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Fani's Father Was a Top Black Panther
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Fani's DEI Training
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The Real Threat: White, Rural Americans
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The Flood of Illegals Is Crushing the Country
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Outrage Grows Over CDC Inaction on Chinese Biolab in California
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China's Disintegration Warfare Against the U.S.
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Google's Gemini and the Great Replacement
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The Most Heavily Armed Countries
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Why Burn Books When You Can Bury Them?
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A Western Consensus Is Brewing
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Brace Yourself for What's Coming in 2024
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The World Economic Forum Food Pyramid
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Confucius Institutes: China's Trojan Horse
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Is The Greater Idaho Movement A Model For National Divorce From The Political Left?
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The Technological Elite Are Now in Control
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Cornell Vaccine Mandate Only Applies to White Students
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A Tour of Downtown L.A.
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Lawmakers Have Been Trading Like Drunken Insider Sailors
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Top 10 Books Where the Elite Tell Everything
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Dr. Mercola Interviews Edward Dowd
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Books About COVID-19
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The Medical Mystery Linking TikTok to an Explosion of Severe Tics in Teen Girls
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Mass Formation Psychosis
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Ex-Precious Metals Traders at JP Morgan Convicted of Fraud
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A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal
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Race-Based Grading System
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Anti-Work Reddit Goes Private
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Tucker: No One Listens to Biden Anymore
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Jordan Peterson Resigns as Prof
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Russia Bans All Cryptocurrencies
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FDA: We Need 75 Years to Release Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Data
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Unprecedented Scramble to Find Spare Parts for Trucks
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Vaccine Disaster Ahead
Original article This could be the most important video you ever see.  Reminds me of the movie "I Am Legend."
White House: Mandates for the Unvaxxed Are Coming
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Summer Vacations Don't Have to End
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Is a Coronavirus Vaccine a Ticking Time Bomb?
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U.S. Embassies Authorized to Fly BLM Flag
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The Vaccine Passport Propaganda Template
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Pro Sports Gets Woke
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That's How They Do It in Delaware
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1,250 Woke Companies Unite Against Election Integrity Laws
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The Monopoly on Violence
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Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools
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DHS Deploying Big Tech to Spy on Americans Through Social Media
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Pending Vaccine Legislation
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Racist Highways
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How Many Americans Have Died After Taking the COVID Vaccine?
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The Fed Is Basically a PR Firm
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Face Masks Posing Serious Flight Safety Risk
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Why Is Everyone in Texas Not Dying?
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Hunter Biden Bombshells
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Coke Gets Woke
Original article "Critical Race hustlers are culture warriors obsessed with destroying anything and everything beautiful.  They are Leninists never content with what they’ve achieved and will not stop until they have poisoned everything we’ve ever held dear."
FDA Warns Dr. Mercola to Stop Writing About Vitamin D
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OR Wants to Make COVID Restrictions Permanent
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From Soft Liberalism to Iron-Fisted Leftism in Today's Military
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Deep State Tried to Spy on Oath Keepers
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Prayer Returns to CA Public Schools
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Dems Move to Ban Trump Supporters From Security Clearances
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Corporations Issuing COVID Passports
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Spy Firm Wants to Sell Car Data to Military
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COVID Mistakes
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Why We All Must Reject Vaccine Passports
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Daughter Removed From Maskless Mother
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The Fed Enables Runaway Government Spending
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HR1 Would Corrupt Elections Forever
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Social Justice Is on Full Tilt
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Journalists Spread Lies About Hunter Biden Laptop Story
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Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor Its Writers
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Facebook Stalinists Censor the WSJ
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What's That Thing Called?
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Best Sellers
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Why Is Big Pharma Immune From Vaccine Injuries?
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Dr. Seuss Is Racist
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Come On In
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Wikipedia Is Woke
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Schools Suspend Advanced Classes for Too Many White Students
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Amazon Starts to Ban Books
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Time for the 25th Amendment?
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Is Hyperinflation on the Horizon?
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America Becoming Totalitarian State
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Never Again
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Greenwash
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Why You Won't Be Allowed to Participate in the Greatest Bull Market
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Gun Grabber Garland
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Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More
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The Slow Motion Apocalypse
Original article "We’re on the brink of a slow-motion apocalypse.  A generation or two from now, humans may live in a world where they still have access to amazing old machines left over from a smarter civilization, but lack the brains to make new ones or even service the old ones. A generation or two later, after all the old miracle machines have worn out, feral humans may wander the burnt-out ruins of the civilization we left them, like barbarians gawking at the wonders of Rome."
