California Kills Millions Of Birds
The euthanasia campaign may be necessary to prevent the spread of the Newcastle disease, but bird owners say that it’s being carried out in a cruel manner. More from Reason TV.
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Bitcoin: The Wave of Future
When Facebook introduced Libra crypto currency, the move appeared to have merit as an option to paper money. But with politicians threatening regulation, Libra backers got scared and began to pull back in droves. Chances are, Libra will meet an untimely end.
Not so for Bitcoin, a crypto that’s been around for about 10 years. Bitcoin is mostly safe from government because it “lives” on thousands of individuals’ computers, so no government can stop it by pressuring any one company.
“It is the first currency we’ve ever seen that is decentralized. They’re threatened by it,” says Naomi Brockwell, tech reporter with an expertise on Bitcoin and blockchain. “They can’t shut it down.” Appearing on John Stossel on Reason.TV, Brockwell and investor Peter Schiff debate the Bitcoin issue.
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The Myth of High Tax Rates
The Democrats are hellbent on slapping the wealthy with outrageous tax rates–90 percent in some instances. The thought process is that a higher tax code will enrich government coffers, enabling it to deal with more pressing issues.
Not true! Just another myth, says economic historian Phillip Magness. While tax rates for the wealthy reached an unfathomable 90 percent during World War II and the Eisenhower Administration and remained as high as 70 percent before the Reagan Revolution, the plan just didn’t work.
“No one ever paid close to those rates,” says Magness, who’s researched tax codes for more than a decade. “A millionaire on average would pay 41 percent. There’s always deductions and exemptions and carve-outs that are baked into the tax code.” Magness and John Stossel debate the issue on this edition of Stossel on Reason.TV.
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China’s Concentration Camps
In western China, there’s a growing network of what journalists, former inmates, and the U.S. government are calling “concentration camps”—or what the Chinese government refers to as “vocational training centers.” They’re believed to hold between 1 and 3 million people, and perhaps as much as one-quarter of the Muslim population of Xinjiang Province. More from Reason.TV.
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And speaking of China, now the Left is taking sides with China, since Orange Man is bad. The Left is arguing that President Trump is taxing the American people. Wrong! He is imposing tariffs on Chinese goods because that nation has been manipulating its currency and screwing American producers. If you are bothered by the tariffs, buy goods from another country. More from Styxhexenhammer666.
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Free Speech and Money
Can the government restrict people’s ability to spend money on speech? Here are the Four Rules of Free Speech and Money. More from Reason.TV.
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Democratic Debate: The Rap
Remy sweeps the Democratic Debate with a solid rap. More from Reason.TV.
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Stefan Molyneux takes you on a deep dive through the fantasy hellscape of endless free stuff, demographic pandering and outright falsehoods that characterize the current state of US political debates.
Democratic Debate ROUND 2 – Kamala Harris KO.More from the Amazing Lucas.
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Liberal “journalist” Hasan Piker, employee of fringe fashion blog The Young Turks and nephew of its found Cenk “Burg-Murderer” Uygur, had a reaction one might call “normal” to the first Democrat 2020 Presidential Primary debate. He thought it sucked. More from John Ward.
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Liar, liar, your pants are on fire. The Deplorable Choir sticks it to Kamala Harris.
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Stormy Milestone: 10,000 Posts
Today marks a milestone in the history of Call Me Stormy. We have now published 10,000 posts.
Actually 9,998 posts as of today, while hitting 10,000 tomorrow.
To celebrate, we present the five most popular posts in the history of our blog, which we launched back in 2012. We always present hard-hitting political posts, but guess what? None of the most popular pieces we have run involve politics. Instead, they cover a stranger melange of topics: sex, pets, an anal examination, bizarre creatures and subway gangs.
Without further ado, here are the top five.
No. 1 from Sep. 2, 2012
Women Press to Go Topless
Reason.TV offers coverage of a topless protest in Washington, DC. The video has nearly 500,000 views and Stormy readers have supplied 1,613 of those.
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No. 2 from March 9, 2015
Man’s Best Friend a Mystery
This video came from the SciShow and explores three weird things that domestication did to dogs. It has received about 1.2 million views overall and Stormy readers accounted for about 1,000 of those views.
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No. 3 from Sep. 3, 2013
Jeff Foxworthy’s 1st Colonoscopy
The comedian gets laughs with a tale of his first colonoscopy. This video has been seen nearly 850,000 times and, again, our readers account for roughly 1,000 of those views.
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No. 4 from Sep. 8, 2014
Bizarre Creatures Still Abound
This video originated with the Hybrid Librarian, identifying 10 mysterious lifeforms that baffle scientists. It’s generated more than one million views, and just shy of 1,000 on Stormy.
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No. 5 from Aug. 3, 2015
Mexico City’s Subway Gangs
Vice produced this look at youth gangs that ride the subway system in Mexico City. It’s been a popular video for Vice — nearly 2 million views — and equally popular for our readers.
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That’s it — for now! We promise to return with an update once we’ve run 20,000 videos. That will be a few years, though, so don’t sit around waiting for it!
Venezuela Is Socialism
Media personalities claim socialism didn’t cause Venezuela’s collapse, but it did. Here’s how. John Stossel explains for Reason.TV.
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How to Spot Fake News
Owen Wilson got fat! And more fake news that shouldn’t be regulated.
But just how easy is it to spot fake news? Reason.TV headed to the Venice Beach boardwalk to test the bullshit detectors of passersby.
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