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Donald J. Trump: Patient Zero of Lockdown Nation’s Covid Hysteria, Part 1

by David Stockman April 30, 2020

According to the CDC’s long established mortality models, 687,000 Americans were supposed to die during the 12 weeks between February 1 and April 18. But only 666,000 actually complied. So the Grim Reaper was deprived of his seasonally adjusted mortality quota, even as 21,000 families were spared, at least temporarily, of the loss and grief which accompanies the passing of ...

American Exceptionalism Scars Both Victim and Victimizer

by Danny Sjursen April 29, 2020

Manicheanism means murder. Amidst the present pandemic, America’s irrationally dyadic global typecasting, and consequent capacity for cruelty, are on unusually flagrant display. Consider this the macabre gift of COVID-catalyzed reality exposure. From Uncle Sam’s escalation of proxy war with - and threats to bomb - Iran, to the maintenance and tightening ...

Herbert Spencer on Equal Liberty and the Free Society

by Richard M. Ebeling April 27, 2020

Social, political and economic crises, including those connected with a viral pandemic, absorb so much of our attention that it is easy to miss or forget anniversaries marking when famous figures may have been born or had earlier passed away. In this case, April 27th marks the 200th birthday of British classical liberal and advocate of laissez-faire, Herbert Spencer, ...

The U.S. Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments

by John W. Whitehead April 24, 2020

“They were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.” — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children I have never known any government to put the best interests of its people first, and this COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Now this isn’t intended ...

Conspiracies, Corona, and the Hounds of Adam Smith

by John McGinnis April 23, 2020

Thomas Jefferson famously wrote, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground." I think Rahm Emanuel’s corollary (“You never let a serious crisis go to waste.”) is that difficult circumstances make the best opportunities for government expansion. These will probably bear out as we witness the short-term and long-term responses to the ...

The Jackboots Of The Virus Patrol

by David Stockman April 20, 2020

Say what? It seems that the mainstream politicians and commentariat have gone so far off the deep-end on the Covid-19 that it takes a pair of socialists from south of the border to clear the air. That’s right. We are referring to Mr .Lopez-Gatell, Mexico’s minister of health and pedigreed PhD epidemiologist from John-Hopkins and his boss, President Obrador, a true ...

Economic Impossibilities

by Laurence M. Vance April 17, 2020

Just as certain things are impossible in mathematics, accounting, chemistry, and physics, so also in economics. Adding two even numbers together can never result in an odd number. Assets cannot but equal liabilities plus equities. Oil and water do not mix. Atmospheric pressure does not increase with an increase in height. When the price of a good rises, the amount ...

Will there Be Tyranny in the Post-Coronavirus World?

by Richard M. Ebeling April 16, 2020

The coronavirus crisis will be considered one of the most important global events of the early decades of the 21st century. Like a pebble that is dropped in a pond of water from which a series of waves are sent out across its surface, the virus has created waves of hundreds of thousands of human victims in countries all ...

Republicans Are Now Good For Exactly …….. Nothing!

by David Stockman April 13, 2020

Nancy Pelosi, Chuckles Schumer and the rest of the Dem wrecking crew surely have the Trumpified GOP by the short hairs. The latter are clueless about the real imperative, which is to halt the senseless shutdown of the US economy ASAP. So like deer caught in the headlights of public fear, outrage and hurt by the Covid Quarantines, they have ...

Be Equally Aware of Government Scams

by Laurence M. Vance April 9, 2020

During this time of national crisis over the coronavirus, scammers, fraudsters, hucksters, and assorted con men have come out of the woodwork. According to the article “4 Coronavirus Scams That Could Cost You,” Because so many people are feeling vulnerable right now, it’s a prime time for scammers to strike. These fraudsters take advantage of the fear ...

The Press Conference Trump Should Hold Now

by Richard M. Ebeling April 7, 2020

Every late afternoon, the American people have been able to tune into a presidential press conference detailing the day’s events and governmental decisions concerning the coronavirus. Donald Trump is usually joined by vice president Mike Pence, and medical experts, Dr. Anthony Fouci and Dr. Deborah Birx, who are on the president’s coronavirus taskforce, plus other members of his presidential ...

Right Policy, Wrong Reason

by Laurence M. Vance April 6, 2020

Before Donald Trump indicated his support for the current coronavirus-relief program, he broached the idea of a payroll-tax cut. In addition to the money withheld from paychecks for income tax, there are, thanks to the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA), two payroll taxes: Social Security and Medicare. The Social Security tax rate is 12.4 percent (split equally between employer and employee) ...