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August 10, 2020
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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August 9, 2020
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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August 8, 2020
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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August 6, 2020
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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Rhyming with Hiroshima: Not the First Time Doctors Have Fought Medical Censorship
Image: Public domain. This is not the first time doctors have had to fight official censorship of medical information in order to do what they believe is right. From my 2011 piece on Kenzaburo Oe's "Hiroshima Notes": "Today, we take...
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: If We Rationalize Mass Murder, We Allow it to Happen Again
Image: Public domain. Here are some of my writings on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I try to post them every year on this date, if only to counter the flood of "yeah it was terrible how we ("we")...
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August 5, 2020
Does Anyone Have the Right to be Obese?
According to CNN, the "US obesity epidemic could undermine effectiveness of a Covid-19 vaccine." Says the article: "...scientists in the emerging field of immunometabolism are finding obesity also interferes with the body's immune response, putting obese people at greater risk...
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August 1, 2020
Are We Living Through a Re-run of Dallas Buyers Club?
I wrote this piece back in 2014, about the film "Dallas Buyer's Club", and thought I'd repost it here. (It originally appeared on Economic Policy Journal on April 8, 2014.) There is nothing new about what is happening now with...
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July 28, 2020
WTMWD #24: Rachel Mills on what we can learn from Haiti & how to best help those in developing countries
I speak with Ron Paul's former communications director, Rachel Mills, about her chidhood experience in Haiti, what she learned about poverty, racism and social systems. She also tells us what we can do to truly help people in underdevelolped countries....
