Bretigne Shaffer's Blog, page 32
December 3, 2019
My Predictions for Hong Kong from 1991
Back in 1991, when I was just getting started as a journalist in Hong Kong, I wrote this piece for the foreign-policy journal Orbis (published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute.) If I get to it, I may write a...
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October 28, 2019
Capable, Generous Men
Image: Public domain. From my article on LRC today: It’s like reading something out of Solzhenitsyn: A courtroom that is nothing more than a stage for a grotesque parody of justice, some sort of theater meant to satisfy God only...
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October 14, 2019
Sex and Taxes - A Crowdfunding Campaign Worth Supporting
You may know my friend Tomasz, from some of the awesome videos he has created: George Ought to Help, Edgar the Exploiter, and You Can Always Leave are some of the most well-known, although this one – How Government Solved...
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October 8, 2019
Why "Joker" is a Disturbing Film, and Why that's Good
Image: J.W. Waterhouse, public domain. I noticed the police officer standing just to the side of the young lady who scanned our tickets as my husband and I went to see “Joker” this past weekend. Part of me was glad...
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October 3, 2019
Julian Assange & the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates
By unknown, held by The Granger Collection, New York - Britannica.com, Public Domain If you're not familiar with the "Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates", it is a principle dating back to at least 39AD, and formally articulated by Christian pastors...
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Julian Assange & the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrate
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September 29, 2019
Talking Beach Balls with Mr. Anarchy - Michael Storm
I was on Michael Storm's podcast, Toward Anarchy, on Sept. 22nd. We talked about... what else? BEACH BALLS! ...and some other stuff. Check it out!
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Something Extraordinary in Sacramento
Photo used with permission. From September 17, on LewRockwell.com: Something extraordinary happened in Sacramento last week. The people protesting California’s increasingly draconian vaccine-mandate legislation—most of them mothers of vaccine-injured children—stopped playing by the rules. On Monday, Senate Bill 714—the companion...
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Is Vaccine Safety Too Dangerous for Us to Discuss?
Photo used with permission. I had a piece up on LewRockwell.com a few weeks ago, about the concerted effort to censor any conversation on social media about vaccines that strays from the official line: Recently, the news and opinion site...
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September 15, 2019
The Assignment Was to Interview an Adult About a Memorable Presidential Election. My Niece Chose my Dad...
This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen, on so many levels: Here's the text: The Johnson-Goldwater Election of 1964 was most memorable to my grandfather, Butler Shaffer, because it was the election he was most...
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