The much publicized little girl-lemonade debacle in Oregon raised my eyebrows in a couple of ways. For instance, take this article on OregonLive. No one seemed to have noticed this ironic snippet.
“I understand the reason behind what they’re doing and it’s a neighborhood event, and they’re trying to generate revenue,” said Jon Kawaguchi, [...]

Here’s yet another disgusting display of bureaucratic arrogance on the part of the parasitical tax-and-spend state: spending $100M to “green” an old IRS center in Andover.
As part of a “green” initiative that helped justify the use of stimulus money, geothermal heating and cooling systems will be installed, according to a news release from [...]

At 1:50 of this video, Obama notes that the use of private military contractors privatizes “what essentially sets a nation-state apart, which is the monopoly on violence.” Thanks to Kalim (of Western Standard) for the heads-up and link.

This story has been slightly under the radar. The Department of No Education is buying shotguns for its police force.
According to documentation, the Department of Education’s office of Inspector General ordered for delivery – probably this week sometime – 27 Remington 870 12-gauge shotguns with 14 inch barrels for officials in just two offices.
Education Department [...]

Remember former Homeland Insecurity Slickster Michael Chertoff? Remember after the Christmas Day bombing when he kept calling for the purchase of the invasive, totalitarian full-body scanners for all airports? When Chertoff left the Bush administration, he started his own “consulting company” (what ex-government agent hasn’t done that?), and Rapiscan, the company that makes the scanners, [...]

Several months ago, I wrote a blog post titled, “Commerce Clause Gives Federal Government the Power to do Everything.” Whenever politicians are questioned about their totalitarian actions and asked what gives them the power to commence such actions, they have one standard response: the interstate commerce clause. This is the established response of politicians and [...]

Go, Judge, go! I love this man’s fiery passion and unabashed assaults on the criminal state. From a Newsmax article on the unconstitutionality of Obamacare:
The judge also says he would rate President Obama as one of the worst presidents in terms of obedience to constitutional limitations.
“I believe we have a one party system in [...]

A good friend and freedom activist colleague of mine is going to appear on the radio show of Dale Williams (Salt Lake City) on Monday, March 15th to discuss a few things, and among the topics will be a recent visit he received from the FBI. Why did he receive the visit? Because he’s a [...]

Yet every scheme comes with a proclamation that says, “your government is looking to help you secure your retirement and your future.” Even the sheeple are offering resistance to this one.
I’ve been covering the topic of government-mandated 401Ks since the fall of 2008, and I even noted that I detected the unmistakable whiff of confiscation [...]

Newsweek has put together a “Tax Attacks” propaganda piece. The gist of this piece is that Joseph Stack was one of many violent protesters who “believed taxes are unjustified,” and thus reacted with violent actions. Of course, anyone who believes that taxes are unjustified necessarily gets lumped in with all of the mad bombers, shooters, [...]