Category: video

As Julian Assange reveals more and more about Hillary Clinton’s nasty, loathsome ways, the WikiLeaks founder and spokesman faces an increased threat level.

“Sargon of Akkad,” a videoblogger on YouTube who is most famous for his weekly series “This Week in Stupid,” makes an eloquent and commonsense case for the traditional meaning of “equality of opportunity,” against a Vox.com egalitarian who thinks the idea is unworkable (and who prefers straight equality of outcomes):

https://youtu.be/TkVwYOYrxWM

Note: “Sargon” has named himself after history’s first emperor (the YouTuber’s extra-net name is Carl Benjamin), and argues from what he calls the “liberal” position, of what might be specified more accurately as Limited Transfer State Liberalism. It is a position very similar to F. A. Hayek in The Road to Serfdom. Sargon, in this video, continues his ongoing attacks upon progressivism and socialism of the “Social Justice Warrior” left. He also, interestingly, uses the word “libertarian” as a general designator of a tendency, as philosopher Benedetto Croce used his coinage “liberist” — a general term to replace a once well-understood “liberalism.” Sargon is not a modern libertarian.

Sargon’s online enemies often refer to him as “alt-right” and “ultra-conservative,” to which Mr. Benjamin rightly objects, and on good grounds.

Sargon’s case, here, is strikingly like the standard, moderate Democrat/moderate Republican standpoint of America and Britain, fifty years ago.

How times have changed!

Free trade — Bernie hates it; Hillary has supported special agreements that increase its scope while still putting the government in a quasi-management position (and, pulled by Bernie’s supporters, has has some “second thoughts”); and the Donald has likened it unto “rape.”

But the case for the free market is pretty clear. Economist Bob Murphy makes the case, here, and puts protectionism in its place.

Ladies and Gentleman, from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio:

https://youtu.be/UTJB8AkT1dk

Guess where Paul Jacob is? At FreedomFest in Nevada!

Here is a video snippet of Gov. Gary Johnson’s speech. You may also have seen the terrific keynote by Sen. Rand Paul, since it streamed live on Fscebook yesterday. But this gives you a good idea of the quality of the talks.

Next week, perhaps, Paul might give us a debriefing on this year’s Freedom Fest. The photo at top shows a panel Paul was on with Gary Johnson.

This week the police in Dallas, Texas, used a robot to kill a sniper. It is said to be a first, a historical moment of great significance. But wait: a bigger, more dangerous and more destabilizing form of warfare began a few years ago. This video explains it:

Gad Saad, consumer behavior scientist and valiant defender of basic freedoms on YouTube, here makes a few reasonable points about disagreeing with others’ political positions.

This week, Colbert interviewed his first “full ticket” Prez/Vice Prez candidate team:

Hoping for an uptick in interest: