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Age Verification (Revisited)
the good, the bad, and the promising...
https://thetruthaddict.substack.com/p/age-verification-revisited
the good, the bad, and the promising...
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Covid Response at Five Years: Introduction (2025)
“This is the way the world ends,” T.S. Eliot wrote in 1925. “Not with a bang but a whimper.” Ninety-five years later, the pre-Covid world ended with a nationwide sigh of submission. Democrats remained silent as government mandates transferred trillions of dollars from the working class to tech oligarchs. Republicans dithered as states criminalized church attendance. Libertarians stood by as the nation shuttered the doors of small businesses. College students obediently forfeited their freedoms and moved into their parents’ basements, liberals accepted widespread surveillance campaigns, and conservatives greenlit the printing of 300 years’ worth of money in sixty days...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-introduction/
“This is the way the world ends,” T.S. Eliot wrote in 1925. “Not with a bang but a whimper.” Ninety-five years later, the pre-Covid world ended with a nationwide sigh of submission. Democrats remained silent as government mandates transferred trillions of dollars from the working class to tech oligarchs. Republicans dithered as states criminalized church attendance. Libertarians stood by as the nation shuttered the doors of small businesses. College students obediently forfeited their freedoms and moved into their parents’ basements, liberals accepted widespread surveillance campaigns, and conservatives greenlit the printing of 300 years’ worth of money in sixty days...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-introduction/
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Covid Response at Five Years: The First Amendment Versus the U.S. Security State (2025)
The Covid regime’s assault on the First Amendment reads like a plotline out of a Robert Ludlum novel. A virus emerged from the shores of a foreign adversary and spawned a domestic crisis. Government bureaucrats seized the opportunity to expand their power. They launched interagency campaigns to coerce private actors to carry out their orders. They nationalized the country’s private information centers, dictating what their citizens could read or write about the emergency that triggered their newfound authority...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-the-first-amendment-versus-the-u-s-security-state/
The Covid regime’s assault on the First Amendment reads like a plotline out of a Robert Ludlum novel. A virus emerged from the shores of a foreign adversary and spawned a domestic crisis. Government bureaucrats seized the opportunity to expand their power. They launched interagency campaigns to coerce private actors to carry out their orders. They nationalized the country’s private information centers, dictating what their citizens could read or write about the emergency that triggered their newfound authority...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-the-first-amendment-versus-the-u-s-security-state/
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Covid Response at Five Years: Religion (2025)
The consequences of lockdowns were not limited to freedom of movement or assembly. Once leaders had the green light to shutter large swaths of society, they wielded that power to impose their newly established ideology...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-religion/
The consequences of lockdowns were not limited to freedom of movement or assembly. Once leaders had the green light to shutter large swaths of society, they wielded that power to impose their newly established ideology...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-religion/
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Covid Response at Five Years: Lockdowns (2025)
“Restricting citizens’ ability to travel is a hallmark of a police state,” legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich asserted in 2021. “Infectious disease will always be with us. It cannot become
an excuse to give the federal government carte blanche to control the
lives of citizens.” Yet the American government pursued that carte blanche in
blatant disregard of the country’s long-standing right to travel.
Executive orders put citizens under house arrest as the disease became
the pretext for usurping the most basic human liberty. Governors boasted
of jailing their residents for strolling outside, the Intelligence
Community imposed arbitrary dictates on who could continue work,
children sat indoors for months on end, and the elderly died alone...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-the-quiet-coup/
“Restricting citizens’ ability to travel is a hallmark of a police state,” legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich asserted in 2021. “Infectious disease will always be with us. It cannot become
an excuse to give the federal government carte blanche to control the
lives of citizens.” Yet the American government pursued that carte blanche in
blatant disregard of the country’s long-standing right to travel.
Executive orders put citizens under house arrest as the disease became
the pretext for usurping the most basic human liberty. Governors boasted
of jailing their residents for strolling outside, the Intelligence
Community imposed arbitrary dictates on who could continue work,
children sat indoors for months on end, and the elderly died alone...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-the-quiet-coup/
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Covid Response at Five Years: Voting (2025)
In 1845, Congress established Election Day as the Tuesday after the first Monday of November in order “to establish a uniform time” for Americans to cast their ballots for president. Historically, voters needed to provide a valid reason – such as illness or military service – to qualify for absentee ballots...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-voting/
In 1845, Congress established Election Day as the Tuesday after the first Monday of November in order “to establish a uniform time” for Americans to cast their ballots for president. Historically, voters needed to provide a valid reason – such as illness or military service – to qualify for absentee ballots...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-voting/
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Covid Response at Five Years: The Fourth Amendment (2025)
By April 2020, Americans were living in a regime of government surveillance that would have been previously unrecognizable. Politicians, newspapers, and activists touted a “Manhattan Project-level operation” aimed at enforcing lockdown orders via mass surveillance and house arrest orders. While insisting their operations were in support of public health, they used familiar tracking programs that obliterated the safeguards of our Fourth Amendment. Silicon Valley forged lucrative partnerships with state and national governments, selling users’ habits and movements without their consent. Rather suddenly, supposedly free citizens were the subject of “track and trace” programs as if they were UPS packages...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-the-fourth-amendment/
By April 2020, Americans were living in a regime of government surveillance that would have been previously unrecognizable. Politicians, newspapers, and activists touted a “Manhattan Project-level operation” aimed at enforcing lockdown orders via mass surveillance and house arrest orders. While insisting their operations were in support of public health, they used familiar tracking programs that obliterated the safeguards of our Fourth Amendment. Silicon Valley forged lucrative partnerships with state and national governments, selling users’ habits and movements without their consent. Rather suddenly, supposedly free citizens were the subject of “track and trace” programs as if they were UPS packages...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-the-fourth-amendment/
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Covid Response at Five Years: The Illegal Vaccine Mandates (2025)
Initially, there was professed bipartisan opposition to Covid vaccine mandates. “No, I don’t think [the shot] should be mandatory, I wouldn’t demand it be mandatory,” President-elect Biden told the press in December 2020. Dr. Fauci agreed. “You don’t want to mandate and try and force anyone to take a vaccine. We’ve never done that,” he explained. “It would be unenforceable and inappropriate."
