Liar, Liar, pants on fire Newsbusters is out with a video from CNN where Rep. Darrel Issa points at a picture of the Obama Administration’s Press Secretary Jay Carney and blatantly calls him a ‘paid liar’. It’s got to be difficult to juggle so many scandals and remain truthful while still protecting the president from…
“A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.” -Mark Twain vs. “It is difficult for me to imagine what ‘personal liberty’ is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some…
Money of the Future or Fool’s Gold? By Hard Assets Alliance Team By Justin Spittler, Hard Assets Alliance Analyst In the weeks since Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades threatened to plunder the bank deposits of private citizens in order to quell the nation’s banking crisis, both the stock and gold markets seem to have shrugged off…
From the Photography is Not a Crime Blog Carlos Miller is a civil libertarian activist who runs a blog that tracks police misconduct on citizen surveillance cases. Citizens have the constitutional right to record public servants in public doing their jobs and in fact, they should be encouraged to do so for their own safety….
School Choice Is About Education, Not Race by Logan Albright Education policies that promote school, choice are becoming increasingly popular in the United States, as traditional public schools continue to fail to adequately provide for the needs of students. The success of charter schools and other options that give individuals control over their own educations…
The Unintended Consequences of IP Laws by Logan Albright Recently, the House introduced a bill to allow consumers to “unlock” their cellular phones and other wireless devices, a practice which allows customization and the ability to switch carriers without purchasing new hardware. Unlocking was previously permitted under the law until January of this year, and…
“Son do you know why I’m stopping you for” Cause I’m young and I’m black and my hat’s real low? Do I look like a mind reader sir? I don’t know!” Jay-Z Tremaine McMillian learned a hard lesson about what it means to be young, black and armed with an intimidating stare. Turns out that…
No good deed goes unpunished A Fort Worth grandfather is dead when he was shot by police responding to a neighbors burglar alarm that was accidentally tripped. The 72-year-old man heard the alarm and went to check on it when cops gunned him down on his own property. The man never even made it to…
Screw the feminists who are trying to ban porn! by Cathy Reisenwitz UK feminist groups Feminista and Object have begun a campaign to force retailers to stop selling magazines with images of naked and semi-naked women, using the Equality Act of 2010. This is bad news for sex-positive, individualist feminists for two reasons. First, it’s extremely off-putting…
Somebody give this guy a black belt! STOCKTON, CA – A carjacker was stopped cold by UFC fan Abel Simmons who used one of his favorite techniques, “The Guillotine” to choke out the would-be thief. Simmons was in the car with his wife and kids when the attacker came up and started pounding on the…