Author: one80Admin

01 Sep Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the NBA, the NFL and the Sciences

Posted at 11:07h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Check out any professional and most college basketball teams. Their starting five, and most of their other 10 players, are black, as is 80% of the NBA. This does not come anywhere close to the diversity and inclusion sought by the nation’s social justice warriors....

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01 Sep Thank God for single-use plastic bags

Posted at 11:04h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Perhaps the only positive thing to come from the COVID-19 global pandemic has been the way it exposed a raft of never-needed regulations imposed by every level of government. Unfortunately, rather than repealing one such ordinance which could contribute to the spread of the coronavirus,...

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01 Sep A Libertarian Alternative

Posted at 11:04h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The media talk endlessly about Donald Trump and Joe Biden. They rarely mention third party candidates like Libertarian Jo Jorgensen. So we will! Here are some of her ideas.----Don't miss a single video from Stossel TV. Sign up here: https://ift.tt/37hRbtg ----Jorgensen says she's running because...

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01 Sep The Solzhenitsyn Quote That Explains the ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Violence in America

Posted at 11:04h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

CNN became the source of mockery last week after the network ran a ridiculous chyron stating, "fiery but mostly peaceful protests after police shooting." The idea that CNN could continue to call the protests “mostly peaceful” even as its own reporter stood in front of a...

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01 Sep Unmasking Masks

Posted at 11:03h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Imagine extraterrestrials appeared one day and told us puny earthlings that they were going to haul away a small percentage of our oldest and sickest people forever and that another larger group of us would feel unwell for a few days or a few weeks....

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01 Sep No, America Will Not Be Canceled

Posted at 11:03h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

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01 Sep Material Benefits Are Not Merely Material

Posted at 11:03h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

American Compass founder Oren Cass is today a darling of economic nationalists and populist conservatives. And for good reason. He writes clearly and with a flair. He conjures lovely images of a largely imaginary lost golden age of mid-20th-century America. Most importantly, he presses all...

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01 Sep Will You Choose Freedom?

Posted at 11:02h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

In George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel “1984,” protagonist Winston wonders whether he is the only person who retains a real memory and doubts the narrative of The Party. He has no way to find out whether everyone else truly believes the government-revised version of history,...

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01 Sep Today’s Relevance of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations

Posted at 11:01h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The Scottish economist and moral philosopher’s landmark treatise, The Wealth of Nations (1776), is relevant today not only because it makes a still pertinent and compelling case for free trade, low taxes, and the “invisible hand” of the marketplace. It also resonates by calling out, with acumen...

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01 Sep Environmental Markets vs. Environmental Socialism: Capturing Prosperity and Environmental Quality

Posted at 11:01h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Image credit: istockCommentaryvia Socialism and Free Market Capitalism: The Human Prosperity ProjectIt is hard to date the beginning of environmentalism. It might have started when the Reverend Thomas Malthus in 1798 penned An Essay on the Principle of Population. Therein he postulated that humans would continue...

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