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-the-illegal-vaccine-mandates/
Initially, there was professed bipartisan opposition to Covid vaccine mandates. “No, I don’t think [the shot] should be mandatory, I wouldn’t demand it be mandatory,” President-elect Biden told the press in December 2020. Dr. Fauci agreed. “You don’t want to mandate and try and force anyone to take a vaccine. We’ve never done that,” he explained. “It would be unenforceable and inappropriate."
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-the-illegal-vaccine-mandates/
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Covid Response at Five Years: The Covid Caste System (2025)
In normal times, Americans would hear Daniel Uhlfelder barking from a street corner about end times. “Just keep walking,” they’d tell their kids as they caught glimpses of his signs predicting rapture. People might have different approaches to getting him help – rehab, a social support system, family intervention – but nobody would treat him as a public policy advocate. But 2020’s Ides of March were not normal times, however, so lunacy elevated Uhlfelder to adoring media coverage and a political platform...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-the-covid-caste-system/
In normal times, Americans would hear Daniel Uhlfelder barking from a street corner about end times. “Just keep walking,” they’d tell their kids as they caught glimpses of his signs predicting rapture. People might have different approaches to getting him help – rehab, a social support system, family intervention – but nobody would treat him as a public policy advocate. But 2020’s Ides of March were not normal times, however, so lunacy elevated Uhlfelder to adoring media coverage and a political platform...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-the-covid-caste-system/
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Covid Response at Five Years: Jury Trials and Vaccine Mandates (2025)
“Glory Days End for Pharmaceuticals,” the New York Times declared in February 1985. The article cited growing legal liabilities as an
indication that “the big drug companies have suddenly found themselves
mired in the same sort of troubles that have plagued less-glamorous
industries for years.” The Times reported,
“Inevitably some [companies] will face staggering liabilities and
lengthy court cases on approved drugs that later turn into flops.”
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-jury-trials-and-vaccine-mandates/
“Glory Days End for Pharmaceuticals,” the New York Times declared in February 1985. The article cited growing legal liabilities as an
indication that “the big drug companies have suddenly found themselves
mired in the same sort of troubles that have plagued less-glamorous
industries for years.” The Times reported,
“Inevitably some [companies] will face staggering liabilities and
lengthy court cases on approved drugs that later turn into flops.”
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-jury-trials-and-vaccine-mandates/
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Covid Response at Five Years: The Role of the Military (2025)
The year 2020 introduced a barrage of previously obscure phrases to the forefront of the American lexicon. Social distancing, PCR tests, misinformation, mRNA platforms, remote learning,
Zoom school, lockdowns, super-spreader, net zero, Juneteenth,
epidemiologists, BIPOC, and so on. In the onslaught of new terms and cultural norms, Americans lost sight of a simple question: who was in charge?
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-the-role-of-the-military/
The year 2020 introduced a barrage of previously obscure phrases to the forefront of the American lexicon. Social distancing, PCR tests, misinformation, mRNA platforms, remote learning,
Zoom school, lockdowns, super-spreader, net zero, Juneteenth,
epidemiologists, BIPOC, and so on. In the onslaught of new terms and cultural norms, Americans lost sight of a simple question: who was in charge?
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-the-role-of-the-military/
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Covid Response at Five Years: Conclusion (2025)
In March 1913, a man on horseback galloped into downtown Columbus, Ohio, shouting, “The dam has burst!” Men ran into the streets. “Go east,” they yelled. “Go east,” away from the impending flood...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-conclusion/
In March 1913, a man on horseback galloped into downtown Columbus, Ohio, shouting, “The dam has burst!” Men ran into the streets. “Go east,” they yelled. “Go east,” away from the impending flood...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-response-at-five-years-conclusion/
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May the 4th be with you always.
Happy Star Wars day everyone.
Be the resistance 🖖😉
Happy Star Wars day everyone.
Be the resistance 🖖😉
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Stop recruiting kids into war culture.
War culture doesn’t start on the battlefield; it starts in childhood, through stories, symbols, and the rituals we pretend are harmless. If we want a different future, we have to stop grooming kids for the one we keep repeating.
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Mises Institute: Ft. Knox Full of Impure Gold Unfit for International Transactions
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Ft. Knox Full of Impure Gold Unfit for International Transactions
The bulk of the US gold reserves held in Fort Knox are made up of impure “non-standard” bars that don’t qualify for use in international settlements.
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/
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