By Greg Campbell Colorado lawmakers stripped a bipartisan bill to ban all red light and photo radar cameras, turning the measure into a study instead, according to the Denver Post. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle supported the bill, calling the hated cameras nothing more than a moneymaker for municipalities that don’t improve traffic safety. Sponsors…
Don’t ever lie to your Dad. First off, it’s not nice to pick on the man who loves and cares for you, and second, dads are known to be bada**es. This case of a prank gone wrong comes from India, where a man named Prateek learns the hard way never to lie to your father….
By Michael Bastasch The federal government now consumes 31 percent of the U.S. economy due to trillions in spending and thousands of pages of costly regulations, according to a new report. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free-market think tank, put out a report on Tuesday saying that the regulatory costs of federal rules amounts to…
A reporter for the Brisbane Times wrote that she knows she’s sexist, but that she doesn’t want her kids setting next to a man on an airplane. She writes that men are reportedly responsible for 92% of all sexual assaults, but since she says she’d rather be safe than sorry, shouldn’t she be terrified of…
By TJ Wass NBA commissioner Adam Silver is expected to announce what punishment Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling will face due to his racist rant caught on tape. Here is the full audio of the comments courtesy of TMZ. The NBA league constitution bylaws allow owners to expel one of their members. However, any…
They’re calling it: “The Snowden Phone” The Libertarian Republic has teamed up with FreedomPop to bring you the latest in privacy technology at your fingertips. The FreedomPop privacy phone protects your privacy from hackers, government agencies and spyware. You have a right to communicate anonymously, and this phone is created for the singular purpose of…
By Michael Bastasch Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy has issued a warning to Republicans who continue to question the integrity of the agency’s scientific data: we’re coming for you. McCarthy told an audience at the National Academy of Sciences on Monday morning the agency will go after a “small but vocal group of critics”…
No one ever said life in a libertarian republic would be easy. Even in a perfectly voluntary society, sometimes there are going to be some negative externalities that we’re going to have to deal with, and we can’t sue our neighbor for damages if their corpse just happens to explode and leak congealed bodily fluids…
By Chuck Ross The Japanese car maker Toyota Motor Corp. will shift most of its U.S. headquarters from California to Texas, according to several sources cited by Reuters and Bloomberg. The move will occur over several years and affect several thousand of Toyota’s 5,300 sales and marketing employees in Torrance, Cal. A location in Plano,…
Jack Hunter joins the Freedom Report podcast again today along with associate editor Ian Huyett to discuss the neocon onslaught against Senator Rand Paul. Why are they piling on with so many attacks of of late? Everyone knows that Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin‘s Rand Paul Obsession, but why are so many others lining up…