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Ursula Bach was 18 years old… and six months pregnant… when she heard the news. It was August 13, 1961. And East Germany’s government started building a wall to separate East Berlin from West. Moreover, tens of thousands of East German troops had been deployed overnight to suppress protests and erect makeshift barricades
Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Landlord Homeless After Tenants Stop Paying Rent Some people imagine landlords as greedy millionaires milking the working-class for all it’s worth. This ignores the
More than 400 years ago in the year 1615, the Catholic Church hired eleven ‘expert consultants’ and asked them to review the scientific work of Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicus, of course, was one of the first scientists to propose that the sun (not the earth) was at the center of the universe. But even
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Woke, pro-mask pediatricians censor their own research For years, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has stressed
In 1936, Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz introduced a new procedure meant to cure schizophrenia and other mental disorders. Moniz’s experimental procedure was quickly brought to the United States by Dr. Walter Freeman, who even performed it on Rosemary Kennedy (sister of John F. Kennedy) at the request of her father. Dr. Freeman ‘cured’
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Oppose COVID restrictions? You might be a terrorist. Leading up to the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the
August 16, 2021 Bahia Beach, Puerto Rico The King of Macedonia was only 21 years old in the spring of 334 BC when he led his army to the Hellespont strait in modern day Turkey. The Hellespont was (and still is today) considered the geographical border between Europe and Asia. And the king
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Racist Boulder Removed From University Campus The University of Wisconsin recently spent as much as $50,000 to
If you’ve been wondering what the next phase of this public health insanity is going to look like, your wait is over. Introducing… the MARBURG VIRUS. Earlier this week, as police fanned out across the streets of Paris going table-to-table in cafes to check people’s Covid papers, and as the Australian military deployed
In the year 1202 in the town of Albi in southern France, the local market price for a measure of wheat was 34 grams of silver. Decades later in the year 1290, the price of wheat was exactly the same: 34 grams of silver. And even centuries after that, in the year 1527,
In the winter of 1773, an obscure civil servant in London was introduced by a mutual friend to one of the most prolific intellectuals of their day. That meeting would forever alter the courses of their lives… and the course of human history. The civil servant’s name was Thomas Paine, who by all
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Doctors could lose medical licenses if they spread vaccine “misinformation” The Federation of State Medical Boards told
As a journalist in China, Liu Hu was no stranger to punishment. For reporting on corruption among government officials, Hu was arrested, accused of “fabricating and spreading rumours,” and fined. But then one day in 2017 he suddenly found that he was unable to buy a plane ticket. The system just rejected
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. “Long Covid” Can Now Qualify as a Disability The White House issued a lengthy statement this week,
Late in the evening of October 17, 1534, a small group of protestant activists swept across the five biggest cities in France, posting anti-Catholic propaganda posters all over town in major public squares. The activists even managed to brazenly nail one of their posters to the bedroom door of King Francis I, himself
