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Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2004 Levels. Yet They Tell Us Covid Is Worse Than the 1918 Flu.

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10/11/2021

Defaulting on the Debt Is the Moral Thing To Do

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10/1/2021

Debunking Biden’s Claim We Must “Protect the Vaccinated from the Unvaccinated”

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9/21/2021

Why Cause-of-Death Stats Aren’t as Reliable as the CDC Wants You To Think

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5/27/2021

Excess Mortality in the US Has Plummeted to Pre-Covid Levels

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5/14/2021

Decentralization, Absolutism, and the Papal States

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5/7/2021

Vaccine Passports Are Just a Way for the Regime To Expand Its Power

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5/6/2021

Decentralization Is a Step Toward Self-Determination

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3/29/2021

Why Dominion’s Defamation Lawsuits Are Garbage

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2/26/2021

Why the Utes Opposed Biden’s Plans To Limit Oil Drilling

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1/29/2021

No, the Chinese Won’t Invade America If Secessionists Succeed

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1/25/2021

Biden Can Now Launch the Nukes and Unleash World War III Whenever He Feels Like It

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1/23/2021

Why Beltway Conservatives Hate the Trump Populists

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12/11/2020

The Election Was a Tie. Now What?

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11/5/2020

The Media Are Now Openly Pushing Secession as the Election Nears

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10/12/2020

Governments Will Impose New Lockdowns If They Think They Can Get Away With It

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9/18/2020

As Kenosha and Minneapolis Burn, Millions of Americans Buy Guns

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9/4/2020

America’s Private Militias of the 19th Century

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9/1/2020

A Lefty Politician Wants To Get Rid of History Class. He’s Right.

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8/7/2020

What the Supreme Court Got Right In Its Indian Tribe Ruling

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7/13/2020

The Constitution Failed

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7/7/2020

Want To Kill the Economy Again? Keep Threatening More Lockdowns

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7/3/2020

The Second Round of Lockdowns Won’t Be as Easy as the First

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6/30/2020

Minneapolis Riots Are a Reminder That Police Don’t Protect You or Your Property

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6/3/2020

What the Failed 55-MPH Speed Limit Tells Us About COVID Lockdowns

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5/28/2020

Zombies, Pop Culture, and the CDC

Ryan McMaken on Paul Cantor.

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5/27/2020

Why Didn’t the 1958 and 1918 Pandemics Destroy the Economy? Hint: It’s the Lockdowns

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5/25/2020

The School Closures Are a Big Threat to the Power of Public Schools

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5/16/2020

Unemployment Kills: The Longer Lockdowns Last, the Worse It Will Get

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5/4/2020

The Experts Have No Idea How Many COVID-19 Cases There Are

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4/21/2020

In March, US Deaths from COVID-19 Totaled Less Than 2 Percent of All Deaths

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4/13/2020

Michael Bloomberg’s Failed Ad Blitz Reminds Us That Advertisers Don’t Force People To Do Anything

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3/12/2020

Why Governments Hate Secession

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2/20/2020

How State Open Borders Empower the Central Government

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2/8/2020

Brexit: Why the Threat of Higher Tariffs Wasn’t Enough To Prevent It

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2/6/2020

Franz Jägerstätter: Conscientious Objector

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1/31/2020

Why ‘One Man, One Vote’ Doesn’t Work

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1/28/2020

How To Avoid Civil War: With Decentralization, Nullification, and Secession

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12/7/2019

The Deep State: the Headless Fourth Branch of Government

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11/22/2019

Six Graphs Showing Just How Much the Government Has Grown

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11/7/2019

Why One Corporation

Can Dictate Measles Policy in America. Article by Ryan McMaken.

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5/2/2019

Can Modern Man Re-Create

Notre Dame? Article by Ryan McMaken.

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4/18/2019

A $200K College Degree?

No, you don’t need it, says Ryan McMaken.

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3/1/2019

Don’t Blame Capitalism

For the decline of the extended family, says Ryan McMaken.

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2/13/2019

Latin America Has Fewer Guns

But more crime, says Ryan McMaken.

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11/23/2018

Forced Sterilizations in Peru

Paid for by American taxpayers. Article by Ryan McMaken.

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10/26/2018

Why We Can’t Ignore the Militia Clause

Of the Second Amendment. Article by Ryan McMaken.

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8/25/2018

Why Don’t Schools Have Better Security?

Ryan McMaken on shootings.

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2/17/2018

Switzerland Bans Welfare Recipients

From citizenship, says Ryan McMaken.

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1/19/2018

Ayn Rand Was All Wet

On Indians and property rights, says Ryan McMaken.

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10/12/2017