Legislating Hemp by Mikael Sandstrom The Bluegrass State has introduced a bill that would allow hemp production according to Kentucky Senate Bill 50. The usage of hemp has been widely known as an industrial product, biofuel, it has medicinal and nutritional values and it’s an amazingly strong fiber! The reason…
Senator Rand Paul appeared on John Stossel’s show on Fox Business to declare that the sequestration cuts so feared by the establishment political class “don’t go far enough.” Stossel starts off with a monologue about how the older generation is ripping off the young through entitlement programs. He mocks politicians that call the sequester a…
Libertarians criticize conservative and social democrat policy because of the special relationship afforded to corporations economically. Some of those corporations include the motion picture industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the banking and finance sector and the industrial products sector. Food is subsidized via corn subsidies. These amount to small giveaways to farmers with specific instructions like NOT…
“I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.” ― Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience “We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious…
A Short Note on the Sequester [dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]hile Washington continues into full-blown, clinical psychological breakdown over the so-called “sequester,” (ever notice how their stupid plans always need a ridiculous name? Like “tranche?”) I have to admit, I’m somewhat pleased. While Democrats complain that the “draconian cuts” will gut the nation’s classrooms of teachers, and Republicans…
“Self defense is not an option” says one Obama supporter… Video below CBS Atlanta 46
Free market champion and modern day abolitionist Deneen Borelli has a new column out discussing the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, comparing him to Dr. Ben Carson the neurosurgeon whose verbal takedown of President Obama has been viewed over two million times online. In her article she writes about Carson: “His amazing success story…
Blaze TV star Glenn Beck invited prominent grassroots libertarian leaders Jack Hunter, Jacob Hornberger and Zach Slayback on his show today to discuss the state of the freedom movement. While libertarians and Beck have fueded in the past, Beck appears to be making very real and honest overtures to the limited government movement to convince…
Glenn Beck has been giving libertarians an earful in recent weeks after a show where he called out the “fascists” and “nazis” of the movement who are opposed to anyone claiming the title of “libertarian” that don’t meet certain subjective criteria. Beck is right that many in the libertarian movement are what economist and Anarcho-Capitalist…
If a state is repressing the natural rights of her citizens, what does it matter whether it’s a local state government or the federal government? The repression of a citizens natural rights is wrong no matter what level of government does it. So if a state government created a law that denied citizens free speech,…