Poland to Fine Big Tech for Censoring Content
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The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry
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The 8 White Identities
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Forgiveness Is a Sin
Original article "The woke police...are looking for any opportunity to impose their will and punish those who deviate from the path they have prescribed for our lives. That explains the seemingly weird fact that often those who defend the canceled person will get canceled even harder than the original victim. In the eyes of the leftist mob, the defender is making a more direct and explicit attack on their authority, and thus is an even greater threat."
Questions for Pelosi About Jan. 6
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A Forecast for the Next Decade
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Cancel Culture Comes for Chaucer
Original article "But the deeper source of this movement is that Progressive activists throughout Western schools now are hell-bent on dumbing us down, disconnecting us from our history and from the extraordinary intellectual and artistic legacy of our civilization, and molding younger generations into social justice activists instead of educated patriots. Erasing our historical consciousness and cultural roots, as well as our ability to think critically and to reject a mob mentality, is a prerequisite for...
Letter Explains What Happened Before Capitol Hill Riot
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Bank of America Spied on Customers for Feds
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Snapchat Is Indoctrinating Children
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Math Is Racist
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Pepsi Cancels Black Woman
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Universities' Insane COVID Rules
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White Liberals Are the 'Useful Idiots' of Woke Culture
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A Psychological Explanation of Our Times
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Facebook Feeding Private Messages to FBI
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The Stock Market Will Crash
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Elites Are Weaponizing Censorship to Keep Outsiders Out
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The Great American Gun Buying Binge
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Critical Race Training in Higher Education
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The 30 Tyrants
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How Phony COVID Fear Videos Brought America to Its Knees
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Big Pharma's 'Computer Operating System'
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War Without End
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Dems Coordinate Lies to Make Pop History
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Satisfaction Takes Deepest Dive Ever
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Erasing History
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The COVID Anal Swab
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Legacy Media Defends Hedge Funds
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Reality Czar
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Enemies of the State vs. Enemies of the People
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FL Cracks Down on Big Tech
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How Socialism Wiped Out Venezuela's Oil Wealth
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China Collecting Americans' DNA
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Bill Would Create Retroactive Gun Registry
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The New Normal
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Google Is Big Brother
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Mayhem Made in Venezuela?
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Let David Slay Goliath
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Feds Double Down on Masks
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Good Timing
Original article I'm guessing this trade won't be reversed by the brokerage houses like GME was.
Bill Gates Aghast Over 'Crazy and Evil' Conspiracy Theories
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That Was Then, This Is Now
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The Rule of Law Is Dead
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Everything Is Rigged in Favor of the Elites
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It's All Connected
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Enemies of the Deep State
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Establishment Blatantly Rigging Financial Markets
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Reject False Premises
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Feds Discover Way to Create Massive Wealth, Jobs
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Domestic Enemies
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Flying Blind
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Science, Statistics and Technology Are Racist
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Disney Gets Woke
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Mandatory Selfies
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Biden Institute Refuses to Disclose Donors
Original article Over $20 million from China; good thing it wasn't from Russia.
Left Calls for Army of Citizen Detectives
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Orwell's 1984 and Today
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A Catalyst for Secession
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Corporate Fascism
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Professor Calls For Elimination of GOP
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Struggle Sessions
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Feel Like Winston?
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Putin's Puppets
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National Guard in D.C. Subjected to Loyalty Screening
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Dems Using Military to Send Message to America
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Fight Climate Change, Ban Bitcoin
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Dem Calls For Domestic War
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Minds
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The Coming Feudalism
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Get Me Some Results
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Big Tech vs. America
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Not a Safe Space for AOC
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The Ongoing Death of Free Speech
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WordPress Deplatforming
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Mao Fangirl to Return to White House
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Cancel Yourself
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Why 'Fahrenheit 451' Was Written
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Facebook Banned Users at Hunter Biden's Request
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Cultural Revolution in the Third Grade
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A Nation Imploding: Digital Tyranny, Insurrection and Martial Law
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Shoot For the Moon
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The 'Good American'
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The Establishment Strikes Back
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Commentator's Insurance Canceled Over Social Media Posts
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Why OpSec Has Never Been More Important
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Enlightenment Camps
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The Zuckerberg Heist
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11 of the Most Memorable Acts of Civil Disobedience
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Woke Corporations Cancel Dissenters
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A Plot to Take Away Your Gun Rights
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The Darkness Cannot Win
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COVID-19: The Greatest Hoax Ever?
