Because the government is not us. Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Barack Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency's voracious appetite for spying. By permitting one section of the Patriot Act to expire and by replacing it with the USA Freedom Act, the federal government ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Lies The Government Is Telling You
Because the government is not us. Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Barack Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency's voracious appetite for spying. By permitting one section of the Patriot Act to expire and by replacing it with the USA Freedom Act, the federal government ... MOREReason Magazine Subpoena Stomps On Free Speech
by Virginia Postrel. Wielding subpoenas demanding information on anonymous commenters, the government is harassing a respected journalism site that dissents from its policies. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York claims these comments could constitute violent threats, even though they’re clearly hyperbolic ... MOREThe Totalitarian Mind Set Of Hurt Feelings
by Scott Lazarowitz. Has freedom of speech become a thing of the past in America? College campuses now are intellectual prisons, and the thin-skinned offendotrons are the guards. And in post-9/11 America you can’t criticize the Regime without being called a “traitor” or “unpatriotic.” The political and social fascists and control freaks ... MOREConnie Mack IV: A Spirited Defense Of Liberty
Liberty has a champion. Whether you like his brand of conservatism or not — and there’s
plenty about his approach to national security and foreign policy that I
don’t like — you have to admire the principled stand that Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky took on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act. Mr. Paul
made Americans step back and take a ... MOREVIDEO: People Who Keep The System Of Slavery In Place
Live your life with morality. Don't just follow orders.
The Government Is Not Us: Mother Faces 30 Year Prison Sentence For Using Cannabis To Treat Crohn’s Disease
by Carey Wedler. A prime candidate for jury nullification. Last month, Kansas mother Shona Banda made headlines when her son was removed from her custody after he defended her use of medical marijuana to treat Crohn’s Disease. He had spoken up about her use at an anti-drug presentation at his school. This prompted the school to call to ... MOREGovernment Closes Down Unlicensed Licensed Lemonade Stand To Save Customers From Unregulated Cold Drinks
by Scott Shackford. Moppets meet the government boot. Technically summer doesn't begin for another couple of weeks, but southern states like Texas don't care when summer is technically supposed to start. It's warm down there, and two young sisters in Overton with the adorable, media-friendly names of Andria and Zoey Green (8 and 7 years old, ... MOREUSA Police State Celebrated As “Defense Of Freedom”
by William Boardman. One needs a wicked sense of humor these days to fully appreciate the present moment in American history, as a supposedly free country debates which police state practices to adopt, while ignoring any thought that maybe the United States should not be a police state at all. For a brief shining moment early on June 1, ... MOREKate Vinton: Feds Subpoena Libertarian Media Site Over Posted Reader Comments Threatening Silk Road Judge
Rhetorical criticism treated as actual threats. The Department of Justice issued a grand jury subpoena to Reason.com last week, asking the libertarian media site for the identities of six readers who had posted comments threatening Silk Road Judge Katherine Forrest. Blogger Ken White obtained the subpoena and published it in a post on ... MOREScott Shackford: This Map Details Whether The Asset Forfeiture Laws In Your State Are Good or Awful
(Spoiler: Chances are they’re probably awful.) The liberty-loving activists at FreedomWorks has produced a useful tool to examine the quality of civil asset forfeiture laws (the rules that allow police to seize and often keep money and property from busts) across the states. They've put together a new map that grades each state and ... MOREKimberly Morin: TYRANNY ALERT! Obama Writes New Rules To Throw Gun Owners In JAIL For Doing THIS Online …
Criminalizing speech in America. According to a new State Department mandate, they want to end the sharing of technical data on line. It’s not clear why they want to do this other than to restrain free speech but they posted their new proposal on June 3rd. And while this ridiculous proposal would affect thousands or even millions of ... MOREDavid Downs: Seeking To Prove The Opposite, Scientist Finds Smoking Marijuana Decreases Lung Cancer Risk
An inconvenient truth for drug warriors. As more and more Americans consider the pros and cons of cannabis legalization, many points are worth repeating, and chief among them: cannabis actually decreases the risk of lung cancer. It’s a counter-intuitive notion, since tobacco smoking causes cancer, marijuana smoking must as well. But as ... MOREJohn Stossel: Green Lies
Propaganda piece "Blackfish" is full of lies. Millions go to SeaWorld to learn more about sea life and get closer to killer whales. But fewer go now because the documentary "Blackfish" exposed what one reporter called "the darker side" of SeaWorld. The movie, which CNN bought and ran over and over, tells how greedy businessmen take ... MOREJohn W Whitehead: Slave Or Rebel? Ten Principles For Escaping The Matrix And Standing Up To Tyranny
The more things change, the more they stay the same. It’s a shell game intended to keep us focused on and distracted by all of the politically expedient things that are being said—about militarized police, surveillance, and government corruption—while the government continues to frogmarch us down the road toward outright tyranny. ... MOREMD Criticisms Of ObamaCare Silenced By ACA Bureaucrats
by Drs. Gerard J Gianoli and Joel L. Strom. Don't expect your doctor to stand up and protest about how the Affordable Care Act is responsible for so many of the health care problems that patients face today. As a physician and a dentist in private practice, we have spent the past five years making the case that the ACA is harming our ... MOREJason Pye: FreedomWorks’ State Civil Asset Forfeiture Scorecard Shows Dire Need For Fundamental Reform
Government's license to steal. The presumption of innocence is a fundamental principle of the American legal system. When someone is accused of a crime, the burden is rightfully on the government to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt before a punishment is meted out. But another area of the law, known as civil asset forfeiture, allows ... MOREDreadful Criminal Justice System Destroyed Kalief Browder
by Scott Schackford. Elizabeth Nolan Brown linked to a piece at The New Yorker this morning about the suicide of Kalief Browder,
22, who spent three years at Rikers Island, often stuck in solitary
confinement, without ever seeing a trial. The journalist, Jennifer
Gonnerman, originally dove deep into Browder's case back in October, and it's worthy ... MOREThomas Sowell: Who Lost Iraq?
