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Roland Fryer’s Battle Against the Woke Left

Leftwing academics claim that blacks in America are oppressed. They call for reparations and affirmative action programs to help them. But these people are hypocrites and liars. How do we know this? When a black person doesn’t share their views, they act ruthlessly. Such people have to be eliminated. The ‘woke” left doesn’t care about blacks or anybody else who doesn’t parrot their views. Roland Fryer found this out the hard way.

Who is Roland Fryer? He is a brilliant economist who won the John ...

Women’s Rights in Afghanistan: ‘Before’ and ‘After’ America’s Destructive Wars

First published on October 4, 2023, revised on March 8, 2024

On March 8, 2024, We commemorate Women’s Day. How America’s “Humanitarian Wars” derogate the fundamental rights of women worldwide.

The NeoCons’ agenda is not to “win the war” but to engineer the breakup of sovereign nation states, destroy their culture and national identity, derogate fundamental values and human rights.

The strategic objective is to trigger political and social chaos, engineer the collapse of national economies, appro...

Which Country Hast the Most Brutal Mafia or Criminal Organization?

The golden age of organized crime may seem like a thing of the past in this era of surveillance. Law enforcement officers have technology and profiling capabilities now that they never had in the past. But make no mistake: Gangs are alive and thriving. They’ve simply evolved with the times. And we’re not just talking about low-level street gangs, either. Complicated, cunning, and cryptic multinational gangs still control the underworld in our modern age.

In my opinion, I think the most powerful ...

Annenberg Public Policy Center Undermines US CDC VAERS

Every week in clinic I make entries into the US CDC Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) as I catch up on years of injuries, disabilities, and deaths that have occurred after vaccination. Because federal fines and penalties are severe for false reporting, I only enter cases in which I have the vaccine card, the full clinical vignette, and my clinical impression that the vaccine either directly caused the problem or significantly contributed in the causal pathway to the new disease or i...

The Digital Revolution of Artificial Intelligence: Beneficial Economic Creative Destruction or Systemic Dehumanization

“The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development… incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. That process of creative destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.“  Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950), American economist and political thinker of Austrian origin, in his book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 1942.

“Every change is a menace to stability.   That’s anothe...

State of the Union Address

Perhaps some of you saw the decrepit and senseless President Biden deliver a “State of the Union Address” today that reminded us of the aged leaders of the late Soviet Union Yuri Andropov or Konstantin Chernenko—both of whom were much younger than Biden or Trump are now.

The United States that Biden described is completely unrecognizable for any working American. He described a tremendous American comeback that can only be described as the delusion of an old man, surrounded by old men, who are i...

A Libertarian Perspective on the Gay Rights Movement

One of the very, very high points in the history of the gay community, from the libertarian point of view, was their fight against the police in New York City in 1969. This was the Stonewall riots, and the homosexuals and their supporters were entirely in the right.

Up until that time, the police would raid bars, pubs, bathhouses, etc., frequented by homosexuals. They would do so with impunity, with little opposition from gay men or from anyone else for that matter. But upon this occasion, they ...

Is a Sperm Toxin in Your Pancake Mix?

Holy Heck!

Sodium aluminum phosphate, I discovered this morning, is in the “Great Value” brand pancake mix in my pantry.

When I looked this ingredient up, the safety handling sheet shows this additive to be highly toxic to eyes, skin and lungs in terms of external exposure.

Peer-reviewed published studies, including RA Yokel, “Aluminum reproductive toxicity: a summary and interpretation of scientific reports”, show that ingesting alumina derivatives causes reproductive damage in mammals right aw...

The Col. Macgregor State of the Union

From the Tom Woods Letter:

I didn’t watch the State of the Union last night. I knew it would be lies and impossible promises from start to finish.

However, our friend Col. Douglas Macgregor did. Col. Macgregor has been a guest on the Tom Woods Show, and of course was senior adviser to the Secretary of Defense under Donald Trump.

I will note, first of all, that at the link above I asked Col. Macgregor about Trump’s weird deviations from his own stated foreign-policy principles, and Macgregor repl...

Why Main Street Households Are Left High and Dry…

There should be no doubt that the UniParty has left main street households high and dry. During the past five years inflation-adjusted weekly earnings have barely limped forward at a 0.4% annual rate.

Self-evidently, the Fed’s pro-inflation policy has backfired. Rather than functioning as a stimulant to growth, it has ended up devouring nearly all of the modest nominal wage gains that have been realized by private sector workers in America.

Index of Inflation-Adjusted Average Weekly Earnings, Ja...