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Farm Subsidies
Food is Freedom: How Washington’s Food Subsidies Have Helped Make Americans Fat and Sick
September 24, 2019
September 24, 2019. Farm subsidies are the most expensive – and rarely talked about – subsidy Washington doles out. In this guide we discuss how it came to be and how it’s affecting Americans’ health. ...
What I learned from having my mind manipulated this weekend
September 23, 2019
September 23, 2019. But it made me think– how many other times in our daily lives are we being manipulated like that—manipulated to think in a certain way, even when we’re 100% convinced that we’re exercising independent thought? ...
How to protect yourself from this new form of ransom
September 23, 2019
September 23, 2019. But there are some easy, cheap, and usually free, ways to secure your digital life against threats like this. ...
Swedish man fined $2,000 for someone else’s “hate speech”
September 20, 2019
September 20, 2019. This sets a dangerous precedent that anyone can be held responsible for someone else’s WORDS (let alone their actions). ...
Neighbors Suck? Try These Ones Instead!
September 20, 2019
September 20, 2019. Fort Galt is an intentional community made up of entrepreneurs, libertarians, and free-market conservatives. ...
Area 51 invasion shows how humorless the government is
September 20, 2019
September 20, 2019. They could have absolutely conquered this meme if they just opened the gate, and started giving tours of Area 51 to whoever showed up. ...
empty desks in classroom
Why You and Your Kids Should Detox Your Mind by “Deschooling”
September 19, 2019
September 19, 2019. Deschooling is the beginning steps toward a lifetime of creativity, love of learning and self-trust. ...
Prison Industrial Complex
Locked Up: How the Modern Prison-Industrial Complex Puts So Many Americans in Jail
September 18, 2019
September 18, 2019. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate per capita in the modern world: A toxic combo of ever-expanding laws, a burgeoning police state, and a powerful prison lobby are contributing to disarm Americans, one felony at a time. ...
Sin Taxes Kill
September 18, 2019
September 18, 2019. This gives rise to illicit entrepreneurs like Garner, who sell to low-income smokers that can’t afford combined cigarette taxes north of $13. ...
The Bolsheviks even want to tax your toaster oven…
September 17, 2019
September 17, 2019. This tax includes CASH in your bank account. Financial assets like stocks and bonds. Private business and partnership interests. Your entire real estate portfolio. Collectible assets like art and fine wine. ...
german police
Martial Law Masquerading as Law and Order: The Police State’s Language of Force
September 17, 2019
September 17, 2019. This is the treatment being meted out to protesters across the political spectrum. The police state does not discriminate. ...
A retirement plan tailor-made for the gig-economy era
September 16, 2019
September 16, 2019. Even if self-employment isn’t your main gig, it can be a great way to earn some extra side-income for retirement. ...
Eating human flesh is the latest idea to stop climate change
September 13, 2019
September 13, 2019. Don’t let that sack of meat decompose. Put it to good use, save a cow, and sequester that carbon into your own body. ...
Gold pile
The price of gold just hit a record high
September 12, 2019
September 12, 2019. That’s because precious metals are a refuge from keeping your savings held hostage by unelected central bankers who can slash interest rates to negative levels and conjure unlimited quantities of paper currency out of thin air. ...
Now That Bolton’s Gone, Let’s Get Out of Afghanistan
September 12, 2019
September 12, 2019. Many Americans don’t even understand why we are still fighting the war in Afghanistan. ...
9/11 Attacks
The 9/11 Attacks: Understanding Al-Qaeda and the Domestic Fall-Out from America’s Secret War
September 11, 2019
September 11, 2019. With American military personnel now entering service who were not even alive on 9/11, it’s time to reexamine the events of the September 11th attacks. Here we discuss the motives for the attack and the counter-offensive Global War on Terr ...
The Bolsheviks hate Opportunity Zones. But they’re working.
September 11, 2019
September 11, 2019. They can’t stomach a win/win deal. And they’d rather see no one benefit, than a rich person receive a single penny in tax breaks. ...
The Bill of Rights Turns 230, and What Do We Have to Show for It? Nothing Good
September 11, 2019
September 11, 2019. The bogeyman’s names and faces have changed over time (terrorism, the war on drugs, illegal immigration, etc.), but the end result remains the same. ...
The mad-scientist who pioneered the CIA’s mind-control experiments
September 10, 2019
September 10, 2019. Gottlieb developed his practices straight from Nazi-doctors responsible for some of the most horrific human experiments on concentration camp victims during World War II. ...
advanced kid
How Schools Promote Fixed Mindsets and Prevent Growth
September 09, 2019
September 9, 2019. Breaking down forced schooling and allowing choice and freedom—now that is a growth mindset. ...
The Unseen Costs of Climate Alarmism Are Paid by the Global Poor
September 09, 2019
September 9, 2019. We should celebrate young people's desire to do good and to change the world. We should also be aware of the disastrous impacts of “just doing something” when no one can foresee how the doing—or our own undoing—may unfold. ...
the saddest image describing the school system
How “Unschooling” Can Benefit your child and the world
September 06, 2019
September 6, 2019. What if we supported and facilitated a child's interests instead of persistently trying to redirect it, applying punishments and judgments?  ...
It’s now “incendiary” to say there are two genders
September 06, 2019
September 6, 2019. Last week, an anchor reported that a candidate for Governor “is out with a new TV ad this week, making incendiary comments about gender.” ...
Here’s a really unique way to own gold
September 05, 2019
September 5, 2019. there’s one special sub-category of gold and silver coins that are worth mentioning: collectible coins. ...
