Every Crisis Is An Opportunity For Plunder The Financial Times is reporting that a major U.S. bank has begun stuffing its automatic teller machines with extra cash. The source reports that the banks fear a possible bank run from panicked depositors due to the national brinkmanship being played out by the government’s debt ceiling. But…
When Senator John McCain (R-AZ) isn’t dining with the President, or opposing Senator Ted Cruz‘s (R-TX) push to stop Obamacare, he’s chastising his own party over the government shutdown. The failed 2008 presidential candidate has seen his approval ratings sink lower and lower ever since his unwise bid for the White House. In a speech on…
And the blind shall see… Ian Tibbetts had a partial restoration of his sight when he underwent a radical surgery that involved removing a tooth… and implanting it in his eye. Tibbetts had suffered an eye injury 16 years ago when a piece of scrap metal struck him in the right eye – ripping his cornea….
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Reps John Lewis (D-GA) and Charles Rangel (D-NY) were arrested at 4:15 p.m. today in front of the U.S. Capitol building during the Camino Americano Rally for Immigrant Dignity and Respect. The rally occurred today and featured speakers like Julian Bond, Lila Downs and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Reps Lewis and Rangel were arrested…
“Good! Now fix a pothole.” The United States government is suspending funding to Egypt in the coming days. The U.S. spends $1.3 billion every year, which is mostly military spending and goes back to American contractors. The instability of the Egyptian government after their recent coup has forced American policymakers to finally recant sending foreign…
Drunken Authority We like to complain in the United States about our taser happy, itchy trigger-fingered police officers, but U.S. officers can’t hold a candle to the rampant corruption of the authorities in countries like Venezuela or Paraguay. At The Libertarian Republic we report on those who abuse their authority, and quite often those imbued with…
Get sick? Get dead! UPDATE: Sources pointed out to TLR that the woman originally called for an ambulance, but police arrived instead. GEORGIA – Lamar Roberson is dead after his girlfriend called the police to help her when he began to suffer negative affects of too much diabetes medication. Officers arrived and killed Roberson when…
From Freedom To Fascism NEVADA – Citizens of Lake Mead are scrambling this week to find living accommodations after the federal government determined they would have to leave their private homes because they sit on federal land. 77-year-old Joyce Spencer and her 80-year-old husband Ralph have been spending their time at the ice cream store,…
We can’t afford to find missing children! The government has shutdown our Amber Alert system website! But, luckily if we do find them, they’ll still be able to enjoy the Cookie Monster on TV! (UPDATE: Thankfully they reopened the Amber Alert website) TLR has learned that the administration shelled out $445 million cookies to the…
Detroit Today is the Dream of Progressivism Harry Veyser is an economist at the University of Detroit Mercy. He believes that Detroit worked best when it was bottom up. Veyser talks about how Detroit used to have the highest standard of living in the world. There was no income tax, no inheritance tax and all…