Bretigne Shaffer's Blog, page 37
April 26, 2019
What Then Must We Do?
I'm always telling people not to support politicians or the political system. And they're always asking me what they should do instead. I finally told them: Even more important, though, than simply avoiding the political process, is reclaiming what it...
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April 23, 2019
Lying Politicians and their Lies: Replacing Doctors with State Authority in California
Image: Public domain. Tomorrow afternoon, the California Senate Health Committee will hold hearings on SB 276 - a bill that, if passed, will eliminate the role of doctors in granting medical exemptions for vaccines required for school attendance, and give...
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April 19, 2019
Snapshots of Pharmacracy: the Puppet Show
Image: Public Domain, courtesy of the British Library. In states across the country (and in other countries too), there is a concerted effort to strip away our rights to make our own medical decisions, and decisions for our children. Earlier...
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April 18, 2019
Stunning Interview Reveals Establishment Weakness
This is stunning. I realize that not many of my friends have had direct experience with actual totalitarian regimes that actually do control information from the top down. So maybe my comments won't ring true to many of you. But...
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The Most Awesome Smackdown You Will Ever Read: Children’s Health Defense Letter to Jeff Bezos
This is quite possibly the most awesome smackdown ever in the history of smackdowns. And you need to read every delicious word of it. I'm actually beginning to feel pity for Congressman Adam Schiff, who must be looking for a...
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April 11, 2019
Thoughts on a Failed Revolution
I arrived in Hong Kong for the second time, after a year there as a student, in the spring of 1989. I got there about a week before the death of Hu Yaobang, the event that – thirty years ago...
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CBS Censors Brady Bunch Measles Episode
You remember - Season 1, Episode 13, the episode where the whole family comes down with measles and it's NO BIG DEAL. Well, now CBS doesn't want you to see that episode. They've removed it from their list of "full...
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December 25, 2016
Christmas in the Darkness
It feels hard to get into the Christmas spirit this year. It did last year too. In fact I’m starting to think that unless you are a small child, getting into the Christmas spirit is not an easy thing to...
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December 13, 2016
Remembering Ralph Raico
I met Ralph Raico at an Institute for Humane Studies conference in 1985. He took me and another student, Annie, out to lunch on the first day of the conference, before everyone else had arrived. Annie was a nurse, working...
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