walter Grinder 1938-2022
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:36:33 by Charles_Byrd
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I note with great sadness the passing of my friend and former colleague Walter Grinder. He was 84. Walter may be the most important libertarian that most libertarians have never heard of. Although he made important contributions to the literature of liberty (such as his work with John Hagel on the far-reaching destructive effects of state intervention in money and banking and his introduction to Albert Jay Nock's classic, Our Enemy the State), he devoted his professional activities primarily to keeping libertarian scholars and writers informed about a wide range of literature relevant to understanding liberty. His interests covered the broadest range of disciplines, including history, ...
Conservatives Must Resist Push to Normalize LGBTism on the Right: MassResistance
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:30:33 by Charles_Byrd
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Conservatives and traditional Americans must resist the relentless push to normalize homosexuality, homosexual "marriage," and transgenderism even within the Republican Party and the broader conservative movement, warned MassResistance Field Director Arthur Schaper in an interview on Conversations That Matter with The New American magazine's Alex Newman. The organization, which is on the front line of the culture war, has seen a series of enormous victories, including shutting down drag queen shows for children, exposing convicted sexual predators involved in the perverse events, and removing grotesque material from libraries and schools. Schaper said the organization has also ...
Congress Has a New Scapegoat for COVID Fraud: Banking Apps
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:10:39 by Charles_Byrd
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App-based financial service firms like PayPal and Square have revolutionized how American consumers and businesses move money around—and now, they're being blamed for COVID-19 relief fraud. Yes, really. In a congressional report published last week, lawmakers on the Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis say widespread fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was supposed to pay shuttered businesses to keep employees on the payroll during the pandemic, should spur calls for new regulations on so-called "fintech" companies. Click for Full Text!
The Supreme Court Will Hear a Second Challenge Over Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:08:42 by Charles_Byrd
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On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear a second challenge over President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness plan. With Biden's plan having been blocked twice in federal court, the Education Department will now have to victory not once but twice in order to finally begin enacting its plan. With a broadly conservative Court, that possibility seems slim. Click for Full Text!
Wichita Falls Pastor Charged With Sexually Assaulting 11-Year-Old Girl
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:07:21 by Charles_Byrd
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Last week, Wichita Falls Police in Texas arrested a pastor for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl. The girl’s family attends his church. Click for Full Text!
Biden Freak Show Loses Cast Member: Bald Sadist Brinton Fired After Luggage Thefts
Post Date: 2022-12-13 16:52:27 by Charles_Byrd
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The nation’s nuclear waste program will no longer be in the hands of a bald, mustachioed weirdo who wears dresses, heels, and lipstick to his job at the Energy Department. The Department has fired Sam Brinton, deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition, because he has been charged twice with stealing luggage from airport carousels. Click for Full Text!
Household Wealth Suffers Second-fastest Decline Since 1959
Post Date: 2022-12-13 16:51:08 by Charles_Byrd
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A recent U.S. Federal Reserve report found that household wealth in the United States has suffered its second-fastest decline since 1959 during the first three quarters of this year. Only a positive performance in real estate helped ease the decline. The Fed’s Financial Accounts of the United States report shared, “The net worth of households and nonprofit organizations declined $0.4 trillion to $143.3 trillion in the third quarter. The value of stocks on the household balance sheet declined by $1.9 trillion, while the value of real estate increased by $0.7 trillion,” Click for Full Text!
Senate Investigation Finds Federal Prisons Fail to Prevent or Investigate Rapes
Post Date: 2022-12-13 16:47:03 by Charles_Byrd
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The federal Bureau of Prison's deeply flawed, backlogged system for investigating sexual assault fails to protect female inmates from rape while protecting employees who commit sexual assault, according to a bipartisan report issued today by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI). The PSI investigation found that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has failed to implement a federal law to prevent prison rapes, and that long delays in investigating complaints have led to a backlog of more than 8,000 internal affairs cases, leading to failures to hold employees accountable. The report says that these management failures "allowed serious, repeated sexual abuse in at least ...
The Pentagon Fails Another Audit, Gets $858 Billion Anyway
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:55:10 by Charles_Byrd
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Can you imagine the audacity to fail a multi-trillion dollar audit of public funds, and then ask for even more of those taxpayer dollars? Pentagon leaders just did exactly that. Click for Full Text!
New spending bill squanders billions on dysfunctional weapons programs
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:50:24 by Charles_Byrd
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Sometimes more is less. So it is with the House and Senate’s compromise version of the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that was made public this week and was passed by the House on Thursday. The bill calls for near record levels of Pentagon spending, but it chooses to devote much of the funding to costly, dysfunctional weapons systems that are ill-suited to addressing current challenges, largely because many of the weapons boosted in the NDAA were chosen based on where they are built, not whether they are the best systems for defending the United States and its allies. Pork barrel politics ruled the day to an extent not seen in recent memory, and we may all ...
