Sage Steele Loses Claim That Her Agents Didn't Properly Protect Her Free Speech Rights

Sage Steele Loses Claim That Her Agents Didn’t Properly Protect Her Free Speech Rights

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From the California Department of Industrial Relations Labor Commissioner in Creative Artists Agency v. Steele, handed down in August but just posted on Westlaw (for more on Steele’s lawsuit against ESPN, see this post and this later article about the case being settled): Creative Artists Agency, LLC (“CAA”) filed a Petition on September 14, 2022. CAA alleges that … Sage Steele … failed to pay commissions for a procured multi-year television hosting contract with ESPN…. This case involves […]

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Freedom of Speech and Defamation Laws

Freedom of Speech and Defamation Laws

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With governments cracking down on free speech and even criminalizing alleged defamation, it is time to take a new look at libel laws. Murray Rothbard provides a clear-headed view of libel law—and why it shouldn‘t exist at all.

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Is Threatening to Kill Jews Generally—with No Person or Institution Specifically Named—Punishable?

Is Threatening to Kill Jews Generally—with No Person or Institution Specifically Named—Punishable?

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From People v. Farca, decided last week by California Court of Appeal Justice Tracie Brown, joined by Contra Costa County Judge Danielle Douglas: Around June 2019, Farca had two accounts on Steam, an online gaming website and social platform…. The name of one of Farca’s accounts was “Adolf Hitler (((6 MILLION))).” The description of the account said “Brenton Tarrant is a hero!!” and had an icon of the flag of New Zealand. Brenton Tarrant shot and killed about […]

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Revisiting the Mandibles: Lionel Shriver’s Cautionary Tale of America

Revisiting the Mandibles: Lionel Shriver’s Cautionary Tale of America

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With James J. Puplava, CFP®, CTS™, CES™, AIF®, CIS™, CFS™, CAS™, CSS™, FPWM™ and Lionel Shriver Dec 27, 2024 – Just last week, former President Trump floated the idea of eliminating the debt ceiling. Back in 2016, he also suggested that the US could never default on its debt because it could simply print more money. But what if these ideas were…

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The tax burden for a median-income American family is twice what it’s perceived to be

The tax burden for a median-income American family is twice what it’s perceived to be

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“Bureaucrats take $47,806 from the typical American family’s paychecks every year, but only $22,234 is considered ‘taxes.’” I think this is an important counter-argument to the claim that “taxes are low in America so you shouldn’t complain about them!” https://thebottomlineinhealthcare.substack.com/p/the-tax-burden-for-a-median-income submitted by /u/sharkonspeed [link] [comments]

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Is the crony capitalist society in wich we live today is just the product of the ultraliberal society of the past?

Is the crony capitalist society in wich we live today is just the product of the ultraliberal society of the past?

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So to elaborate my question, is the savage capitalist society of the past (with a smaller government and less regulation) just evolved into a society in wich those people who became immensely rich just corrupted the government to kill the concurrence for them? And if so, what make you think that if we returned to this ultraliberal society of the past, we wouldn’t just return to the starting point because this new economical elite that it would construct, […]

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Tyler Cowen: Why Do We Refuse To Learn From History?

Tyler Cowen: Why Do We Refuse To Learn From History?

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Why are we forgetting history’s lessons? We’re told in school that we study history so as not to repeat its mistakes. But what if those lessons aren’t sticking? Today’s guest regularly invokes what he calls The Great Forgetting. The striking thing about this collective amnesia is that it doesn’t apply only to distant, ancient history, but hard lessons learned only a few decades ago—lessons about inflation, price controls, and crime. Tyler Cowen is the Holbert L. Harris Professor […]

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