Post #7344 M: Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Vol 19; Dumb BLEEP of the Week; Remy: Bitcoin Billionaire

 Quote of the Day

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is 

that we may listen the more and talk the less.

Zeno of Citium  

Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Vol 19

Dumb BLEEP of the Week

Remy: Bitcoin Billionaire

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Margolis & Cox via Townhall

Musical Interlude: 1961 Top 100 Hits

Fats Domino - Let the Four Winds Blow

Post #7226 M: Stossel Interview: Yaron Brook; Remy: Strategic Fartcoin Reserve; Glenn Greenwald: Americans' Liberties are in Danger

 Quote of the Day

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, 

 am indifferent to taunts and jeers. 

I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Winston Churchill  

Stossel Interview: Yaron Brook 

Remy: Strategic Fartcoin Reserve

Glenn Greenwald: Americans' Liberties are in Danger

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Jack Ohman via Smerconish

Musical Interlude: 1960 Top 100 Hits

Bob Luman LET'S THINK ABOUT LIVIN'

Post #6775 M: McClanahan on Mark Levin is Bad at History...Again; Trump endorses Bitcoin; Why Holding Feds Accountable is (ALMOST) Impossible

Quote of the Day

Blessed is he who carries within himself 

a God, an ideal, and obeys it.

Louis Pasteur 

McClanahan on Mark Levin is Bad at History...Again

Trump endorses Bitcoin

Why Holding Feds Accountable is (ALMOST) Impossible

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Tom Stiglich via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duos 

"Please Mr Postman".The Carpenters 

Post #6656 M: McClanahan on The Most Dangerous Word in the World; Why is Bitcoin Soaring; A Grandma's Retaliatory Arrest

Quote of the Day

He who will not economize 

will have to agonize.

Confucius  

McClanahan on The Most Dangerous Word in the World

Why is Bitcoin Soaring

A Grandma's Retaliatory Arrest

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Tom Stiglich via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duets

Peaches & Herb, "Reunited"

Post #6179 M: Trump Indictment; McClanahan on The Militia Act of 1792

 Quote of the Day

I not only use all the brains that I have, 

but all that I can borrow.

Woodrow Wilson  

Trump Indictment 

McClanahan on The Militia Act of 1792

Balaji's Bet: Bitcoin hits $1 million in 90 days

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Gary Varvel via Townhall

Musical Interlude: #1 Hits of 2006

Taylor Hicks, "Do I Make You Proud?"

Post #6122 M: Under no circumstances did Joe Biden save Social Security; The world needs decentralized financial systems NOW; The Rise of Corporate Fascism

 Quote of the Day

Every truth has four corners: 

as a teacher I give you one corner, 

and it is for you to find the other three.

Confucius  

Under no circumstances did Joe Biden save Social Security

The world needs decentralized financial systems NOW

The Rise of Corporate Fascism 

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Michael Ramirez via Townhall

Musical Interlude: #1 Hits of 2002

Kelly Clarkson, "A Moment Like This"

Post #6002 M: McClanahan on DeSantis For President; China COVID-19 Protest; Sam Bankman-Fried is everything wrong with modern finance

 Quote of the Day

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences 

attending too much liberty than 

to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

McClanahan on DeSantis For President

China COVID-19 Protest

Sam Bankman-Fried is everything wrong with modern finance

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Political Cartoon

                                                    Courtesy of Gary Varvel via Townhall
 

Musical Interlude: The Holidays 

Wham!, "Last Christmas"

Post #5995 M: SOHO Debate: Were COVID lockdowns a deadly mistake?; Theronos Fraud Conviction; The FTX Collapse

Quote of the Day

The things we know best are 

the things we haven't been taught.

Marquis de Vauvenargues 

SOHO Debate: Were COVID lockdowns a deadly mistake?

Theronos Fraud Conviction

The FTX Collapse

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Political Cartoon

                                                  Courtesy of Michael Ramirez via Townhall

Musical Interlude: The Holidays

 Celtic Women, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"

Post #5992 M: The First Amendment; McClanahan on Is Texas Secession Illegal?; The FTX Crypto Bankruptcy

 Quote of the Day

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful 

than reasoned errors.

Thomas H. Huxley 

The First Amendment

McClanahan on Is Texas Secession Illegal?

The FTX Crypto Bankruptcy

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Political Cartoon

                                                      Courtesy of Robert Ariail via Townhall

Musical Interlude: #1 Hits of 1998

 Divine, "Lately"

Post #5863 M: MA Home Equity Theft Over Minor Property Tax Debt During the Pandemic; The Federal Government Attack on Crypto and Open Source Software; McClanahan on Whether History is History

 Quote of the Day

I cannot imagine a God 

who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation 

and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Albert Einstein 

 MA Home Equity Theft Over Minor Property Tax Debt During the Pandemic

The Federal Government Attack on Crypto and Open Source Software

McClanahan on Whether History is History

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Political Cartoon

                                                           Courtesy of Tom Stiglich via Townhall

Musical Interlude: #1 Hits of 1991

Wilson Phillips, "You're in Love"

Post #5846 M: Reason Interviews John Mackey (Whole Foods CEO); SOHO Debate: Gold v Bitcoin; Ayn Rand and Objectivism

Quote of the Day

The liar's punishment is not in the least 

that he is not believed, 

but that he cannot believe anyone else.

