Category: video

Defense spending is one of those “games” that it is not really possible to know what is the optimal level: spend to little, you are dead or enslaved or struggling within chaos; spend too much and you are broke or in hock above your eyebrows or … struggling within chaos. Finding the sweet spot in between these two unwanted extremes is subject to negotiation and speculation, but we do have some clues what “too much” War Dept. spending would look like. Pretty much what we have now:

Separating the wheat from the chaff in the tax reform bill.

The cyber/crypto currency Bitcoin has been going through downs and ups, recently. This discussion from a few weeks ago might help unpack some of the issues:

This out-take from a formal panel debate contains some good stuff, and helps give a basic set of perspectives in current ideological argumentation:

Long after conservative, libertarian and alt-right (and often just mildly controversial news reportage) videos were infamously “de-monetized” by Google’s YouTube service, a wave of advertisers have pulled out of the service entirely, because of disgusting, pedophile-related child-exploitation content … which somehow had escaped oversight.

Some data about who is and is not paying their alleged ”fair share“ in taxes:

https://youtu.be/Anx4e1i4k5w

Last week, Sunday, a mass murdering shooter was himself shot, thereby stopped in his murderous rampage. Here is an in-depth interview with the man who confronted the killer.

A comic confronts the anti-free-speech Left:

Very funny as well as insightful. Some R-rated language, so a parental (or self) advisory is hereby suggested.

In this TEDx presentation, documentarian Cassie Jay explains how she overcame her bigotry to consider a point of view she thought was … evil. And how she changed her mind, altering her ideological viewpoint.

In an age where the ideological lines are hardening, proof that people can open themselves up to reason and evidence and human testimony — that has to be interesting, no?

Really? It is almost diabolical, creeping political correctness — diabolical.

‘Tis the season.