Radical Agenda
“Washington in gridlock!”, “Senate Filibuster!”, and other such phrases have plagued newspaper headlines for centuries in the United States, more so than ever in the last 5 years. A recent, and radical rule change in the Senate is about to change all that. A party line vote in the US Senate has changed a rule more…...
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“Who would feed the poor?” You’ll often hear statists say, in discussions with anarchists. Rather than explain the total economic conditions that would change and make food cheap and abundant, it’s usually easier to tell them that private charity would step in. Statists of course scoff at the notion, surely without the coercion of taxation,…...
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Gabby Giffords, the former member of the US House of Representatives from Arizona’s 8th district, who made headlines in 2011 after surviving a well deserved gunshot wound to the head, traveled to upstate New York this past weekend, for a gun show. Giffords, whose unfortunate survival put her center stage in the gun control debate,…...
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Vibrators.com is giving away 200 free vibrators every day, to federal employees who have been furloughed as a result of the government shutdown, and they are moving quickly. As of 12:45pm EST, the website had already given away the 200 vibrators allotted for Monday. I called PriveCo, (parent company of Vibrators.com) and spoke to Tom,…...
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On its face, a government shutdown sounds like good policy, if not a utopia. Government, after all, is not in the habit of doing good things. So doing less of it, tends to appeal to those who see this monster for what it is. In practice, a government shutdown as the ruling class puts it into…...
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Most of the Twitter accounts operated by arms of the United States Federal Government are closed today, but apparently some of them didn’t get the memo about the shutdown…. This content is for Monthly Premium Membership and Yearly Premium Membership members only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here...
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Remember when sites like Wikipedia went dark, in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)? Well, it seems the federal government is trying to mimic them, in protest of the partial shutdown of the federal government, due to Congress’ failure to pass a budget. The funny thing is, they aren’t saving any money, this…...
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Update 4:25pm EST. This has been called off. As the clock loudly ticks towards midnight, the hour is expected to bring with it a partial shutdown of the United States Federal Government. Will the people of New York grow tails and begin attacking one another? Or will they simply go about their daily lives with…...
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Fiscal crisis? Or the greatest federal holiday in the history of the republic? Unless the House of Representatives comes up with a spending bill the Senate and President can agree on, the United States Federal Government will run out of money, on Monday night at midnight, or, so we are told. As politicians and main…...
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