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The Perpetual Emergency Excuse

With 9/11 on the minds of Americans again, it is interesting to see how sentiment regarding it has moved from misplaced rage and nationalistic xenophobia to recognition of something larger lost than even those who died that day. The great Dave Smith was partially right: more from A Twisted History of the United States, 1450-1945:…
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Running My Mouth With the Great Robbie Bernstein

Just some Summer Porch Tourin’… 2022

A Putin’s Progress

It was bound to happen. Once Russian forces invaded Ukraine, figures from both the right and the left fell into their binary, vacuous thought pits. They proceeded to direct Twitter fits at libertarians and anarchists like dear little ol’ me. My response is one to ponder:     So, when both your midwit conservative neighbor…
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Ryan Rogers

I did not know Ryan Rogers. I’ve never met his family. He lived over 1300 miles away from me. For all of my ignorance of who Ryan was, I know one thing: That picture above is of a beautiful, sweet boy. That beautiful sweet boy was murdered on the night of November 15, just a…
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FreedomFest Review

Day 1 Sioux Falls is bigger than I expected. Almost 200,000 people. Very nice downtown. Aside from a generally weird, smelly and unhelpful Walgreens clerk, the people are extremely friendly and welcoming. Economy is clearly booming here. Labor shortage is acute, post-Covid hysteria. Restaurants and shops have reduced hours and seating. A lot of very…
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The Companies Who Cry Noose

They have no shame where shame is certainly needed. No, I’m not talking about actor Jussie Smollett and NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace. It’s altogether obvious that they have no shame nor integrity as they celebrate and–in Wallace’s case–profit directly from self-manufactured racial hoaxes. I am addressing the companies that are on-board with it all. Here’s…
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How to Get Absolutely Pantsed in a Debate–The Impractical Pragmatism of Andy Craig

Whether it was ad hominem attacks, circular logic, post hoc ergo propter hoc or some mixture and variation of several other logical fallacies, Andy Craig (above, right) just got crushed by actual, principled libertarian Dave Smith (above, left) in a debate in which Smith simply deconstructed Craig’s mendacious, slanderous claims about him, and Craig was…
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Maryland Hunts Its Citizens with Unaccountable Paramilitary Force

The fact that the murder of Duncan Lemp has garnered so little attention across the country and in major media outlets reveals just how precarious the state of liberty is at the moment, COVID-19 or no COVID-19. If a police force can invade the home of a 21-year old, launch stun grenades into his basement,…
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Where, Oh Where Did Stephen Colbert’s Talent Go?

When was the last time Stephen Colbert was actually funny? I can’t bring myself to watch his monologues anymore, but I am subjected to some one-liners on promos and YouTube adverts, and man is this guy unfunny. If you can’t be funny in the age of Trump, dear Lord, when can you? I mean, Showtime…
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