Government Easing Barriers To Banking For Legal Marijuana Businesses by Rob Uhls The Treasury department released a new set of guidelines on Friday to help make it safer for banks to do business with the new marijuana industry. The guidelines consist of rules like ensuring the business is properly licensed in the State, as well as account…
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…
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…
Everyone loves a batch of fresh-baked cookies or a cake right out of the oven. But Minnesota has slammed the oven door on bakers trying to make a home-based business out of satisfying Minnesotans’ sweet tooth. Jane Astramecki, a home baker and graduate of Le Cordon Bleu, sells her goods at farmers’ markets in Eagan…
With Liberty, And Justice For None WASHINGTON, D.C. – On July 7th, 2012, D.C. police blocked off an entire neighborhood while 30 officers in full tactical gear aggressively raided a home of suspected criminal—a very dangerous criminal, one would suspect from the show of force. It turns out the police had no reason to believe…
The Uber Wars: How D.C. Tried To Kill A Great New Ride Technology “A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.” -Ayn Rand Bureaucrats in the District of Columbia fought tooth and nail to keep Uber, the popular…
People Can Do Amazing Things When They Don’t Have Someone Saying They Can’t Famed black economist Thomas Sowell never minces words when it comes to race. His career has been devoted to debunking the race myths and liberal legends of welfare redistribution that do nothing but harm minorities. His new column today describes how to…
There comes a time when every man must choose if he will bow, or if he will stand! MOUNT PISGAH, N.C. – National Park Service rangers blocked the entrance to Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway southwest of Asheville, N.C. The company that runs the facility on federal-leased land had defied the government’s shutdown…
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Shifting Tides in the Grand Old Party… Reason Magazine’s Matt Welch appeared on Fox Business to discuss the battle in the US congress over whether to attack the government of Syria. Host Stuart Varney welcomed Welch thusly: “Matt Welch is with me. He’s a libertarian. The libertarians are very much part of this debate, and…
“The great object is, that every man be armed. […] Every one who is able may have a gun.”– Patrick Henry, speech of June 14, 1788 (Detroit – USA) An attempted robbery in Detroit, Michigan last week ended without casualties when a security guard at a tax preparation business wielded superior firepower over his handgun…