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Decadent Like the Late Roman Empire, the West Is Committing Suicide Through Its Irrational Response to Covid-19
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U.S. Republic Dies by Unanimous Consent
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The Swamp Is Too Big to Be Drained
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Stop Patronizing the Tech Left
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Psychiatrist Suggests Middle America May Need to Be Leveled
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Ex-Twitter CEO: Business Leaders Who Reject Woke Culture To Be 'First People Lined Up Against The Wall And Shot In Revolution
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The Thin Veneer of American Civilization Has Been Blown Away
Original article "The point instead was to destroy and deface most all images of America, from Frederick Douglass and Ulysses S. Grant to Lincoln and World War II heroes such as Churchill. The strategy of the Left was that if they could easily wage war on the bronze and stone of the past without repercussions, then as fear and terror mounted, they could turn to the flesh-and-blood enemies of the people in the present. Anyone who with impunity burns books — including the Bible — vandalizes...
An Insane Maoist Jubilee
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Analysis of the Coming Civil War
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BLM Activist Says White Men Are the Common Enemy
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Out of Shadows
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Students Told It's 'White Supremacy' to Love Reading, Writing
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A Sign of Our Depravity
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R. K. Blacksher 2011-09-02 00:00
Column by R.K. Blacksher   Exclusive to STR    Some people love to lament the popularity of violent video games and rap music. They view this as a sign of our depravity. Other people love to lament the popularity of NASCAR and professional wrestling. They view this as a sign of our stupidity.   Are they right? Does the popularity of these cultural phenomena emblemize the much...
A Rose By Any Other Name Is Still Vegetation
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Paul Hein 2011-09-01 00:00
Column by Paul Hein   Exclusive to STR   Suppose you hired a landscape architect, and asked him to submit a plan to beautify your yard. He would ask you what you had in mind. “Well, how about some vegetation?” He might smile at that, or frown; but he would want you to be more specific. “What vegetation would you like?” “You know, green plants, maybe...
Voluntaryist Schooling at Libertopia 2011 - Part 3: Why We Need Summum Bonum Learning Center – Now!
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Lawrence M. Ludlow 2011-08-30 00:00
Column by Lawrence M. Ludlow   Exclusive to STR   The Failure of Conventional Schools   Parents and children are frustrated by public schools (85% to 90% of all students). Not only do they do not meet their needs, but they treat parents and children as if they were sick patients instead of as valued customers. Moreover, student needs are superseded by politically sensitive funding...
Voluntaryist Schooling at Libertopia 2011 - Part 2: Why Intrinsic Motivation Works
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Lawrence M. Ludlow 2011-08-25 00:00
Column by Lawrence M. Ludlow Exclusive to STR At Libertopia 2011, visitors will have a chance to find out why a group of voluntaryists in San Diego are starting their own school. More specifically, from October 20th through 23rd, the folks from Summum Bonum Learning Center will demonstrate how a school based on intrinsic motivation and freedom can respond to the needs of the children in ways...
The Doctrine of Love and Freedom: Condensed, One-Word Edition
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Glen Allport 2011-08-24 00:00
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR   - 1 - The Word    **  Love. **   - 2 - Start of Commentary Section: The Word is Complete in Itself   Nothing more is needed, because love includes non-aggression: you don't aggress against others if you love them. The Doctrine of Love and Freedom is thus completely contained in the single word...
Let's Get It Over With
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Paul Hein 2011-08-23 00:00
Column by Paul Hein. Exclusive to STR Last June, Missouri Congressman Todd Akin made a speech in which he said that liberalism involved “hatred of God.” Needless to say, the professionally touchy were inflamed, and the Congressman was quick to issue an apology. Some local pastors weren’t satisfied with that, however, and sought a face-to-face meeting with Akin at his office....
Just Call Me a Capitalist
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Westernerd 2011-08-23 00:00
Column by Robert Taylor   Exclusive to STR   In the current media climate of talking heads, sound bites, and bumper sticker slogans from politicians, debate--both in public and in private--is severely hampered by a lack of proper definitions of the terms and ideas being discussed. One could definitely make the cynical argument that this process of dumbing down the language is done...
