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Teaching Liberty Through Children's Literature

Last week, I spoke with the folks at Freedom Hub Working Group about teaching liberty through children's literature, and about my own books. You can watch here:

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Happy Birthday Ross Ulbricht

Today is Ross Ulbricht's birthday. This is my present for him:

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I Know You Mean Well, Trader Joe's...

...I do. But this is not helping people. Here's the problem: You are artificially restricting (in a soft way, I know) what people buy. So at least some of them aren't going to be buying the full quantity that they...

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Censorship of Vitamin C for Covid-19 Info., As Hospitals in NY Begin to Use it. Why? (What Then Must We Do?: Podcast episode 2)

A few days ago, I spoke with Larry Cook, founder of the Stop Mandatory Vaccination Facebook group. We talked about how high-dose Vitamin C has been part of the official protocol for treating Covid-19 in China, and how at least...

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Happy Things for the Crisis #1

Someone Tweeted yesterday that they know two people who had died of heart attacks in the previous five days. Of course this may have been completely unrelated to the current situation, and may have happened anyway. But we do know...

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Be Like Cowboy Bob

Cowboy Bob is having a tough time. It's an economic crisis, and he's trying to explain to people why laws against "price gouging" are not a good idea, how they don't help people but actually make things worse. And it's...

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To Understand Why the US Govt's Response to Covid-19 Will Be Devastating, Please Watch This:

From the American Institute for Economic Research, which is putting out some of the best analysis of how Covid-19 is being handled. "In a shockingly short period of time, life in the US went from normal and happy to uncertain...

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Preview of Episode 2: How the Chinese Are Treating Covid-19, and What Could Be Next for Us

I'll be posting the second episode of my podcast soon (hopefully by Monday) - an interview with Larry Cook, who talks about how Vitamin C is being used with success against Covid-19 in China. Larry also has some pretty dismal...

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What Then Must We Do - My Podcast on Spotify & Apple Podcasts

Here it is (Spotify), and also here (Apple) (very rough transcript is here):

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What Then Must We Do - My Podcast on Spotify

Here it is (very rough transcript is here):

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