Tag: Video
By David J. Theroux | Saturday January 28, 2012 at 4:16 PM PDT | 13 Comments
In their recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “No Need to Panic About Global Warming,” a group of sixteen world-renowned scientists decry the unscientific alarmism over “global warming,” citing numerous inconvenient facts that dispute global warming claims. Here is a video interview with signatory William Happer, Professor of Physics, Princeton University: Their message...
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Tags: Corruption, Education, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Nationalization, Politics, Propaganda, Science, Video
By David J. Theroux | Wednesday December 28, 2011 at 7:13 PM PDT | 23 Comments
In the escalating P.C. wars waged by the secular theocracy‘s Nanny State, an elementary public school this fall ordered a ten-year-old boy to spend the rest of the semester eating lunch alone at the school’s “silence table,” with a dire warning of suspension if he dared to threaten others again. We certainly need to...
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Tags: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Criminal Justice, Culture, Education, Fascism, Food, Gun Control, Liberalism, Liberty, Media, Morality, Nanny State, Personal Liberty, Power, Video, Weapons
By David J. Theroux | Tuesday December 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM PDT | 18 Comments
As if the climate alarmist scams revealed in Climategate I and Climategate II were not enough, not to mention the deliberate misrepresentations in Al Gore’s propaganda film, An Inconvenient Truth, we now learn that the BBC faked a key scene in the £16 million, seven-part TV series, Frozen Planet, in which polar bears were...
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Tags: Corruption, Culture, Entertainment, Environment, Global Warming, Government subsidies, Media, Politics, Science, Video
By David J. Theroux | Tuesday November 1, 2011 at 11:59 PM PDT | 14 Comments
Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert “takes on” Occupy Wall Street in a hilarious yet actual segment with protest representatives from “the consensus within the press group,” Justin (“a male-bodied person”) and “Ketchup” (“a female-bodied person”), in a “Co-Optportunity” with what Colbert calls a cult, oh sorry, I mean “movement”.
Tags: Bailouts, Budget and Tax Policy, Business, Civil Society, Culture, Entertainment, Government subsidies, Humor, Liberalism, Morality, Nationalization, Power, Propaganda, Religion, Socialism, Video
By Benjamin Powell | Monday September 19, 2011 at 12:49 PM PDT | 1 Comment
I recently recorded a short video on “jobs” programs. Here it is:
Tags: Bailouts, Economics, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Free Market, Labor, Unemployment, Video
By Jonathan Bean | Tuesday August 16, 2011 at 8:07 PM PDT | 8 Comments
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Indecision 2012 – Corn Polled Edition – Ron Paul & the Top Tier www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook
Tags: Censorship, Corruption, Elections, Media, Politics, Video
By Jonathan Bean | Tuesday August 2, 2011 at 7:10 PM PDT | 1 Comment
A colleague sent me a link to the following collection of Hayek interviews, now available online. Other useful sites include: http://miltonfriedman.blogspot.com/ http://www.missliberty.com/ – updates to Miss Liberty’s Guide to Film and Video http://www.youtube.com/user/independentinstitute http://www.cato.org/events/archive.html http://reason.tv/ William F. Buckley, Jr.’s Firing Line show included interviews with people across the political spectrum, now collected at the Hoover...
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Tags: Austrian School of economics, Economics, Education, Liberalism, Liberty, Media, Video
By David J. Theroux | Sunday June 26, 2011 at 10:37 PM PDT | 1 Comment
In the new hit album by pop-singer “Weird Al” Yankovic, Alpocalypse, he includes the song, “Party in the C.I.A.”, which is a parody of the hit song by Miley Cyrus, “Party in the U.S.A.”
Tags: American History, CIA, Civil Liberties, Corruption, Culture, Entertainment, FBI, Humor, Intelligence agency, Middle East, Military, Peace, Personal Liberty, Surveillance, Terrorism, Video, War
By Benjamin Powell | Tuesday May 31, 2011 at 10:15 AM PDT | 1 Comment
Immigration is often a contentious public policy issue and there are legitimate hard questions that surround the issue. Unfortunately, all too often, public debate is centered around a few economic misconceptions people have about immigration instead of focusing on the tougher issues. Immigrants are not a drag on the economy, they don’t steal jobs...
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Tags: Economics, Immigration, Poverty, Video
By David J. Theroux | Thursday May 12, 2011 at 10:46 PM PDT | 0 Comments
Independent Institute Research Fellow Emily Skarbek is interviewed here by Nick Gillespie of Reason TV regarding the Institute’s very timely and far-reaching Government Cost Calculator. The Calculator enables any American to clearly understand three aspects of federal government spending. First, the Calculator helps you determine how much a person will pay for various federal...
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Tags: Bailouts, Budget and Tax Policy, Economics, Government subsidies, Inflation, Mercantilism, Money and Banking, Politics, Social Security, Taxation, The State, Video, Welfare