Voluntaryist Schooling at Libertopia 2011 - Part 1: The Summum Bonum Learning Center and Intrinsic Motivation
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Lawrence M. Ludlow 2011-08-23 00:00
Column by Lawrence M. Ludlow Exclusive to STR  In San Diego this October 20-23, visitors to Libertopia 2011 will have the very first glimpse of a new type of school – the Summum Bonum Learning Center. According to Joey Hill, director and co-founder of the school, “In the spirit of Libertopia, instead of waiting for liberty to happen at some time in the future, we decided to start...
The Doctrine of Love and Freedom
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Glen Allport 2011-08-16 00:00
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR   Almost unnoticed amongst the glitter and wonder of modern sci-tech is that the basic, foundational truths of classical liberalism are now exceptionally well supported by science. If you want a society that produces physically and emotionally healthy people and that fosters prosperity, innovation, and peace, you want – you need – both...
Government Regulation and Free Market Alternatives
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Westernerd 2011-08-15 00:00
Column by Robert Taylor. Exclusive to STR The failure of the state to adequately provide the services that are supposedly the sole domain of government is everywhere evident and an unfortunate fixture of American life. Instead of creating order, it has imposed chaos, cages, and climbing crime rates. While piling up bodies in the name of peace, it had made all of us less safe. But it is in...
Building Bridges
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Alex R. Knight III 2013-04-19 07:20
Column by Alex R. Knight III. Exclusive to STR Linda Waite-Simpson, an ultra-left, pro-government “state representative” here in Vermont, recently lamented to local press that her rejected bid to impose sweeping gun control measures upon the residents of the most gun-friendly tax farm out of the 50 was shot down (pun intended) because of the “strong libertarian bent in this...
Logical Fallacies?
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Paul Bonneau 2014-06-30 08:23
Column by Paul Bonneau. Exclusive to STR I vaguely remember when I first discovered logical fallacies (hint: it was not in a government school); I recall being thrilled that there were some boundaries for argumentation that could be used to reject some poor arguments and help find the truth of things. I have long used Stephen Downes’ site as a particularly good exposition of them, since it...
Don’t Trust the Childrenry With Guns
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Shaquille Brisset 2014-12-10 09:33
Column by new Root Striker Shaquille Brisset. Exclusive to STR “You are incompetent. You are a tall, naive child, and you do not possess the wherewithal to be granted full autonomy. If not properly supervised, you may get hurt or hurt the other children. As loving guardians, we will be implementing a few measures to ensure your safety. From here on out, you are not to run with scissors,...
Xenophobes Bore Me
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Paul Bonneau 2015-01-27 09:18
Column by Paul Bonneau. Exclusive to STR Sometimes I think people of a certain mindset (*cough* “conservatives” *cough*) would feel lost without someone to fear. Pick any forum with a good crop of ‘em, utter the word “Muslim,” and watch the whole lot turn into instant collectivists, the very people they claim to oppose. Like Pavlov’s dogs, the ruling class...
Jealousy, Jouvenel and the War Against Socialism
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Alex R. Knight III 2016-07-28 07:36
Column by Alex R. Knight III. Exclusive to STR In his famous post-World War Two exposé, On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth, Bertrand de Jouvenel makes some salient observations at the very beginning of Chapter IX, “Power, Assailant of the Social Order” (pp. 171-172): “Power is authority and makes for more authority. It is force and makes for more force. Or,...
America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited
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Lawrence M. Ludlow 2018-06-08 00:00
Column by Lawrence M. Ludlow. Exclusive to STR In this wonderfully succinct book, America’s Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited(Griffin & Lash, 2016), Sheldon Richman does a great service that clears the air swirling around the concept of limited government and freedom. Best of all, he explodes two common myths that are repeated with great frequency among people who...
Obama's Prison Camp Economy
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Bill Butler 2009-12-21 17:00
Exclusive to STR Friends and clients who are just beginning to understand the truth that is Austrian economic theory are starting to ask me what I think the economy will look like over the next several years as the dollar inevitably declines. Whether the dollar lives and merely loses its status as the world's reserve currency or actually dies via an 'orderly' or sudden death, I think the result...
Half Full
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Jim Davies 2010-01-21 04:00
  Exclusive to STR   I've been re-reading a couple of excellent, recent articles on Strike The Root, each of which in its way predicts a gloomy future.   One is Glen Allport's "Year Ahead" and the other, Tzo's "Got Money?. Glen provides us as usual with a wealth of evidence to prove his point, piling one piece atop another until there can be no doubt of the message...
