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Juul’s Vindication Good for Individual Liberty

Founded by two Stanford University graduate students who were former smokers, Juul is the top-selling e-cigarette in the United States. According to the Juul website:

JUUL is a vaporizer, also known as an electronic cigarette or e-cigarette, unlike any other — designed to be convenient, easy-to-use, and familiarly enjoyable for adult smokers. Our proprietary nicotine-containing e-liquid formulation is the first of its kind, making innovative vapor technology a truly satisfying alternative.

The m...

Theft of a Nation: How the Deep State Swamp Is Stealing the People’s Power

“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.”—John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Power to the people.”—John Lennon

What on earth is happening to this country?

How, over the course of 250 years, did we go from prizing self-government to allowing a corrupt, self-serving ruling elite to dominate us with terror campaigns, brute force, and psychological warfare?

Don’t be fooled: the madn...

A Catastrophic War Seems Inevitable

Yesterday, August 4, Nima and I discussed on Dialogue Works the three iron constraints on the US government that seem to guarantee the world is heading into catastrophic  war.

One constraint is the US foreign policy doctrine of US hegemony over the world, known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine:  The principle goal of US foreign policy is to prevent the rise of any country that can serve as a constraint on US unilateralism. This doctrine targets Russia and China. 

As President Trump recently declared to...

Revolt of the Janitors: On the Detroit Massacre

My father grew up in Florida, and most of his friends were Cuban. He often heard from them how wonderful Cuba had been before Fidel Castro’s revolution. My father once asked one of his friends how Castro managed to take over the county. He told him it was simple: first they would take over a factory. Then, they would remove the manager of the factory and replace him with the janitor. The reason for this was that the janitor could never become the manager in normal times but only because of the r...

America the FUBAR

As a retired U.S. Air Force officer, I firmly believe in civilian control of our military. This country should be a nation of laws — not of special interests, oligarchs, or kings. Before committing our forces to battle, Congress should always declare war in the name of the people. Our military should indeed be a citizen-soldier force, not an isolated caste driven by a warrior ethos. And above all, the United States should be a republic ruled by law and shaped by sound moral values, not a greed-d...

Government Does as Government Is

People say government is corrupt.  If it were corrupt it would be acting in ways contrary and detrimental to its purpose, and it would be possible to right the course.  In truth, it acts in ways that befit its nature.

Today’s governments are states, ruling by legal coercion.  There is another, unacknowledged “government” that works to govern our behavior peacefully, and it’s usually called the free market.  But to states, the market whether free or otherwise is the farm from which they extract w...

China Does Not Want To Be Hit By Missiles Produced With Its Parts

China’s long term planning has allowed it to acquire some serious advantages which it now uses to counter economic and other attacks on it.

The refining of rare earth metals and the production of magnets from them is only one of several advantages it gained. These metals are not really rare. They are usually byproducts of large extractions of other minerals. But their refinement was considered to be environmentally dirty. It is only profitable at a large scale. Over the last two decades China ha...

Margaret Roberts Exposes the True Story of the Oklahoma City Bombing and the Ongoing Cover-Up

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The Homeschoolers Who Proved That School Is a Waste of Time

“Work expands to fit the allotted time,” the saying goes. And that education is no exception holds a lesson: Some will say when pondering homeschooling, “I’m not qualified to teach my kids.” But, informs homeschooling advocate Brett Pike, it’s not just that you can teach your kids — and splendidly.

It’s that you can do it in a fraction of the time schools do.

In a Friday X video post, Pike relates the story of parents Aaron and Kaleena Amuchastegui. The Amuchasteguis were typical Americans who b...

What Does It Mean To Be a Free Nation?

There is no shortage of Internet forums filled with energetic contributors all predicting the imminent collapse of the West.  Communicating about current events, culture, war, and the economy, a multitude of anonymous speakers publicize their worries every day.  Western governments — increasingly insecure, hostile to tradition, and unmoored from any abiding principles — have decided that the best way to project strength is to silence critics.

As European governments more overtly embrace censorsh...