Remember when science fiction promised us we’d all be working less and less in the future? Sure, that one worked out about as well as the flying cars. (Mind you, it also debunks the endless, “Robots is gonna terk er jerbs!” fear-mongering, so, potayto, potahto.) But, as some creative
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Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. “Democracy” is the new “revolutionary.” In the old Marxist regimes, anything that displeased the ruling communist regime was said to be contrary to “the revolution.” For example, in the Soviet Union, national leaders spoke regularly of
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There’s a chance this post will be redundant by the time it’s published: Americans go to the polls in just a few hours, after all. In the heartland of American “progressivism”, Portland, Oregon, voters will not just be voting for seats in Congress — they’ll also be voting
Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas.
With the US midterm elections just days away, the feverish paranoia about “misinformation” are rising fit to burst the mercury. But, depending which side of politics you favour, the more you’ll be convinced that it’s the dastardly other side who are doing it all. And you’d be
Remember: the very people finger-wagging you about “misinformation” and “fake news” are the same people who’ve been steadily lying to you for the last seven years. Of course, they’ve been at it for far longer than that, but the mask really came off in 2016 — and got thrown
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You would think it’s a no-brainer in politics to never insult the people you want to vote for you. I well remember a local federal political candidate who failed in his first bid to unseat the incumbent. On losing, he fronted the cameras in the tally room and berated
I know I keep repeating myself, especially for a savvy audience like BFDers, but still, the point has to be hammered home: Always assume that “fact-checkers” are trying to bullshit you. Because as experience proves, time and again, they absolutely are. I’m not just talking about Snopes “fact-checking” the
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Information Opinion We are one week away from the US midterm elections which will see one third of the US Senate, all of the House of Representatives, numerous governorships and state legislatures up for election. As a US citizen, I sent off my ballot a couple of weeks back, having
