Harebrained Nanny State Arrests Woman For Braiding Without a License Isis Brantley is one of the country’s leading African hairbraiders. She works with everyone from Grammy Award-winning artist Erykah Badu to the homeless. But Texas will not permit Isis to teach hairbraiding for a living unless she spends 750 hours in barber school, passes four…
On June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would be fighting a new type of war — a War on Drugs. This war wouldn’t be waged against a foreign enemy thousands of miles away. It would be fought in the streets of urban America, in our backyards, and inside of our…
They held the man on a $70K bond. They let the girl go free. CHARLESTON, WV — Nicholas County authorities charged a man and his daughter with incest in spite of the fact that they aren’t related by blood and both are legally consenting adults. Authorities cited the inclusive definition of “daughter” in state law….
Government Wants You To Suffer By Ian Huyett In 1969, George B. Hartzog, then-director of the National Park Service, devised a plot to blackmail Congress. Faced with budget cuts, Hartzog refused to cut non-essential personnel, curtail the salaries of his agency’s highest-paid officials, or otherwise show more deference to the taxpayers who employed him. Instead,…
No good reason not to have a jolly good shutdown! by Raheem Kassam Though I’d like to bring you more conservative and libertarian stuff from here across the pond (in “Merry Old England), one Huffington Post USA article caught my eye just now, and I thought it served as a great reminder of how the Left-wing media…
New revelations have emerged in the NSA domestic spying scandal on just how far the agency has gone in collecting information on innocent Americans. The New York Times published today revelations that the NSA has been creating sophisticated graphs of people’s social connections, their locations, travel companions and other personal information. This slide from an…
Nation descends into freedom FLASH UPDATE: This is a breaking story and the speech from the president is ongoing. Keep checking this link for more updates. Or check here for live tweets. President Barack Obama appeared in an address to the nation today to concede that the government of the United States will likely shut…
Police officers in Tulsa, Oklahoma set up a sting to catch a carnival worker in the act of making people happy, and now local Republicans are petitioning to get him released. Carnival worker Frank Feikema of Houston was operating a darts game booth for prizes when an undercover officer approached him and asked what it would…
Harry Reid: Fiscal Conservative? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was not a fan of increasing the debt to $9T in the heady days of 2006. In this video he sounds practically libertarian! We’ll look forward to seeing if he still has this same opinion when the next debt ceiling fight emerges. The last time we…
PIMA COUNTY, AZ – The family of Jose Guerena will receive $3.4 million from police agencies responsible for his death. Guerena was a Marine and an Iraq War veteran, who died when a SWAT team raided his house and killed him upon entry. The combat vet was said to have believed that his house was under…