January 17, 2020

The woke primary is over and everyone lost

fromReason: Maybe now would be a good time for Democrats to recognize that identity-politics signaling doesn't translate into votes.

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Black America before LBJ: How the welfare state inadvertently helped ruin black communities

fromDailyBell: “We waged a war on poverty and poverty won.”  -President Ronald Reagan, 1988 State of the Union Address

The Welfare State: Promoting Dependency

DoJ begins second probe Into Comey's history of leaking classified intel

fromZeroHedge: It could be the straw that finally wrecks whatever is left of Comey's credibility in the eyes of the liberal press.

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption     The Government is Not Us

Vermont lawmaker: Decriminalizing prostitution will keep sex workers safe

fromWCAX3: Decriminalization means there will be no arrests made or charges brought if someone is caught engaging in prostitution-- but there will be no law on the books proclaiming that prostitution is legal.

The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

VIDEO: War, What is it good for?

fromLearnLiberty/YouTube: Absolutely nothing.

Defense Versus The War Machine

Robots takeover Domino's new supply chain center

fromReason: To fend off soaring labor costs, Dominos has opted to introduce automation and the elimination of humans from its supply chains to keep pizza prices low. 

Regulation Nation          Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

March 7, 2018

How many lives are saved by guns -- and why don't gun controllers care?

fromCreators: If states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders and over 60,000 aggravated assaults may have been avoided yearly. 
2nd Amendment Assaults

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - The Morality of Redistribution

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Problems of murder, mayhem and other forms of anti-social behavior will continue until we regain our moral footing.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market    

Just like Vegas, authorities are hiding the surveillance footage of Parkland shooting

fromCreators: Just like officials have done in Las Vegas, authorities in Broward County are now surrounding themselves in secrecy and refusing to released the surveillance footage showing Nikolas Cruz attack the school.
The Government is Not Us     Police State America

Newly released surveillance orders show that even with court oversight, spying powers are misused

fromEFF: More evidence that warrantless surveillance must end. 
Government is Watching Every Move You Make

Walter E Williams: Hidden Agenda or Ignorance?

fromCreators: Problems of murder, mayhem and other forms of anti-social behavior will continue until we regain our moral footing.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery     2nd Amendment Assaults

Flippy the burger flipping robot Is now cooking at the CaliBurger fast food chain

fromKTLA5: The $15 an hour minimum wage chickens are coming home to roost.
Regulation Nation       Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

February 21, 2018

CNN and MSNBC helped Russia sow discord by promoting fake anti-Trump rally

fromMRCNewsBusters: A level of shamelessness that knows no bounds.
Media Bias on Parade      Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

The U.S. military will have more robots than humans by 2025

fromMintPressNews: Armed with a budget of over $700 billion for the coming year, the Pentagon’s dystopian vision for the future of the military is quickly becoming a question not of if but when.
Defense Versus The War Machine

VIDEO: Victor Davis Hanson - Immigration Reality

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Professor Hansen shares a historical perspective as he relates the necessary factors for a successful immigration policy.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Walter E Williams: Will Automation Kill Our Jobs?

fromAmericanGreatness: The number of jobs is unlimited, for the simple reason that human wants are unlimited — or they don't frequently reveal their bounds.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

Get ready for the war on meat

fromMisesWire: When placed under the microscope, the modern vegan movement has shown signs of increased politicization and a tendency to mesh with socialist causes. 
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

John Stossel: Success Academy

fromCreators: There is something wrong with a system, a monopolistic system that is not allowing kids to succeed.
Indoctrination and Censorship

Thanks To Minimum Wage Mandates, Carl’s Jr CEO Now Wants To Replace All Human Workers With Robots

Government forces low-skill workers to sidelines.  Looks like the little guy can teach a global fast food conglomerate a thing or two about running a restaurant. Eatsa, the mostly automated healthy, fast food bowl shop based in San Francisco, has inspired the CEO of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s to rethink the traditional workforce—by replacing all   ... MORE

John Stossel: Regulating The Future

Government pretends it's the cause of progress.       Then it strangles innovation. We know government understands that new technologies are important. The military invests in robots and traffic cops use radar guns. But when the rest of us use robots or fly drones, government gets eager to put rules in place before things get   ... MORE

VIDEO: Why Robots Won't Destroy The Human Race

John Farrier: This Robot Keeps Store Shelves Full

In response to a $15 minimum wage.   One of the most common tasks for retail workers is to look at the shelves, see which items are low, and restock those areas from storage. Now that task may be partially replaced with robots. Simbe Robotics calls its invention Tally. This robot roams a store autonomously, scanning shelves, finding out which  ... MORE

VIDEO: 7 Creepy Robots For Cops

VIDEO: The Economics Of RoboCop

VIDEO: Finally - Robot Bartenders Who Pour Stiff Drinks!

Will This Burger Bot Smash America's Fast Food Jobs?

by Tyler Wells Lynch. The fruits of a high minimum wage. “Anything you can do I can do better. I can do anything better than you.” Forget Annie Oakley. That refrain may best apply to the robots that are gradually taking our jobs. The latest workers on the chopping block? Fast food line cooks. A San Francisco startup called Momentum Machines     ... MORE

John Stossel: Here Comes Tomorrow

Robots will make our future better.      Ray Kurzweil — inventor of things like machines that turn text into speech — has popularized the idea that we are rapidly approaching "the singularity," the point at which machines not only think for themselves but develop intellectually faster than we. At that point, maybe we no longer talk about "human   ... MORE

Why Seattle Is Wounding Itself With That Minimum Wage

by Steve Forbes.       Seattle is enacting a $15-an-hour minimum wage, which will destroy jobs, especially for young people, and bankrupt numerous small businesses that operate on tight profit margins. It will drive companies to substitute machines for labor. For example, expect more fast fooderies to put in automated kiosks to process     ... MORE

Seattle Ignites Robot Revolution With $15 Minimum Wage

by Scott Shackford.     Our labor participation rate is terrible and our economy shrank by 1 percent in the first quarter of the year. So it's the perfect time to raise the minimum wage to a degree unseen in America before, right? That's what Seattle has done. Yesterday the Seattle City Council unanimously voted to raise the city's minimum wage   ... MORE

Drone-Spotting Survival Guide Informs Citizens Of Threat

published in Russia Today.     A Drone Survival Guide with hints and tips on how to thwart the “robotic birds” has been published on the internet. With over 30,000 drones expected to be flying over the US by 2030, the Guide urges readers to familiarize themselves with the craft. In light of the growing number of drones, the Guide advises a      ... MORE

Eric Schulzke: Robots Vs. Minimum Wage

Low-skill workers can be easily replaced.        Even as pressure builds to hike the minimum wage, evidence grows that low-wage/low-skill workers may be dispensable in a world where automation of simple tasks is inevitable, syndicated columnist Jonah Goldberg said Monday. Goldberg cited the irony that just one day before the president delivered  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Robots Smarter Than People