Laws are for people without government jobs! Reason TV is wondering if The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has something better to do, other than set up stings to bust people for selling cigarettes. The ATF reportedly gets to keep money they get by profiting from illegal activity. READ: Snooty Yale Professor Shocked to…
Bizarre and enormous sea creatures have been washing up on California’s beaches lately. A few days ago people located a gigantic “oar fish”, which is normally found in deep waters. The animal resembles a long snake, and could be where many salty tales of sea serpents could have originated. Now this time another fish has…
I’ll take a triple-espresso-shot-grande with a side of oxycodone Dr. Alvin Yee is going to prison after he was caught selling prescriptions to drugs such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, amphetamines and Xanax. Prosecutors claimed that Yee was meeting ‘patients’ at coffee shops, and restaurants. Authorities began tracking Yee in 2010 when he was reportedly meeting with…
Insurers redirecting resources to deal with problems generated by data Health care insurers are complaining that the data generated from Healthcare.gov is so convoluted that it’s hampering their efforts to handle even the small trickle of people actually registering. The technological problems are spreading out beyond just the buggy website. Insurance companies are reportedly receiving…
SHANGHAI, CHINA – A young Chinese couple was arrested for allegedly selling their baby girl to get money for an iPhone, according to state media. Prosecutors are bringing them up on charges of ‘human trafficking’. They claim that the mother used the cash she raised to buy an iPhone, tennis shoes and other goods. READ:…
TSA: Prodding, Poking and now Peeking! A federal air marshal was arrested for allegedly taking photographs underneath women’s dresses at Nashville International Airport. Adam Bartsch was taken into custody after a passenger reported him to a flight attendant. Bartsch was on official duty when taking the photos, and reportedly admitted to committing the offense. He…
CNN reporter Jim Acosta corrected a fellow anchor for calling Tea Partiers “radicals”, and asked him to be careful how he describes people who stand in principle. “The sort of tea party radicals, if you like, who kicked all of this off, they electorally are safe,” the man said. “They’re not going to lose their…
Yale law professor Dan Kahan performed a study that analyzed the responses of 2,000 American people. He was trying to determine whether or not those who identify themselves as “Tea Party” types understood science as much as other people. The results embarrassed him. I’ve got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. As I…
Olmsted Project Highlights Why Government Is Broken Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has faced a tremendous backlash from conservative grassroots groups for the $2 billion appropriation inserted into the budget deal that reopened the government and raised the debt ceiling of the United States. It’s being called the “Kentucky Kickback”, and it’s laying bare the ideological…
“The camera is the new gun.” -Judge Andrew Napolitano We at The Libertarian Republic are big fans of Cop Block, a non-profit institution that is dedicated to informing citizens about their rights to record police in the line of duty. Their work is critical in educating the American people about how to exercise their freedoms….