If you ask a 10-year-old what constitutes a threat to national security, he’ll talk about threats to the border, bombs, mass killings, things like that. But if you ask the Department of Homeland Security, they’ll say it’s counterfeit underwear, music, and lipstick being sold at a flea market. Its rationale for this strange view [...]
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Homeland Security Raids Clothes Sold at Flea Market
If you ask a 10-year-old what constitutes a threat to national security, he’ll talk about threats to the border, bombs, mass killings, things like that. But if you ask the Department of Homeland Security, they’ll say it’s counterfeit underwear, music, and lipstick being sold at a flea market. Its rationale for this strange view [...]
Seniors get the TSA thug treatment, lose $300
Seniors get the TSA runaround, lose $300 | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com 95-year-0ld retired Air Force Major and his 85-year-old wife get the full-body pat-down terrorist treatment from TSA thugs… and get $300 in cash stolen, then get threatened when they complain.
The Difference Between Government and State
The power of government should not be vested in the state, which is a group of people who are exempt from the rules that govern the rest of us. You can’t solve a problem if you’re not aware of it, and you can’t defend against attacks on your liberties if you don’t know where they come [...]
Freedom and the War on Drugs
To reduce drug use, we must legalize drugs If you’re concerned about the epidemic of drug use, you might want to ask yourself why it has gotten worse since we started the War on Drugs in the 1970s. If you’d like to actually reduce the incidence of drug use and the crime associate with [...]
The State Food Police
The state growth of parental authority State officials in North Carolina are inspecting lunch boxes, and if they don’t like what the parents packed for their own children, they’re forcing the tots to eat state-approved food from the school cafeteria. Judging from the comments at the bottom of the article, people are rightly outraged. One [...]
Government “Monitoring” News and Social Media
Trading Liberty for “Security” According to a report at Infowars, our taxes will pay for the government to monitor Internet news and social media outlets 24/7/365. General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems was awarded the contract to monitor news media web sites, as well as social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The Department of Homeland Security [...]
Why the RINOs Want Romney
Why Mitt Romney is the choice of the Republican establishment If you’re a Tea Party person, you’re probably disgusted with Romney as the choice of the Republican establishment, but it’s not hard to understand why they want him; in a Romney-Obama matchup, it’s win-win for the statists. If Romney wins the election, nothing much will [...]
Why the Tea Party Should Support Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy
National Security is too important to entrust to the state Ron Paul is rising in the polls, and the only thing holding him back in the Tea Party is his unpopular foreign policy. But let’s take a look at it — he advocates simply that the state should be non-interventionist in its foreign policy. This [...]
Top Five Reasons to KEEP ObamaCare – LOL
Top Five Reasons to KEEP ObamaCare — LOL By a wide margin, Americans don’t want ObamaCare and never did. It is such a wretched piece of legislation that the government wouldn’t let us read it before it was passed. In fact, it is so bad that our jolly rulers exempted themselves from its requirements. Most [...]
Seven Things About the Government that May Shock You
Seven Things About the Government that May Shock You It has been said that if the government is the solution, it was a stupid question. Yet one of the government’s biggest tricks is making people believe they can’t do without it. If you’re one of them, maybe you’re not aware of these seven shocking things [...]
Complete Government Takeover of All Broadcast Media
Today the government held the first test of the Emergency Alert System, the national warning system that replaced the Emergency Broadcast System. If you could have heard the botched test, it would have sounded just like the EBS tests we’ve heard all our lives, but there is a big difference. The EBS was operated by [...]
Cha-CHING! Yet Another Internet Tax
The taxation tsunami goes on. Remember the minuscule federal budget cuts of fiscal year 2011? They amounted to $38 billion, a mere four days’ worth of spending. (Actually, it was only $352 million, but who’s counting?) Well, whatever savings you thought you’d realize, they’ve found a way to recapture it — a new tax on [...]
A Tea Party Response to the Occupiers
The occupiers are barking up the wrong tree. The problem isn’t capitalism — it’s government power. They’re right to complain about big bank bailouts, but capitalists can’t do this in a free market. Only the government can steal money from taxpayers and give it to the banks. ACORN’s involvement in organizing the Occupiers is proof [...]
The Key to Prosperity is Liberty
The surest way to decrease the quality of a product or service, and to increase its price, is to give the government monopoly control of it. We tend to think the state is indispensable — a “necessary evil” — and have a hard time imagining our existence without it. But that’s only because we’ve never [...]
“Opposite Day” in Fairfax County
“Daddy makes mistakes. We tried our best. I made a mistake by not knowing enough.” via Treehouse faces demolition in dispute with Fairfax County – WTOP.com. TAL Commentary: Mark Grapin did something every dad should admire — he built a treehouse for his two growing boys. But his dealings with the government turned into an [...]
The Real Problem on Wall Street is Government Power
The millionaires and billionaires are being targeted for what event organizers called a “willingness to hoard wealth at the expense of the 99%.” via Occupy Wall Street: Coming to a mansion near you – Oct. 10, 2011. TAL Commentary: The occupiers — paid to protest capitalism (think about that) — have it all wrong, which [...]
In Loco Parentis — The State’s Abrogation of Parenthood
California Gov. Jerry Brown stepped into the middle of a debate over parental rights Sunday by signing legislation giving children 12 or older the power to consent to medical care involving the prevention of sexually transmitted disease. via New law lets 12-year-olds consent to preventive care for STDs – latimes.com. TAL Commentary: Who needs parents? [...]
How to Get Campaign Contributions When Your Regular Sources Dry Up
DOE Pushing On With $5 Billion In Solar Energy Loans – CNBC. The U.S. Department of Energy said it plans to push ahead with as much as $5.3 billion in potential additional alternative energy loans by Friday, despite Republican complaints the money is going out too quickly to untested firms. That comes against a [...]
Want to Resolve Conflicts of Rights? Abolish Public Property
Government inherently causes social conflict. The fact that we have public spaces causes conflict over who has the right to use them, and how. The existence of public roads causes conflict between travelers and protesters. Who has the right to mount a pro-abortion protest? When? For how long will they tie up traffic? What about [...]
Why God Has the Right to Tax, and Governments Don’t
One of the fundamental concepts of libertarianism is that taxation is theft, and therefore morally wrong. Yet God ordered the collection of a temple tax; if taxation is wrong, why would he do this? Let’s look at Exodus 30:13-15: This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel [...]
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