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Reason: ‘Now It’s Okay to Punch Nazis and White Male Libertarians. That Escalated Quickly’
Post Date: 2017-02-15 22:09:25 by Gatlin
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Reason’s Robby Soave highlighted the danger of condoning violence against those with opposing political beliefs in an article on Wednesday, pointing out how the consensus has gone from it being acceptable to punch “Nazis,” to now “white male libertarians.” Click HERE to read the remainder of the article.
Dennis Kucinich: Push for ‘New Cold War’ Behind Effort Against Michael Flynn
Post Date: 2017-02-15 20:26:34 by Hondo68
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Former US House of Representatives Member Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) presented an urgent warning to the American people in a Wednesday Fox Business interview regarding the resignation of Michael Flynn from the position of national security advisor after information was leaked about a phone conversation Flynn had with the Russian ambassador to the United States. “At the core” of the intercepting of the then-incoming national security advisor’s phone conversation and the sharing with media of related information by US intelligence officials, Kucinich says, “is an effort by some in the intelligence community to upend any positive relationship between the US and Russia.” ...
Liberty's Flame Question of the day.
Post Date: 2017-02-15 19:06:58 by A K A Stone
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We'll keep the question simple
There is a law that says you must behave a certain way.
That law is clearly immoral.
You can easily do the moral thing with no chance of any consequences whatsoever.
What do you do obey the law or your conscience?
Poster Comment:
I obey my conscience.
Cosmetology Board's Investigation of Free, Unlicensed Haircuts Is 'Outrageous,' Governor Says
Post Date: 2017-02-15 18:03:28 by Deckard
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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey slammed the state's cosmetology board for investigating a student who gave free haircuts to homeless people in Tucson last month. As Reason detailed yesterday, the Arizona State Board of Cosmetology launched an investigation into Juan Carlos Montesdeoca after receiving complaints that he was cutting hair without a license. According to the complaint, first reported by Tucson News Now on Monday, the board received an anonymous complaint alleging that Montesdeoca was "requesting local businesses and local stylists to help out with free haircuts (unlicensed individuals) to the homeless." In a letter sent Wednesday to members of the board, Ducey called the ...
The Real Reason Why Andy Puzder WonÂ’t Become Labor Secretary
Post Date: 2017-02-15 17:58:54 by Willie Green
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On December 8, days after Donald Trump chose Andy Puzder as his nominee for Labor Secretary, I predicted that he wouldn’t get confirmed. I didn’t have any special inside information, just the knowledge that Puzder’s beliefs included the one idea conservatives would not not abide: support for immigration reform. Breitbart’s Julia Hahn, who’s now working in the White House, wrote a scathing piece on December 8, excoriating Puzder for supporting “amnesty and flooding the labor market with foreign workers.” It wasn’t just that the immigration issue would sap Puzder’s support among the far right. It meant that the grassroots wouldn’t ...
Bannon 'livid' with Breitbart over Priebus report
Post Date: 2017-02-15 17:45:50 by Willie Green
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Bannon, who was executive chairman of Breitbart before becoming Donald Trump's chief strategist, slammed the right-wing website on Wednesday for a report suggesting that White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus might lose his job. "Not upset - livid," is how Bannon described his feelings about the article to CNN. "The story is totally untrue. Reince is doing a great job. I couldn't ask any more from a partner." Breitbart's story alleged that Priebus might be pushed out of the White House due to the forced resignation of Trump's National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn. It cited "multiple sources close to President Trump." When asked if ...
Trump's media cheerleaders point fingers at Priebus
Post Date: 2017-02-15 17:20:36 by Willie Green
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President Donald Trump typically dismisses any unflattering report about his administration as "fake news." But among the outlets and commentators most sympathetic to Trump, there has been another scapegoat for the White House's early setbacks: not the press, but the chief of staff. "Clearly," Fox News host Brian Kilmeade said Wednesday morning, "Reince Priebus and company are having trouble getting off the ground." Priebus, considered one of the few stewards of the GOP establishment within Trump's inner circle, has been the target of a string of recent leaks suggesting that he is responsible for the White House's missteps. Much of that ...
*Of Course* Libertarians Are Leading the Charge Against Trump's Authoritarianism [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-02-15 06:36:19 by Gatlin
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The Guardian has pulled together five pieces from conservatives and libertarians who are critical of President Donald Trump's authoritarian tendencies and policies. I'm happy to be represented in the mix (for my commentary about Trump's awful, inhumane, and idiotic ban on refugees and travelers from seven countries tied to terrorism). It's a good mix of people, including some conservative critics (The New York Time's Ross Douthat, National Review's David French, Commentary's Noah Rothman) and Steve Horwitz of Bleeding Heart Libertarians along with yours truly. Here's a snippet from my piece: That's certainly the case with Trump and his orders on ...
Libertarians split with Trump over controversial police tactic
Post Date: 2017-02-15 06:26:47 by Gatlin
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The White House has riled the country's civil libertarian wing after President Trump enthusiastically voiced support for a controversial law enforcement tool that allows an individual’s property or assets to be seized without a guilty verdict. The president weighed in on what's known as "civil asset forfeiture" during an Oval Office meeting last week with sheriffs. The president, who ran on a law-and- order message, said he shared their desire to strengthen the practice and even said he would “destroy” the career of a Texas politician trying to end it. The comments revived tensions with libertarians who have been fighting the practice under both Democratic ...
