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“Speech, Privacy, Logic & Karma,” TODAY at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT)

A collection of interesting news and commentary pieces I’ve come across this week, as well as some useful information and recommendations. See Program Notes, below, for all the news stories, etc., I plan to discuss.

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Program Notes

BREAKING NEWS: Woman dead and several suffer ‘catastrophic injuries’ after car mows down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before a knifeman is shot after attacking police officer in the grounds of Parliament HT Mark Nitikman

The US Has Banned Laptops And Tablets On Flights From Major Middle Eastern Airports

Geert Wilders Is No Hero Of Free Speech HT Robert Mayhew and Greg Salmieri

Silencing Is Golden: The Chilling Dogma of AntiNormalization HT Sunny Lohmann

North Korea conducts failed missile launch

Judge OKs warrant to reveal who searched a crime victim’s name on Google HT Mark Nitikman

Don’t Tread on My Metadata

EasyCrypt: How it Works HT Gayle Parker

How Aristotle Created the Computer HT Benjamin Chayes

Boom Supersonic raises $33M to build the fastest airplane for passenger flight

Good Schools Aren’t the Secret to Israel’s High-Tech Boom HT Brian Yoder

Adam Smith on the Absurdity of Protectionist Trade Policy

California’s Bullet Train may have received final, fatal fiscal hit HT Mark Nitikman

Sad News: Illinois Fails To Pass Measure Making Obama’s Birthday Legal Holiday

The Libertarian Reader

The Financial Crisis and The Free Market Cure

The Oxford Comma: Great For Listing, Pontificating, And Winning Court Cases HT Brian Yoder, Mark Nitikman

18 Minutes HT Robert Begley


HT Trevor Nielsen

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“Is Fake News a Fake Issue?” TODAY at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT)

Some argue that worries about “fake news” are just a pretext for imposing censorship or excluding consideration of non-leftist viewpoints. Is that all there is to the “war on fake news”? This and more on today’s show. See Program Notes, below, for all the stories, etc., I plan to discuss.

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Program Notes

New York Today: Remembering Pearl Harbor

The war on ‘fake news’ is all about censoring real news HT @CouldntBRighter on Twitter

Radical Capitalist Episode 74: The Media, Globalism, and Ayn Rand & God

The Sniff Test: Developing a Critical Nose for News HT Ben Bayer (the author 🙂 )

What is the source of this story and what do I know about it? HT Ben Bayer (the author 🙂 )

Did Google Just Commit ‘Fake News’? HT Stephanie Gutmann

How to Know What Donald Trump Really Cares About: Look at What He’s Insulting

Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism HT James Valliant

Lawmakers blast feds ‘unprecedented’ secrecy on refugee deal HT William Bush

Retired BB&T executive John Allison calls Trump meeting heady experience

House G.O.P. Signals Break With Trump Over Tariff Threat

Trump’s election stole my desire to look for a partner HT James Valliant

Victory for Teicholz in Battle of Butter HT @JeffreyYoung on Twitter

The United States Is Not an Apocalyptic Wasteland, Explains Steven Pinker HT Rob Abiera, Jeffrey Young

Amazon just launched a cashier-free convenience store HT Rob Abiera

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“Pain, Danger and Enemies,” Today at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT)

Today, a discussion of several of this week’s news stories with an eye toward maintaining a certain mindset about them, inspired by Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.

See Program Notes, below, for all the stories, etc., I plan to discuss!

Join in live, either by phone or in the chatroom!

The show can be accessed here.

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Program Notes

Atlas Shrugged

Address to the Nation by the President

Dispelling the ‘Few Extremists’ Myth – the Muslim World Is Overcome with Hate

Some Muslims pretty “irritated” at being asked to help root out extremism

Obama’s executive action on gun control

Obama to NSC & FBI: “Downplay” jihad terror angle of San Bernardino

Republicans Split on Donald Trump’s Proposal to Ban Muslims, Poll Finds

Cruz Rejects Trump’s Muslim Immigration Ban

Ted Cruz Denounces Loretta Lynch

Get Ready for Google’s “Hate-Speech-Spell-Checker”

Mark Zuckerberg’s Statement on Muslim Users of Facebook

Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job HT Pratik Talole

Triumphant Venezuela opposition looks to boost economy, free prisoners

Ted Cruz takes lead from Donald Trump in new Iowa poll

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