Life is beautiful! We at The Libertarian Republic love a story with a happy ending. That’s why we are so pleased to be able to bring you a followup to our story from the other day where a homeless man returned a satchel containing $2,300 in cash and $40k in travelers checks. Read: Homeless man…
Thank you, Captain Obvious! A superintendent of the Little Rock, Arkansas public schools has written a memo to teachers and staff advising them to wear underwear. No one knows where the policy is coming from and if there were any specific incidents that have occurred. The admin just decided to write-up a dress code, including…
At a campaign rally in Dresden for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a mischievous member of the Pirate Party flew and crash landed a drone at the Chancellor’s feet. The Pirate took pictures and surveillance video of Merkel, hovering the robot just feet from her as she smiled. Her defense minister seemed not quite so pleased….
Cure for amputees? Straight from the horse’s mouth! Paul Halpern of Florida was feeding his horse one day when the animal mistook his finger for a cookie and bit it clean off. Halpern managed to recover his fingertip and put it on a popsicle while he made his way to the emergency room but it…
St. Homeless Guy of Bostonia! A homeless man in Boston returned a backpack he found containing $2,400, $39,500 in travelers checks and a passport. The man found police and notified them in front of a TJ Maxx store. He reported his find and officers took the backpack and reported it to the news. It was…
Sounds of the South The Library of Congress teamed up with the Smithsonian Museum to attempt to discover what the famous Confederate “Rebel Yell” might have sounded like. From the 1900’s to the 1940’s, Confederate veterans were asked to record the distinctive yell that sent shockwaves of fear into their Northern brothers they sought to…
Mr. Gorbachev, tear off this crust! After the fall of Communism, Former leader of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev celebrated the fall of Communism and the embrace of more Western-style Capitalism by appearing in a Pizza Hut commercial in the 1980’s. Gorbachev would preside over the failed state as it transitioned from totalitarian communism, to a…
Are boys being punished for being boys? Christina Hoff Sommers is a former feminist who appeared on MSNBC to argue that school is hostile to young boys and that modern culture is slanted against them. She argues that schools are failing to make a distinction between aggression and high-spirited play. She makes the point that…
Rebel filmmakers seeking distribution for new movie get a leg up from Hercules, the Legendary Sorbo by J. Neil Schulman When in July 2010 international superstar Kevin Sorbo (Hercules, The Legendary Journeys) agreed both to be an executive producer and to take the role of Nobel-laureate economist Dr. Martin Vreeland, in an indie movie production…
Moo’ve over pasteurized milk! Raw milk enthusiasts have reason to celebrate after legislation was passed allowing the sale of unpasteurized milk. The law allows for monthly sales of up to 500 gallons of raw milk on farms, but there are some rules. You can not sell the milk at farmer’s markets or at retail outlets….