You know government is a fucked up institution when you can follow the law as it has written, yet it still has the power and means to take your children away from you. mlive: When Michigan voters overwhelmingly approved the state’s Medical Marijuana law to help patients suffering with pain, little did they know that […]

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The crux of the AGW debate from the POV of “deniers.” With the IPCC now issuing the first segment of its latest mammoth study on the same topic, readers should take the NAS pronouncement with a large grain of salt—and the IPCC report too. This is an attempt to change the subject and ignore the […]

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Zero Tolerance Strikes Again. A pretend game of cops and robbers landed a Florida elementary school boy with a very real suspension after he made a pretend gun with his thumb and index finger. The mother of 8-year-old Jordan Bennett said her son was only playing with his friend at Harmony Community School in St. […]

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When you’re Obama, and you’ve lost the labor unions, you know that your policy is utterly fucked. Labor unions are among the key institutions responsible for the passage of Obamacare. They spent tons of money electing Democrats to Congress in 2006 and 2008, and fought hard to push the health law through the legislature in […]

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Ever heard the story of the boy who cried wolf? Apparently Obama hasn’t.

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This is the administration showing its true colors, taking their ball and going home when they don’t get everything their way. These park closings are nothing more than the administration’s way of making sure that John Q. Public feels the “shutdown.”1 Knowing that the average American will barely feel a ripple, yet needing us to […]

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It looks like somebody’s got their panties in a bunch. WaPo: Don’t call the federal workers waiting to buy lunch from downtown Washington’s food trucks “nonessentials.” It’s like being branded with a scarlet letter N, or ending up the punchline of a late-night comedy bit that’s actually not that funny when there are bills to […]

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It’s actually quite easy to hate Rand Paul, you just have to ignore the facts of how he’s conducted business during his time in the Senate. Once you put principals ahead of principles, hating a man is super easy. This isn’t to say that one must necessarily agree with all of his positions

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Why the United States has fallen dramatically since 2000 as a country that had routinely been in the top 3 worldwide for economic freedom: The authors [of the Economic Freedom of the World 2013 Annual Report] attribute the massive plunge with regard to Legal Systems and Property Rights largely to the “use of eminent domain […]

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Students being suspended from school for a boy voluntarily turning in a pocket knife when he realized he had forgotten it in his pocket. In his pocket, his son had a knife. He’s a hunter and uses it in the woods – in fact, he had just used it. “He was cutting branches and what […]

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