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Repealing the 17th Amendment Won't Fix the Senate

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Blog10/13/2016Ryan McMaken

Repealing the 17th Amendment will not change the US Senate into a hotbed of decentralizers and free-marketers.

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Why Rothbard Endures

Jeff Deist

Instead of succumbing to the zeitgeist, Rothbard moved it.

Why Dominion’s Defamation Lawsuits Are Garbage

Ryan McMaken

Dominion Voting Systems is a private company in name only. It is a de facto government agency which gets its revenue through taxpayer exploitation. As such, it should be considered ineligible to sue anyone for defamation.

The Purpose of Political Demigods like Lincoln and the "Founding Fathers"

David Gordon

How do we convince people to submit themselves to the regime or to even die for it? Convince them that the regime was founded and sustained by a breed of superhuman "statesmen" like Wilson, Lincoln, and the "Founding Fathers."

Japan's Well-Fed Zombie Corporations

Gunther SchnablTaiki Murai

A growing number of fragile and deeply indebted enterprises have become more dependent on government bailouts, loans, subsidies, short-time working benefits, and loans from central banks.

Minimum Wage, Maximum Discrimination

Caleb Fuller

Eugenicist Progressives introduced the minimum wage, because it was well suited to perform the Progressives’ dirty work of discriminating against (what they considered) the least productive by making them unemployable.

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