Author: Austin Petersen

A Muslim in France was video recorded as he flipped out on diners at a cafe who were eating during Ramadan. It’s common for Muslims to fast during the holiday. The man was seen grabbing a microphone from a singer at the restaurant and screaming “People can’t eat because it’s the Ramadan,” before he flipped…

By Rachel Stoltzfoos The Obama administration unveiled new rules Wednesday to rid the country of racially segregated neighborhoods by directing cities and towns to set goals for reducing segregation, and then regularly report their progress to the feds. Communities nationwide will be given a series of questions designed to help them figure out whether racial bias is…

By Blake Neff A Twitter account tied to the online hacktivist group Anonymous may have foretold Wednesday’s sudden outage of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in a tweet Tuesday. The curious tweet was made by the account @YourAnonNews, the largest Twitter account tied to the group, with over 1.4 million followers. The tweet, made at 11:45…

By Blake Neff Wall Street was blindsided Wednesday when the New York Stock Exchange abruptly announced that it was suspending trading due to a technical glitch. Now, a tweet from Eric Scott Hunsader, the founder of the real-time transaction data company Nanex, has provided a handy visual indicator about just how dramatic the hiccup is…

By Blake Neff The stock market of China is in a free fall, and critics both inside and outside the country are accusing its Communist government of doing virtually everything wrong in its efforts to contain the crisis, risking the creation of Great Depression-level crash. The implosion began about a month ago, when the Shanghai Composite Index closed at…

The Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma in a 7-2 decision ordered the monument of the 10 Commandments be removed from the grounds of the Capitol. Governor Mary Fallin has refused to remove it while her and several legislators work to amend the constitution in such a way as to allow the state sponsoring…

By Jonah Bennett Army plans indicate military officials will cut 40,000 troops from the force over a period of two years. Neither domestic nor foreign outposts are exempt from the cuts, according to a document obtained by USA Today. The end result would be a total of 450,000 troops. Any lower than this number, and the Army may not succeed…

Hello ladies and gentlemen! Thank you for being a reader of The Libertarian Republic news website. I started this site four years ago, in hopes that one day it would grow from a single person’s blog, into the voice of the liberty movement. Today, 43 million pageviews later, it has become one of the most…

By Blake Neff A new report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has found that the massive investment in grants and student loans by the federal government is a major contributor to the unbridled growth in the cost of attending college. College tuition rates have consistently risen faster than inflation for some 25 years. One theory for…