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Engineering a Race War

by John W. Whitehead June 12, 2020

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”— George Santayana Watch and see: this debate over police brutality and accountability is about to get politicized into an election-year referendum on who should occupy the White House. Don’t fall for it. The Deep State, the powers-that-be, want us to turn this into a race war, ...

Sell NPR to the Highest Bidder

by Laurence M. Vance June 11, 2020

Founded fifty years ago as National Public Radio, NPR — as it now always refers to itself — is a nonprofit media organization created by the federal government to replace the National Educational Radio Network (NERN). NPR, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C., functions as a membership organization of separately licensed and operated public radio ...

Tragedies of Our Time: Pandemic, Planning, and Racial Politics

by Richard M. Ebeling June 11, 2020

An old adage says that tragedies often come in threes. Certainly, the first half of 2020 has seen a version of this. First, the coronavirus that has infected millions of people and killed hundreds of thousands. Second, the response by most governments to the virus by commanding near universal business lockdowns and stay-at-homes that have wrecked economic havoc on ...

How LockDowns Shattered the Structure of Production

by Richard M. Ebeling June 9, 2020

Old fallacies have a way of reappearing, especially, during times of social and economic crises. The current coronavirus crisis has opened the door to a variety of them, including the notion of a “paradox of thrift.” It is the idea that if people save more of their incomes by reducing their consumption expenditures, they will lower the market demand ...

The Wisconsin Model

by Laurence M. Vance June 8, 2020

A recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decision should serve as a model for transforming the United States into a free society. Here is what led to it. On March 24, the Wisconsin governor, Tony Evers, a Democrat, directed state health officials to issue a stay-at-home order for Wisconsin prohibiting non-essential travel in order to slow the spread ...

Freedom Requires Resisting Coronavirus Pessimism

by Richard M. Ebeling June 4, 2020

“I’m from the government, and I am here to help!” This line has become a cynical joke among large numbers of Americans, and it often cuts across differences of political opinion concerning the role and activities of government in modern American society. This has continued with the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis, and especially the longer it goes ...

This Is Not a Revolution. It’s a Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation

by John W. Whitehead June 2, 2020

When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you—pull your beard, flick your face—to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. — John Lennon Brace yourselves. There is something being concocted in the dens of power, ...

Sickness Is The Health Of The State!

by David Stockman June 1, 2020

A hundred years ago in response to the horror of WWI, the great Randolph Bourne famously pronounced the truth that “War is the Health of the State.” Said Bourne, War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate co-operation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups ...

Free the Liquor Stores!

by Laurence M. Vance May 28, 2020

The Fine Wine & Good Spirits liquor stores are slowly beginning to reopen in Pennsylvania after they were all closed on March 17 in response to the spread of the coronavirus. On May 8, 77 stores reopened. On May 15, 155 more stores reopened. On May 22, 50 more stores were opened. During the time when ...

Doctors With Hacksaws

by David Stockman May 27, 2020

It started in sheer madness on March 13 when the Donald was persuaded to declare a national emergency by his camarilla of dopey doctors. Their stay-at-home guidelines were absolute folly because by then it was obvious that the new Wuhan virus strain mainly attacked the aged, infirm and those already afflicted with serious cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and diabetes/obesity ailments, not ...

Trump: I Can and Will Start Wars Whenever I Please

by Michael Tennant May 26, 2020

President Donald Trump’s May 6 veto of a Senate resolution that would have required him to seek congressional approval for any further military confrontations with Iran demonstrates that, despite his occasional feints toward scaling back foreign intervention, Trump is as much a warmonger as anyone else in Washington. Worse still, his explanation for his veto indicates that he believes ...

The Slippery Slope to Despotism

by John W. Whitehead May 22, 2020

You have no right not to be vaccinated, you have no right not to wear a mask, you have no right to open up your business… And if you refuse to be vaccinated, the state has the power to literally take you to a doctor's office and plunge a needle into your arm. —Alan Dershowitz, Harvard law professor You ...