Makin’ it rain, son! A Massachusetts man bought a couple of lottery tickets to break a $100 bill and won $10 million. The Associated Press reported that he had just wanted to get some change to buy some sandwiches with, but now he can send someone else out to get them. The man will claim…
By Michael Bastasch How old is too old for employment data? Well, the Environmental Protection Agency has been using decades old economic data to analyze regulations, according to a government watchdog report. The Government Accountability Office reported the EPA “estimated effects of its regulations on employment, in part, using a study that… was based on data…
By Blake Neff Published: July 8, 2014 A group of tech leaders are urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to spend billions expanding access to wireless Internet in the nation’s schools and libraries. The group of 41 leaders, which includes Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Star Wars director George Lucas sent a letter…
By Jonah Bennett Marijuana stores across the state of Washington will finally be able to open their doors Tuesday after obtaining licenses during the early hours of Monday morning, ABC News reports. In total, 24 stores were granted licenses on Monday morning from the Liquor Control Board to operate in Washington. It has been a long…
By Brendan Bordelon art by Ralph Steadman MSNBC host Krystal Ball suggested Tuesday that George Orwell’s famously anti-communist novel “Animal Farm” is an allegory for capitalism run amok — immediately setting the hair of literature professors across the country on fire. Ball spoke on MSNBC’s “The Cycle” about the recent release of French economist Thomas…
The Libertarian Republic is celebrating the new redesign of our website by giving away for free a replica of George Washington’s famous flintlock pistol! “Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.” -Washington George Washington’s pistol was made in 1748 by English manufacturer John Hawkins who was one of the…
DURHAM, NC – Police in Durham, North Carolina have stated that the 17-year-old who was shot to death in the back of patrol car, while handcuffed, inflicted the fatal wound himself. Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez said that even though Jesús Huerta was searched and then handcuffed behind his back, he was somehow able…
“No republic is safe that tolerates a privileged class, or denies to any of its citizens equal rights and equal means to maintain them.” BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS DECEMBER 1ST, 1866 Seldom has any legislative body been the subject of a solicitude more intense, or of aspirations more sincere and ardent. There are the best of…
Why would you openly wish bad things on people who are heavily armed? Poor Eddie Vedder. He sucks! I never liked his ‘music’. He can’t sing and he has no real talent. Somehow he became very popular, but I’m not sure why. People mistook his mewling belches into the microphone as some sort of attempt…
Felons! Felons everywhere! Cody Chitwood is another in a long line of victims created by “zero tolerance” laws that ensnare innocent citizens in a legal net everyday in this country. Chitwood accidentally left his tackle box with his fishing knives in his vehicle at Lassiter High School in Cobb County, Georgia. Georgia law states that…