Not Having A Dog License Leads To Jail Time

From CBS Denver. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– A Jefferson County man was held in jail after refusing to get a license for his dog. Now he and his wife are fighting the fine in court. 4 On Your Side Investigator Rick Sallinger wanted to know how many others don’t have licenses […]

NC preschooler’s “unhealthy” lunch replaced with cafeteria nuggets

Here come the Food Police. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- UPDATE: This story has been updated with a newer version including statements from USDA officials. Click here to read the updated report. —————————- RAEFORD, N.C. — A Hoke County preschooler was fed chicken nuggets for lunch because a state worker felt that her […]

Doomsday Prepper Declared Mental Defective…. Government confiscates his Guns

Watch the video. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Just days after appearing on the National Geographic TV Show Doomsday Prepper, a prepper from Tennessee has been declared Mentally Defective and his guns have been seized by the government. The Prepper, David Sarti is a character to say the least, but his story is […]

Justice Breyer robbed at machete-point during Caribbean vacation

From CNN. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– updated 11:43 AM EST, Tue February 14, 2012 Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed last week at his vacation home on the Caribbean island of Nevis. STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: Police official calls incident “crime of opportunity” Justice Breyer was at his vacation home on the […]

Russell Means Interview — Welcome To the Reservation

A full 90 minute interview with Russell Means. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– The United States is one big reservation, and we are all in it. So says Russell Means, legendary actor, political activist and leader for the American Indian Movement. Means led the 1972 seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs […]

Sex change British man gives birth to son

From the Telegraph. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- A man who used to be a woman has become Britain’s first “male mother” by giving birth to a son. World’s first male mum Thomas Beatie The man, who is believed to be in his 30s, was able to carry a child after taking […]

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine Endorses Rick Sanitarium for President

This is what drugs do to your brain, kids. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Dave Mustaine of Megadeth performs during The Big 4 Festival in Indio, California. Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images   Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine says he hopes Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is our next president. Mustaine, who once covered the Democratic National […]

Should Occupy Use Violence? I Dunno — Should the Cops?

Article by Kevin Carson. ————————————————————————————————- Back in the mid-1980s, when the African National Congress was still fighting the South Africa’s apartheid regime, I recall Secretary of State George Schultz testifying before some Senate committee. He clutched his pearls at the appearance that “some members of this body are […]

David Goodway. Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow

By Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————— David Goodway.  Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow:  Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward (PM Press edition, 2012). I’ll start by saying I found this a very engaging read.  I learned a lot of interesting new things about people whose […]

Gary Chartier on Markets, Not Capitalism

Watch the video. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— C4SS Advisory Panel member Gary Chartier ‘sat down with Reason.tv’s Zach Weissmueller to discuss why libertarians should stop embracing the word “capitalism,’ why there’s reason to take the concerns of the political Left seriously, and why the economic system in the United States does […]

Attack the System: Interview with Sean Gabb

Listen to the interview. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Keith Preston interviews Dr. Sean Gabb. Topics include: Libertarianism and its defining ethos as the right to be left alone; The question of whether libertarian ideology is culturally specific to Anglo-Saxon civilization or universally applicable across cultural boundaries; The State as a uniquely […]

Repulsive Progressive Hypocrisy

Article by Glenn Greenwald.  If all leftists were like Greenwald, I might still be one. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– President Barack Obama speaks at UPS, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)  (Credit: AP) (updated below – Update II [Thurs.]) During the Bush years, Guantanamo was the […]

You Didn’t Think It Would End With Seat Belts . . . Right?

Article by Eric Peters. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Mandatory buckle-up laws set the precedent: Even your own body in your own car is no longer your own personal space.  Here’s how it works: The government decides that whatever it is you’re doing is “unsafe” – not specifically in your case, just generally […]

With Libertarians Like This, Who Needs Neoconservatives?

Puke. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— A simple response to Reason Contributor Cathy Young’s piece arguing the necessity of true libertarians to support American interventionism would be to link to this article published the same day that details the inevitable fruits of this interventionism applied here at home. The conclusion is obvious: if you support American […]

Neither Rain, Nor Snow, Nor Sleet, Nor Hail……

Well, not exactly. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— The U.S. Postal Service renewed its pleas for congressional support Thursday as the floundering agency reported another massive quarterly loss. The Postal Service announced that it sustained a net loss of $3.3 billion in the last three months of 2011, as declining mail volumes and mounting benefit […]

19 Crazy Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America

Burn the Schools. A friend of mine’s kid got suspended for an entire year for bringing a water pistol to school. He was in the fourth grade. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— With each passing year, the difference between America’s prisons and America’s public schools becomes smaller and smaller.  As you read […]

A Picture Says a Thousand Words

Oops! —————————————————————————————————————————————————– The Marine Corps on Thursday once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS – a special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies […]

Why Our Currency Will Fail

By Chris Martenson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– The idea that the very same economic forces that are currently plaguing Greece, et al., are somehow not relevant to the United States’ circumstances does not hold water.  As goes the rest of the world, so goes the US. When we back up far […]

Regulatory Democracy

From DumpDC. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- from The Daily Bell (Editor’s Note: This article defines the United States of America today, and shows you what a seceding state must be sure it does not replicate.) The easiest way to define regulatory democracy is to look at what America has become. Initially, America […]

A New Anthem?

