The speaker is very glib, and he chooses not to push his argument too far. Allow me.

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Source: WND.

I have mixed feelings about the People’s Convoy. I am certainly in favor of political action on behalf of freedom. But I also doubt that anything useful will come of this protest.

I’ll be watching the counternarrative. How will the truckers be criticized? Will they be called terrorists and traitors?

Source: Rescue America.

Senator Rick Scott of Florida channels Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America by publishing a plan to “Rescue America.”

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I have taken some heat lately for proposing that white servitude in colonial America was comparable to black slavery. The demonstrable fact that black “slavery” prior to 1700 was indistinguishable from white “slavery” of the period doesn’t dissuade my critics. Perhaps, though, some contemplation of the Thirteenth Amendment will.

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Source: Stitchbug Studio.

This way madness lies, certainly.

One seriously might ask: Why is “gender affirmation” so important when gender itself is merely a social construct? My guess is that gender affirmation is really code for social enforcement.

Little girls need chrochet penises because their parents want them to become imaginary little boys. Pay what you can.

Source: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress).

This pamphlet was published in 1855 by the American Anti-Slavery Society of New York. It is instructive on a number of levels, but above all for its forthright assertion that whites could be slaves. Not indentured servants, but slaves.

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The video presents a talk show conversation with the authors of a book called “White Cargo” (2008). The thesis of the book holds that the indentured servitude used to provide labor to the American colonies was, for the most part, a white slave trade.

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Source: WND.

I hesitate to share this story because of the misinterpretations doing so may inspire. However, if it is true that life insurance companies are observing unexpected death-rate spikes, this is something to know about.

“Dowd cited fourth quarter rises in death claims, compared to the 2019 rate, of 57% for Lincoln National, 41% for Prudential, 32% for Hartford, 24% for MetLife and 21% for RGA.”

The analyst (Edward Dowd) thinks the Covid vaccines are the cause. I think we need more information before jumping to that conclusion.

Having established (in another thread) that some anthropologists trace the economic concept of property to the naturalistic idea of “owning” another person, I’d like to explore some implications.

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In the current age the concept of property is notoriously difficult to nail down. Most concepts of property in Western Civilization trace back to early Roman origins, but there they become ambiguous. “Possession is nine tenths of the law” is as far as the Roman legal scholarship seems to go.

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