Most likely scenario for Social Security is that they keep printing money to pay for it.
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How Medical Licensing Serves Big Pharma at the Expense of Public Health
https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-medical-licensing-serves-big-pharma-expense-public-health
By Jeremy R. Hammond
> The purpose of medical licensing is not to protect consumers but the financial interests of privileged trade organizations allied with Big Pharma.
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> **Claiming Undeserved Credit**
> Another myth constantly reinforced by the medical cartel is that its therapeutic measures were responsible for the dramatic decline in mortality observed during the twentieth century. Most specifically, we are supposed to believe that vaccines were the cause of dramatic reductions in infectious disease mortality, but it is a simple fact of the historical data that these reductions mostly occurred before there were even any vaccines to possibly help explain it.
> Here, for example, is the data for diphtheria:
> Here’s pertussis:
> And here’s the dreaded measles:
> These dramatic reductions in disease mortality were instead due to factors related to an increasing standard of living, including sanitation, refrigeration, less crowding, better personal hygiene, and better nutrition.
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Epstein Network An 'Iranian Conspiracy,' Claims Washington Post
By James Bovard
> Why do so many Americans distrust The Washington Post? “Pro-Iran propaganda network gains traction with posts about Epstein” offers a tankerload of clues.
> Social media is overflowing with bogus claims and A.I. videos related to the Iran War. Prudent folks are already wary about any wild-eyed claims of total victory or glorious destruction they see online. But can political shysters exploit the war to vaccinate President Donald Trump against his biggest scandal?
> Long before Trump partnered with Israel to attack Tehran, Democrats, libertarians, and even decent Americans warned that the president would bomb Iran again to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein pedophile scandal. But now that Trump vindicated such fears, anyone who still complains about the Epstein scandal is propelling Iranian propaganda.
Epstein Network An 'Iranian Conspiracy,' Claims Washington Post | The Libertarian Institute
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We are going to remake Firefly
I've been waiting 20 years for this
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The Tea Party Stumbled So That MAGA Could Fall | The Libertarian Institute
By Alan Mosley
> Political movements often begin as revolts against entrenched power, only to be absorbed by the very institutions they sought to challenge. The pattern is familiar in American political history. Grassroots insurgencies ignite public enthusiasm, mobilize voters around neglected issues, and briefly threaten the ruling consensus. Yet over time they are either neutralized or transformed into instruments of the existing political order.
> Two movements defined the political awakening of many Americans in the early twenty-first century: the Tea Party and the MAGA movement. Both promised a revolt against Washington. Both claimed to represent ordinary Americans against an unaccountable ruling class. Both attracted millions of supporters who believed they were witnessing the birth of something genuinely transformative.
The Tea Party Stumbled So That MAGA Could Fall | The Libertarian Institute
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Will Canada's shameful losing streak continue through 2026?
Which of the Canadian major league teams will end the championship drought this year, if any does?
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Israeli Defense Minister Threatens to Take Lebanese Territory
by Kyle Anzalone
> Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened to seize Lebanese territory if Beirut does not prevent Hezbollah from attacking Israel. Israeli forces occupy
> “Hezbollah launched heavy barrages toward the State of Israel yesterday. The IDF responded forcefully in the Dahiyeh [the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold] and against Hezbollah targets across Lebanon,” Katz stated on Wednesday. “I warned the president of Lebanon that if the Lebanese government does not know how to control the territory and prevent Hezbollah from threatening the northern communities and firing at Israel, we will take the territory and do it ourselves.”
> Cross-border attacks between Israel and Hezbollah started after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. Israel conducted a massive bombing campaign and used terrorists to kill Hezbollah’s leaders. In November 2024, Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire with Israel.
Israeli Defense Minister Threatens to Take Lebanese Territory If Hezbollah Doesn’t Halt Attacks | The Libertarian Institute
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Stacker Sports Pod • #75: Bam's Big Game, Mad Maxx Fiasco, and NFL Free Agency
> Undisciplined and GrayRuby talk the territory, NFL free agency, NBA, WBC, NHL and more.
We also found @grayruby a new AFL team to support and talked about kid's sports.
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Los Angeles Lakers vs Denver Nuggets Full Game Highlights – March 14, 2026
This game was epic
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What is it that could be accomplished in Iran that you would consider the costs worth it?
And, how many regime change attempts have to go badly before we can say they should stop attempting it?
Also, why do they deserve the benefit of the doubt? I’d say the US track record is such that there’s a very high burden on them to convince us that an intervention is prudent.
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The Robot Won’t Take Your Job. The Government Might
https://mises.org/mises-wire/robot-wont-take-your-job-government-might
By Attila Rebak
> Like the Luddites of two centuries ago, pundits tell us to fear AI because it might put people out of work and create mass unemployment. But AI is not a threat to our jobs, unlike the regulation the government unleashes ostensibly to control AI.
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By Attila Rebak Like the Luddites of two centuries ago, pundits tell us to fear AI because it might put people out of work and create mass unemploy...
The Duke Lacrosse Case 20 Years Later
https://mises.org/mises-wire/duke-lacrosse-case-20-years-later-how-durham-law-enforcement-promoted-criminal-conspiracy
By William L. Anderson
> The Duke Lacrosse Case would never have been a legal item had not the police and prosecutors of the case lied and broken the law on numerous occasions. Here is a small sampling of the lies they told.
Is it too soon to call this ~history?
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The Duke Lacrosse Case 20 Years Later \ stacker news
By William L. Anderson The Duke Lacrosse Case would never have been a legal item had not the police and prosecutors of the case lied and broken the...
Only Power Can Check Power: Why We Need Decentralization
https://mises.org/mises-wire/only-power-can-check-power-why-we-need-decentralization
By Ryan McMaken
> The radical classical liberals of the past were not so naive as to think that words on paper would prevent the abuses of the central state. Allowing the central state to have a monopoly on coercive power is always a mistake.
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By Ryan McMaken The radical classical liberals of the past were not so naive as to think that words on paper would prevent the abuses of the centra...
Revisiting Colonial Massachusetts and Mises’s Taxonomy of Money
https://mises.org/mises-wire/revisiting-colonial-massachusetts-and-misess-taxonomy-money
By Joshua Mawhorter
> Contrary to what the Modern Monetary Theory advocates and their chartalist allies are claiming, the 1690 colonial Massachusetts issuance of fiat money did not create an enlightened moment in US monetary history. Instead, it was a monetary bait-and-switch.
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I think the PPQ guy’s argument for benefiting bitcoin is that he pays his employees in bitcoin, which he couldn’t afford if not for the people paying in shitcoins, and that he offers a service that can be paid for in bitcoin.
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