Mercola | 16 June 2022 STORY AT-A-GLANCE While many have bought into the simplistic idea that availability of firearms is the cause of mass shootings, a number of experts have pointed out a more uncomfortable truth, which is that mass shootings are far more likely the result of how we’ve been mistreating mental illness, depression…
Sharyl Attkisson | 7 June 2022 Johnny Depp has become the world’s most famous victim of domestic abuse. It’s worth noting that the lawsuit Depp filed and won against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, was not foremost about making the case that he was a victim. It was about him trying to disprove Heard’s claims of…
Paul Craig Roberts | 31 May 2022 Reading Ngaio Marsh’s Scales of Justice I realized that the word, “impertinence” has gone out of use. Indeed, what was once an outrage is now so common that no one recognizes it as impertinence. Impertinence has become accepted routine behavior and is no longer recognized when it occurs. The phenomena…
Eugyppius | 20 May 2022 A response to some reader criticism. My piece on conservative failure to oppose leftist policies provoked various lines of critique. Some wondered whether I’m using terms like “liberal” and “leftist” coherently, while others objected to the ideological frame, suggesting that our problems are better located with a rapacious oligarchy that has…
Common Sense | 12 May 2022 The data about police shootings just didn’t add up, but no one at Thomson Reuters wanted to hear it. If you are a devoted reader of Common Sense, by now you have surely noticed a trend: workplaces—in some cases, storied institutions—that turn hostile to independent thinking seemingly overnight. That’s…
Bad Cattitude | 11 May 2022 Cross disciplinary incompetence a friendly reminder: pretty much none of the people the government claims to be experts are really experts in any functional sense. mostly, they have no idea what they are talking about and probably wouldn’t tell you if they did. this is universal across disciplines. economics,…
Voices For Freedom | 16 Mar 2022 Below is a selection of recent headlines. Some expose the desperate, illogical, incompetent, and gaslighting behaviour of pharmaceutical CEOs and health system heads. Some illustrate the shift in position in local government and the business sector. Please share these stories to help get the word out because we…
Mercantorent | 7 Mar 2022 George Orwell invented the term “groupthink” for his dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, first published in 1949. A few years later, the term was already in clinical use to describe a common psychological phenomenon. The idea is that people have a tendency to conform their own thoughts to those of the people…
Brownstone Institute | 7 Mar 2022 In what in retrospect (and lamentably) were the very early days of the panicdemic (October, 2020), I wrote: No, the pandemic is not a virus, it is a pandemic outbreak of Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy which focuses its obsessions on the virus. Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy is a mental…
Brownstone Institute | 5 Dec 2021 1. First level of explanation: Panic Over a few weeks of March 2020, the collective consciousness of Western nations moved from curiosity about the new virus in China to serious worry, then to communal fear, and finally to total panic. This highly contagious and self-reinforcing terror – passed back…