Posts and comments on politics, news, economics, technology and government events. Started: 2/1/2017
Posts and comments on politics, news, economics, technology and government events.
Unpopular Truths Need to Be Told
“Tell the people what is honestly believed to be true. Disregard votes. Pay no attention to popularity. ‘To thine own self be true.’” — Leonard E. Read, Pattern for Revolt (1948) When a truth needs to be told, tell it. Is it an unpleasant truth? Tell it anyway. People-pleasing and people-h...
A Warning to Americans From Across the Pond: Don’t Take Your Free Speech Rights for Granted
For the past decade, freedom of speech has been at the forefront of America's culture war, and it should not be controversial to say that both sides are at least partly to blame for this. Many on the left have exploited their expanding cultural hegemony to suppress dissenting speech in...
14 Signs of Totalitarianism
We all know the cons of Twitter, but one of the pros is discovering new and interesting people. One of my favorite new follows is Benjamin Carlson, a public relations guru and former editor at The Atlantic. Carlson’s tweets are among the best you’ll find on Twitter, and he clearly has a keen...
Why Former School Teachers Are Earning More Money As Education Entrepreneurs
When Emily Williams told her parents back in early 2020 that she was leaving her job as a certified public school teacher to launch a microschool, they thought she was crazy. Both longtime public school educators themselves, they couldn’t understand why Williams, who taught in Mississippi public.....
Why Do Big Cities Tend to Have Bigger Government?
Last week I answered a question from a FEE reader on how the Federal Reserve creates money. This week, Aaron, a FEE Daily reader, asks a very different question: “Why is it that more populous cities seem more inclined to adopt laws and regulations that restrict individual autonomy, and attract...
Three Days of the Condor: The 1970s Movie That Revealed the Real Terror of a Deep State
On a recent flight, I rewatched one of the great political thrillers of all-time: Three Days of the Condor. From start to finish, the movie is a suspenseful, action-packed thriller, perfect for a three-hour flight. Based on the 1974 novel Six Days of the Condor by James Grady, the film was shot...
How the James-Younger Gang’s Historic Defeat Showed the Importance of a Well-Armed and Responsible Citizenry
“Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.” Thus spoke Alexander Graham Bell on March 10, 1876, in the world’s first successful telephone message. Twenty-two-year-old Thomas Augustus Watson thereby became history’s first recipient of a phone call, though he was no further away than an adjace...
How the US Government Created the Student Loan Crisis https://2vnews.com/2022/08/31/how-the-us-government-created-the-student-loan-crisis/
President Joe Biden unveiled a sweeping plan on Wednesday to let delinquent student loan borrowers transfer tens of thousands of dollars in debt to taxpayers. If he were a biblically minded leader, Biden would have used his nationally televised press conference to repent of his role in creating...
How One State Went From Bottom to Top in Education Choice and Innovation https://2vnews.com/2022/08/04/how-one-state-went-from-bottom-to-top-in-education-choice-and-innovation/
West Virginia has experienced a dramatic expansion of educational freedom over the past year, from the state legislature passing a near-universal Education Savings Account (ESA) program, called the Hope Scholarship, to loosening state compulsory school attendance laws for participants of...
Twitter Ban – Jordan B Peterson https://2vnews.com/2022/07/01/twitter-ban-jordan-b-peterson/
Refusing to back down, Dr. Peterson calls out the “woke moralists” as he deconstructs the tweet that put him in the censors' crosshairs. // WATCH MORE // Dr. Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://utm.io/ueJdK // SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter:...
Yes, the Products You’re Buying Are Getting Smaller—Even Though Prices Are Not https://2vnews.com/2022/06/13/yes-the-products-youre-buying-are-getting-smaller-even-though-prices-are-not/
The rise in consumer prices has rightly received a great deal of attention, as inflation hovers around 40-year highs. Everyone can see that virtually everything is getting more expensive, but fewer have noticed that many items are also getting smaller. On Wednesday the Associated Press ran an...
