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By Lina Bryce Union activists who were protesting Air France’s 3,000 proposed layoffs stormed the airline’s headquarters during a meeting on Monday, sending two managers fleeing from the building with shredded clothing, forcing them to climb over a fence to escape the angry mob pursuing them. An Associated Press photographer captured nearly a hundred activists rushing the…
By R. Brownell To make your home more inviting to guests, you put down a carpet, clean up, and maybe light up a scented candle; but you wouldn’t take down your family pictures, right? So what do you do if you want to make your church more inviting? Maybe a paint job, mow the grass,…
Thinking, speaking, and acting freely in an unfree world is often seen as an act of rebellion by those who hold power, privilege, and fealty to the ideas that support a given society’s power structures. And that means there will be much acrimony, harrumphing, and even outright blood-lust displayed by those with power and those…
By R. Brownell 3. Barry Loudermilk Loudermilk isn’t a libertarian by any means, but please bear with me and hear me out. He knows the language of the establishment but owes his allegiance to his conservative constituency. A leader in the Georgia Assembly, he reduced the size of government, stopped privacy invasion by halting provisions…
Libertarian Senate candidate Augustus Sol Invictus is making bizarre headlines after the chairman for the Libertarian Party of Florida, Adrian Wyllie, called attention to Invictus’s questionable activities in an effort to persuade other party leaders to decry him. Journeying on foot, Invictus apparently traveled roughly 2000 miles from central Florida to the Mojave desert in California, spending a…
By R. Brownell “When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die” ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Victims of the Oregon shooting this past week chose to die. “What the Hell?”, you’re probably asking… The consensus of what occurred in the room where nine students were murdered is still in the wind in terms of the…
In recent days, two of my colleagues here at The Libertarian Republic have expressed dissenting views on the controversial video of a mother providing her young son with estrogen patches in his quest to transition from boy to girl. While R. Brownell takes the position that such an act is akin to “child abuse”, Micah J….
By Sarah Gompper On May 7th, 2013, syndicated advice columnist John Rosemond received a cease and desist letter from the office of the Attorney General of Kentucky, Jack Conway, regarding an article he had published in the Lexington Herald-Leader nearly three months earlier. The letter was on the behalf on the Kentucky Board of Examiners…
By R. Brownell 5. I Don’t Give a F@#$ About Quail Sex “Waste”, I hear that word and I automatically think nails to a chalk board. Sometimes when we hear about something that seems at least kind of cool, like space exploration (regardless of the current under-financing of NASA), people usually just jump out with their first gut reaction which is typically “oh cool.” Yet after just…
A Venezuelan Governor Has Suggested Starving Citizens Eat Rocks And Sticks When Oscar Wilde said, “Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others” he may have unintentionally intuited the mindset of future socialist rulers, i.e. socialism always leads to an attenuated “us”–a small clique of ruling elites–not “living for others” but…