This story, “Legal U.S. Gun Sales to Mexico Arming Cartels,” isn’t getting a whole lot of attention from the domestic media. CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has dug up some bones that brings a bit of transparency to Washington’s war on your gun rights. The problem of weapons legally sold to Mexico – then [...]

Surprise, surprise – people are completely stressed out when they line up at Best Buy before midnight to purportedly save a few $$$$ more than usual to buy shit while fighting crowds, enduring madness, and escaping with a TV or video game console. Sweat-sensing bracelets tell us this is true. Shopper stress was linked more [...]

The Judge on the state of our non-freedom under the omnipotent, unconstitutional, totalitarian United States government. This is a very powerful message to be seeing on FOX News. Thanks to Charles Burris for the FYI.

In the past, I have blogged about state laws that prohibit or make difficult the purchase of wine from out-of-state retailers because the states are under pressure to preserve profits and non-competition for in-state wine sellers. Tons of bucks are thrown at the issue by special interests that lobby to take away your right to [...]

Your life under a microscope. A search without a warrant. A one-watt radio station in your home. Your personal life up for sale, and it’s legal.

A new show on the National Geographic channel idolizes agents of the state who “seize and destroy,” battle drug lords, deport immigrants, and put a halt to the smuggling of … mangos. You can even play the simulation game where you are the border agent. This crass idolization of the people who become soldiers for [...]

The city of Vancouver closed down a successful corner fruit stand because the seller was too popular and sold too many quality goods to far too many happy and willing customers who kept coming back. The stand is too large, confirmed Tom Hammel, the city’s deputy chief licence inspector. He said Smith shares his vending [...]

Just recently, I posted about the Feds crashing a Kansas winery to seize the illegal contraband (“drugs”) being produced by the company: elderberry wine. Come to find out that prior to that the FDA had gone after Diamond Foods for its claims that its walnuts are good for overall health. Here is the full letter sent [...]

Here’s more civil disobedience on the light bulb front, and this time from the Wall Street Journal. A quote: Fluorescent lights also carry their own environmental risks because they contain small amounts of mercury and other toxic materials. The EPA website contains three pages of consumer directions about what to do if you break a [...]

If you have never had elderberry wine (especially homemade), you have not had one of life’s great tasting pleasures. Elderberry wine is popular with self-sufficient folks because it has a long history of being used for medicinal purposes. They use the wine in place of the numerous, expensive, and useless “remedies” sold to consumers on [...]