Per Esquire, "Netflix's investigative docuseries Dirty Money, which examines financial misdeeds, is back for a second season. And one of the show's most shocking new episodes, Guardians, Inc., tackles abuses in the world of elder guardianship, a system that controls the lives of an estimated 1.5 million adults with estates worth more than $250 billion — and that is rife with … [Read more...]
The Guardians | Documentary
An investigation of the Nevada family court system reveals corrupt practices that empower court-appointed guardians to forcibly institutionalize and rob the elderly. [ The Guardians credits: Dir: Billie Mintz/ Dee Drenta/ 104 min/ Documentary/ Psychiatric Coercion, Corrupt Government/ 2018] External Reviews "This revealing investigative documentary set in Las Vegas … [Read more...]
Washington Examiner: The Tomorrow War “Surprisingly Libertarian”
The Washington Examiner just reviewed Amazon Prime's The Tomorrow War: "From its CGI aliens, crash-landed UFOs, and puzzling time travel gimmicks, The Tomorrow War is a hodgepodge of '90s sci-fi cliches held together by a delightfully libertarian sentiment." The story features a war to save humanity from aliens which, as it turns out, government doesn't do very well. You can … [Read more...]
Covid Masks Forever: The Only Way To Be Safe
The Covid pandemic was just the sort of moment fans of big government dream of -- a rare instance when, theoretically at least, some degree of liberty had to be sacrificed for public safety. Now that the danger is receding, they just don't want to concede that emergency powers can no longer be justified. Some experts have even suggested that Covid masks and social distancing … [Read more...]
Patria Y Vida: Song That Inspired Cuban Uprising
Per PJ Media, the new Cuban song Patria Y Vida is credited with inspiring the recent Cuban uprising. As Rolling Stone put it "The lyrics take direct aim at Cuba’s communist government: 'No more lies. My people ask for freedom, not more doctrines. We no longer shout, ‘Motherland or death,’ but ‘homeland and life,’ and we begin to build what we dreamed, what they destroyed with … [Read more...]
They Say It Can’t Be Done | Documentary
Entrepreneurs offering a wealth of technological advancement say the main obstacle to such progress isn't capital or technological limitations but heavy-handed -- and often wrong-headed -- government regulation. [ They Say It Can't Be Done credits: Dir: Michael Ozias/ Gregory McNeal/ 81 min/ Documentary/ Anti-Regulation, Econ 101/ 2019] External Reviews "A fascinating new … [Read more...]
Short Film: Is BLM Just A Marxist Front Group?
In this short film, Ami Horowitz takes a look at what Black Lives Matter (BLM) supporters actually advocate -- and it's not pretty. Not only are black lives just tangential to the BLM cause, the organization's leadership and many in its rank and file are committed Marxists who unhesitatingly state that their real purpose is the destruction of the United States as we know it -- … [Read more...]
How Hollywood Green-Lights Films
You may have noticed a trend in films these days of race-swapped or gender-swapped remakes, e.g. the 2016 version of Ghostbusters, even though these films seem to do poorly at the box office. In this short parody clip, comedian Ryan Long gives an inside view into the sophisticated creative process behind how Hollywood green-lights such films. … [Read more...]
Boom Time Again: Friedrich Hayek, Call Your Office
It seems the Biden administration wants to launch another boom and bust cycle -- by relaxing loan standards today (boom), leading to an inevitable credit crisis down the road (bust). I was reminded of this excellent short rap battle Fear the Boom and the Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek. … [Read more...]
Marvel Morphs Captain America Into Globalist Cuck
Marvel is giving Captain America a new "woke" spin. You may recall that Superman -- who originally championed "truth, justice, and the American way" -- renounced his US citizenship in 2011 and became a "global citizen," another victim of the left's long march through the West's popular institutions. The Babylon Bee later jokingly suggested that Captain America was next: … [Read more...]