“Bureaucracies conspire against admitting their failures, and politicians often rig reporting requirements to hide the damage their laws inflict. Anyone who has blind faith in federal data is unfit to judge public policy in the real world.” ~ James Bovard
READ MORE“We fool ourselves that our arguments follow ethnic, sex, or demographic lines in what amounts to a wholly unscientific collapse into untethered subjectivity. By concerning ourselves with financial or structural bias, we chip away at the idea of objective reality.” ~ Joakim Book
READ MORE“To draw the developing world from the clutches of China’s Communist Party, policy-makers must incorporate revenue neutrality into their carbon tax considerations, or else abandon the plan entirely.” ~ Connor Tomlinson
READ MORE“It seems the Fed is not committed to hitting its average inflation target. Inflation will be transitory in the sense that the rate will eventually return to 2 percent. But the price level will likely remain elevated.” ~ William J. Luther
READ MORE“Now, and not when the Pi, Rho, Sigma, or Tau variants come along, is the time for social scientists to advise: ameliorating the snags and adverse consequences of policy when and where we can.” ~ Peter C. Earle
READ MORE“The current risk approximated from the index is decidedly lower than what people have been made to believe. The risks from government tyranny excused by this belief are much, much higher.” ~ Jon Sanders
READ MORE“Apparently America’s political system is too flawed to develop and implement workable, rational policies, leaving Americans to guess what might come next in the Covid squid lottery wire.” ~ Robert E. Wright
READ MORE“Observing the expansion over the past two years of the biosecurity state, I detect enormous evil in what the vanguard of progressives incessantly works to do to liberal civilization.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
READ MORE“Why did public-health authorities abandon their opposition to lockdowns? Why did they rush to embrace the untested claims of flawed epidemiological modeling?” ~ Phillip W. Magness & Peter C. Earle
READ MORE“Emails obtained by AIER through a FOIA request show Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins coordinating a propaganda campaign to attack the Great Barrington Declaration.” ~ Phillip W. Magness & James R. Harrigan
READ MORE“That this bizarre splinter society is also one that turns its back on our human rights is merely the confirmation of what many of us have long suspected: that the politicization of a nasty virus now threatens to unravel civil society in its entirety.” ~ Chris Bateman
READ MORE“After exiting bank headquarters, I paused on K Street, skimmed the first pages, and knew I had struck gold. Back in my home office, I called the gutsiest editor I knew—Tim Ferguson, the editorial features editor at the Wall Street Journal.” ~ James Bovard
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