The Emperor's Clothes
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Paul Hein 2010-09-09 03:00
By Paul Hein.   Exclusive to STR   Having, by sheer good fortune, escaped any formal training in economics, I often feel like the little boy who observed that the emperor wasn’t wearing any clothes. “Shush,” I’m told. “You don’t know anything about it. It’s too complicated for you to understand.”   Well, maybe so. Despite that,...
Walks and Talks
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Paul Hein 2010-11-08 04:00
Column by Paul Hein.   Exclusive to STR   I enjoy taking the dog for a walk, although he probably enjoys it more. These Fall mornings the fresh air is bracing, and the chance to be alone with my thoughts is welcome.  I’ll even grudgingly admit that the exercise might be beneficial, although I’m not convinced of that. It’s meeting other walkers that pleases me most...
Do We Need a Vaccine for Hubris? MUST READ
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D. Saul Weiner 2015-02-13 09:13
Column by D. Saul Weiner. Exclusive to STR There are a lot of heated exchanges going on right now in social media related to vaccination. Many people have become convinced that parents who do not vaccinate are jeopardizing the health of others and that vaccines for children should be mandated. Politicians who are expected to run for president in 2016 are starting to weigh in on the topic and some...
'Obamacare Nightmare Edition' of Ringo's Law and the Healthcare System of Doom MUST READ
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Glen Allport 2013-10-30 08:02
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR Introduction for this 2013 Edition As I write this – October 28, 2013, more than four years after the column below was posted (here with minor edits; see the original at this link if you wish) – NBC News is reporting that the Obama administration “knew millions could not keep their health insurance" under Obamacare, and has known...
An Armed March on Washington? MUST READ
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Alex R. Knight III 2013-05-07 06:52
Column by Alex R. Knight III. Exclusive to STR Perhaps never before have I encountered a proposal within Liberty Movement circles that has generated more controversy faster and further than Adam Kokesh’s planned July 4th march on Washington, District of Criminals, in which he states that himself and the other participants “will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to...
The Orwellian Paradigm--Killing You, For Your Own Safety MUST READ
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fmoghul 2013-04-10 08:12
Column by Faisal Moghul. Exclusive to STR Almost 30 years ago, cultural critic Neil Postman argued in Amusing Ourselves to Death that television’s gradual replacement of the printing press has created a dumbed-down culture driven by mindless entertainment. In this context, Postman claimed that Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World correctly foresaw our dystopian future, as opposed to George...
Frameworks, Virtual Reality and Civil Society: A Manifesto for the Doctrine of Love and Freedom MUST READ
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Glen Allport 2012-12-06 08:44
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR Perhaps I should say this paradigm shift is resuming. The healthier incoming paradigm is a modern, more accurate, better-supported, and better-understood version of one that began the shift towards a free, healthy, and prosperous world more than three centuries ago and which informed the creation of the United States itself: Classical Liberalism. - 1...
Timeline of a World-Killing Paradigm Shift MUST READ
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Glen Allport 2012-05-14 00:00
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR   Part 3 of "Could the Non-Aggression Principle Stop the Sixth Great Extinction?"   Part One of this series discussed the Non-Aggression principle, calling it "the libertarian half of the Golden Rule" (compassion being the other half) and describing the function of aggression in creating not only tyranny and war but also...
Terrorist Alert: Government Extremists Threaten Americans MUST READ
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Glen Allport 2012-03-26 00:00
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR   Question: are you more terrified by Muslim extremists, by "domestic terrorists" – or by your own government? Which group is more likely to assault you? To kill you? To unjustly imprison and even torture you?   The U.S. federal government has ALREADY:   Built and is staffing a huge gulag of concentration camps [...
The State Is a Firing Squad MUST READ
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JGVibes 2012-02-17 01:00
Column by JGVibes.   Exclusive to STR   Although the common perception of human nature is very negative, the truth is that most people who aren’t mentally ill have a very difficult time committing acts of violence. Usually it takes a sizeable payment and a fair amount of manipulation to convince someone to act violently, and even then a tremendous amount of guilt typically...
How the 1% Took America's Wealth--and How to Get It Back MUST READ
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Glen Allport 2011-12-01 01:00
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR  - 1 - Plundering Wealth vs Producing Wealth   In recent decades, the rich have gathered an increasing share of the total wealth in the United States. As this wealth disparity grows and especially as large numbers of the formerly middle class fall into poverty and even into homelessness, this flow of wealth from main street (from anyone not...
