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100 years ago the United States enacted the Income Tax. It was 1913 and the Progressive Era swung the pendulum away from laissez-faire into a State Corporatism model. A Nanny State. The protector of big business, big capital. Government of the special interests, by the bureaucrats and for the lobbyists. The income tax claimed total…
Juan Williams of Fox News has a new column out proclaiming Senator Rand Paul as the new leader of the Tea Party movement, a movement that rejects central leadership. Although the movement has seemed rudderless since the defeat of the Republican Party in 2012, conservative and libertarian grassroots institutions have maintained mobilization nationwide despite the…
The gender wage pay gap has been the subject of enormous controversy since it was revealed that female employees in the White House earn 18% less than their male colleagues. It was an interesting revelation in light of President Barack Obama‘s campaign claiming that “despite decades of progress, women still make only 77 cents for every…
Glenn Beck talks with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly about how moderate establishment Republicans have betrayed the party’s values and worked against the Tea Party and constitutional conservatives. Glenn Beck expressed hesitance when asked what he thought about Marco Rubio and Chris Christie saying, “I feel about Rand Paul the way I used to feel for…
Dr. Benjamin Carson, an American pediatric neurosurgeon told a crowd how political correctness is killing honest and open debate in the world today. He gave a heartwarming and bold defense of free speech to a group of people including the President at the National Prayer Breakfast meeting in Washington this week. In the video below,…
Data data everywhere, but not a drop for me We’re all familiar with being used. We’re used day in and day out. As an example, you may be aware, Facebook has recently been made a party to a class action law suit for using user data for marketing and advertisements without consent. This is by…
Citizen militias in Mexico are taking the fight to the drug lords personally. In the absence of a government committed to law and order, law abiding citizens become vigilantes to defend life, liberty and property rights. The video below from the Wall Street Journal tells the story of individual citizens fed up with waiting for…
Talk radio host Thom Hartmann brought Austin Petersen, Editor of The Libertarian Republic back on his show Thursday to claim that banning billionaires would restore the American economy from thirty years of “failed Reagonomics”. The progressive host claims that billionaires are “hoarding cash” and their wealth should be redistributed to the lower income brackets. After…
Thom Hartmann invited the editor of The Libertarian Republic news magazine onto his show to debate whether citizens should have a right to free healthcare. Hartmann cited a case where a sick homeless man threatened President Obama’s life as a means to seek free treatment for his illnesses in prison. When the interview started though,…
My recent piece entitled “Dinner with a Nazi” generated extraordinary amounts of controversy when it was unveiled several days ago. No surprise with a title like that. However, the criticism that I received for it was not that it wasn’t true, but that Hitler really was correct. Some people have been telling me to shut…