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 [...]

A reader on Facebook, Michael Lurie, pointed out this latest “it seems like satire but it’s real” demonstration of the totalitarian madness that is sweeping our nation with its war on people, places, stuff, and ….. basketball nets. This onslaught of tyranny and control freakism is not confined only to the Feds, or even the [...]

This story is heartbreaking and maddening, and mostly, it demonstrates – with a great deal of clarity – the power of the social services-police state-medical establishment posse, and how this powerful web of totalitarian machinations can take over your family life and children at will. This Detroit mother was all the news last week as [...]

We can add another item to the list of everyday, victimless, peaceful activities that shall soon become a crime: distracted walking. From the article: After targeting drivers who paid more attention to their phone calls and text messages than the road, lawmakers in Arkansas and New York are now looking to crack down on pedestrians [...]

If this fascist bulldyke’s pontification doesn’t ruin your day, then nothing will.

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, environmental [...]

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 the [...]