#1 – ObamaCare’s Individual Mandate In a short while, citizens will receive threats from the IRS for not signing up for expensive health insurance they did not want. Millions will be forced to pay $95 or 1% of their income, but that will jump to $325 and 2% next year. One thing is certain: Barack…
In what is being referred to as the beginnings of a “brilliant eugenics plan,” Dekalb police have assassinated on-site a 27-year-old, unarmed man for being naked and mentally disturbed. When this criteria has now become the new standard for fatally shooting a person, we must ask ourselves what the hell has happened to us? From The…
Libertarian feminist Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers is no friend to liberal academics, as the latest planned boycott of an upcoming UCLA appearance still demonstrates, but one cannot deny her influence and public recognition on the issues of feminism and political correctness in the current political sphere. She makes no apologies regarding her opinion, which is…
by Josh Guckert 1. “The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.” One of the favorite arguments of modern liberals is that the Great Depression was somehow caused by an “unfettered” free market in the 1920s. Needless to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: No image more clearly represents America and its ideals than the Statue of Liberty. Located in the Manhattan borough of New York City, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and given as a gift to the US from France on October 28, 1886. The statue is of the Roman goddess Libertas, and inscribed on the…
Representative Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) recently introduced legislation to restrict the 1033 Program that allows the Pentagon to transfer surplus military equipment to local police departments. This bill arose in light of last year’s Ferguson controversy, which has raised many concerns on the militarization of police forces. The bill was originally introduced in the past congress, but it…
In May, 2013, Senator Carl Levin dragged Apple CEO Tim Cook in front of a Senate investigations committee to be shamed for the corporation’s “gimmickry” tax practices. Rand Paul blasted the committee for bringing Apple to a “show trial,” calling the tax code “bizarre and byzantine” while pleading with fellow lawmakers to consider his bill…
WASHINGTON, DC – After receiving more than 80,000 mostly-negative comments about the proposed rule to ban common 5.56x45mm surplus ammunition, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) announced today that they are not planning on issuing a final framework for the proposed rule. Although the idea of banning one of the most common…
by Josh Guckert 1. “If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.” Oh, how the political winds have changed in America. While millions…
Once upon a time, Barack Obama had some libertarian supporters. He really knew how to talk about liberty subjects in the aftermath of George W. Bush’s big government presidency. Ultimately, you can find “libertarian” quotes by most presidents and presidential hopefuls, because some libertarian ideas are tremendously popular, and they appeal to broad crowds of…