Everything’s bigger in Texas, including one police officer’s heart PLANO, TX – An anonymous officer in Plano, Texas stopped a car for having an expired registration, citing the driver for the infraction. Hayden Carlo explained to the policeman how he was struggling to support his family and pay his bills, which is why he couldn’t…
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared on CNN with Candy Crowley to discuss the current budget battle over the debt ceiling. Crowley asks him pointedly if he could ever see himself as something other than a Republican. Paul laughed and responded that he actually loved the history of the Republican Party and was proud to…
The Revolution Will Be Magnetized! The U.S. government came after Craig Zucker the owner of the famous Buckyballs toys, demanding that he pay a $57 million dollar fine to cover recall costs of his product. The government at first just forced him to stop selling the magnetic toys, but then they went even further. They…
They don’t mess around in Brazil UPDATE @12:26 AM ET : The thief survived! We have replaced the original video on this post with a version that contains a full translation. SAO PAOLO, BRAZIL – An undercover police officer near Sao Paolo, Brazil stopped a thief cold in his tracks thanks to his incredible timing….
To infinity and beyond… Elon Musk thinks we need to move beyond this blue & green ball. He’s currently trying to lower the cost of space travel, by a factor of 10. Musk believes… it’s time to leave Earth. 3,000 market heroes from SpaceX test launched a rocket prototype that was chased by a remote-controlled,…
“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.” The first flying cars are set to go on sale to the general public as early as 2015, Reuters reports. The company Terrafugia has announced a part sedan, part private jet with two seats, four wheels and wings that fold up. One model will be small enough…
Malala Yousafzai is the author of the new book I am Malala: The Girl Who Was Shot by the Taliban. She has come to the United States to discuss her story and to advocate for the education of girls who live under oppression. She made an appearance on the Daily Show with John Stewart, but…
Bill Maher and his panel of guests debated why President Barack Obama isn’t the radical leftist they hoped he would be. Maher bemoaned his centrism and complained that he isn’t very ‘liberal’. Chris Matthews sat on the panel and claimed that it was an ‘amazing’ statement for Maher to make and insinuated that the host…
I was researching 18th century French economists this afternoon when I stumbled across an interesting tab on the right side of Jean-Baptiste Say’s Wikipedia page. On the page is a list of the “schools” of libertarianism. It’s a fairly thorough list, and I was familiar with almost every one except for Geolibertarianism, which I’ve decided…
Senator Cruz: Troll Crusher! Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) gave a nice, clean beatdown of hecklers during a recent speech at the Value Voters summit. Cruz had launched an attack on Obamacare, calling it a ‘trainwreck’ and a ‘disaster’, causing a small group of hecklers to try to shout him down. Cruz smoothly chided the group,…