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Jordan Peterson’s Thinkspot Is a Welcome Social Media Option. Will It Work? ([link removed] )

by Tyler Curtis

Peterson's innovative Patreon-YouTube-Twitter hybrid could apply competitive pressure to other platforms, incentivizing them to relax their censorship policies. Once again, the market is doing a better job at encouraging free speech than more regulation ever could.

WHY JORDAN PETERSON'S THINKSPOT MAY BECOME A REFUGE FOR DISSENTERS. ([link removed] )

Home Equity Theft: How a Man’s Home Was Seized Over $8.41 in Unpaid Taxes ([link removed] )

by Brittany Hunter

In the American legal system, there is a maxim: the punishment must fit the crime. But when the government seizes homes over underpaid property taxes, this seems like a disproportionate punishment to receive.

THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE OF HOME EQUITY THEFT HAS ALLOWED INDIVIDUALS TO BE STRIPPED OF THEIR PROPERTY WITHOUT FAIR COMPENSATION. ([link removed] )

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Tucker Carlson Says Corporations Are Now the Biggest Threat to Your Freedom. He’s Wrong ([link removed] )

by Doug McCullough, Brooke Medina

America's Founders wisely recognized that our greatest threat isn’t Nabisco or Facebook. With the memory of an overreaching British monarch fresh in their minds, they sought to establish a republic that ensured government—not private business—was properly constrained.

AMERICANS ARE NOT AT THE MERCY OF BUSINESSES THAT DON’T SHARE THEIR VALUES. ([link removed] )

The Irrelevance of That “3 Billionaires Have More Wealth Than Half of America” Factoid ([link removed] )

by Daniel C. Jensen

Maybe Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet have more wealth than all of the infants, children, students, handicapped, prisoners, and postgrads combined. But you don’t need a PhD to figure out that’s not useful knowledge.

IT MIGHT BE A FACT, BUT IT'S SO MEANINGLESS THAT IT'S ACTUALLY DECEITFUL. ([link removed] )

Support for $15 Minimum Wage Plummets When Americans Are Told Its Economic Impact ([link removed] )

by Jon Miltimore

A new poll found that support for the minimum wage wilts when Americans—both Republicans and Democrats—are told of its full economic impact.

THE MINIMUM WAGE’S APPARENT POPULARITY MIGHT BE POLITICAL PYRITE (FOOL’S GOLD). ([link removed] )

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What the Climate Change Models Actually Say ([link removed] )

by Robert P. Murphy

Even if climate change proceeds as the peer-reviewed literature assumes in the most pessimistic emissions scenarios, it will probably merely mean that people in the year 2100 will only be a lot richer than we are, as opposed to a whole lot richer.

“UNCHECKED” CLIMATE CHANGE PROBABLY MEANS THAT OUR GREAT-GRANDKIDS WILL SEE A SMALLER INCREASE IN THEIR STANDARD OF LIVING THAN THEY OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE. ([link removed] )

Our Research of Police Shootings Reveals Who Is the Likeliest to Be Shot by Police ([link removed] )

by Joseph Cesario, David Johnson

Is it true that black citizens are more likely to be shot by white officers? To answer this question, we spent over 1,500 hours creating a national database of information about all officers involved in fatal police shootings in the US in 2015.

HERE'S WHAT THE RESEARCHERS FOUND. ([link removed] )

How the House $15 Minimum Wage Bill Is Like “Tiger Proofing” Golf Courses ([link removed] )

by Chris Baecker

There's a reason corporations like Amazon and Walmart are now lobbying for a national $15 minimum wage.

SMALLER COMPANIES ARE LESS ABLE TO ABSORB HIGHER LABOR COSTS. ([link removed] )

Lessons from Spain’s Minimum Wage Experiment ([link removed] )

by Paul Boyce

It is easy enough to raise the minimum wage in economic booms. The tide is already pushing toward higher wages. The real problems occur during a recessionary period, as was recently evidenced in Spain.

THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT A $15 MINIMUM WAGE IS SPARSE. ([link removed] )

Yes, Parents Are Capable of Choosing How Their Children Should Be Educated ([link removed] )

by Kerry McDonald

The message is clear: parents, and especially disadvantaged parents, can’t be expected to effectively educate their children without the government’s help. Some researchers say this outright. Don't believe it.

THE IDEA THAT PARENTS GET IN THE WAY OF CHILDREN’S EDUCATION AND CAN HALT THEIR FLOURISHING IS NOTHING NEW. IT'S ALSO FALSE. ([link removed] )

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