The king of Ponzi schemes was an amateur compared to this
September 05, 2019
September 5, 2019. That is considered the largest financial scam in US history, and the largest Ponzi scheme in world history… but that’s not exactly true. ...
5 Surprising Scientific Facts about Earth’s Climate
September 04, 2019
September 4, 2019. There are many environmental facts that run contrary to popular belief. Here are five of them. ...
Is the U.S. Government the Enemy of the People? America’s Lost Liberties, Post-9/11
September 04, 2019
September 4, 2019. What began with the post-9/11 passage of the USA Patriot Act has snowballed into the eradication of every vital safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse. ...
Think about this if you own Hong Kong dollars
September 03, 2019
September 3, 2019. Does this mean Hong Kong’s pegged exchange rate is finished? ...
We Didn’t Humanize Markets, Markets Humanized Us
September 03, 2019
September 3, 2019. laws against behavior that we find to be morally reprehensible remnants of an unenlightened past tend get passed when the practices in question have mostly disappeared, making the few examples still in existence all the more reprehensible. ...
Mass Shootings & Media Coverage
If It Bleeds It Leads: How the American Media Perpetuates and Profits from Mass Shootings
September 03, 2019
September 3, 2019. While video games and “toxic masculinity” are often blamed for the rise in mass shootings, studies show the real cause is the media’s sensationalized reports. This guide discusses the “Werther Effect” and how it’s causing a stream ...
Feminist thought leader claims milking cows is the same as rape
August 31, 2019
August 31, 2019. Sounds like comparing dairy farming to rape might be insensitive to actual rape victims… But what do I know, I’m just a patriarchal oppressor. ...
Here’s how you can invest like Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
August 30, 2019
August 30, 2019. And 40 years later that same single still earns him around 1,200 euros per day…roughly 438,000 euros per year. ...
Freedom vs. Liberty
Freedom vs. Liberty: How Subtle Differences Between These Two Big Ideas Changed Our World
August 29, 2019
August 29, 2019. This guide looks at positive vs. negative rights to comprehend the differences between these words that have become synonymous with America’s culture. ...
Oops… best climate change solution doesn’t involve government control
August 29, 2019
August 29, 2019. A "mind-blowing" study found that planting trees is far more effective at capturing CO2 than carbon credits, or other heavy-handed government actions. ...
The American Gulag: Brick by Brick, Our Prison Walls Get More Oppressive by the Day
August 29, 2019
August 29, 2019. Brick by brick, the prison walls being erected around us by the government and its corporate partners-in-crime grow more oppressive by the day. ...
How to become a billionaire in five easy steps
August 28, 2019
August 28, 2019. While pretending to be a technology company, lost $195 million last year, yet paid its top three executives more than $50 million... $8 billion valuation? SIGN ME UP! ...
Google and Facebook Will Just Get Stronger if Regulators Get Their Way, Europe’s Experience Shows
August 28, 2019
August 28, 2019. Big firms can bear the costs of complying with regulations much more easily than small firms. ...
I Was a Physician at a Federally Qualified Health Center. Here’s Why I No Longer Believe Government Health Care Can Work
August 28, 2019
August 28, 2019. When doctors are miserable, patients suffer. ...
I can’t wait until these people are in charge of healthcare…
August 27, 2019
August 27, 2019. The Bolshevik crowd interrupted immediately with ebullient cheers, joyfully celebrating the death of a man they had never met and knew nothing about. ...
Bowling Alone
Bowling Alone: How Washington Has Helped Destroy American Civil Society and Family Life
August 26, 2019
August 27, 2019. Church attendance, the traditional nuclear family, religious giving, community – it's all in decline across the nation. These are signs of impending tyranny. ...
Here’s a dirty secret few people know about gold
August 26, 2019
August 26, 2019. That’s why my preferred way to own physical gold is to buy the most widely recognized coins (i.e. NOT bars) that have the highest purity. ...
If it please the crown, may I work for a living?
August 26, 2019
August 26, 2019. Officials think these writers need a license to put words on paper. ...
Doctors stand defiant
The government gave her son a sex change without parental consent
August 23, 2019
August 23, 2019. Courts say her parental rights were not substantially abridged. ...
advanced kid
Harvard Study Shows the Dangers of Early School Enrollment
August 23, 2019
August 23, 2019. Are ADHD rates rising because we send children to school at younger ages? ...
Civil Asset Forfeiture
Policing For Profit: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Has Perverted American Law Enforcement
August 23, 2019
August 23, 2019. Police departments all over the country are profiting from the theft of property without due process. ...
What a Nobel Peace Prize, the Federal Reserve, and endless war have in common
August 22, 2019
August 22, 2019. The US isn’t going to voluntarily end the Fed any more than it will pull out of all its wars and overseas interventions. ...
4 compelling reasons to be thinking about gold
August 22, 2019
August 22, 2019. The last few weeks has been nothing short of incredible… so many important things happening that have never happened before ever. ...
Just when you think you own your own private property…
August 21, 2019
August 21, 2019. All it took was five people who felt that they have the right to tell Tom what he can and cannot do with his private property. ...
militarized police officer
American Apocalypse: The Government’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working
August 21, 2019
August 21, 2019. The seeds of chaos are being sown, and it’s the U.S. government that will reap the harvest. ...
Siege at Ruby Ridge: The Forgotten History of the ATF Shootout That Started a Militia Movement
August 21, 2019
August 21, 2019. It is a chilling reminder of the predatory and aggressive nature of federal law enforcement. ...
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