Bits & Pieces
Articles with unfiltered opinions
The Terrible Waste of Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies are all the rage now, with investors large and small around the world playing the game. Some have made fortunes. The foresight to buy ten Bitcoins in 2009, when they were selling for $1 each, would yield the tidy sum of approximately $600,000 today. There are currently hundreds of...
The Worst Abortion Law Yet
Texas recently trumped other red states in the race to pass the most restrictive abortion law in the country. It’s a “fetal heartbeat” law, meaning that as soon as an ultrasound can detect cardiac activity in a human embryo (not yet a fetus), usually at around six weeks, it is illegal to abort in...
Biden Was Right on Afghanistan
Numerous politicians and pundits have loudly criticized the President’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. But even after seeing all of the chaotic scenes from Kabul, over 60% of Americans approve of the withdrawal and say the war was not worth the costs. After 20 stormy years of marriage, it was a messy divorce,...
A Civilian Climate Corps? Yes!
Progressive Democrats in Congress are pushing to include funding for a new Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) in the infrastructure bill being thrashed out by Congress as I write. A CCC could create 1.5 million new jobs over the next five years for people still suffering from unemployment and underemployment due to the COVID pandemic,...
It’s Time to Tackle the Tax Dodgers
The massive tax giveaway passed by the previous Republican Administration has turned out to be an even bigger gift to the ultrarich than expected. That bill lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to a paltry 21%. Part of the argument for such a drastic reduction was that loopholes for tax evasion would be...
Fight for Your Rights!
Since Donald Trump lost the Presidential election—and America enjoyed its largest turnout of eligible voters in more than a century—Republicans have launched a nationwide campaign to suppress the vote. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, at least 389 new laws have been proposed in 48 states to limit mail-in voting, early in-person voting...
The Chauvin Verdict: A Milestone
When former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted in April for murdering George Floyd, it was a huge sea change in the “qualified immunity” usually granted cops in such trials. Witnesses for the prosecution included an unprecedented lineup of police officers, including the Minneapolis police chief. And though Chauvin wasn’t the first cop...
HUSTLER Will Carry On!
Our founder, guiding light and my dear husband Larry Flynt left us on February 10th. Larry could have taken it easy in his later years and enjoyed a well-earned retirement. Instead, he was at work every single day, helming his myriad HUSTLER businesses and making decisions for the magazine. He relished the work, the...
The First Publisher’s Statement by Larry Flynt in 1974
Originally published July 1974 Anyone can be a playboy and have a penthouse, but it takes a man to be a Hustler. With this philosophy in mind, we are launching the most sophisticated men’s magazine of the century. Some of you are already aware of our successful chain of night clubs located in most...
Reconciliation for a Suffering Country
Editor’s note: On February 10, 2021, our fearless leader, Larry C. Flynt, passed away, as this edition was going to press. Below is his last Publisher’s Statement. We are already feeling the loss deeply, and our June 2021 HUSTLER will be a special commemorative issue, available May 11. It seems to be the inevitable...
The Man of the Hour
It’s no secret that Joe Biden was not my favorite Democratic candidate for President. I’ve criticized his long history of coddling the Republicans and his gung ho support for the Iraq War. But if you’re looking for saints of unblemished purity, you won’t find them in the political arena. I don’t care who your...
The System Is Rigged, All Right—for Republicans
For years now, Donald Trump has been whining about how the system is rigged against him—despite winning the White House in 2016 while losing the popular vote. George W. Bush won in 2000, even though he also lost the popular vote. You would think that in a democracy the majority of voters would elect...
Onward to 2022!
As I write, control of the Senate is hanging in the balance, dependent on results from the Georgia runoffs. The outcome will be as consequential as the Presidency itself, because without a Democratic Senate majority, Mitch McConnell, the self-proclaimed “grim reaper,” will block everything Biden and the House try to accomplish. McConnell has proven...
Should Biden Pack the Court?
Mitch McConnell blatantly cheated Obama out of his Supreme Court appointee in 2016 (Merrick Garland), and since that time Trump has appointed three conservative Justices—including ramrodding Amy Coney Barrett through nine days before the election. Let’s not forget that Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and had no mandate to make the Court...
Count Every Ballot
The year 2020 has been one of the most chaotic in American history. We’ve had the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu, the worst unemployment since the Great Depression, social justice protests and counterprotests across the country, and the whole West Coast, where I live, has blazed like Dante’s Inferno with uncontrollable wildfires. On...
