#1. “You didn’t build that.” President Obama was here paraphrasing socialist Democrat and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. Warren’s speech was a full throated dismissal of private property and embrace of collectivism over individual liberty. While Warren’s defense of big government was artful, Obama’s statement was a clumsy rehash which inflamed the business and free market communities…
Local governments are known to pursue revenue opportunities by any means necessary even if it means misrepresenting their own laws. In Grosse Ile, Michigan, fine-happy bureaucrats have doled out numerous threats and tickets to a resident. Why? He parked is RV in the wrong place on his property. Unfortunately for Thomas Buckhart, the township’s request…
by Jose Nino Currently, Venezuela is one of the most notable case studies of the failures of socialism and interventionist economic models. An oil rich country that enjoyed high levels of economic growth and stability from Post World War II to the 1980s, it is now descending into veritable Banana Republic status. Plagued by high…
by Micah Fleck The Koch brothers are some of the most despised Americans in the world – especially coming from (but not always limited to) the American left. Among many other things, the Kochs (the richest New Yorkers alive) have been accused of fixing elections by uplifting their pet candidates of choice via insanely high political…
by: Josh Guckert “Every morning, as soon as the sun rises, let all the bells in every church be set ringing; and if that is not sufficient?, let cannon be fired in every street, to wake the sluggards effectually, and make them open their eyes to see their true interest,” said Benjamin Franklin sarcastically in…
The founding fathers of the United States were the definition of preeminent badassery. This list of their most epic quotes is sure to inspire the hell out of you and send any redcoats packing! #1. “The time is now near at hand, which must probably determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves;…
By Jonah Bennett On Thursday, a group of sheriffs announced that Colorado is facing yet another suit over its experiment with marijuana legalization. “Big Marijuana must be feeling the heat, and I’m sure they are lawyering up,” Kevin A. Sabet, president of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, said in a statement. This time, the suit’s been filed in federal…
John Stossel was born in Chicago 68 years ago today. In his life, he has gone from liberal consumer reporter to libertarian hero, along the way shifting the dialogue from the ways in which government must protect us, to the ways in which we must be protected from government. After graduating from Princeton in 1969,…
Hillary Clinton Offers Lesson In Irony [dropcap size=small]E[/dropcap]arlier this week, it was discovered that Hillary Clinton had been using a personal email account at the State Department to conduct government business. This may have violated federal requirements that official communications be kept on record. Following Hillary Clinton’s lesson in regards to the Obama administration’s vow of transparency, she has…
by Josh Guckert 1. “Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” Though Reagan is remembered in modern times as a crusader in foreign policy, it was his friendship with Mikhail Gorbachev that successfully helped to “thaw” the Cold War. In this quote, Reagan decries those…