California City Pays $300,000 to Marine Veteran Tackled for Filming a Cop From His Porch
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:40:12 by Charles_Byrd
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A Marine veteran who was tackled on his own porch for filming a police officer has settled an excessive force lawsuit against the city of Vallejo, California, for $300,000, the Vallejo Sun reports. The settlement is yet another in a string of costly excessive force lawsuits against the city of Vallejo. Despite its relatively small size, the Vallejo Police Department has generated a large number of civil rights lawsuits and settlement payouts. Click for Full Text!
Will TSA Steal Your Face?
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:22:45 by Charles_Byrd
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The Transportation Security Administration is running a pilot program in which travelers stand in photo kiosks that compare their face with a federal database of photos from passport applications, drivers’ licenses and other sources. TSA promises that its new airport regime, which could vastly expand next year, will respect Americans’ privacy. What could possibly go wrong? Aside from everything? Will Americans tolerate an out-of-control agency intruding ever further into their lives? The Washington Post warned in 2019 that airport facial recognition systems are “America’s biggest step yet to normalize treating our faces as data that can be stored, tracked and, ...
This Teen Was Acquitted of Killing His Accomplice. He Was Punished for It Anyway.
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:17:13 by Charles_Byrd
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In 2015, when he was 17, Dayonta McClinton and five accomplices robbed a CVS pharmacy in Indiana at gunpoint. Federal prosecutors also alleged that McClinton shot and killed one of his accomplices, Malik Perry, during a dispute after the robbery. A jury convicted McClinton of robbing the pharmacy and brandishing a gun during that crime but acquitted him of robbing and killing Perry. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt nevertheless granted the government's request that McClinton serve time for causing Perry's death. Taking into account his prior criminal record, the sentencing guidelines recommended a prison term of 57 to 71 months for the convictions. McClinton instead received ...
The FDA Is Doing Something That Could Actually Cut Overdose Deaths
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:15:36 by Charles_Byrd
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By spring, a drug used to reverse opioid overdoses may become available at your local pharmacy without a prescription. Last week Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was fast-tracking approval of over-the-counter sales of Narcan, a nasal spray of naloxone, which can quickly treat and reverse an opioid overdose before it kills. Click for Full Text!
The Biden Administration’s Retirement Heist
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:13:17 by Charles_Byrd
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President Joe Biden’s going after 401(k) retirement accounts, risking millions of workers’ comfortable retirements. If you put money into a 401(k), beware. Until now, the law always required fund managers entrusted with your savings to invest the money where it’s expected to get the top return for you. Period. But on Nov. 22, Biden’s Labor Department announced a rule change that goes into effect the end of January. It will allow fund managers to invest your money in the stocks of companies that favor left-wing policies, even if they earn a lower return. Click for Full Text!
The Twitter Files: The Corporate Media Ignores The Biggest Story Of The Decade
Post Date: 2022-12-12 15:59:50 by Charles_Byrd
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The biggest story of the past decade is not the covid pandemic, the January 6th protests, the war in Ukraine, the BLM riots, or even the stagflationary crisis in the US. Behind these major events is another story, one that connects them all together in a disturbing way. Even more important than the effects of geopolitical and economic chaos is the effect of mass censorship; without the free exchange of information and debate the public remains ignorant. And if the public remains ignorant, crisis events have an increasing potential to explode. Public perception of national and international affairs is a key determinant of the outcome of disasters and conflicts. This is why governments and ...
Walter Grinder, an appreciation
Post Date: 2022-12-11 22:35:25 by Charles_Byrd
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Tyler Cowen broke the sad news that Walter Grinder passed away. Tyler was one of the many intellectual protégées of Walter- certainly the most prominent and successful, the one with whom Walter felt the stronger bond, as he met Tyler when the latter was a teenager. But Walter, as the engine behind the Institute of Humane Studies, played a similar role to many, whom he gently and wisely steered in several new avenues of research. Never underestimate the role of the person who puts a good book in your hands. Particularly if he imagines you could expand your views thanks to it and perhaps use it to see the world from perspectives you did not imagine before. Click for Full Text!