MrBeast, the YouTuber Saving Our Oceans and Beaches Through Voluntary Action https://2vnews.com/2022/05/19/mrbeast-the-youtuber-saving-our-oceans-and-beaches-through-voluntary-action/
MrBeast is a 24-year-old YouTuber who is far more than a content creator—he’s a change creator. While best known for producing game-style challenge videos and pranks for his 53 million YouTube subscribers, that’s not the only type of content he makes. He also makes charitable videos for...
New Study Provides Yet More Evidence That COVID Lockdowns Didn’t Work https://2vnews.com/2022/04/23/new-study-provides-yet-more-evidence-that-covid-lockdowns-didnt-work/
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, even alarmist government officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci have admitted that it’s time to learn to live with the virus rather than disrupt our ordinary lives. In recent months, there has been a concentrated shift among our elected officials and expert class...
Why Grocery Stores Run So Much More Efficiently Than DMVs https://2vnews.com/2022/03/22/why-grocery-stores-run-so-much-more-efficiently-than-dmvs/
Most shoppers don’t fully appreciate what goes on behind the scenes at their grocers. Yes, nowadays, with empty shelves all too often staring them in the face, they no longer take full shelves for granted. But there are lots of other things going on that may have slipped them by. The floors have.....
New Hampshire Is the Freest State in America. Here's Why https://2vnews.com/2022/02/13/new-hampshire-is-the-freest-state-in-america-heres-why/
When the CATO Institute put out their 2021 rankings for Economic and Social Freedom in the 50 States, there was one winner in both categories overall—New Hampshire. The self-proclaimed “Free State” took both categories after being overtaken by Florida in 2020. But how did it get there? What le...
Why the Separation of Bank and State Is so Important https://2vnews.com/2022/01/23/why-the-separation-of-bank-and-state-is-so-important/
Most lovers of freedom and free markets champion the separation of the state (politics and politicians) from a lot of things—church, family, business, education, etc. Perhaps if the Constitution of the United States had expressly forbidden the establishment by the federal government of a...
Why America's Founders Didn't Want a Democracy https://2vnews.com/2021/11/28/why-americas-founders-didnt-want-a-democracy-2/
When I took history and government in school, many critical issues were misrepresented, given short shrift, or even ignored entirely. And those lacunae undermined my ability to adequately understand many things. Randall Holcombe’s new book, Liberty in Peril: Democracy and Power in American...
NYT Explores What Happens When Democrats Have All the Power. The Answer May Surprise You https://2vnews.com/2021/11/20/nyt-explores-what-happens-when-democrats-have-all-the-power-the-answer-may-surprise-you/
Last week New York Times video journalist Johnny Harris asked a simple question. “What do Democrats actually do when they have all the power?” It turns out that 18 states in the US are effectively run by Democrats, who control both the executive and legislative branches. As Harris notes...
US Would Have Highest Top Income Tax Rate Among Developed Nations Under Biden Plan, New Analysis Warns https://2vnews.com/2021/11/07/us-would-have-highest-top-income-tax-rate-among-developed-nations-under-biden-plan-new-analysis-warns/
Nobel-prize-winning economist Milton Friedman famously quipped that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Well, despite the Biden administration’s rhetorical spin, there’s also no such thing as a multi-trillion-dollar spending plan that costs “zero dollars.” Indeed, Biden’s plans includ...
A Rising Culture of Middle-Class Angel Investors Are Enriching Themselves and Society https://2vnews.com/2021/09/21/a-rising-culture-of-middle-class-angel-investors-are-enriching-themselves-and-society/
In Dallas, Texas, an assortment of particularly risk-tolerant graduate students sat around a poker table. Most were University of Texas Southwestern medical students. Many dollars would change hands that night, with equal parts gains and losses. Ideas, too, would be exchanged. But unlike dollars...
