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Who Is Responsible for Exorbitant Healthcare Prices?

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Why are Americans spending exorbitant prices for healthcare but are not getting any healthier? Americans have “a very expensive system to treat the most obese, medicated, comorbid population in the world,” reports the Daily Wire. Over the last 10 years, the number of drugs prescribed by doctors has doubled. For example, the number of drugs prescribed […]

Is the Vaccine Damaging Cardiovascular and Reproductive Systems?

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In LewRockwell.com, Jon Rappoport examines some of the evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines may be causing damage to cardiovascular and reproductive systems. He writes (abridged): AP, Boston Globe, October 10, 1992, “Birth-control vaccine is reported in India”: “Scientists said yesterday they have created the first birth-control shot for women, effective for an entire year…[after which] […]

Inside Real Estate Market: This Bubble’s Popped Baby

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Your Survival Guy’s been watching lumber prices. I reported here and here that much of the increase was due to a bottleneck at sawmills. (There’s plenty of trees, just no excess capacity at the mills creating finished lumber.) Lumber futures reached a high of $1,711.20 per thousand board feet in May. On Tuesday, July futures […]

Sheriff Mack on States’ Rights

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Originally posted May 28, 2010. Update January 25, 2019: I wrote this post about your county sheriffs back on May 28, 2010, but it is much more important than ever. I am a member of the Florida Sheriffs Association. Florida is a Castle Doctrine state, and my strongest suggestion is that every American move to […]

DC Mayor Bowser Allowed Trump to Take Blame

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Mollie Hemingway explains in The Federalist that it was not Donald Trump who used teargas on “demonstrators” across from the White House last summer. It was none other than D.C.’s own mayor, Muriel Bowser. Amazingly, new reports confirm it was Bowser — not Trump — who teargassed the protesters a few blocks away from the White House […]

An Entire Atlanta Suburb Wants to Escape the City

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You know I want you to escape the city. You’re taxed too much and left to fend for yourself in America’s big cities today. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than Buckhead, an Atlanta suburb that pays one-fifth of the city’s budget but has been left to face rampant violence alone. Residents of Buckhead want […]

McConnell Vows to Use “Biden Rule” on Biden

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Mitch McConnell’s invocation of the “Biden Rule,” after President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court infuriated Democrats, even Joe Biden who detailed the rule himself. Now, McConnell has explained that he will invoke the rule again if he and Republicans retake control of the Senate in 2022, and Biden were to nominate […]

President Trump Hamstrings “Critical Race Theory”

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Originally posted September 9, 2020. UPDATE 6.15.21: Americans are now fighting Critical Race Theory in meetings of school boards and PTAs across the country. President Trump was way out in front of this radical Marxist assault on education. Recently, President Trump struck an important blow against “critical race theory.” In The Federalist, David Marcus discusses […]

Swiss KO Minimum Wage

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Originally posted May 22, 2014. Why does the Swiss model work so well? Because Switzerland is a working, decentralized, federal republic based government with a weak executive branch and ultimate power in the cantons (states). As such,when a ridiculous minimum wage bill goes up for a vote, an astounding 76% of Swiss voters vote no […]