Revealing He Too Had Manning Leaks, Ellsberg Dares DOJ to Prosecute Him Like Assange
Post Date: 2022-12-11 22:27:37 by Charles_Byrd
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Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Tuesday dared U.S. prosecutors to come after him like they have Julian Assange by revealing in a BBC News interview that the WikiLeaks publisher sent him a backup of leaked materials from former military analyst Chelsea Manning. “Let me tell you a secret. I had possession of all the Chelsea Manning information before it came out in the press,” Ellsberg said to BBC‘s Stephen Sackur in the on-camera interview. “I’ve never said that publicly.” Click for Full Text!
Walter Grinder has passed away, RIP
Post Date: 2022-12-11 22:21:10 by Charles_Byrd
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Meeting Walter at age 13 was a formative moment in my life, as he hooked me on the world of ideas. Fortunately, Walter lived in Bogota, New Jersey at the time, and I was not so far away. He was the first person to show me it was possible to have a life devoted to intellectual inquiry. I looked forward to each meeting with Walter more than anything else, and I would never stop peppering him with questions about which books to read and which NYC bookstores to visit. It also seemed impossibly cool to me that he had hung out with Camus and in addition visited Yugoslavia. I saw him and thought, ‘I want to be some version of this.’ I remember Walter giving me an autographed copy of his ...
The Hypocrisy of Marijuana Crusaders
Post Date: 2022-12-11 22:11:41 by Charles_Byrd
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Two things remind me of the hypocrisy of marijuana crusaders, on the Left and the Right. Just two days before the World Cup was scheduled to begin in the Muslim nation of Qatar, FIFA (soccer’s governing body) announced that no beer could be sold at any of the eight stadiums that will host the soccer tournament’s matches from November 20 thru December 18. Click for Full Text!
The Early 21st Century Dystopian Nightmare Reality
Post Date: 2022-12-11 22:07:38 by Charles_Byrd
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Welcome to the early 21st century dystopian nightmare reality where Orwell’s 1984 is no longer fiction, and if you are hearing voices, it could be the government transplanting those thoughts in your head. If you think your appliances are listening to you, well, you may be right. Truth is treason and fact is fiction. Freedom is selfish and fascism is kindness. Killer robots are being deployed and the Malthusian depopulation agenda is being implemented. An evolution of good old fashion eugenics called transhumanism is being sold as the advancement of the human race, and global technocrats are openly planning to use artificial intelligence to decide which industries to eliminate in an ...
Sam Bankman-Fried and the Missing Billions for Pandemic Planning
Post Date: 2022-12-11 22:04:46 by Charles_Byrd
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Yes, I watched the appalling scenes of Sam Bankman-Fried’s media tour. He repeatedly returns to the theme of his philanthropy: pandemic planning. What does this 30-year-old computer guy know about infectious disease? No more than Bill Gates did when he began his malanthropic crusade through the universities, journals, and nonprofits and imposed his lockdown-and- vaccinate ideology on them, thus compromising a whole generation of infectious-disease scientists. Bankman-Fried saw how much influence this bought Gates and decided to replicate the experience in a mere few years in the midst of a pandemic. As we’ve documented, he gave millions but promised billions. The promise tends to ...
OBGYN Confirms Unborn Babies Have Beating Hearts
Post Date: 2022-12-10 06:33:34 by Charles_Byrd
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A prominent OB-GYN pushed back this week against a major news outlet’s attempts to deny that an unborn baby has a heartbeat by six weeks of pregnancy, saying facts are “inconvenient” to the pro-abortion agenda. Dr. Christina Francis, CEO-elect of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), told Fox News that the new journalistic guidelines published by the Associated Press this week are incorrect. Click for Full Text!
Independent abortion clinics are ‘disappearing from communities’
Post Date: 2022-12-10 06:08:02 by Charles_Byrd
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Not every abortion clinic is a Planned Parenthood affiliate. We may tend to forget that. Many are Independents and many of them are affiliated with the Abortion Care Network. USA Today’s Christine Fernando’s writes that “Independent abortion care providers, also called ‘indies,’ are community-based reproductive health clinics not affiliated with a national organization like Planned Parenthood, said ACN Deputy Director Erin Grant.” Click for Full Text!
Abortion: A Physician’s Story
Post Date: 2022-12-10 06:06:06 by Charles_Byrd
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As many of you know or can at least tell by my Facebook page, I am not one to “post” much and generally consider myself a non-Facebooker. Since first learning about the new legislative laws being passed on abortion in New York, I was immediately reminded of a wise friend’s words, to me, 5 years ago as she urged me to make “my story” public. She stated that prior to hearing about my experience, she knew very little about what actually happens in an abortion and believed that most people do not understand and likely do not even think much about the actual abortive procedure. She strongly felt that everyone should be made aware of what actually happens in an abortion ...
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