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Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. “A man cannot get pregnant” is hate speech on Twitter A Spanish politician was suspended from Twitter
[Editor’s note: This letter on personal resilience was written by Viktorija, our Sovereign Woman] I’ve been in plenty of dangerous situations in my life. I’ve been shot at. I’ve been through a rocket attack. And, as a single female, I’ve been stalked more times than I can count.dd Yet even with all those
[Note: This letter on personal resilience was written by our founder, Simon Black.] Fourteen year old Gao Yuan was attending a boarding school in China when the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966. And that’s when his life changed forever. Even though the communists had won the Chinese Civil War and been in
You’ve almost certainly heard the news that the CDC in the Land of the Free has now decided that fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear a mask anymore. The President of the United States subsequently sent out a demeaning ultimatum via Twitter— The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a
We’ve reached a point now where anyone who can’t see inflation is clearly not paying attention. Inflation has now become so ridiculous that, according to the Wall Street Journal, even the price of a USED car is increasing… by a lot. Since January 2020, NEW car prices have increased 9.6%. But USED car
Early in the 2nd century AD, around the year 101, the Roman humorist Decimus Junius Juvenalis began publishing a collection of satirical poems poking fun at the Empire. Rome was already in serious decline by the time Juvenalis wrote his first poem. In the first century AD alone, Romans suffered the tyrannical insanity
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. CIA goes full woke in new recruiting campaign The CIA has gone full woke in an “unapologetically
A remarkable thing happened yesterday that tells you everything you need to know about inflation. In the morning, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated bluntly that “interest rates will have to rise somewhat to make sure that our economy doesn’t overheat. . .” For economists, an ‘overheating economy’ means inflation. So she was
In the winter of 1837, Charles Dickens published the first two chapters of what would become one of his most popular works– the story of an orphan called Oliver Twist. If you’ve never read it, the book is one of Dickens’ most damning condemnations of the poverty, crime, and child labor that dominated
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Iran elected to UN Women’s Rights Council Last week, Iran was among the United Nations member states
In early 1657, a young farmer from southeastern England named John Washington boarded a small merchant vessel bound for the English colonies in North America. Officially he was supposed to be part of a minor trade voyage to transport tobacco to the colonies. But secretly John had no intention of ever returning home.
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Drug overdose deaths surged during lockdowns The rate of US drug overdose deaths surged during the pandemic
In the year 215 AD, the young Roman Emperor Caracalla, then just 27 years of age, decided to ‘fix’ Rome’s perennial inflation problem by minting a brand new coin. Caracalla’s predecessors over the previous several decades had ordered an astonishing debasement of Roman currency; the silver content in Rome’s ‘denarius’ coin, for example,
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of an evergreen tree? Perhaps the smell of pine. Or a wooded trail by a babbling brook. Or maybe even Christmas. However, for one member of the Board of Education in Portland, Oregon, the first thing that comes to mind is
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. YouTube censors panel of medical experts over Covid-19 “misinformation” The Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis recently held