July 30, 2009
Gene Healy over at the CATO Institute talks about the usage of our national guard units, the use of the military as police, and the possibility of the Posse Comitatus Act being weakened, the longstanding federal statute that restricts the government’s ability to use the U.S. military as a police force.
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Posted in Editor's Picks, Government, State Issues
July 30, 2009
During the election last November fourth, there were two members of the black panther party standing in the doorway to a polling place in Philadelphia and were intimidating voters and claiming they were the security. One of them had a club that he used in a threatening manner. Eventually the person with the club was [...]
Posted in Elections, Government, Judicial/Crime, The News
July 30, 2009
There is a good article over at CNN that does well to point out the errors of our fight against drugs and addiction by comparing it to our fight against cigarettes. While he is actually dead wrong about the laws that infringe on the rights of owners of bars and restaurants to choose whether or [...]
Posted in Government, Health & Medical, Judicial/Crime, Life In General, The News
July 29, 2009
Back last year, I signed up for Obama’s campaign newsletter and email updates. Since then I have gotten a steady stream of emails that have at one point or another contradicted Obama’s promises to his supporters. I have also noticed that he has been using several issues, most recently health care reform, as a tool [...]
Posted in Government, Health & Medical, Politics
July 29, 2009
Another great article produced by the people over at the Mises Institute about the impact of paying with $2 bills. A great idea produced by the movement to counter disastrous government monetary policies.
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Posted in Economics, Government, Life In General
July 29, 2009
Chances are, you’re a criminal, as Claire Wolf greatly explains in her article of Living the Outlaw Life: Freeing your inner outlaw. It’s a great read and I highly recommend it to everyone. Think you’re a law abiding citizen? You’re in for a surprise.
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Posted in Government, Judicial/Crime, Life In General
July 28, 2009
According an article published at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401181217.htm, one of the main active components in marijuana, cannabinoids, has shown promising signs that it could lead us towards a new direction in the fight against cancer.
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Posted in Drug Related, Health & Medical, Science, The News
July 23, 2009
National Geographic
In South America, female phorid flies have developed a bizarre reproductive strategy: They hover over fire ants, then inject their eggs into the ants with a needle-like appendage.
The egg grows and the resulting larva generally migrates to the ant’s head. The larva lives there for weeks–slurping up the brain and turning the ant [...]
Posted in Science, The News
July 23, 2009
The Oklahoma state trooper that pulled over an ambulance en route to the hospital with a patient on board shown in this video cussing, choking, and threatening the driver with arrest for failing to yield to the trooper, has been suspended for five days with no pay, and is required to undergo an anger assessment.
Just [...]
Posted in Judicial/Crime, The News, Videos
July 23, 2009
Hack first heard about Jennifer Government at the water cooler. He was only there because the one on his floor was out; Legal was going to come down on Nature’s Springs like a ton of shit, you could bet on that. Hack was a Merchandise Distribution [...]
Posted in Editor's Picks, Humor
July 23, 2009
Scott Janke, the town manager for Fort Myers Beach, Florida married his new wife Anabela last October, though that’s not her stage name. In the adult entertainment business, Anabela is a porn star that goes by the name of Jazella Moore. Upon learning of Janke’s marriage to a porn star, the Fort Myers Beach town [...]
Posted in Government, The News
July 22, 2009
Sky News – Some computer repair shops are illegally accessing personal data on customers’ hard drives – and even trying to hack their bank accounts, a Sky News investigation has found.
In one case, passwords, log-in details and holiday photographs were all copied onto a portable memory stick by a technician. In other shops, customers were [...]
Posted in Business News, Judicial/Crime, Tech News, The News
July 22, 2009
Posted by William Grigg on July 22, 2009 11:09 AM LewRockwell.com
Once a criminal gang “wins so many recruits from the ranks of the demoralized that it acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues peoples, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom, which is conferred on it in the eyes of [...]
Posted in Judicial/Crime, The News, Videos
July 22, 2009
(CNN) — A fight over books depicting sex and homosexuality has riled up a small Wisconsin city, cost some library board members their positions and prompted a call for a public book burning.
The battle has stirred much of West Bend, a city of roughly 30,000 people about 35 miles north of Milwaukee. Residents have [...]
Posted in Education Issues, Government, Life In General, State Issues, The News
July 21, 2009
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
An Illinois agency has sued two sheriff’s deputies in Southern Illinois, alleging that they handcuffed, threatened and Tasered teenage foster children.
The suit, filed in federal court in East St. Louis by the Illinois Office of State Guardian on behalf of the children, says the deputies used excessive force and violated the children’s rights. [...]
Posted in Judicial/Crime, The News