It was one year ago that Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe locked horns in an epic battle over the future of FreedomWorks. With nothing less than the fate of the direction of the Tea Party movement at stake, the conservative stalwart took on the libertarian radical over who would run the institution. As Kibbe and…
You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared on the Senate floor on Wednesday to offer to reopen the government if Democrats will finally come to the negotiating table. President Obama has declared he will negotiate only if Republicans meet certain demands, one of them being that they immediately vote to…
College kids! They have opinions and stuff. They’re the future! Or they would be, if they weren’t moving back in with their parents at alarming rates after graduation. But surely they think they have to take responsibility for themselves some day, right? No? What do you mean no? In a video interview mashup with Campus Reform’s…
A Proud Palmetto Patriot! A man from South Carolina took it upon himself to mow the lawn at the Lincoln Memorial and in so doing, become a national hero. CBS called him the “one-man militia”. He’s a man who was on a mission, and that mission was to keep the parks clean during the federal…
Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) appeared on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell to debate the effects of the government shutdown. In a tense interview, Mitchell prods Duffy about the specific effects on military veterans’ families. Duffy counters and argues that it’s wrong for government officials to exempt themselves from the coverage they are forcing on the rest of…
The last good Democrat? While factions of Democrats in congress have refused to reopen the government and instituted a shutdown of about 15% of services, at least one Democrat is doing something responsible… blocking congressional pay. Rep. Rick Nolan (D-MN) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would stop members from being paid their salaries during…
Why would you openly wish bad things on people who are heavily armed? Poor Eddie Vedder. He sucks! I never liked his ‘music’. He can’t sing and he has no real talent. Somehow he became very popular, but I’m not sure why. People mistook his mewling belches into the microphone as some sort of attempt…
“It’s not the drugs that are harmful anymore, it’s the War on Drugs that’s so harmful.” Doug and Catherine Snodgrass thought they were safe raising their child in the quiet town of Temecula, California. They never expected their son could be the victim of a brutal police sting. Reason.TV has an incredibly heartbreaking video out…
Watching the Watchers… The Libertarian Republic has been covering the story of Alexian Lien, who was chased and brutally beaten by a biker gang last week. Sources have revealed that as many as six undercover NYPD officers were in the gang, although they were off-duty and not involved in an investigation at the time. One…
Guns for me, but not for thee! Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) thinks that the laws don’t apply to her, and she enlisted the Washington Metropolitan Police to aid her in her crimes. The Washington Times reported that Senator Feinstein requested aid in acquiring assault weapons in the District of Columbia from Police Chief Cathy Lanier,…