Give it a listen.  Here’s another version. An here’s an English version with alternative lyrics by Pete Seeger. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Thoughts are free, who can guess them? They flee by like nocturnal shadows. No man can know them, no hunter can shoot them with powder and lead: Thoughts are […]

LTC Terry Lakin Denied Kansas Medical License for Challenging Obama's Eligibility: Same Board Approved License for Doctor that Killed Patient

From BirtherReport.Com —————————————————————————————————————————————————— A Kansas board that denied a licensed doctor of osteopathic medicine a license was primarily concerned about the man’s political views. The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts is a 15-member panel appointed by the governor and decides the fate of doctors in Kansas. Terrence […]

WAR CRIMES – US Soldiers shooting live rounds at Iraqi prisoners

Watch the video. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————- US troops fire on Iraqi detainees after burning their Holy Quran books in front of them. Amateur footage recently posted on the internet shows American troops firing live ammunition on Iraqi prisoners during a riot in a US detention facility in Iraq back in […]

Feds, Detroit police team up for truancy sweep today

From the Detroit Free Press. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– In an effort to keep kids safe and reduce crime, federal officials are teaming up with the Detroit Police for a truancy sweep today.   The effort is part of the Operation Safe Passage Task Force, an ongoing collaborative effort by federal, […]

Man held in solitary two years without trial cannot remember ordeal

From Raw Story. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Topics: dona ana county ♦ solitary confinement ♦ Stephen Slevin A New Mexico man, who expects to suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for the rest of his life, was awarded $22 million last week after he was tossed in solitary confinement for two years and never given […]

Truth, lies and Afghanistan

From Armed Forces Journal. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————- I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I […]

Why economic inequality leads to collapse

Article by Stewart Lansley. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Dust Bowl refugees during the Great Depression, 1937. The Great Crash of 1929 was preceded by a period of rapid enrichment for those at the top. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis During the past 30 years, a growing share of the global economic pie has been […]

White African-American boy not ‘black’ enough for award

This is funny. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The Omaha suspension of a white high-school student originally from South Africa is sending shock waves across America as debate rages over who can claim rights to the term “African-American.” South African native Trevor Richards suspended over African-American campaign The case centers on Trevor […]

Congress Calls for Accelerated Use of Drones in U.S.

From Secrecy News. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- A House-Senate conference report this week called on the Administration to accelerate the use of civilian unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or “drones,” in U.S. airspace. The pending authorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration directs the Secretary of Transporation to develop within nine months “a comprehensive plan to […]

Rich Americans Are Fleeing the Country

Article by Bob Adelmann. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- When Hollywood film director James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic, Terminator) announcedthat he was moving to New Zealand, preppers, fiscal doomsayers, and alarmists had a field day in deciphering his motives for moving, ultimately deciding that Cameron was moving so that he is better able to weather the […]

Progress in the Battle Against Gender Inequality: Equal Rights to Die for the Empire

By Butler Shaffer. ———————————————————————————————— A news story informs us that the U.S. military is “easing” its restrictions against women serving in combat, so that they can enjoy an “equal playing field” with men in their opportunities to have their minds and bodies ripped apart in wartime. Medals and […]

When Democracy Murders Liberty

Article by Paul Gottfried.  ———————————————————————————————— In a recent interview with the German weekly Junge Freiheit, popular satirist and onetime fixture of the left Eckhard Henscheid explained why he had moved toward the libertarian right and was fighting censorship in his “democratic” society. Junge Freiheit had been kept from […]

Attack the System: Interview with Thomas N. Naylor

Listen to the interview. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Keith Preston interviews Thomas N. Naylor of the Second Vermont Republic. Topics include: How support for secession grew out of opposition to the wars initiated by the Bush administration; The negative impact of the Obama presidency on the secessionist movement; How the military-industrial […]

Iran's leader: War would be detrimental to U.S.

From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— The supreme leader of Iran issued a blunt warning Friday that war would be detrimental to the United States — and that Iran is ready to help anyone who confronts “cancerous” Israel. “You see every now and then in this way they say that all […]

Vermont inmates hide pig in official police car decal

From Reuters. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Inmates working at a Vermont correctional unit’s print shop managed to sneak a prank image of a pig into a state police crest that is emblazoned on police cars, and 30 cruisers sported the design for the last year, officials said on Thursday. The official […]

TSA Screener Arrested In $5,000 Theft

From My Fox Twin Cities. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— (NewsCore)(New York Post) – A Transportation Security Administration screener was busted for allegedly stealing $5,000 from a passenger who was going through a security checkpoint at New York’s JFK airport, the latest in a string of snafus by the federal agency, authorities […]

Massive U.S. Military Buildup Reported Around Iran; Up to 100,000 Troops Ready By March

From the SHTF Plan. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– While President Obama’s supporters hailed his withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq as the end of the war in the middle east, behind the scenes the Pentagon has been quietly massing troops and armaments on two islands located just south of the Strait of Hormuz, […]

Panetta believes Israel could strike Iran this spring

From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— By Barbara Starr U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has come to the conclusion there is a growing likelihood Israel could attack Iran sometime this spring in an effort to destroy its suspected nuclear weapons program, according to a senior administration official. The official declined to […]

Indy Super Bowl: National Security State Protects Sports Fans from Prostitutes

Article from Infowars. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– In Indianapolis, local cops and the FBI have set-up a massive surveillance grid ahead of the Super Bowl, slated for February 5th. The heightened security – including a smartphone photo and video surveillance network, the installation of 150 new manhole covers, and the virtual […]

British Pair Arrested in United States on Terror Charges Over Tweet Joke

From the Intel Hub. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Two British tourists were arrested by the Department of Homeland Security and denied entry to the country after posting two tweets that were apparently considered terrorist threats by overzealous agents who did not posses even rudimentary knowledge of the difference between British and […]

Bryant Security Company On Occupy Miami: 'Ready To Intervene, Should Riots Occur'

From The Huffington Post. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- A sign of uncertain times, or marketing of questionable taste? As Occupy Miami received its most certain eviction notice yet, possibly leading to a sunset showdown of sorts with police, a Miami security company issued a statement boasting their readiness to “intervene, should riots occur.” Apparently, […]