Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
“Do Cellphones Cause Cancer? RFK Jr.’s HHS Is Suppressing FDA Data Confirming Cellphone Safety.”
https://reason.com/2026/01/16/do-cellphones-cause-cancer-rfk-jr-s-hhs-is-suppressing-fda-data-confirming-cellphone-safety/
“The antiquated statute arguably allows the president to deploy the military in response to nearly any form of domestic disorder.”
https://reason.com/2026/01/21/the-insurrection-act-which-trump-keeps-threatening-to-invoke-is-alarmingly-vague-and-broad/
“Paul is understandably upset about a video about him that has been posted to YouTube.
The video “is a calculated lie, falsely accusing me of taking money from Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro,” wrote Paul in the Post. “It is, of course, a ludicrous accusation, but paid trolls are daily spreading this lie across the internet. This untruth is essentially an accusation of treason, which then leads the internet mob to call for my death.”
In short, it is “a provably false defamatory video,” according to Paul.
Defamation is a crime. And Paul is not without options for addressing it.
For one, he can use his own speech—as he is doing—to counter the false information. Paul has his own channels of communication, huge audiences on social media, and relatively easy access to mainstream media outlets, like the Post. He is not without options for correcting the record here.
He could also threaten to sue the creators(s) of the video. Sometimes, the threat of legal action is enough to get results—and in fact, that’s what happened here.
“The individual who posted the video finally took down the video under threat of legal penalty,” per Paul’s Post op-ed.
If the mere threat hadn’t worked, Paul could have actually sued the creator(s) of the video. If he successfully proved the video was defamatory, a court would order the creator to remove it.”
https://reason.com/2026/01/21/rand-paul-turns-against-section-230-citing-youtube-video-accusing-him-of-taking-money-from-maduro/
Generations of Christians went by before the idea of the Trinity was created. In much of the Bible, Jesus is treated as separate from God, but in some places, Jesus is more identified with God. The Trinity is an attempt to unify the different perspectives as one, but is not clearly spelled out in the Bible. The Biblical authors were writing from different perspectives and had different takes on Jesus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpq4bdisHRU
Taiwan has a higher GDP per capita than South Korea and Japan. Taiwan’s median wealth per adult is about the same as the US. The US has higher average wealth because of a handful of super rich people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4QfrJvqYzI
“Those old-school airlines might have been luxurious, but those flights were unaffordable for the vast majority of Americans. If you lived back then, you wouldn’t be flying in style. You’d probably not be flying at all.”
https://reason.com/2026/01/22/flying-is-better-than-in-the-good-old-days-no-matter-how-luxurious-those-old-photos-look/
The US is seriously preparing to attack Iran, with important assets in the region.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yc3dL3_ihg
“attorneys say the Trump administration is again denying detainees meaningful access to counsel.”
https://reason.com/2026/01/22/ice-turns-lawyers-away-at-minneapolis-detention-facility/
“In just the past few weeks, Trump has floated—and senior members of his administration have defended—four policy proposals that would have been loudly denounced as socialist overreach had they come from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. And for good reason. Progressives champion similar big-government policies.
Start with the proposal to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes. This is not conservative policy; it’s the federal government deciding who should be allowed to buy property based on identity rather than on behavior. It substitutes political discretion for voluntary market exchange and treats ownership itself as suspect.
The proposal rests on the false premise that allowing corporate investors to own and subsequently rent out homes is a major driver of high home prices. The practice is supposedly diverting capital away from construction, limiting the number of homes changing hands and crowding out owner-occupiers.
The data say something much different. Depending on the source, institutional investors own only about 1–2 percent of U.S. single-family homes. Estimates from the American Enterprise Institute and HousingWire show that even at the upper bound, this share is far too small to plausibly explain the 50 percent nationwide increase in home prices since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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the idea of ordering Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities, a kind of housing-specific version of the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing, in an effort to lower mortgage rates. Conservatives spent the last election cycle correctly explaining that subsidizing demand in a supply-constrained housing market only pushes prices higher.
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the proposed 10 percent cap on credit card interest rates. Price controls on unsecured credit don’t make borrowing cheaper; they make it disappear for anyone deemed risky. When banks cannot price risk to certain borrowers, they stop lending to them. But borrowers don’t stop needing credit; they just get pushed into far worse alternatives.”
https://reason.com/2026/01/22/the-gop-looks-increasingly-like-a-home-for-elizabeth-warren-and-bernie-sanders/
“Many conservatives are embracing big government, from police-state immigration tactics to socialist economic policies.”
There were some true believers, but for the most part, don’t tread on me Republicans were just anti-Obama reactionaries who globbed on to whatever justification they could to complain about Obama.
https://reason.com/2026/01/23/where-have-the-dont-tread-on-me-republicans-gone/