Radical Agenda
Shield Mutual Founder, George Donnelly, released an article on the company’s website today claiming to have dropped coverage for his once client, Adam Kokesh. Since George has essentially called me a terrorist, I wouldn’t normally encourage anyone to take him seriously. But say what you will about George Donnelly, he keeps good records, and the…...
Written by SurrealPolitiks
At least three events for this fall that were being marketed to libertarians, United We Stand, LibertyFest NYC, and Midwest LibertyFest, have either been postponed, cancelled, or rumored to have been postponed or cancelled. LibertyFest NYC, organized by Ian Cioffi, is the only event to officially notify ticket holders of the decision to postpone. Midwest LibertyFest, organized…...
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Some might accuse me of using hyperbole when I say that statism is the thing most likely to bring the human race to extinction. Granted, it sounds like a rather extreme thing to say, especially when it’s followed by a call to arms. On the other hand it recently came out that, when a B-52…...
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“Illegal guns, illegal guns, illegal guns drive violence” said Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, after calling for an assault weapons ban, and apparently failing to see the irony of his statement. “A military-grade weapon on the streets of Chicago is simply unacceptable,” McCarthy told a news conference this morning, 12 hours after a 3-year-old boy and 12…...
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If you’ve never had a run in with the mental health system in America, consider yourself lucky. For the millions of people who have been victimized by it, this system represents all that is cruel about human society, wrapped up in all the Orwellian promises of health and well being that characterize the modern State…....
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In a 9-1 vote, the Federal Open Market Committee voted to continue the $85 Billion/month bond buying program some have called “QE4Ever”. The move came as a surprise to more than 2/3 of economists recently polled by the Wall Street Journal who expected Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s news conference today, to include an announcement of tapering…...
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I’ve been blocked from posting to Facebook multiple times. It usually happens when I tell somebody off, or post a suggestive photo of a woman. This time I got warned for something I didn’t even post, but rather was posted by one of the other admins on The Big Plantation page. Still, it didn’t appear…...
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Zero, zip, zilch, none, nada. The Wall Street Journal reports that according to a secret court’s not-so-secret-anymore ruling from last month, “No telecommunications company has ever challenged the government’s orders to turn over records in the National Security Agency’s phone-data-collection program”. Now look, Verizon, I’m not even saying you gotta shoot it out with them…....
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A libertarian activist from Washington, DC. by the name of Eddie Free, confronted Senator Dianne Feinstein yesterday about her tendency to call for gun bans in the wake of mass shootings like the one that occurred at the Naval Yard in Washington DC recently. The Senator didn’t much care to discuss the topic, perhaps because Washington…...
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Have you ever had the hiccups so bad, you just wanted to kill somebody? That’s apparently what happened to Jennifer Mee, according to an article in USA Today. In 2007, Mee was struck with a chronic case of the hiccups, up to 50 per minute, that went on for about 5 weeks. In an interview…...
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