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Would Amnesty Really Be All That Bad For The GOP? Senator Ted Cruz lashed out at Republicans for supporting a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Cruz thinks a bipartisan push to grant amnesty would destroy Republicans chances at retaking the senate in 2014. “Right now, Republican leadership in both chambers is aggressively urging members…
Phil Robertson, star of the popular A&E show Duck Dynasty was suspended after his comments to GQ magazine about homosexuality. UPDATE: TMZ has reported that Robertson’s views on homosexuals have been known for years. See below a sermon he gave in 2010 calling gay people shameful, perverse, heartless, senseless god haters. If A&E knew this…
CBS recently featured a segment on their “news” show 60 Minutes which was essentially a glowing review of the NSA’s domestic spying programs. The piece was hosted by “investigative reporter” John Miller, who started with full disclosure by stating that he once worked in the office of the Director of National Intelligence. The theory was…
Dissident Feminist Camille Paglia‘s new oped in Time Magazine has the feminist world’s metaphorical panties in a bunch for claiming: “It’s a Man’s World, and it Always Will Be.” Known as a feminist “bete noir,” Paglia proudly declares that the modern economy is a “male epic, in which women have found a productive role,” but then…
Free people should be allowed free expression and free association by Donna Rachel Edmunds Yesterday the editor of The Libertarian Republic Austin Petersen wrote about Julie Borowski, the ‘Token Libertarian girl’ and her video about businesses who discriminate against gay couples. Borowski has come to the conclusion that businesses should be allowed to refuse service on the…
Deputy consul general at the Indian Consulate Devyani Khobragade was busted by the feds for allegedly mistreating her female nanny. India’s 39-year-old deputy consul general for commercial, political, economic, and women’s affairs is in trouble for allegedly helping to submit faked documents to the US State Department about how much she was paying the woman. [contextly_sidebar id=”0d5f2d8011087dd8c671235805e8779b”] The…
Julie Borowski may be named the “Token” Libertarian Girl, but her willingness to take on the toughest topics in politics makes her anything but. “The Token” takes on the question of whether or not businesses should be allowed to discriminate against gay people. Borowski looks at the case in Colorado where a bakery refused to…
(This article originally ran at thecollegian. Ian Huyett is a new graduate from K-State.) Earlier this week, another writer for the Collegian argued that conservatives face bigotry in college. A number of progressives responded by proving her right. To be sure, where ideological fairness is concerned, K-State is a good school: one I wouldn’t hesitate…
TIME Magazine released a video chronicling Texas Senator Ted Cruz‘s (R) meteoric rise to national prominence in 2013. The segment features Cruz at his most rancorous, irking Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) over gun control and rankling fellow Republicans who disapprove of his take-no-prisoners approach to governance. The video is important in light of the recent attacks…
Can a video game teach people to reject capitalism in favor of more progressive (aka “socialist”) values? That’s a question posed by a recent article from a writer from The Guardian. The article proposes a game devoid of any capitalism, eschewing a selfish ‘slash-and-grab economy’ found in typical games for something the author…