Feds Trying To Block Bone Marrow Donors As if the Obamacare rollout wasn’t enough of a health disaster, now the federal government is going after bone marrow donors. [contextly_sidebar id=”062905187e50690dfe4fe6639fe2006b”] Compensating bone marrow donors became a major felony, punishable by up to five years in prison, thanks to the National Organ Transplant Act. To fight back,…
The Freedom Report podcast debuts today and is a new way for The Libertarian Republic readers to get their news. We’ve started a new audio podcast as a way to reach people who are traveling or who just want to get their news in a different way. We’ll be creating these short newscasts for people interested…
Host of The Big Picture Thom Hartmann invited The Libertarian Republic editor to discuss a proposed carbon tax on the energy industry. Hartmann believes that it’s time to start making companies pay in order to pollute. In the six-minute interview below, Austin Petersen confronts Hartmann with the fact that a carbon tax is regressive, meaning…
The FBI arrested Ross Ulbricht, the owner and operator of the famous “Silk Road” website on Tuesday. Ulbricht 29-years old and was living in San Francisco when he was captured for running one of the biggest underground drug markets on the Internet. By some estimates he was making around $80 million in 2 years. Silk…
Financial expert Heather Hughes is back at The Libertarian Republic with her thoughts on how a government shutdown might impact financial markets. She believes that investors are looking at catalysts in anticipation of the fourth quarter of what has been a strong market for stocks. Most people believe some sort of deal will be struck,…
Knock! Knock! Who’s there? Obamacare! Obamacare who? Obama cares so much we just wanted to make sure you weren’t smoking in there! We’ve read the bill! We’ve found out what’s in it! And we hate it! President Obama’s Affordable Care act is a gigantic intrusion into people’s personal lives, possibly even more than his unconstitutional…
Absolutely! if… President Barack Obama‘s Press Secretary Jay Carney took to the podium today to answer questions about the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Carney fielded questions about accusations of increased premium costs from Fox News reported Ed Henry who said, “This report presents it as you’re going to pay less than was projected….
Senator Rand Paul appeared on Fox & Friends this morning to discuss the funding of Obamacare and whether he supports a government shutdown. He believes the House of Representatives should defund the program, and that the president is the one to blame for making it an “all or nothing” decision that could lead to a…
I guess we can wipe visiting Venezuela off our list… The government of Venezuela ordered a temporary takeover of a toilet paper factory due to shortages that have been widespread. The socialist government’s rigid price and currency controls have created disequilibrium in the marketplace and distorted the ability for companies to deliver goods and services….
But… who would build the roads? Keith Farrell Are any taxes voluntary? Certainly not the income tax. Although Senator Harry Reid believed it is. No, almost all tax schemes eventually involve some form of coercion. As Mao Zedong said, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” and there’s nothing that gives a government…