A National Disgrace Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared on Fox News today to chastise government officials who used a bulldozer to block people from being able to enter the World War 2 monument. The drastic measure was taken after a group of WW2 veterans stormed the barricades yesterday to visit their monument after it had been…
He fought the law… and he won! Randy Bailey‘s family has owned Bailey’s Brake Service in Mesa, AZ since the early 1970s. Randy purchased the store with his own savings from his father in 1995, and hopes one day to pass the shop, which has earned the loyalty of hundreds of customers, to his own…
AUSTIN, TX – A Travis County grand jury declined to indict Officer Justin Boehm in an incident that occurred May 8th where Boehm shot at a man during a routine traffic stop. Officer Boehm was very clear in his instructions to James Barton, not to exit the vehicle, but Barton could not hear the officer properly….
This could happen to you… Dana Holmes was arrested last May on a DUI charge to which she pleaded guilty. However, she never could have known what would be in store for her when she arrived at the LaSalle County Illinois jail. Holmes is alleging that she was illegally strip searched, when officers reacted to…
Harebrained Nanny State Arrests Woman For Braiding Without a License Isis Brantley is one of the country’s leading African hairbraiders. She works with everyone from Grammy Award-winning artist Erykah Badu to the homeless. But Texas will not permit Isis to teach hairbraiding for a living unless she spends 750 hours in barber school, passes four…
On June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would be fighting a new type of war — a War on Drugs. This war wouldn’t be waged against a foreign enemy thousands of miles away. It would be fought in the streets of urban America, in our backyards, and inside of our…
Government Wants You To Suffer By Ian Huyett In 1969, George B. Hartzog, then-director of the National Park Service, devised a plot to blackmail Congress. Faced with budget cuts, Hartzog refused to cut non-essential personnel, curtail the salaries of his agency’s highest-paid officials, or otherwise show more deference to the taxpayers who employed him. Instead,…
New revelations have emerged in the NSA domestic spying scandal on just how far the agency has gone in collecting information on innocent Americans. The New York Times published today revelations that the NSA has been creating sophisticated graphs of people’s social connections, their locations, travel companions and other personal information. This slide from an…
Police officers in Tulsa, Oklahoma set up a sting to catch a carnival worker in the act of making people happy, and now local Republicans are petitioning to get him released. Carnival worker Frank Feikema of Houston was operating a darts game booth for prizes when an undercover officer approached him and asked what it would…
PIMA COUNTY, AZ – The family of Jose Guerena will receive $3.4 million from police agencies responsible for his death. Guerena was a Marine and an Iraq War veteran, who died when a SWAT team raided his house and killed him upon entry. The combat vet was said to have believed that his house was under…