reason.com: The Trump-Harris Debate Featured Two Incumbents Afraid To Discuss Their Own Records -- https://tinyurl.com/25r4t847 -- Two incumbents, both alike in indignity. #liberty #news
reason.com: Trump Rambles About Immigrants Eating Pets, Forgets To Challenge Kamala Harris -- https://tinyurl.com/29s6me7u -- At their first presidential debate, Trump repeatedly got so bogged down in bizarre claims that he failed to effectively combat a weak Harris performance. #liberty #news
mises.org: It’s Also “Disinformation” When Our Government Does It -- https://tinyurl.com/27ahxpeb -- As our government officials crack down on what they call foreign disinformation, allegedly meant to influence the 2024 election, it’s worth remembering that they, too, are willing to use disinformation, not only against foreign regimes, but against Americans themselves. #liberty #news
mises.org: The US Is as Close as Ever to Saudi Arabia, 23 Years after 9-11 -- https://tinyurl.com/2asw9t26 -- Nearly a quarter century after the 9-11 attacks, Americans still are fed lies about what happened. However, one thing that is obvious is that even though Saudi Arabians were involved in the hijackings, US officials are closer than ever to the Saudi government and its operatives. #liberty #news
reason.com: At the Presidential Debate, Trump Again Falsely Claimed Crime Is Rising -- https://tinyurl.com/297tjq5l -- Violent crime dropped in 2023 and appears to be on track for another large decline this year. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Stewards of History Desperately Need Mises -- https://tinyurl.com/2c3lmxj7 -- Academic historians and archivists have been captured by the hard left and the DEI industry. Not only will the current trends make them bad historians, but it also makes them intolerant people. Mises knew better. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Folly of Criminalizing "Hate" -- https://tinyurl.com/25qlj4qf -- Yet another discouraging trend in law in the UK, Europe, and the US has been the criminalization of what authorities call ”hate speech.“ However, much of what passes for such “speech” is innocuous at worst and historically has been protected. #liberty #news
reason.com: 9th Circuit Partly Upholds Injunctions Against Location-Specific Gun Bans in California and Hawaii -- https://tinyurl.com/2cm5v6sc -- The ruling says some restrictions on guns in sensitive places are constitutionally dubious but upholds several others. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Top Five Lessons for the Young Economist -- https://tinyurl.com/2yl8myt2 -- The Mises Institute is creating lessons for young economists to better help them evaluate and interpret economic events. Of course, these lessons also apply to anyone else wanting to be better education on economics. #liberty #news
reason.com: Trump Endorses Federal Marijuana Reforms and Reiterates His Support for Legalizing Pot in Florida -- https://tinyurl.com/2764fcjl -- His new stance could encourage Vice President Kamala Harris to emphasize her opposition to federal marijuana prohibition. #liberty #news
mises.org: Governments Had a Major Role in Sustaining Slavery -- https://tinyurl.com/24ey6ocn -- Despite claims from progressive historians that US slavery was a natural outgrowth of a free market economy, the reality is that slavery would have been much costlier without governments—federal and state—subsidizing it. It is time to set the record straight. #liberty #news
mises.org: Is GDP an Accurate Measure of Reality? -- https://tinyurl.com/2a45padh -- Mainstream economists speak of GDP as though it is the economy itself, however, GDP is not a good measure of economic reality. Instead, it presents a distorted picture of genuine economic activity and leads to mistaken conclusions about the economy. #liberty #news
reason.com: Israel, Hamas, and the Need for Neutral Free Speech Principles -- https://tinyurl.com/24bsnmuu -- The Israel-Hamas war has sparked ideological swaps in many places regarding freedom of speech, confirming more than ever why we need neutral free speech principles. #liberty #news
reason.com: Today in Supreme Court History: September 8, 1953 -- https://tinyurl.com/28xdhlds -- 9/8/1953: Chief Justice Fred Vinson dies. #liberty #news
reason.com: A Conversation on Climate Change, Catastrophism, and Illiberalism -- https://tinyurl.com/2ytfat3d -- A panel discussion from the Liberalism for the 21st Century conference #liberty #news
reason.com: Republican Voters Got More Socially Liberal Under Trump -- https://tinyurl.com/28f6slsq -- Liberals spent the last decade moving leftward on questions of race and sexual orientation—and so did conservatives. #liberty #news
mises.org: America Now Has Fewer Employed Workers than It Did a Year Ago -- https://tinyurl.com/25k3nypn -- The total number of employed persons has fallen by 66,000 since August of 2023. Moreover, the new job growth is almost all in part-time jobs. #liberty #news
mises.org: Conceptual Clarity in Dismantling Economic Jargon -- https://tinyurl.com/2daypzr6 -- Keynesians are known for using obscure and jumbled jargon to explain their fallacious ideas. The hope being that, the more confusing the language, the greater the perceived scholarship. Good economics can and should be clearly logically explained. #liberty #news
reason.com: How Inflation Breaks Our Brains -- https://tinyurl.com/2d7fesup -- From salt riots to toilet paper runs, history shows that rising prices make consumers—and voters—grumpy and irrational. #liberty #news
reason.com: Free Speech and the Educational Mission -- https://tinyurl.com/2chagusj -- Some of the hardest free speech issues arise when a university argues that restrictions are justified by its educational mission. #liberty #news