Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

After an insulting press release from FOX News, Donald Trump has announced that he will not be participating in the Iowa Fox News debate and instead will host a fundraiser for wounded warriors. Stefan Molyneux dissembles the media narrative around the latest Trump controversy, and turns a spotlight on the constant manipulation.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-wont-participate-in-gop-debate-on-fox-news/2016/01/26/58fa0b2e-c490-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html

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National Review contributors recently joined together in criticizing Donald Trump and his candidacy for President of the United States. Stefan Molyneux responds to David Boaz's contribution to the National Review's "Conservatives Against Trump." David Boaz is the executive vice president of the Cato Institute and the author of The Libertarian Mind.

Conservatives against Trump
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination

Immigrant Voting Patterns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6NYP9qmjfU

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"Socrates, my master, is my friend but a greater friend is truth." - Plato

Free Market Economist Thomas Sowell recently joined other National Review contributors in criticizing Donald Trump and his candidacy for President of the United States. Stefan Molyneux responds to the writing of one of his intellectual heroes - and illustrates the flawed reasoning contained within Dr. Sowell's "Do Emotions Trump Facts?" article.

Do Emotions Trump Facts? by Thomas Sowell
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/01/22/do-emotions-trump-facts-n2108178/page/full

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The Netflix documentary series “Making a Murder” examining the life of Steven Avery who served 18 years in prison for the sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Beerntsen – only to be exonerated in 2003. As a multi-million-dollar civil lawsuit was underway against the Manitowoc County, Wisconsin police department – Avery was arrested and charged with the murder of Teresa Halbach, a local photographer.

Stefan Molyneux and former prosecutor and licensed trial lawyer Lionel (Michael Wm. Lebron) look at the case, evidence which wasn’t included in the documentary series, innocent until proven guilty, the confession of Brendan Dassey, the work of lawyers Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, prosecutor Ken Kratz and much more!

Lionel (Michael Wm. Lebron) is an Emmy Award winning legal analyst and news decoder, a former prosecutor and licensed trial lawyer with The Lebron Firm.

Website: http://lionelmedia.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/LionelY2K

Stefan Molyneux has been losing sleep over the popular Netflix documentary series “Making a Murder” examining the life of Steven Avery... and he's pissed off. Stefan explains his frustration with the popular documentary series and the surrounding events.

Avery served 18 years in prison for the sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Beerntsen – only to be exonerated in 2003. As a multi-million-dollar civil lawsuit was underway against the Manitowoc County, Wisconsin police department – Avery was arrested and charged with the murder of Teresa Halbach, a local photographer.

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Question 1: [1:36] - “You assert that the redistribution of wealth and/or transfer of property rights from the bourgeoisie (owning class) to the proletariat (The working class) necessarily uses forces in violation of the non-aggression principle, but doesn't the exploitation of labor by the owner do much of the same thing, or at minimum have the same effect. Could one claim that the working class expropriation of the means of production be considered self-defense under the non-aggression principle?”

Question 2: [1:15:45] - “In my current view, I think our society would probably be better off with a lot more spanking, so I'm curious why you think spanking is bad. I would argue that the role of parents, from a biological point of view, should be to raise competent offspring who will survive and carry on the genes: not to ensure that their children have "rights" or are "free" or are pleasantly sheltered from the harshness of reality.”

Question 3: [1:54:50] - “Am I deluded for believing there is another sentient entity more powerful than humans? In the same way that lab mice are oblivious to their captivity and experimentation, is it reasonable to consider a similar environment might have been constructed for humans? The infinitesimally small intelligence of mice relative to human IQ prevents mice from conceptualizing their captivity. In the same way, humans would be unable to conceptualize their captivity in an environment constructed by an Intelligence that dwarfs their own. Furthermore, since morality is a product of our capacity for reason, it would follow that a more intelligence entity might possess a higher, if not abstractly different level of morality?”

Question 1: [2:00] - “Don't we need to assume the existence of consciousness before we can construct any concept of physical matter, because even with all scientific contraption, every knowledge is perceived by use, hence our consciousness. Wouldn't that then turn any assumption, that consciousness requires physical matter (i.e. materialism) into a weak and circular assumption, not an actual provable fact?"

Question 2: [36:37] - “I’m a gay man and I think politics/philosophy destroyed my relationship. Is it possible to be in a relationship with someone you fundamentally disagree with? If not, what hope does a gay man have of finding anyone in a predominantly liberal/socialist city?”

Question 3: [2:03:05] - Is Donald Trump a positive force for liberty who should be supported by freedom lovers or a dangerous authoritarian who should be excised from the right by the right?

Question 4: [2:42:51] - “Aren't low birth rates, women's liberation, rising divorce rates, falling marriage rates, gay marriages, premarital promiscuity, unmarried adults living with their parents, non-western immigration, and the consequent multiculturalism, inevitable in the post-industrial revolution western civilization, even in the absence of a Cultural Marxism or progressivism?”

You can't listen to a presidential debate without hearing about ObamaCare or the Affordable Care Act. Even if you don’t follow the news, it’s hard to go for more than a few days without hearing someone mention their insurance premiums or some other frustration with the health care system.

