All those who commit unspeakable crimes for the government under the guise of National Security™ will be left alone; those who leak to the media those unspeakable crimes will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Josh Gerstein via Politico: And it reflects a surprising development: President Barack Obama’s Justice Department has taken […]
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From a poll concerning the utter fucking lack of public support for ObamaCare released May 24, 2010: The Political Class continues to be a strong supporter of the plan, however. While 67% of Mainstream voters believe the plan will be bad for America, 77% of the Political Class disagree and think it be good for […]
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Seriously. These fucking guys are the ones responsible for defending my rights as a citizen? The ones who “selflessly” patrol the streets making sure that no harm comes to me? Bart Bedsole via KRISTV: Police later hauled away 300-400 medium-sized plants that they also believed was marijuana. If fact, officers only stopped collecting the plants […]
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An unsigned editorial at The New York Times, and a fine example of the exceedingly rare Double Fail: It was only government power that ended slavery and abolished Jim Crow, neither of which would have been eliminated by a purely free market. It was only government power that ended codified slavery and abolished instituted Jim […]
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I wasn’t aware that libertards and libertarians ever had a romance, much less that we are now breaking up. Though we may have a few similarities in our political platform, such as ending the war on drugs as we know it, anti-war, etc, the basis for those beliefs come from very different places, and much […]
Nicholas Casey via The Wall Street Journal: Authorities battling drug traffickers in this violent border city [Ciudad Juarez] have begun to suspect that their efforts to impede the flow of drugs into the U.S. has fostered demand—and turf wars—on their own territory. (Emphasis mine) They’ve begun to suspect that prohibition worsens the problem in every […]
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Where if by free, you mean the biggest fucking prison population in the world. And you thought we didn’t have a statist problem.
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Arthur C. Brooks via The Washington Post: If we reject the administration’s narrative, the 70-30 nation will remain strong. If we accept it, and base our nation’s policies on it, we will be well on our way to a European-style social democracy. Punitive taxes and regulations will make it harder to be an entrepreneur, and […]
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It’s amazing how the libertarded establishment can go from “Libertarianism is great!” until it started to represent part of the Tea Party movement when it became “stupid” and “selfish” and something we should ignore.
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David Swerdlick via The Root: He took a decidedly anti-choice position on abortion and fudged on the (after the fact) banking bailout by focusing on the (before the fact) housing bubble. He didn’t distinguish himself from the Congress from which he’s ”taking government back.” By contrast, it would’ve only taken the senior Paul two minutes […]
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