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“Restore Power to the People!” and Other Misdirections of the AFL-CIO

So says an advertisement seeking to employ college students as political operatives for a group called Working America, which, ironically, seeks to expand the welfare state and demands that government pay people to not work. But this is not the only irony on the flier. Here’s its sales pitch: Organize with Working America and stand [...]
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Republican debate, 3: Ron Paul’s use of reasoning vs. Rick Perry’s attempt at physical intimidation

(All quotes from here.) Because Ron Paul has been almost painfully consistent in his support of the Constitution and liberty, one of the things that he is best at is showing his fellow Republicans for what they are: inconsistent people who flit back and forth between promoting liberty and promoting big government, shamelessly, and with [...]
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Walnuts as drugs, death panels, free speech, and other problems of the FDA

It was during the hysterical period in time when our overlords in Congress discussed whether to force Obamacare on us sheep that some angry tea-partyers started using the term ‘death panels.’ The term is not too hard to grasp. Here’s the basic idea. Related Posts:Republican debate, 3: Ron Paul’s use of reasoning vs. Rick Perry’s [...]
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Gary North on the recent unrest in Egypt

Gary North explains how the recent unrest in the Middle East is the result of the Internet, which makes the information control that oppressive governments rely on impossible. Brutal dictatorship as we know it is coming towards its last days. And the US government, which has so long armed the repressive government of Egypt, is [...]
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AAPS on free-market healthcare

This video contains an orthopedic surgeon’s breakdown of exactly why our healthcare system is, increasingly, dysfunctional. The organization the physician belongs to is the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, where you can read up on the topic if you don’t want to watch the long and detailed video. Related Posts:Republican debate, 3: Ron Paul’s [...]
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100 years of medical fascism . . .

is the title of this article.  It’s a reference to the fact that today is the 100th anniversary of the Flexner Report, a call for governmental control of the medical profession, a report which has shaped current American medicine into what it is today.  The word “fascism,” origins in Benito Mussolini’s dictatorship, may not seem [...]
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Cause and effect: healthcare bill edition

The market is governed by simple principles derived from the fact that on the free market everyone is trying to get whatever it happens to be that they want.  One of these rules concerns the relationship between supply and demand. Related Posts:Republican debate, 3: Ron Paul’s use of reasoning vs. Rick Perry’s attempt at physical [...]
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On the recent house bill, socialism, etc.

As most likely all of you know, there was a very significant healthcare bill passed yesterday.  A friend of mine went so far as to say (via facebook), Hurray, the United States government just declared the Church is officially off the hook in regards to the care of the sick and infirm. Now all we [...]
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