JPMorgan Hit Hard The Justice Department will announce the details today concerning a settlement with mortgage giant JP Morgan for $13 billion. Questionable lending practices spurred massive state and federal investigation into the banking megalith after the housing market collapse in 2007. It is charged that JP Morgan misled borrowers and sold high-risk mortgage securities…
Do you remember the tale of Goldilocks? The little blonde tyrant that broke into the bears’ home, ate their porridge and slept in their beds? When I was a nose picking, self-righteous 6-year-old, I was so infuriated that this girl thought it was okay to eat someone else’s porridge and sleep in someone else’s beds….
PARIS, FRANCE – A suspected lone gunman is on the loose in Paris after shooting up the offices of the newspaper “Liberation”. One photographer’s assistant was shot and is said to be fighting for his life. [contextly_sidebar id=”7fc91f0b1e42b15954470dfa4c224411″] CCTV images showed the man who fired several blasts before he shouted at a senior editor, “Next time, I…
DALLAS, November 15th, 2013 – Another absurd article defending the Affordable Care Act’s poor design highlights the desperate politicization of the ObamaCare crisis. Susan Reimer, columnist for the Baltimore Sun, asserts that Fox News’ John Stossel is only highlighting the scheme’s dependency on coercing young, healthy adults into participation because ObamaCare remains undefeated. By exposing…
Shut up and take our money! A group of entrepreneurs has built a new product that aims to revolutionize the way the average consumers make purchases. The Coin is a magnetized swipe card that replaces credit cards at the checkout counter by consolidating them all onto on simple-to-use card. The device is used by simply…
WASHINGTON, D.C. President Barack Obama appeared today to say that apparently buying health insurance online is “complicated”. Obama announced that he will attempt to make good on his promise by allowing insurance plans to be extended for another year. The plans were cancelled due to new requirements in the Affordable Care Act that made them…
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” -Bastiat CARACAS, VENEZUELA – President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro ordered the occupation of an electronic goods chain in a…
PORTLAND, OR – Samantha Hess knew that there would be a market for her business idea that charges customers $60 a pop to cuddle with her for an hour. Hess reportedly came up with the idea after seeing people holding up signs and giving away free hugs to passersby. Another man held a sign that said “deluxe…
Host of The Big Picture Thom Hartmann invited The Libertarian Republic editor to discuss a proposed carbon tax on the energy industry. Hartmann believes that it’s time to start making companies pay in order to pollute. In the six-minute interview below, Austin Petersen confronts Hartmann with the fact that a carbon tax is regressive, meaning…
A video is circulating that purports to be the reason that Judge Andrew Napolitano was fired from Fox. The truth is more interesting than most people might believe. How do you get fired from Fox? I wouldn’t know. For one because I worked for Fox Business, not Fox News. My buddy Joe Muto the “Fox…