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China Announces ‘Fertility-Friendly’ Policy Guidelines to Reverse Birth Rate Collapse

By / April 1, 2023

China’s central government issued new “fertility-friendly” guidelines on Tuesday designed to increase the Chinese population, which is currently projected to contract sometime before 2025 following decades of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy, the Global Times reported. Relaying the edict on August 16, the Chinese state-run newspaper wrote: A total of 17 Chinese government departments […]

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Donald Trump Is Wrong about Tariffs and Mercantilism

By / April 1, 2023

During the past few weeks, Donald Trump has been releasing some of his proposals if he were to win the election in 2024. While many of his positions pose great danger to personal liberty, such as his plan to “end crime and keep Americans safe,” his proposals on tariffs are up there in terms of […]

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The False Benefit of Less Land Use for Agriculture

By / April 1, 2023

Earlier this year, Our World in Data celebrated the fact we have now passed “peak agricultural land”: over the last few decades, the global land area devoted to food production has declined. While the decline is not large and while the data is uncertain, the fact itself is significant and not in dispute: until recently, […]

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The Long-Snouted Weevil

By / March 31, 2023

Sylvia Shawcross Well, here we are—living in the New Abnormal in the first world nations trying to figure out what to do with those little plastic tabs they put on milk cartons without being wasteful because God knows that even though “they” say “they” recycle things who really believes “they” are going to recycle those […]

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In the 1990s, the GOP Got a Hard Push to the Right

By / March 31, 2023

Make America Think Again! – Share Pat’s Columns… By Michael Bobelian – The Washington Post Pat Buchanan speaks at the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston. “There is a religious war going on in this country,” he told the delegates. “It is a cultural war … for the soul of America.” (Ron Edmonds/AP) In the […]

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Welcome to the Era of Warring Elites

By / March 31, 2023

What the Warring Elites don’t want us to realize is that a system of transparent competition in which no fiefdom is allowed to become dominant best serves the interests of society at large. I’ve been writing about Warring Elites for a long time (since 2007). As I have often noted, historian Michael Grant identified profound […]

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Don’t Take Liberties with Liberty

By / March 31, 2023

Have you ever thought about the relationship between the words liberty and freedom? Frequently, the words are used interchangeably, but I have always preferred liberty. Perhaps my preference goes back to Thomas Jefferson’s reference to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence. Perhaps it traces to Patrick Henry’s “Give me […]

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Time for Some Truth

By / March 31, 2023

Col. Jessup: You want answers? Kaffee: I think I’m entitled to…. Col. Jessup: You want answers? Kaffee: I WANT THE TRUTH! Col. Jessup: YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!   Jeff Childers has written a post at his Coffee & Covid blog regarding the saga of James O’Keefe and the Project Veritas board: VINCIT OMNIA VERITAS […]

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The Utopia that Never Was

By / March 30, 2023

Todd Hayen About three years ago, before this Covid swill was poured down our throats, my wife pointed out an article in the Toronto Star about a proposal to have cars fitted with bumper cameras, or some other nonsense intended to cut down on illegal parking, hit and run offenses, and various other “bad” things […]

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