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Bill Maher’s Excellent History Lesson

Bill Mahr and I disagree on a lot of things, and he wouldn’t know me from Adam, but we do agree on some. Free speech. That’s a big one. He’s no fan of so-called right-wingers, but he defends their right to disagree with him. We have a similar policy.

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Southwest Airlines and ‘Fat Privilege’

I don’t mind air travel, but I do mind what’s been done to it. What was once an exciting adventure in the previous century has evolved into a cluster **** of systemic inconveniences. Wait times, canceled flights, and the risk that your “vaccinated” pilot might drop dead after takeoff. Oh, and the TSA!

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Arresting a Government Wholesale

Born and raised in the US, I married into Australia in 1980 and stayed there for most of 38 years. The Australian government recently asked for public submissions concerning “the Covid response.” Here I quote parts of my reply, verbatim, dated December 12, 2013, re-arranged with numbering for GraniteGrok.com:

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Night Cap: Biden, Media Gaslight People about Inflation

President Biden recently repeated the claim that high prices are caused by greedy businesses. Biden is not alone in trying to gaslight the people into thinking price inflation is rooted in the actions of private individuals and not the fiat money system Americans have lived under since 1971.

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The Bill of Rights: The Only Good Part of the Constitution

The Bill of Rights turns 232 years old today. Adopted in 1791 as a consolation prize for the Anti-Federalists,  it has been perhaps the most important part of American legal history since the eighteenth century and has served as an inconvenient reminder of the laissez-faire libertarian philosophy that permeated American political theory in the late 18th century.

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