“The Louvre Museum closed its doors to thousands of disappointed visitors on Monday as staff launched a strike to protest working conditions at the Paris landmark, two months after a shocking robbery. Workers are demanding extra staff and measures to tackle overcrowding, adding to the woes of the world’s most visited museum just as France is gearing up for the Christmas holidays. The strike comes nearly two months after the museum was victim of an embarrassing daylight heist that saw crown jewels worth $102 million stolen.” (12/15/25)
“NH State Rep Glenn Bailey put in new NH independence bill :: Fight evil AI superintelligence with AI superintelligence :: Charlie Kirk bullet made no sense :: How should we kill robot AI dogs? :: Trump’s ‘worst of the worst’ list of deported people shows very little actual criminals :: Cops have discretion but hardly use it :: Libertarian gift ideas :: Should you read or is listening to books okay? :: Warning caller from Louisiana to stay away from Gypsy Rose Blanchard :: Are UFOs just demons? :: Getting hooked on drugs because of the government :: Bonnie’s story of a possible visit from a demon :: 2025-12-14 Hosts: Bonnie, Angelo, Rich E Rich.” (12/14/25)
“For decades now Democrats have used the specter of the redneck deplorable to scare Queer folk and people of color into voting for slightly more passive aggressive white supremacists like Joe Biden and Bill Clinton, but their caricature of rural monstrosity is only a fraction of the story at best. What most MSDNC shitlibs leave out of their grotesque portraits of rust belt, white trash, MAGA folk is the fact that most of these people were actually motivated to vote for Donald Trump largely as a reckless act of vengeance against the two-party system.” (12/14/25)
“The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met recently to discuss, among other topics, the appropriateness of giving Hepatitis B vaccines to all babies in the United States on their first day of life. This practice has been in place for decades, and is in some ways a bit like frontal lobotomies – people just trusted that it was a good idea as otherwise, doctors would not have recommended it. And who wants to argue with health staff on the first day of their baby’s life?” (12/14/25)
“Director-actor Rob Reiner and his wife have been found dead at their home in Los Angeles, according to United States media reports. The LA Police Department said in a statement on Sunday that they were investigating the deaths of two people in an apparent homicide. … A law enforcement official cited by The Associated Press news agency said on condition of anonymity that investigators believed the pair had suffered stab wounds and that a family member was being questioned in relation to the incident. … Reiner, who co-starred in the 1970s hit CBS television comedy All in the Family, directed several well-known movies, his filmography also including The Princess Bride and Stand by Me. Aside from his Hollywood career, the New York native, son of the late comedy writer and actor Carl Reiner, was well known for his political activism.” (12/15/25)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Donald J Boudreaux
“My teacher announced, as if it were a fact as firm as any law of thermodynamics, that the Great Depression was caused by laissez-faire policies advocated by Smith, and that salvation came from the more scientifically sound ideas of Keynes — ideas expertly put into practice by Franklin Roosevelt. ‘Depressions are a thing of the past,’ my teacher proclaimed. ‘Keynes taught us how to prevent them.’ ‘Cool!’ I recall thinking with as much relief as a 15-year-old can muster about such matters. Seven years later, I graduated from college with a degree in economics. By then I’d learned that my high-school history teacher’s history was bunk. The Great Depression wasn’t a failure of capitalism or of the ideas of Adam Smith. Instead, it was caused chiefly by the Federal Reserve foolishly allowing the money supply to shrink by more than a third.” (12/14/25)
“Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday proposed tougher national [victim disarmament] laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, leaving at least 15 people dead. Albanese said he would propose new restrictions, including limiting the number of guns a licensed owner can obtain. His proposals were announced after the authorities revealed that the older of the two gunmen — who were a father and son — had held a gun license for a decade and amassed his six guns legally. … At least 38 people were being treated in hospitals after the massacre on Sunday, when the two shooters fired indiscriminately on the beachfront festivities. Those killed included a 10-year-old girl, a rabbi and a Holocaust survivor. … The horror at Australia’s most popular beach was the deadliest shooting in almost three decades in a country with strict gun control laws primarily aimed at removing rapid-fire rifles from circulation.” (12/15/25)
“America’s already crawling with creepy wannabe cops demanding — Third Reich or Soviet Union style — that people ‘show their papers’ as a condition of going just about anywhere or doing just about anything (including their jobs if the ICE gang happens to drop in on a workplace). If you think they won’t eventually escalate to browsing through YOUR shared memes, photos of cats and memories with your significant others, etc., think again.” (12/13/25)
