With so many of us doing our part to stay at home, it’s been the perfect time to dive into a binge-worthy Netflix series. For many, it’s been “Tiger King” or reruns of “Friends,” but some of the more interesting series deconstruct the American justice system and its complexities: innocence or guilt, truth and facts, […]
Consumer Choice Radio EP16: Making a Murderer’s Jerry Buting and Legal Reform
Consumer Choice Radio, hosted by Yaël Ossowski (@YaelOss) & David Clement (@ClementLiberty). INTERVIEW: Jerry Buting, criminal defense attorney best known as Steven Avery’s attorney from the Netflix series Making a Murderer, author of Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America’s Broken System The lockdown protests and their “mystery” organizers Lawn fertilizer guy AOC […]
The Language of Love and Fatherhood
My latest moments of pride rest exclusively on seeing our daughter grow and develop into her own person. She doesn’t know all the negativity of our COVID reality, the canceled vacation plans to see family in North Carolina, or the dark specters of doom that fill our newsfeeds every day. She knows happiness, eating with […]
Consumer Choice Radio EP15: We’ll Do It Live
Consumer Choice Radio, hosted by Yaël Ossowski (@YaelOss) & David Clement (@ClementLiberty). The (censored)virus is now the Carole Baskin virus Bill Maher on corona-political-correctness Bjorn Lomborg on opening up our economies Let the airlines fail? Obama activated Shownotes: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/radio/ep15 Broadcast on The Big Talker 106.7 WFBT FM on April 18, 2020. consumerchoiceradio.com Subscribe to our […]
Overreaching Lockdowns Are Flattening Our Livelihoods
Millions of Americans are in the penalty box as we speak. They have followed the advice of state and local officials and stayed home to stop the spread of COVID-19. Businesses are on hold, birthdays are canceled, travel is limited, and we are glued to our screens to see how this all ends. While some […]
Yaël on Joe Catenacci Show: #defundWHO, Austria update, iRacing
Consumer Choice Center Deputy Director Yaël Ossowski on The Joe Catenacci Show. Topics discussed: World Health Organization has failed us. Time to #defundWHO There are many terrible laws being passed right now Certificate of Need laws and others should be relaxed forever How is Austria opening back up? Tales of iRacing and online gaming This […]
Cigarette-style climate change graphic warnings on fuel pumps? How about NO
Are consumers prepared to be hounded at the pump for fueling up their cars? An article published last week in BMJ, the journal of the British Medical Association, makes an argument for including “cigarette-style” warning labels on fuel pumps, airline tickets, and energy bills. The warnings would highlight the “major health impacts” of fossil fuels […]
To Mask, or Not to Mask – Consumer Choice Radio (April 4, 2020)
Consumer Choice Radio, hosted by Yaël Ossowski (@YaelOss) & David Clement (@ClementLiberty). Keeping Entertained: Netflix shows to watch? Joe Exotic unleashed Chinese Communists are exporting garbage tests THE GREAT MASK DEBATE: Why did our government tell us masks don’t work? INTERVIEW: Casey Given, Executive Director, Young Voices Sending police and National Guard to enforce quarantine? […]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Laws Passed in Wake of the Coronavirus Pandemic
It’s now springtime in the northern hemisphere, and we’re now several weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic. As consumer advocates, our job has never relinquished: we’re there to closely monitor regulatory trends in major capitals to inform and activate consumers to fight for #ConsumerChoice. With governments scrambling to protect its citizens, we’ve seen an unprecedented push […]