Senator Rand Paul appeared on John Stossel’s show on Fox Business to declare that the sequestration cuts so feared by the establishment political class “don’t go far enough.” Stossel starts off with a monologue about how the older generation is ripping off the young through entitlement programs. He mocks politicians that call the sequester a…
Libertarians criticize conservative and social democrat policy because of the special relationship afforded to corporations economically. Some of those corporations include the motion picture industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the banking and finance sector and the industrial products sector. Food is subsidized via corn subsidies. These amount to small giveaways to farmers with specific instructions like NOT…
“First you win the argument, then you win the vote.” -Margaret Thatcher Fox Business anchor John Stossel invited former Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson along with David Boaz to discuss the aftermath of the 2012 elections. Why didn’t libertarians win in 2012? Johnson discussed the gap between people who self identify as small “l” libertarians…
The Porcupine Festival put on by the Free State Project in Keane, New Hampshire is a raucous gathering of liberty activists that meets annually for fun, food and freedom fighting. Every year the liberty loving participants hold events, lectures and sell merchandise related to the cause of freedom and civil rights. Last year the editor…
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…
(New York, NY) Euro Pacific Capital President Peter Schiff appeared on Fox Business Monday to debate inflation and gold prices with host Stuart Varney. The segment involved a spirited back and forth between the two as Schiff responded to Varney’s challenge that there is no inflation in Japan after their hyperexpansionary monetary policy. Schiff described inflation as…
(Ilion – NY) 1000 jobs in upstate New York are in jeopardy as a result of Governor Andrew Cuomo‘s latest firearm restriction bill, the SAFE Act passed by the state legislature. The Remington factory in the city of Ilion is slated to take a big hit due to the legislation that imposes the toughest anti…
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…
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,…
Cartels are something I usually associate with crooked politicians or the mob. But did you know our northern neighbor has a maple syrup cartel? Apparently Canada is to maple syrup what Saudi Arabia is to oil in that Canada produces up to 78 percent of the world’s maple syrup. More specifically it’s Canada’s Federation of…