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Pot Legal in Illinois–God Save the Right; Other Not-So-Lit State Laws

Q: A blunt and a blintz then for you Governor? Gov. Pritzker: Why, yes! I’ll have the double order. I sure hope that these dopes in Illinois don’t pay attention to the inordinate taxes I’m taking out from sanctioned pot now. I’ll tell them it’s all going to fund state pensions and the prisons, I…
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Catholic Fun Fact Quiz

Get this wrong, and I’ll come and slap you like the (anti)Pope! Just kidding–I’m not that violent… Good luck! Loading…

German Cosmologist Questions the Popular Certainty of Climate Change

Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder has gone so far as to demand greater accuracy in the doomsday models on climate change. In short, “the science” is far from “settled”. But, then again, when is it ever? Hear more on the subject from the Bob Murphy Show. Read more, from the New York Times of all places, here.

While Greta Was Away…

So, what has been going on in dear Greta’s homeland while she’s been ditching school excoriating the rest of humanity for daring to raise themselves out of abject poverty? A Swedish mother carrying her 1-year old was shot in the head. Radicalized Muslim gangs have taken over significant cities in the country and engaged in…
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The 2010s Have Been Awesome, BUT…

Wall Street Journal Article …IF ONLY States and political entrepreneurs would get their dirty boots off of the neck of the free market and allow the enterprising and voluntary spirit to reign once more, the decade and future would be ever more brilliant. Oh, and let’s not forget that this has been accomplished while the…
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Capitalism is the Crane-Kick to Socialism’s Cobra (Kai) Effect

Regarding the unintended and not-so-unintended consequences of public, state action, Foundation for Economic Education scholars Antony Davies and James Harrigan discuss the Cobra Effect from colonial India, air pollution in Mexico, and oil production (or lack thereof) in Venezuela. No time to read the whole piece? Check out the ineffable Seamus Coughlin’s great cartoon on…
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Clintons–With Chelsea in Tow–Visited the Epstein Compound

Watch this story get buried by the left consensus media faster than the actual Epstein.

Cuba, Communism and Christus Rex

  This is a good homily from a great priest, who meets Christ’s people where they are. My comments/points of clarification on it follow: Communism is never directed–by its nature–toward the preferential option for the poor, toward authentic charity, toward true Christian freedom, toward Christ Himself Who was killed by a totalitarian regime. Its essence…
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A Nuanced Pitch on Slavery That Nonetheless Destroys the 1619 Project

Not that a broad audience is capable of hearing a nuanced and multi-faceted argument on the nature of slavery in the Antebellum South, but maybe my audience is? Fingers-crossed? Unfortunately, the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project and poor historians of “new capitalism” have only added to the singular note of confusion that reigns today. Want…
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OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: I Will NOT Be Running for PRESIDENT… BUT, Jacob Hornberger Is AND You Should Support Him

The Great Tom Woods is right in asserting “Woods’ Law”; namely, that in our lifetimes, no matter who we vote for at the national level–in Congress, for president–we always end up getting John McCain. No more John McCains! Trump was right to prefer our heroes to not have gotten caught, but let’s go further. Let’s…
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