You Don’t Own Your Body at 18, But The Government Does NEW YORK, NY – The New York City Council voted today to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco from the federal standard of 18 years of age to 21. Mayor Bloomberg is expected to sign the measure. New York City Councilman James Gennaro…
Don’t tread on Kemosabe! Libertarians have adopted the porcupine in recent years as a sort of unofficial mascot. Many liberty-related brands like The Skeptical Libertarian and Free State Project have taken the animal and made it their logo, in honor of its “Don’t Tread On Me” spirit. The old logo with the snake was seen…
Sebelius Sweating WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of Health and Human services Kathleen Sebelius appeared before a congressional panel today to take responsibility for the failure of the Healthcare.gov website. As she said, “The [Obamacare] website never crashed. It is functional, but at a very slow speed and very low reliability,” the website crashed. A 5…
They call him “Big Country” BUFFALO, NY – Darnell Barton was driving his normal route along the Scajaquada Expressway when all of a sudden he saw a woman walking along the outside rail of the bridge. He stopped his vehicle, parked next to her and opened his door. “Ma’am are you OK?” he asked. The…
“My words were inappropriate, buy my frustrations were real.” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) appeared on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning to explain why he called the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) an “absolute a**hole”. Fox host Elisabeth Hasselbeck asked Coburn, “What is it about Harry Reid that makes you so uncomfortable?” Coburn…
“Whatever!” -Sebelius WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius appeared before congress today to testify and apologize for the disastrous rollout of the Affordable Care Act website. “Hold me accountable for the debacle. I’m responsible,” Sebelius said. “We did not adequately do end-to-end testing,” she added. When questioned by Greg Harper (R-MO) about…
“When I started college I never intended to work for the government.” NASHVILLE, TN – Michael Gordon Lotfi is quitting the medical field and is abandoning his dream to be a doctor thanks to the Affordable Care Act. He wrote an open letter to President Barack Obama explaining why, which we have reprinted in entirety…
Who Needs A Man When You Have Government? NEW YORK, NY – Dr. Helen Smith’s book “Men on Strike” claims that men aren’t getting married as much anymore, likely because the penalties for getting married for them are so high. A 2012 Pew Research poll showed that the importance of marriage has gone up for women,…
FARGO, ND – One woman is taking the battle against childhood obesity into her own hands this year and she’s using a favorite American holiday to make the point. “Cheryl” says she plans to hand out letters to kids that she thinks are “moderately obese” instead of giving them candy on Halloween. READ: Should fat…
Maybe They’re Finally Interested In Constitutional Government? WASHINGTON, D.C. – Federal agents have been all over FreedomWorks websites in the past two years, logging onto the website more than 3,700 times. Visitor logs revealed that agents of the IRS, DHS, the FBI, the White House and other federal agencies. The main items of interest was…