It is like a community organizer tried to be general. After the pro-Western government of China was forced to flee to the island of Taiwan in 1949, when the Communists took over mainland China, bitter recriminations in Washington led to the question: "Who lost China?" China was, of course, never ours to lose, though it might be legitimate ... MOREEdward Cline: The Prancing Unicorn Of Bruce Jenner
He (XY chromosome) is what he is. No matter where I turned on the Internet today, I encountered the Vanity Fair cover of Bruce Jenner pretending to be a woman. I got so sick of encountering that cover that I decided to write about it. Transgenders, apparently, are the new privileged minority. Just as Muslims are. A Muslim baker or ... MOREWhen It’s A Crime To Withdraw Money From Your Bank
by Josh Barro. Dennis Hastert has not been indicted on a charge of sexual abuse,
nor has he been indicted on a charge of paying money he was not legally
allowed to pay. The indictment of Mr. Hastert, a former House speaker,
released last week, lays out two counts: taking money out of the bank
the wrong way, and then lying to the F.B.I. about ... MORE
The Crackdown On Free Speech Begins! Montana Man Is Being Prosecuted For 'Hate Speech' And Holocaust Denial
Government ignores the inconvenient First Amendment. Via Volokh Conspiracy, a disturbing criminal case out of Montana, where Flathead County resident David Lenio, 28, is being prosecuted for making disparaging remarks about Jews on Twitter and denying that the Holocaust happened. Say what? While this sort of prosecution is common in ... MORE
Matt Agorist: Family Raided by SWAT, Their Home Trashed And Their Dog Shot For Not Being Able To Pay Utility Bill
Police state USA. Nothing says Police State USA quite like a SWAT team raiding a family home and killing their dog because they are unable to pay their natural gas bill. The woman whose dog was killed and home destroyed by SWAT officers is Angela Zorich, and her story about her police state experience will shock the conscious. According to a federal ... MOREChris Ingraham: Portugal Decriminalized Drugs 14 years Ago – And Now Hardly Anyone Dies From Overdosing
The result of ending the drug war are in. Portugal decriminalised the use of all drugs in 2001. Weed, cocaine, heroin, you name it — Portugal decided to treat possession and use of small quantities of these drugs as a public health issue, not a criminal one. The drugs were still illegal, of course. But now getting caught with them meant a small fine ... MOREGlobal Warming: When Science Meets Science Fiction
by Tim Constantine. One of the most effective ways to sell your political agenda is to back up your concerns with factual information. That info may be statistical or scientific. In the absence of solid facts, the next most effective method often seems to be to instill fear. If you don’t support “agenda X” there will be dire consequences. In the case ... MOREWalter E Williams: Improving Black Education
Use free market competition. Last summer's Ferguson, Missouri, disturbances revealed that while blacks were 67 percent of its population, only three members of its 53-officer police force were black. Some might conclude that such a statistic is evidence of hiring discrimination. That's a possibility, but we might ask what percentage of blacks met ... MORESheldon Richman: The USA Freedom Act Is Inscrutable Because Politicians Know Power Thrives On Complexity
Just as roaches flourish in the dark. In a democracy citizens prevent the government from abusing them by staying informed and exercising their "rights" under the system. They monitor the politicians’ and bureaucrats’ conduct, and when citizens see what they consider misbehavior, they act to stop it either by communicating ... MOREWalter Olson: Jail For Missed Days at School?
The madness of truancy laws. We've seen it happen again and again: libertarians are derided over some supposedly crazy or esoteric position, years pass, and eventually others start to see why our position made sense. It's happened with asset forfeiture, with occupational licensure, with the Drug War, and soon, perhaps, with ... MOREUK Police Tell Subjects Not to Harm Their Attackers; Rape Alarm Is The Only Fully Legal Defense System Allowed
What happens there's no 2nd Amendment. The latest dispatch from the United Kingdom’s ongoing campaign to
eliminate all forms of armed self-defense seems too incredible to be
true. Unfortunately, after tracking down the origin of a publicly distributed statement
regarding self-defense products on the country’s “Ask the Police”
website, ... MORE
Katherine Mangu-Ward: Why Don't Women Like Rand Paul?
A bad job of marketing liberty to women? Today at The New Republic, Jeet Heer asks why libertarians are mostly dudes,
inspired by Sen. Rand Paul's polling gender gap, which shows the
Kentucky Republitarian pulling 13 percent of the male primary vote and
only 2 percent of females: Why is Paul so unpopular among women? ... MORE
Edward Snowden Is A Patriot And Deserves Freedom
by Jacob Weisberg. What is the responsibility of public servants who believe that the government is abusing its authority? In most cases, US law encourages them to expose wrongdoing. The Whistleblower Protection Act passed in 1989 protects “any disclosure” that an employee reasonably believes indicates the violation of laws or rules, “gross ... MORECalling Bruce Jenner A Woman Is An Insult To Women
by Matt Walsh. It is what it is. The picture is plastered right on the cover of the next Vanity Fair issue, and it shows Bruce dolled up in makeup and hair extensions, posing in a corset, with parts of his face, forehead, and throat shaved off for cosmetic reasons, and his chest enhanced by hormone pills, Photoshop, and silicone. The idea is to make ... MORE
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