Next time you hear Obama claim that he has lowered taxes for 95% of the people, you ought to be hearing, “I will absolutely raise taxes for those making less than $250,000 a year, yet I will continue to say that I won’t because the taxes will all be hidden in everything that affects your […]
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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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Perhaps one of the reasons why we don’t hear about the excessive use and abuse of paramilitary SWAT team units against low level drug users is that, apparently, the only people who want to broadcast anything about it without demonizing those being perpetrated on is Russian TV.
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Is it possible that we might start to actually entertain the truth and stop fucking claiming that the economy is on the mend?
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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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So let me get this shit straight. Greece, a country full of “where’s my check at?” fucktards spends its way into utter bankruptcy, riots because government “gives in” to outside demands to cut spending as the only condition to receive its bailout loan (which is sure to only drag out the inevitable), and now they […]
Aren’t drug warriors awesome? In a report by Radley Balko of reason magazine detailing the very shady practices of the NYPD and their has-to-be-fucking-unconstitutional “stop and frisk” program, he writes, While only about one tenth of 1 percent of the stops yielded a gun (at present it’s nearly impossible to legally carry a gun in […]
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