Stefan Molyneux speaks with Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer about the state of healthcare in the United States, the dangers brought about by government regulation, the downside of electronic medical records and what things look like "on the ground" in the medical profession.

Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a general surgeon in private practice in metropolitan Phoenix, AZ. He is principal and founder of Valley Surgical Clinics, Ltd., the largest and oldest group private surgical practice in Arizona. He was integrally involved in the creation and passage of the Arizona Health Care Freedom Act, and serves as treasurer of the US Health Freedom Coalition, which promotes state constitutional protections of freedom of choice in health care decisions.

CATO Profile: http://www.cato.org/people/jeffrey-singer

Dr. Singer's Online Course: America’s Health Care System: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out: http://www.learnliberty.org/course_details/americas-health-care-system/

Sources: http://www.untruthaboutdonaldtrump.com

Since 1988, Donald Trump has been discussed as a potential United States presidential candidate, but when he officially announced his candidacy on June 16, 2015 the mainstream media refused to believe it. Over the next many months, Donald Trump would be attacked and criticized by the media – but were these criticisms legitimate? What is the Untruth About Donald Trump?

0:43 - Donald Trump’s Strategy
3:42 - Mainstream Media On Donald Trump
5:25 - Trump Isn’t a Serious Candidate!
6:44 - He Won’t File His Election Papers – Ignore Him!
8:52 - Illegal Immigration, Border Wall, Rape and Crime
16:18 - Univision, NASCAR, ESPN and Macy’s “Dump” Trump?
18:22 - Is John McCain a War Hero?
21:52 - Was Trump a Draft-Dodger?
23:40 - Megyn Kelly, Rosie O’Donnell and the War on Women
27:18 - Blood coming out of her wherever…
28:55 - The Truth About The Bankruptcies
32:18 - The Bible Gotcha!
33:39 - Muslim Celebrations on September 11th
35:52 - Did Trump Mock a Disabled Reporter?
37:25 - Muslim Immigration Ban
43:17 - Do Americans Support Trump’s Muslim Immigration Ban?
44:38 - Muslim Databases?
46:33 - Employing Illegal Immigrants?
48:20 - Vladimir Putin
50:09 - Anti-Semitic Comments
51:26 - Comparisons to Adolf Hitler
54:57 - Campaign Event Protestors
56:28 - Old Joke About Dating His Daughter
57:10 - Saturday Night Live
58:09 - Trumps Inheritance and Wealth
59:06 - Donald Isn’t Rich Enough to Fund His Campaign
1:01:21 - Jeb Bush’s Personal Immigration Connection
1:01:54 - Gun Control in Paris
1:02:46 - Don’t Trust Trump With the Nuclear Codes!
1:03:35 - Hillary Clinton’s ISIS Recruitment Video Claim
1:04:10 - Close Down The Internet?
1:05:00 - Carly Fiorina: Look at That Face!
1:05:48 - Hillary Got Schlonged
1:06:13 - Go After Terrorists Families
1:07:00 - George W. Bush Kept Us Safe
1:07:50 - He’s a Rapist
1:08:30 - Deportation Force
1:09:31 - The “Donald Trump is a Hillary Clinton Plant” Conspiracy
1:09:53 - Campaign Finance Hypocrisy
1:10:50 - Oprah as Vice President?
1:11:08 - Donald Trump is Batman

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Question 1: [1:27] - “Ten years ago, I had an epiphany and realized the God is real. After some searching, I lucked into the Catholic Church. My whole world view changed and expanded. I have come to realize that the Catholic world view makes a lot more sense than the Atheist world view. In watching your videos, I see that you are an Atheist and you also refer to yourself as a moral philosopher. I have also heard you use terms like “virtue” and “evil,” which I normally associate with Theology. I have also heard you be somewhat snarky and dismissive of the views of believers. What homework have you done to explore the Catholic world view? Why do you feel the Atheist world view is superior? On what basis do you derive your moral code?”

Question 2: [1:05:45] - “I have really enjoyed your Gene Wars presentations but still have questions as to how certain groups may fall into R or K selection. Western Feminists, for example, are notorious for having few to no children as well as being highly formally educated relative to the rest of the world - both K selection traits, yet I would suspect would fall into R selection along with the rest of leftists. A pattern I have noticed is upper-class people who are far removed from nature or any type of danger often lean anti-gun and fail to see the state as representative of any form of danger, a R trait, yet they come from high-resource backgrounds which is a K trait. Can you help clarify this for me?”

Question 3: [1:56:00] - “Should libertarians and anarcho-capitalists abandon the puritan approach of total liberty within the political spectrum? Should we be more pragmatic about our approach to regaining the lost liberties in the west in order to work towards achieving a free society?”

Question 4: [2:11:50] - “Stefan has said that Stephen Harper was inspired by Ayn Rand and is the Canadian "John Galt" and our "Rand Paul". I'm no Liberal, but the former prime minister has done more to increase the power of the state and centralize political power to the Prime Minister's Office than any other Canadian government in my lifetime. If Stephen Harper is our Galt, or that was at least his early intentions, then what happened? Where did it all go so horribly wrong?”