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Allergic to Government: Exploring the EpiPen Monopoly Aug 24, 2016

Mylan is giving capitalism a bad name. They manufacture the most popular epinephrine auto-injector called EpiPen. This is a device They made news by quadrupling the retail price. Patients are supposed to carry two of them, and they need to be replaced annually. In addition to the price hike, Mylan has also stopped selling single units, forcing customers to buy two when they lose one and only need to replace one. Naturally the media blames capitalism. Why is Mylan doing this, they ask? "Because they can," write many journalists. Some go a little further and note that they can because...

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Milwaukee Burning

Milwaukee Burning Aug 14, 2016

Milwaukee is burning. Overnight 23-year-old Sylville Smith, a black man armed with a stolen pistol, was confronted by the police and shot. The circumstances of the shooting are unclear at this point, but in response locals quite literally burned down their neighborhood, and some footage has emerged showing rioting blacks seeking to beat-up any white people they could find in the neighborgood. I absolutely do not support the rioting.  It is utterly inexcusable by any moral standard. I absolutely do not support Smith having a stolen firearm, and if he truly did threaten the lives of the police officers then...

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501(c)(3) Revolution

The Revolution Will be Tax Deducted Aug 13, 2016

Activism via Donations If you are one of the many poor unfortunate souls who pays an income tax, you might be wondering: how can you best use the 501(c)(3) charitable deduction to advance liberty? If you have an excess of cash and a shortage of time, please make donations your activism. Not only does your money further the cause of liberty, you also reduce your tax footprint, which is one of the most valuable activism one can do. Politics is shaped by society, not the other way around. Change society and you will change politics. Thus donating the electoral campaigns...

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Zika virus

Zika’s Overlooked Lessons in Liberty Aug 4, 2016

The Zika virus provides us a striking lesson of liberty, government failure, and human ingenuity that has largely gone unnoticed. Inovio Pharmaceuticals vs. the Government Late last June as the media were spreading fear about the Zika virus, a quiet story barely went noticed. Inovio Pharmaceuticals announced it was taking a new vaccine to human trials. It's an amazing story of human ingenuity. Traditional vaccines take the original virus and “weaken” it so that it cannot reproduce, then inject you with that. Inovio developed a way to make an artificial vaccine. Using the genetic database of the Zika virus, they designed...

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Choosing Clinton or Trump

Election 2016: The Choice is Clear Jul 28, 2016

Clinton vs. Trump. In this election we are faced with a choice of two candidates for president unlike any pairing we have ever seen in American history. Their erudite grasp of the issues is astounding. Regardless of who wins, this election will go down in the history books. And while one or the other candidate might be stronger on this or that issue, I think we can honestly say many things about the two that makes the choice clear. Nobody is more honest and has more humility than these two candidates. Nobody respects and champions your rights more. Nobody listens...

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