George Bernard Shaw 

Reason Interviews John Mackey (Whole Foods CEO)

SOHO Debate: Gold v Bitcoin

Ayn Rand and Objectivism

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Political Cartoon

                                                       Courtesy of Chip Bok via Townhall

Musical Interlude: #1 Hits of 1990

Stevie B, "Because I Love You". And that's a wrap on 1990.

Posr #5809 M: Norberg's New & Improved: Cold Chain; Bitcoin Must Be Untraceable; McClanahan on America's Mercenaries

Quote of the Day

Have more than thou showest, 

speak less than thou knowest.

William Shakespeare  

Norberg's New & Improved: Cold Chain

Bitcoin Must Be Untraceable

McClanahan on America's Mercenaries

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Political Cartoon

                                                   Courtesy of Michael Ramirez via Townhall

Musical Interlude: #1 Hits of 1990

 Paula Abdul, "Opposites Attract"

Post #5806 M: McClanahan on the Real Goal of American Education; Too Old to be POTUS?; The Future of Money

 Quote of the Day

I am never afraid of what I know.

Anna Sewell  

McClanahan on the Real Goal of American Education

Too Old to be POTUS?

The Future of Money

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Political Cartoon

                                                   Courtesy of Tom Stiglich via Townhall

Musical Interlude: #1 Hits of 1989

 Phil Collins, "Another Day in Paradise". Probably my favorite Collins hit. And that's a wrap on 1989.

Post #5751 M: Bitcoin as a World Reserve Currency; Nine Libertarian Movie Moments

 Quote of the Day

A musician must make music, 

an artist must paint, 

a poet must write, 

if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. 

What a man can be, 

he must be.

Abraham Maslow 

Abbeville Institute This Week

Bitcoin as a World Reserve Currency

Nine Libertarian Movie Moments

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Political Cartoon

                                              Courtesy of Chip Bok via Townhall

Musical Interlude: #1 Hits of 1988

The Beach Boys, "Kokomo"

Post #5732 M: Happy Memorial Day; Liberty, Central Banks, and Bitcoin; Buffalo Shooting, Baby Formula, Inflation, et al.

 Quote of the Day

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. 

It takes a ouch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Political Cartoon

Liberty, Central Banks, and Bitcoin

Buffalo Shooting, Baby Formula, Inflation, et al.

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Musical Interlude: #1 Hits of 1988

George Michael, "One More Try"

Post #5714 M: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Bitcoin; DiLorenzo on Lincoln's Second American Revolution

 Quote of the Day

The greatest pleasure in life is 

doing what people say 

you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot 

Political Humor

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Bitcoin

DiLorenzo on Lincoln's Second American Revolution

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Political Cartoon

                                                     Courtesy of Chip Bok via Townhall

Musical Interlude: #1 Hits of 1988

 Michael Jackson, "The Way You Make Me Feel"

Post #5608 M: Stossel on Government Setting Price Floors; McClanahan on a Prospective Michelle Obama POTUS Candidacy; Bitcoin, the Truckers and Canada

 Quote of the Day

Hope is such a bait, 

it covers any hook.

Oliver Goldsmith 

Stossel on Government Setting Price Floors

McClanahan on a Prospective Michelle Obama POTUS Candidacy

Bitcoin, the Truckers and Canada

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Political Cartoon

                                                   Courtesy of Michael Ramirez via Townhall
 

Musical Interlude: #1 Hits of 1985

A-ha, "Take on Me"

Post #5515 M: Stossel on Critical Race Theory; Bitcoin and the Climate Change Kerfuffle; McClanahan on Common Good Originalism

 Quote of the Day

If you want to tell people the truth, 

make them laugh, 

otherwise they'll kill you.

Oscar Wilde

Stossel on Critical Race Theory

Bitcoin and the Climate Change Kerfuffle

McClanahan on Common Good Originalism

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Al Goodwyn via Townhall

Musical Interlude: #1 Hits of 1982

Chicago, "Hard to Say I'm Sorry"

Post #5456 M: McClanahan on Hanson's "Blue Confederacy"; The Fraudulent Ecofascist Attack on Bitcoin; Stossel on Media Censorship

 Quote of the Day

An invasion of armies can be resisted, 

but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo 

Note to Readers

Yesterday's post was shorter than usual and prescheduled. I basically had no Internet Monday. I had expected some delay and then to edit it before scheduled. 

McClanahan on Hanson's "Blue Confederacy"

The Fraudulent Ecofascist Attack on  Bitcoin

Stossel on Media Censorship 

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Michael Ramirez via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Christmas Songs

Frank Sinatra, "Let It Snow"

Post #5213 M: John Adams; Government v Bitcoin; McClanahan on More Thinking Locally

 Quote of the Day

We need a renaissance of wonder. 

We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls,

 the deathless dream, 

the eternal poetry, 

the perennial sense

 that life is miracle and magic

E. Merrill Root  

John Adams

Government v Bitcoin

McClanahan on More Thinking Locally

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of AF Branco via Townhall

Musical Interlude: #1 Hits of 1975

Elton John, "Philadelphia Freedom"