Bretigne Shaffer's Blog, page 19
September 5, 2020
September 3, 2020
Ethical Skeptic's First Ever Podcast Interview!
Image: Public domain. You can listen to it here. For those who don't know him, Ethical Skeptic is one of the biggest data-digging heroes of the Covid-19 era. You can find Ethical Skeptic on Twitter, and on his own website...
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The Post that Got a Pregnant Aussie Mom Arrested:
OK, I'm not sure this was the precise post that got her arrested, but these are the protests that Australian mom Zoe Buhler posted about on Facebook - posts for which she was arrested earlier this week. The planned protest,...
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September 2, 2020
WTMWD #31: Want to fight the lockdowns? Send your sheriff to Virginia this month!
Sheriff Richard Mack, of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, joins me to talk about the Sheriffs' Conference in Lynchburg Virginia on September 30th. He says it could be the most important meeting in America since the Constitutional Convention....
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August 27, 2020
Rhyming History: "Of course I joined it, it was glorious to join!"
A seventy-year-old former member of Mao's Red Guard regrets the things he did in the Cultural Revolution:
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August 26, 2020
WTMWD #30: Are Immigration Restrictions Libertarian? With Todd Seavey
I speak with long-time libertarian writer Todd Seavey, about whether libertarians should support restrictions on immigration, what "defund the police" doesn't mean... and Rod Serling's contribution to liberty. Todd's recent article on immigration restrictions can be found here. His earlier...
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August 25, 2020
Shock Report! "Fact Checkers" Remove Article Detailing Bill Gates' Funding of Fact Checkers
Writes Neil Miller: "Last night, I posted on FB information that Robert Kennedy Jr. had written on Instagram summarizing an article about Bill Gates, how his organization paid more than $250 million to control global journalism and "fact-checkers." My post...
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August 24, 2020
Facebook: Some Bullying & Harassment is OK!
You may remember Sara Brady, the Idaho mom who was arrested for being on a playground. What you may not know is that there is an entire group on Facebook dedicated to harrassing her. Here is a screenshot: Note that...
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August 22, 2020
A Shameless Plug - but Also Not
This is a shameless plug... but it's also not. I really do believe that the most important thing right now, at this moment in time (and also always) the thing that is most missing right now, the thing that civilization...
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August 21, 2020
16 Children's Books You Didn't Know Were Anti-Authoritarian
I wrote this list for FEE.org back in December, but I realize that it has never been more appropriate or more necessary than right now. Enjoy: ======== Kids solving problems and getting out of predicaments on their own without the...
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