Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey A Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social
As I recently wrote, one thing authoritarians really can’t stand is being made fun of. Mockery is the great leveller. It cuts down kings, tyrants and dictators. The Nazis pursued people for training their dogs to mock the Hitler salute. Jokes about Stalin were a direct ticket to the
Thomas Buckley brownstone.org Thomas Buckley is the former mayor of Lake Elsinore, Cal. and a former newspaper reporter. He is currently the operator of a small communications and planning consultancy and can be reached directly at planbuckley@gmail.com. You can read more of his work at: thomas699.substack.
Are we witnessing the coining of a neologism? Bud-lighting is pretty catchy, I have to say. And it beats just affixing “-gate” to everything. In case you’ve lived under a rock for the last month, you’ll be aware that Bud Light beer and its parent company Anheuser-Busch pissed
We live in a time of near-universal deceit. And the biggest damned liars on the face of the planet are the media-left. When they’re not knowingly lying, they’re spouting obvious lies because they’re too stupid and bigoted to bother searching for the truth. Harsh words? Maybe — but
Stella Paul brownstone.org Stella Paul is the pen name of a writer in New York who has covered medical issues for over a decade. In 2021, she lost her husband in a locked down nursing home in New York City where he had been brutally isolated for almost a
Craig Rucker cfact.org Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Then they came for our food supply. CFACT senior policy analyst Bonner Cohen reports at CFACT.org on “climate czar” John Kerry’s recent pronouncements at a Department of Agriculture summit. “We can’
Connor Vasile fee.org Connor Vasile is a first-generation American and writer who wishes to raise awareness about classical liberal ideas which empower every individual, no matter their background or experience, to live their best lives and fulfil their goals. As with most things espoused in the name of social
libertynation.com While Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao looked for ways to pick America’s financial pockets in a meeting with US counterparts Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin visited Beijing for collaborative discussions with President Xi Jinping and
libertynation.com There is only one Donald Trump, thunders the voice-of-God narrator, as one accomplishment after another of the 45th president drifts across the screen, juxtaposed with dark images of establishment elites dedicated to engineering his demise. This highly effective 60-second ad released as the 2024 presidential campaign kicks into
ronpaulinstitute.org Hillary knew. She knew her campaign paid for Russian disinformation (including the alleged pee tape accusations) to be washed through a report by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. She knew the information was false but could potentially allow her to win the election. Hillary lied to the
sovereignman.com SATIRE In a world brimming with bewildering headlines, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… and to where all of this insanity leads. “Future Headline Friday” is our satirical take of where the world is going if it remains on its current path. While our
As the new miniseries White House Plumbers shows, the reaction of the Nixon administration to the Pentagon Papers was to turn the Deep State apparatus onto leaker Daniel Ellsberg. But the comical, Keystone Kops misadventures of Hunt, Liddy and co were nothing compared to the dark machinations of the Obama
ronpaulinstitute.org George Orwell wrote in 1984 that “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” Governments work relentlessly to distort public perceptions of the past. Regarding the Ukraine War, the Biden administration has repeatedly and falsely claimed that the Ukraine War started with
brownstone.org “He who controls the children, controls the future.” Whose quote is that? It’s mine. It formulated in my mind over the past several months as I’ve been adding more and more parental rights’ issues into my speeches. Why do I keep adding more and more in?
familyfirst.org.nz Legalized drug crisis is harming young people far more than most realise The data is in and it’s becoming increasingly clear that the impacts of commercial marijuana industry are even worse than we thought, particularly for America’s young people. A new report released by Smart
