Joe Biden has picked his VP running mate...and it's Kamala Harris. Never heard of her? Reason released this excellent video detailing her record as prosecutor. As the clip explains, she is hideously authoritarian, probably the most anti-libertarian candidate in a long time, and that's saying something. She built her early career by going after prostitutes and shielding … [Read more...]
Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools
This documentary profile of libertarian economist Walter Williams outlines his positions on government's effect on the black community, and offers a brief biography of his rise from child of the Philadelphia housing projects to noted author and commentator. [ Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools credits: Dir: Anthony Machi/ Larry Elder, Douglas H. Ginsburg/ 56 min/ Documentary/ … [Read more...]
Olivia de Havilland, Real-Life Double Agent
Per National Review, after discovering the true nature of a Communist front group in Hollywood in the 1940s, Olivia de Havilland worked as a double agent to help bring them down. Details of the story were just released following her death. … [Read more...]
Rebuilding Paradise: An Accidental ‘Libertarian Parable’
Kyle Smith of National Review gives backhanded praise to the new Ron Howard film Rebuilding Paradise: "Howard tries to shape Rebuilding Paradise into yet another story of pluck and grit, but it’s really a story of the various ways government fails even the neediest and worthiest of citizens...[it's] an accidental libertarian parable..." … [Read more...]
Larry Elder Film ‘Uncle Tom’ A Surprise Hit
The Washington Times reports that the new Larry Elder documentary Uncle Tom is currently ranked by the movie-industry site IMDB as "first in popularity in the documentary sub-category, and sixth among documentary movies and TV shows, after ringing up $400,000 in download sales during its first week of release." … [Read more...]
Uncle Tom | Film
Black conservatives discuss the unfair and often vicious treatment they receive at the hands of "caring" left-wing progressives. [ Uncle Tom credits: Dir: Justin Malone/ Larry Elder, Allen West, Candace Owens/ 106 min/ Documentary/ Individualism/ 2020] Note: it may be possible to find the full documentary on YouTube. External Reviews "The new movie Uncle Tom takes on a … [Read more...]
AB-5: COVID and California’s Freelancer Disaster
California Assembly Bill 5, aka AB-5, effectively extends full-time employee status to gig workers. The idea was to force employers to give gig workers full-time benefits. However, the (predictable) effect has been to destroy the gig economy in the state and drive gig work out to other states and other countries. All that would be bad enough, but just as the gig jobs started to … [Read more...]
Defund The Police Unions, Not The Police
Derek Chauvin, the officer who killed George Floyd -- thereby triggering months of racial strife and calls to defund the police -- had 18 previous complaints filed against him. Why was he still on the police force with that pattern of behavior? Because police unions protect their own, regardless. John Stossel explains how police unions are the root cause of bad cops, and shares … [Read more...]
Milton Friedman: Happy Angel Birthday!
Nobel-prize winning economist Milton Friedman was born on July 31st, 1912. He was an outspoken and persuasive defender of human liberty and a tremendous communicator of libertarian ideas. His ten-part Free to Choose TV series, and the book on which it was based, remains one of the most comprehensive video expositions of libertarian ideas available. It is free online. Here's … [Read more...]
Olivia de Havilland Saved Hollywood From The Commies
Olivia de Havilland, whose Academy Award-winning film career spanned half a century, just died at age 104. One of her most acclaimed films was The Adventures of Robin Hood, a fairly libertarian version of the tale; out of eleven film versions of Robin Hood, this 1938 film still ranks as #1 even with modern audiences. What she is perhaps less well known for is her real-life … [Read more...]