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…....
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…...
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…...
The Navy Yard Shooter had a decade long history of mental illness and gun violence, but he got two guns onto a Navy Base. You get your shampoo taken from you at the airport. … This content is for Monthly Premium Membership and Yearly Premium Membership members only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here...
People often ask how this or that function of society would work in the absence of the State. Of course, each of those questions has its own answers, but there are some underlying core ideas that can help you come to your own conclusions, and which would become rather repetitive if I outlined them every…...
When asked what she thought about the shooting at the US Navy Yard in Washington DC, Senator Dianne Feinstein said “The answer is clear, we must disarm the US Navy”…. This content is for Monthly Premium Membership and Yearly Premium Membership members only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here...
Now that we’ve established that intellectual property laws are complete nonsense, let’s start breaking them. BitTorrent is a peer to peer file sharing protocol that has proven to be pretty much unstoppable. Unlike previous file sharing systems like Limewire and Napster, there’s no central authority for governments to shut down BitTorrent transfers. Repeated efforts to…...
Yesterday, the NYPD opened fire on an unarmed suspect in Times Square. Luckily for the suspect, the NYPD has terrible aim. Not so lucky, were the two innocent bystanders struck by taxpayer funded bullets flying indiscriminately through the polluted urban air. This all started because the NYPD allegedly saw the man stumbling around on 8th Avenue…....
Since when is violence considered intellectual? Since when does one person own the thoughts of another? Since about 400 years ago, as it turns out. I really like this subject because it was one of the last aspects of statism that I clung to before embracing the far clearer moral compass of voluntarism. If we…...
With all the news about the NSA spying on us, it almost seems negligent that I haven’t written this article yet. Understanding how you are tracked, and how to prevent it from happening are very important bits of information that precious few of us have a proper understanding of. As governments grow and become more…...