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WTMWD #29: Ryan McMaken on Covid-19 Fearmongering & Why it's Essential to Have a Beer with Friends

I speak with Mises Institute Senior Editor, Ryan McMaken, about the media's fact-free assault on Sweden and other fearmongering about Covid-19. We also talk about why it might be more important than you think to go out and get a...

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Mere Anarchy Loosed Upon the World

“We would do well to disabuse ourselves of the notion that institutionalized violence creates order. It does not.” This is a piece I wrote back in 2011. It is more relevant than ever now: As I write this, my son...

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Are We in a Pandemic? Or a "Casedemic"? Ivor Cummins Explains the Difference

"You will always find viruses and virus fragments when you go looking. That's the point," says Ivor Cummins, who put together the handy little graphs in the video. You can follow him on Twitter, and see some of his other...

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How Many of the Covid-19 Deaths Were in Fact Caused by Politicians?

From an AP article titled "New York's True Nursing Home Death Toll Cloaked in Secrecy", August 11th: "New York’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes, already among the highest in the nation, could actually be a significant undercount. Unlike every...

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WTMWD #28: Daniel McAdams: What does totalitarian rule really look like?

I speak with the director of the Ron Paul Institute, Daniel McAdams, about his time spent in Hungary when it was still part of the former Soviet Union. He has some valuable insights about what life under a totalitarian state...

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WTMWD #27: Celeste McGovern: Why we should be very concerned about a Covid-19 vaccine

I speak with writer Celeste McGovern about the efforts to create a vaccine for Covid-19. McGovern has been writing about vaccines for many years and recently wrote a piece outlining some of the major problems we should expect to see...

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WTMWD #26: Sheriff Mack: What to Do About Tyrants

I speak with Sheriff Richard Mack, the founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, about the unprecedented tyranny that we are now living under, and what we can do to fight it. Sheriff Mack explains how county sheriffs...

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WTMWD #25: Why is the Attorney for Freedom so Optimistic?

My guest in this episode is not just any old guest. He was a student of my dad's, many years ago, and the way he tells it, my dad had a transformative influence on him and on the direction his...

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The Pharmaceutical Narrative is Failing - and a Group of Doctors is Helping Push it Over the Edge

Image: Public domain. From my latest piece on LewRockwell.com: So now we don’t have to listen to what those doctors said in front of the US Supreme Court, because it turns out that one of them has some whacky beliefs...

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Data in Support of, and Against, the Use of Hydroxychloroquine to Treat Covid-19

This is where I am putting all of the studies and other data that I have found on the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19. I don't claim that this is a complete list, and I welcome additional information. I...

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