Ron Swanson: The Television-created Icon of Libertarianism

10-20-2013 • The Libertarian Republic

Liberal NBC created the character Ron Swanson on the show PARKS & RECREATION in an attempt to mock libertarians. Instead,...they created a hero.

The Case for Optimism

10-18-2013 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Justin Raimondo

We all get depressed, at some point or other: I’m sure even Pollyanna had her down moments.

Obama administration caught in blatant software piracy....

10-18-2013 • naturalnews.com

The Obama administration has been caught red-handed engaged in software piracy. Computer code used on Healthcare.gov was stolen (and then modified in an effort to conceal the theft) from a UK company called Spry Media.

Redskins News ...

10-18-2013 • dailypaul.com

Washington Redskins drop the word Washington.....

Surprises tucked in Senate bill (Video)

10-17-2013 • http://thehill.com, By Pete Kasperowicz

The legislation released by the Senate late Wednesday to reopen the government contains several surprises.

ALERT: Government Freezes EBT Funds: Orders States to Withhold Transfers to Food Stamp Recipients

10-16-2013 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Mac Slavo

This weekend America witnessed a limited crash in the computer systems that manage electronic benefit transfers across the country.

Fleecing the Taxpayer in the Age of Petty Tyrannies

10-16-2013 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, By John W. Whitehead

We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the name of the national good by an elite class of government officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of their actions.

US Ethanol In Throes Of Tumult

10-16-2013 • earthtechling.com

There’s even more turmoil than usual in the U.S. biofuels policy realm, with lawsuits, demands for criminal investigations, leaked documents and threats flying all over the place.

Power Grid Failure During Government Shutdown?

10/16/2013 • Power Grid Failure During Government Shutdown?

It’s been 15 days since the government shutdown, and the country has two days left to raise the debt ceiling or will face the prospect of defaulting on its bonds, a move that could collapse the dollar and send the global financial markets in a downwa

Foodstamp Program Shutdown Imminent?

10-15-2013 • http://www.zerohedge.com ,by Tyler Durden

When over the weekend, a Xerox "glitch" shut down the EBT system, better known as foodstamps, for nearly the entire day across 17 states leaving millions without "funding" to pay for food leading to dramatic examples of the basest human behavior poss

Wyoming Bison vs. Government Shutdown

10-15-2013 • http://www.youtube.com, WyoShooter308

This barricade was sitting on a turn out next to the Gros Ventre road about a mile north of Kelly Wyoming. Guess the bison don't like the government shutdown either. Somehow I feel humans will be blamed for this vandalism, so I'm sending a link to th

Leading Economist Predicts a Bitcoin Backlash

10-15-2013 • Technologyreview.com

Economist Simon Johnson says governments will feel the urge to suppress the crypto-currency Bitcoin.

The perfect epitaph for establishment journalism

10-15-2013 • The Guardian

'If MI5 warns that this is not in the public interest who am I to disbelieve them?', says the former editor of The Independent

Daily Paul Founder Offers To Fix Obamacare Website for 80 Bucks

10-15-2013 • http://www.dailypaul.com, chris cudnoski

Founder and creator of the Daily Paul website - America's second-finest news source following the Onion - Michael Nystrom today announced in a low-cost internet press release that he would be willing to fix the Obamacare enrollment website for $80, p

Guest Post: They’re Coming For Your Savings

10-14-2013 • by John Rubino

Another of history’s many lessons is that governments under pressure become thieves. And today’s governments are under a lot of pressure.

The Day the New America Began

10-14-2013 • Lewrockwell.com

All serious Americans who know much about top level politics in D.C. know that we are living in a time of political rage and madness at the top, but the mad men and women do not know they are in the grip of madness.

Attorney General Gansler depicted as reckless passenger by Md. troopers who drove him

10-13-2013 • Washington Post

Maryland Attorney General Gansler regularly ordered state troopers assigned to drive him to turn on the lights and sirens on the way to routine appointments, directing them to speed, run red lights and bypass traffic jams by using the shoulder,

Food stamp recipients panic as federal EBT system crashes; government IT systems rapidly unraveling

10-13-2013 • http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mike Adams

I’ve often said that 72 hours after EBT cards stop working, every U.S. city will collapse into chaos.

OMG! The Shutdown is Ruining the Craft Beer Industry!

10-11-2013 • Lew Rockwell blog

I joked at the beginning of the shutdown charade that the only way average America would get upset about the government shutdown was if it took away beer or trash television. OK, I was being cynical. But it so happens…it so happened!

Irish Say No to No Senate in Blow to Prime Minister

10-11-2013 • New York Times

Irish voters have rejected a proposal to abolish the upper house of Parliament, delivering a blow to Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who had championed the measure, which had been widely expected to pass.

Report: No Vote Expected On Debt Ceiling Today

10-11-2013 • Business Insider

Both Republicans and Democrats are suggesting that progress is being made on a deal to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government.

What Happens If The Shutdown Causes The Treasury To Run Out Of Money

10-11-2013 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, Paul Craig Roberts

In a speech to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, November 23, 2010, Peter Dale Scott gave a history of the various directives concerned with government continuity during a state of emergency.

Is Red State America Seceding?

10-11-2013 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick J. Buchanan

In the last decade of the 20th century, as the Soviet Empire disintegrated so, too, did that prison house of nations, the USSR.

Amid NSA Outrage, Big Tech Companies Plan to Track You Even More Aggressively

10-11-2013 • http://www.wired.com, By Ryan Tate

Thanks to former NSA man Edward Snowden, we now know a fair amount about the NSA’s ability to collect data about what people do online, and it’s all rather disturbing.

Nanny’s Big Fat Revenge

10-11-2013 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Karen Kwiatkowski

17% of the government is going to getting a late paycheck, in a political drama channeling rage against seized-up tax and seize Obummercare, and longstanding business and investor uneasiness about what may come of unstoppable over-stocking at the D.C

A Shining Gift From The ESF

10-11-2013 • http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Richard Daughty

At first, you know, I was predictably grumpy, visibly upset by the ugly news that the lawsuit against the Commodities Futures Trading Corporation, et al, for rigging and manipulating the silver market, was thrown out. The reason?

Former Detroit Mayor Braces for Long Sentence

10-10-2013 • AP

While the city's finances foundered, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was shaking down contractors, ensuring that a pal got millions in city work and turning a nonprofit fund to help struggling Detroiters into a personal slush fund,

Sen. Mike Lee: Public Land vs. Government Land

10-09-2013 • Daily Paul.com

The recent actions of federal land management agencies should lead all of us to reconsider the large amount of land that is owned by the federal government.