Commentary: Get rid of the safety net

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 22:57

By Jacob G. Hornberger

March 9, 2020 - Central to the idea of a welfare state is the notion of the “safety net”. The idea is that a free society is much like walking the high wire. High wire walkers sometimes fall, hit the ground, and die, but not if they have a safety net. If they fall, they fall into the safety net and live another day.

The free society, it is said, operates much the same way. People fall on hard times, are unable to pay their bills, and die of starvation. A welfare-state safety net, it is argued, ensures that they survive and live another day.

However, the safety-net argument is fallacious, both from a moral standpoint and a practical standpoint.

Vigilantes along Greek border with Turkey say no more to migrants

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 22:53

EVROS, Greece (PNN) - March 7, 2020 - The farmers and pensioners wore black clothes and heavy boots, imitating Greece’s special forces, and trod along a rural road on a night patrol looking for migrants trying to cross the northern land border with Turkey. “We’ll get you next time!” they shouted at a small group of men who had made it over and fled.

The human race is in grave danger from stupidity, not coronavirus

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 03/11/2020 - 20:21

LONDON, England (PNN) - March 11, 2020 - The human race is in grave ­danger. Thousands of people are showing severe symptoms already and there is no known cure.

No, not coronavirus, but sheer bloody stupidity.

Never have so many brain cells been sacrificed on the altar of toilet paper fever. Come on people, what is that about?

Commentary: The gospel of ignorance

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 03/11/2020 - 20:18

By Paul Rosenberg

March 3, 2020 - The good news about ignorance is that it sets us free from mental chains. Now, to be clear, what I'm talking about here is accepting and admitting our ignorance. This is essential if we want to actually know things, as opposed to making a show of knowing things. I can tell you from personal experience that it really works. I gained the habit of admitting my ignorance (almost advertising it) back in the early 1980s, and that habit has helped me toward more understanding and discovery than I'd be able to itemize.

Former CIA drug kingpin exposes government

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 03/04/2020 - 19:51

Josh Sigurdson talks with Freeway Rick Ross, a former drug kingpin who went from rags to millions and found himself running drugs for the CIA onto the streets of Kalifornia. Freeway Rick Ross dealt with hundreds of millions of dollars from the 1980s into the 1990s becoming one of the biggest drug dealers in the world. He found himself dealing with the contras and the next thing he knew, he was running drugs for the CIA. He later found himself in prison for a substantial amount of time, being released a little over ten years ago and exposing the system he was once part of.

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Mom entrepreneurs share how they homeschool and grow their businesses

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 03/04/2020 - 19:27

December 10, 2018 - “I would love to homeschool my (children), but I have to work.” Homeschooling parents hear this statement all the time, sometimes during casual conversations about various education options, or more often, when a friend or stranger confides that schooling isn’t working so well.

I’m not going to lie; homeschooling requires a lot of effort, presence, time, and vigilance. But with more parents able to work flexible schedules, share childrearing responsibilities, take advantage of the growing gig economy, and utilize various alternatives to school, homeschooling is becoming a more realistic option for many families.

The three moms spotlighted here have found that entrepreneurship is a particularly powerful tool for combining homeschooling, career fulfillment, and financial prosperity. They are strategic and savvy multi-taskers - just like most parents juggling work and family. But as entrepreneurs and homeschoolers, these moms show that it is possible to fully nurture your children and your company at the same time.

Meet the seasteading couple on the run from insane Thailand government

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 02/19/2020 - 19:58

Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange tells the story of Chad and Nadia Elwartowski, who appear with him in this video. Chad and Nadia are under threat of the death penalty by the government of Thailand for living in a houseboat off the shores of any country but located near Thailand. This is an amazing story that you will find it hard to believe; a government wants to charge these nonviolent people with treason.

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Journalist Abby Martin sues State of Georgia over bogus law requiring pledge of allegiance to Israel

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 02/19/2020 - 19:53

STATESBORO, Georgia (PNN) - February 13, 2020 - After refusing to sign a pledge of allegiance to the state of Israel, the State of Georgia shut down a media literacy conference featuring journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin at Georgia Southern University. Martin had recently released a documentary critical of the Israeli government called Gaza Fights for Freedom. Now she is suing the State, claiming the decision is a violation of the First Amendment. Along with the Council on Amerikan-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF), today she filed a federal free speech lawsuit against the university system of Georgia.

Training church member to carry and use handguns

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 02/13/2020 - 01:21

After recent church shootings, a thriving cottage industry is ever-more visible… training church member to carry and use handguns, with the idea that they will be able to fend off armed assailants.

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Commentary: School vouchers versus educational liberty

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 02/13/2020 - 01:14

By Jacon G. Hornberger

January 31, 2020 - It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Amerika’s public school systems are in perpetual crisis. That’s what socialism does. It produces crises or what the economist Ludwig von Mises called “planned chaos”.

It would be difficult to find a better model for socialism than public schooling. We call it “public schooling” but the more accurate name would be government schooling. This is a government program from top to bottom. The schoolteachers and administrators are government employees. The government provides the textbooks and establishes the curriculum. The government enacts compulsory school-attendance laws, which are enforced on parents through threats of incarceration and fines. To fund its operations, the government forcibly takes money from people through taxation.