'Anarchy or Minarchy' Is Only Half the Question, Part 2 MUST READ
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Glen Allport 2011-04-13 03:00
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR  This is Part 2 of a response to a column by Wesley Messamore. Last week's Part One of this column discussed the following:   ·      Minarchy: Lighting a Match to the Fuse of Tyranny ·      Anarchy: By Itself, Yang without Yin ·      The Missing Key...
Chaos Gets a Bad Rap: Importance of Chaology to Liberty Recommended
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Lawrence Samuels 2015-02-18 08:43
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR Chaos gets a bad rap—from the academic and scientific world, even from some uninformed libertarians. Few people realize that without the dynamics of chaos, order would not exist. In fact, nothing would exist. Without chaos there would be no creation, no structure and no existence. After all, order is merely the repetition of patterns; chaos is the...
An Apostate From the Government Religion Recommended
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Paul Bonneau 2013-10-23 08:00
Column by Paul Bonneau. Exclusive to STR I was reading an article about Roger Williams. The more I learn about him, the more impressed I become. "Roger Williams was not a man out of time. He belonged to the 17th Century and to Puritans in that century. Yet he was also one of the most remarkable men of his or any century. With absolute faith in the literal truth of the Bible and in his...
Murray's Missing Plan Recommended
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Jim Davies 2013-10-07 08:37
Column by Jim Davies. Exclusive to STR I've been continuing to read the fascinating story of the modern libertarian movement's early years, as told in the Libertarian Forum, edited and often written by Murray Rothbard. It's vast, but very worthwhile – warmly recommended. I've supplemented it recently with a re-read of parts of Justin Raimondo's excellent biography of him...
Left-Libertarians and the Ring of Power Recommended
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Glen Allport 2013-10-01 08:32
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR Whoever cannot hit the nail on the head should please, not hit it at all. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Image of The Ring of Power from Wikimedia Commons – 1 – If I had the Ring of Power, I would only use it for GOOD!   Recently, I was reminded that to at least some extent, left-leaning libertarians and anarchists do not understand that...
Government Denial Recommended
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Alex R. Knight III 2013-07-31 08:31
Column by Alex R. Knight III. Exclusive to STR During my years as a practicing alcoholic, I employed any number of tactics to avoid the ultimately invariable conclusion that in order to solve my numerous problems, I needed to stop drinking altogether. Even long after I had made the inner admission that I was, in all likelihood, suffering from the disease – and I knew or understood very...
The Licensing Effect Recommended
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Lawrence Samuels 2013-05-10 08:28
The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action. Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR Good intentions rarely make good laws. Those who do evil almost always think they are doing good for goodness’ sake. Nobody sees himself as evil. As Will Smith, the American actor, once quipped, “...
The Pugsley Plan Recommended
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Jim Davies 2013-01-14 08:46
Column by Jim Davies. Exclusive to STR Prior to Harry Browne's first run for US President in 1996, his friend John Pugsley wrote him a passionate “open letter” urging him not to. As far as I know, Harry didn't reply, but he did continue his campaign – and repeated it four years later. He got few votes more than the LP normally receives, but his platform and campaign were...
Ed Schultz and His Alleged Middle Class Heroes Recommended
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Greg Haley 2013-01-04 01:00
Column by Greg Haley. Exclusive to STR Ed Schultz has set quite the task out for himself. On his New Year’s Eve broadcast on MSNBC, he announced who his “Middle Class Heroes of 2012” are. Schultz is a self-styled liberal, so his recipients of the title “Middle Class Hero” are predictable and worthy of a certain amount of eye rolling. The general reverence for...
The Trials Recommended
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tzo 2012-12-11 08:49
Column by tzo. Exclusive to STR To anyone who has seen or read The Reader (a synopsis of the relevant part of the story is here), one of the main questions raised in the story is, "What should be done with Hanna?" Was she responsible for her actions even if she was so thoroughly indoctrinated so as to be completely confused by the charges against her? She asked more than once, while...
464 Lost Years Recommended
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Jim Davies 2012-12-10 08:48
Column by Jim Davies. Exclusive to STR Recently I re-read part of that seminal essay, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boëtie, written in 1548, or 464 years ago. He said that if you want to topple a tyrant, all you need to do is to withdraw support. No violence, no sweat, just stop helping him. Yet 24 years later there was a massacre of Huguenot Protestants, indicating that...

 

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