Victims of Communism Day
May Day began as a holiday for socialists and labor union activists, not just communists. But over time, the date was taken over by the Soviet Union and other communist regimes and used as a...
View ArticleWhat does the Education Department need shotguns for?
Why is the Education Department purchasing 27 Remington Brand Model 870 police 12-gauge shotguns (all new, no re-manufactured products, thank you)? The guns are to replace old firearms used by...
View ArticleSwitching license plates is what *criminals* do
Lying about sexting apparently isn’t Rep. Anthony Weiner’s only gray area. When Weiner (D-Queens, Brooklyn) was photographed by the Daily News fleeing the Capitol in his Nissan Pathfinder, it was...
View ArticleA Cuts-Only Budget — Well, Almost
… here’s my back-of-the-envelope balanced budget, with no tax increases: 1. Social Security: Yeah, they’ll say you’re throwing Granny off the cliff. But it’s her or the grandkids. So implement...
View ArticleSOPA: Yet Another Reason To Keep Government Small
A government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything away from you – including your Internet freedom. … It’s bizarre and entertaining to hear people who...
View ArticleWould Cars Be Government-Approved Today?
… have you considered how lucky we are that the government lets us drive cars at all? Imagine if cars hadn’t been around for a century, but instead were just invented today. Is there any way they’d be...
View ArticleTSA Screeners Profit From Drug War Via Bribery
Four current and former Transportation Security Administration screeners have been arrested and face charges of taking bribes and looking the other way while suitcases filled with cocaine,...
View ArticleThis Is Not How A Free Society Treats People
This is where Eduardo Saverin comes in. The Facebook co-founder, who finds himself a few billion dollars richer this week, recently renounced his US citizenship. And, to the intelligentsia, it’s not...
View ArticleWe should know much about *public* servants; they should know little about...
The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually everything about what they do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about...
View ArticleGovernment is never "us." It is always "them."
Repeat after me: Government is power. Government is not to be trusted. Ever. Even if you believe that some government is and will always be necessary, that ‘necessary’ piece of government should always...
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