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An Antifa group responsible for organizing the violent Portland riots is now compiling a blacklist of pro-police companies in the city. Conservative columnist Rita Panahi commented: "Businesses are going to be coerced into supporting certain groups to avoid being targeted. It’s tantamount to extortion."

When rules are unequally applied to people based on physical characteristics, it creates resentment by the group that is excluded, and it is divisive. The mandate creates a hierarchy, with the rule makers at the top, consolidating power.

New lockdown measures are being imposed across Europe, that include varying levels of restrictions that may include stay-at-home orders, closing restaurants and bars, cinemas, gyms and other "non-essential" businesses.

This week, people are planning protests across the nation beginning the day after the election. Some, like Democratic Party-aligned groups and unions, will only demonstrate if President Trump loses and refuses to leave office. Trump will fail if he tries because the ruling class has clearly shifted its support to Biden. Professor Adrienne Pine explains […]

Here’s an audio version of my favorite epigrams from yesterday’s piece at the Mises Institute – A Collection of Bovardian Epigrams Thanks to Millian Quinteros for recording my epigrams.
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Over 40,000 Muslim men in Bangladesh protested against French President Macron and burned his effigy for his arrests of radical Islamists, and in response to projected large images of the offending Charlie Hebdo cartoons onto a building. The former PM of Malaysia said that Muslims have the right to kill millions of French people.

American Spectator Online / Knight Ridder syndicate @ November 4, 2000 Voting is Overrated by James Bovard Voting is dangerously overrated as a surefire safeguard to preserve liberty. Vice President Al Gore is clearly the most dangerous candidate running for the Presidency. If Gore wins, the pernicious trends of the Clinton era will continue full […]
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Every day I ask myself the same question: How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in charge of our country? If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I’d think I was having a hallucination. — Philip Roth, The Plot Against America, 2004, Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt […]
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Big thanks to Rachel Watson-Kennerly for having me on her new Just Add Liberty podcast. We had fun smacking politicians and talking about journalism. I enjoyed the chance to kick hell out of Washington ways and the lame “Go Team Go!” standard for Washington writing. (My comments on writers refers specifically to Washington writers.) “After […]
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A new leftist doxing website created to intimidate Trump donors by publishing their names and addresses along with Google maps. Originally, the site was Racist.watch, but it now directs to DonaldTrump.watch, and appears to have been created to encourage violence against Trump supporters.