Sounds of the South The Library of Congress teamed up with the Smithsonian Museum to attempt to discover what the famous Confederate “Rebel Yell” might have sounded like. From the 1900’s to the 1940’s, Confederate veterans were asked to record the distinctive yell that sent shockwaves of fear into their Northern brothers they sought to…
What happens when bad science meets moral panic? In the 1980’s government officials warned the US about an approaching epidemic of “crack babies” that would plague us for generations. That never happened, but it didn’t stop the government from cracking down on the war on drugs and incarcerating citizens at an unbelievable rate. The New…
Officer Doug Martin was fired after tasing a senior citizen with Alzheimers in his nursing home. Police were called after a nurse reported a patient had hit his roommate, a nurse and an assistant. Officers entered the ward to find James Howard sitting in his chair totally naked except for socks. The man refused the…
Former KGB agent has nothing on America’s Community Organizer by Leslie Marshall In the past twenty-four hours, I have seen an Op Ed by a former KGB agent who now runs Russia. And ‘runs’ is exactly what I mean. Vladimir Putin, a Stalinist type of leader, was praised by some like Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh…
Mr. Gorbachev, tear off this crust! After the fall of Communism, Former leader of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev celebrated the fall of Communism and the embrace of more Western-style Capitalism by appearing in a Pizza Hut commercial in the 1980’s. Gorbachev would preside over the failed state as it transitioned from totalitarian communism, to a…
Are boys being punished for being boys? Christina Hoff Sommers is a former feminist who appeared on MSNBC to argue that school is hostile to young boys and that modern culture is slanted against them. She argues that schools are failing to make a distinction between aggression and high-spirited play. She makes the point that…
Human Civilization Now Projected Beyond the Heliosheath! The Voyager 1 Spacecraft was launched on September 5, 1977 from Florida’s Cape Canaveral as part of a twin launch with Voyager 2, who left sixteen days before. Their journey has taken them on explorations of Saturn and Jupiter, then was extended to planets beyond. In recent years they…
No Justice? No peace. Officer Eric Faust received an eight-day suspension after his police Chief Jim Pugel discovered he used excessive force and escalated a confrontation on Oct. 6, 2012. The Seattle Police Department is responding to issues raised by the Department of Justice in 2011 that there has been a pattern of constitutional violations regarding the use of force. On…
“No faith in government! Great faith in God!” by Ian Huyett This is part 3 of 3 columns written about why Christians make great libertarians. The first two parts are linked at the bottom and The Libertarian Republic will soon be debuting the opinions of libertarians from many other faiths, as well as no…
Rebel filmmakers seeking distribution for new movie get a leg up from Hercules, the Legendary Sorbo by J. Neil Schulman When in July 2010 international superstar Kevin Sorbo (Hercules, The Legendary Journeys) agreed both to be an executive producer and to take the role of Nobel-laureate economist Dr. Martin Vreeland, in an indie movie production…