Bretigne Shaffer's Blog, page 9
May 15, 2021
How to Hold those in Power Accountable Under Common Law: Exhibit 1
I don't know if you all have noticed, but over this past year, a whole lot of people seem to have become aware of their fundamental rights. Maybe that's just what happens when they are trampled by (seemingly) unaccountable people...






May 13, 2021
Debunking the Debunking of VAERS
You've probably seen something like this in the past week or so: Someone is working hard to spread the message that VAERS - the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, that records post-vaccination injury, side effects and death - is unreliable...






May 5, 2021
Someone REALLY Doesn't Want You to See this Summit!
Last Friday, I received this email, from the "Truth over Fear Summit" folks: "Today is the day! We will be digging into Patrick Coffin's Truth Over Fear summit, featuring the courageous Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the brave clergyman who exposed...






April 27, 2021
WTMWD #65: What Roger Koops Learned When he Audited the CDC
As director of quality assurance for a pharmaceutical company, Roger Koops interacted closely with the FDA for many years. I speak with him in this episode about his experiences, the nature of that agency and about how the regulatory landscape...






April 20, 2021
WTMWD #64: What Gene Epstein would tell Jordan Peterson about Austrian Economics
Recently, Jordan Peterson asked who he should have as a guest on his show to talk about Austrian economics, and Gene Epstein's name came up. In this episode, I ask Gene what he would say to Dr. Peterson, or to...






April 19, 2021
Hope for Humanity #1: Illegal Fireworks Light up the Sky in Los Angeles
I had a fantastic conversation with Don Boudreaux earlier today. I've got a backlog of episodes to put up, so this one won't be up for another week or so, but I promised I'd send him something, so here it...






April 13, 2021
WTMWD #63: The Tenth Amendment Center's Michael Boldin: How do we do this?
I start off asking Michael Boldin, of the Tenth Amendment Center, how we can use the principle of nullification to put an end to the lockdown insanity and create free societies... and we end up talking about everything from the...






April 12, 2021
Building Free Communities with Private Membership Associations - a webinar with the Freedom Angels
Yesterday, the Freedom Angels hosted a webinar with Vanessa and Mike Colomb of Renegade Ranch, a new Private Membership Association (PMA) grocery store in Penn Valley, Nevada County, California. They talk about Private Membership Associations - how they work, and...






April 11, 2021
WTMWD #62: Todd Seavey on Secession and Open Borders
In which long-time libertarian writer and friend Todd Seavey does his best to offend those on both left and right on two hot-button issues that might actually unite people if only they would think about them in the right way...






April 5, 2021
WTMWD #61: Unbreaking Science with Dr. James Lyons Weiler
How broken are the systems that evaluate scientific research, and what can be done to fix them? I talk with Dr. James Lyons Weiler about these questions, and about his own contributions to independent research - including his analysis of...