Congress Wants to Copy Some of the EU’s Worst Food Rules. That’s a Bad Idea https://2vnews.com/2021/09/21/congress-wants-to-copy-some-of-the-eus-worst-food-rules-thats-a-bad-idea/
Legislation looming in the US Congress could emulate European food standards by copying European agricultural regulation. PACTA (Protect America’s Children from Toxic Pesticides Act), legislation sponsored by Senators Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Bernie Sanders would outlaw any pesticide...
Homeschooling Numbers Are Skyrocketing in Some Parts of the Country https://2vnews.com/2021/09/03/homeschooling-numbers-are-skyrocketing-in-some-parts-of-the-country/
The numbers are startling. More parents are pulling their children out of school for homeschooling this fall, prompted in large part by school mask policies and ongoing virus concerns. The homeschooling rate in the US doubled in 2020, and tripled from its pre-pandemic level, as parents sought...
Texas Is Now an "Open Carry” State, Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing https://2vnews.com/2021/09/03/texas-is-now-an-open-carry-state-heres-why-thats-a-good-thing/
One of the Biggest Welfare State Expansions in US History Just Got Approved By the House https://2vnews.com/2021/08/25/one-of-the-biggest-welfare-state-expansions-in-us-history-just-got-approved-by-the-house/
It’s another day that ends in y, so, Congress just nonchalantly voted to spend trillions of taxpayer dollars. On Tuesday, the House approved a $3.5 trillion spending resolution on a party-line vote, with Democrats backing the measure and Republicans uniformly opposing it. “House Democrats passed...
Marxist Student Group Demands Abolition of Hayek Society at London School of Economics https://2vnews.com/2021/08/02/marxist-student-group-demands-abolition-of-hayek-society-at-london-school-of-economics/
“Wherever books are burned,” wrote the German journalist and poet Heinrich Heine, “men in the end will also burn.” He penned those words in 1823, more than a century before the N***s burned both books and men, which makes Heine a keen observer of the past and a prophet of future events. Maki...
What the N***s Had in Common With Every Other Collectivist Regime in the 20th Century https://2vnews.com/2021/07/30/what-the-nazis-had-in-common-with-every-other-collectivist-regime-in-the-20th-century/
Today marks an infamous centennial. One hundred years ago—on July 29, 1921—Adolf Hi**er assumed the leadership of the National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as the N***s. It became his vehicle to power. Note the formal, official name of the party. It was not the National...
Despite ‘Delta’ Alarmism, US COVID Deaths Are at Lowest Level Since March 2020 https://2vnews.com/2021/07/29/despite-delta-alarmism-us-covid-deaths-are-at-lowest-level-since-march-2020/
If you judged the US’s current COVID-19 situation only by the headlines, you’d come away thinking that we’re spiraling back into pandemic disaster. Localities like Los Angeles County and St. Louis have reimposed mask mandates on their citizens, and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
CNN Just Perfectly Explained How Inflation Hurts the Working Class. But They Left Out the Most Important Part https://2vnews.com/2021/07/20/cnn-just-perfectly-explained-how-inflation-hurts-the-working-class-but-they-left-out-the-most-important-part/
A broken clock is still right twice a day. And even CNN stumbles onto an accurate interpretation of the news once in a while. On New Day this morning, hosts John Berman and Christine Romans broke down the latest data showing spikes in consumer prices with a degree of clarity and economic...
93 Vermont Towns Have No Public Schools, But Great Education. How Do They Do It? https://2vnews.com/2021/07/17/93-vermont-towns-have-no-public-schools-but-great-education-how-do-they-do-it-2/
In just a couple of weeks, 50 boys with learning disabilities will take to a stage in Vermont, one after the other, to recite the Gettysburg Address from memory. It’s a daring experiment undertaken each February at the Greenwood School and its population of boys who’ve struggled in public...
How Montana Is Revolutionizing Healthcare—With Markets https://2vnews.com/2021/07/13/how-montana-is-revolutionizing-healthcare-with-markets/
I love Montana for reasons that draw me to the state at least once a year: friends, mountains, wildlife, dry air, and fishing, to name a few. Now I have a new reason to love it: Healthcare freedom. Earlier this year, Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a bill that promises to expand a health care model...
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