I’m a Libertarian Man, and I Support Feminism.
Post Date: 2017-02-15 06:21:28 by Gatlin
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I want to discuss a topic that I feel all libertarians should be supporters of – Feminism! Let’s face it, libertarians need to stop being so freaking anti- feminist, once and for all; though I think most libertarians are pro-feminist deep down inside. Feminism in its original meaning is 100% a libertarian/capitalist movement. First off, let’s just say why feminists – in the original sense – should hate government. Governments used to not allow women to own property or businesses of any kind. Literally setting it up so that (in many states) if a woman was married to a man, and didn’t have a male son when the man died, she would likely be forced to give the ...
Have TV media had their fill of Kellyanne?
Post Date: 2017-02-15 05:36:04 by Willie Green
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'She goes out and lies and you find out about those lies a couple hours later,' says Joe Scarborough. Kellyanne Conway has an on-air credibility crisis. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday, co-anchor Mika Brzezinski declared that she “will not interview her.” “It’s giving people dishonesty, it’s not worth the interview,” she said, as co-host Joe Scarborough added, “She goes out and lies, and you find out about those lies a couple hours later.” An anchor from a different network said Conway hasn’t been invited on the anchor's show for months, saying the viewer gets “nothing out of her” because “she ...
Dominican paper apologizes for using Alec Baldwin photo for Donald Trump
Post Date: 2017-02-14 21:31:52 by Hondo68
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AP This screen grab of the, Feb. 10, 2017 digitized version of Dominican Republic's El Nacional print edition shows Alec Baldwin doing his impression of President Donald Trump. (El Nacional via AP) SANTO DOMINGO -- Alec Baldwin does a pretty convincing Donald Trump impersonation - just ask a newspaper in the Dominican Republic.El Nacional published an apology on Saturday after mistakenly running a photo of the actor doing his impression of the U.S. president on "Saturday Night Live" instead of Trump himself.Accompanying an article in its Friday edition headlined in Spanish: "Trump says settlements in Israel don't favor peace," a photo of a scowling Baldwin in a ...
Pro-Pot Student Group Wins 1A Fight With Meddling School Admins, State GOP
Post Date: 2017-02-14 18:47:21 by Hondo68
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Court says Iowa State University discriminated against student marijuana-policy group based on "political pushback." NORML ISU/Facebook A win for free-speech and marijuana-decriminalization advocates from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. On Monday, a three-judge panel ruled in favor the student chapter of National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) at Iowa State University (ISU), which had been banned from using ISU trademarks on much of its promotional material after drug prohibitionists in state politics complained. ISU generally grants student groups the right to use ISU insignia, logos, and other trademarks (such as the words "ISU" ...
The Left is collapsing everywhere
Post Date: 2017-02-14 11:47:08 by Tooconservative
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Here's a startling fact: There have been eight leaders of the British Labour Party in the past 40 years. Seven of them failed to win a single general election. The exception, Tony Blair, was a Labour politician only in the most technical sense. Leftists saw him as a disguised conservative, a cuckoo in the nest. To this day, Labour activists use "Blairite" as the worst of insults, viler even than "Tory." Let's widen the camera shot a little. All over Europe, traditional parties of the Center-Left have been losing badly. As I write, opinion polls show the French Socialists in fourth place, the Dutch Labour Party in seventh. Greece's PASOK, the leading party ...
Court Finds Speed Cameras ‘Unconstitutional’ — Forces City to Repay ALL Tickets
Post Date: 2017-02-14 10:49:23 by Deckard
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New Miami, OH — Take away the political corruption, bribery scandals, increased accidents, and police state issues with Red Light Cameras and we are still left with a system that is rooted in the removal of due process. After the corporatist red light camera industry spread through the nation like a cancer for more than a decade, people are finally beginning to realize their inherently despotic nature. After they woke up to the fact that their due process had been entirely removed by Optotraffic — a private vendor allowed to extort citizens with the blessing of New Miami politicians — the people fought back in the form of a class action lawsuit. As the Newspaper reports, ...
‘Kellyanne, That Makes No Sense!’
Post Date: 2017-02-14 10:23:17 by Willie Green
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Kellyanne Conway got more than she bargained for this morning during an appearance on the NBC TODAY Show, getting hammered by anchor Matt Lauer over several inconsistencies stemming from General Michael Flynn, the former National Security Advisor who officially resigned late Monday night. While Conway attempted to explain away her previous comments that Flynn “had the full confidence of the President,” Lauer pointed out her timeline of the events don’t add up. “You’re saying that was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Lauer said regarding Flynn’s intentional misleading of Vice President Mike Pence over phone calls Flynn made in December to a ...
Pat Buchanan: Riots And Rabble-Rousing–Is the Left Playing With Fire Again?
Post Date: 2017-02-14 09:29:14 by nativist nationalist
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To those who lived through that era that tore us apart in the ’60s and ’70s, it is starting to look like “deja vu all over again.” And as Adlai Stevenson, Bobby Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey did then, Democrats today like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are pandering to the hell-raisers, hoping to ride their energy to victory. Democrats would do well to recall what happened the last time they rode the tiger of social revolution. As the riots began in Harlem in 1964 and Watts in 1965, liberals rushed to render moral sanction and to identify with the rioters. “In the great struggle to advance civil and human rights,” said Adlai at Colby College, “even a ...
Men's Wearhouse founder reveals how smoking marijuana for 50 years changed his life
Post Date: 2017-02-14 07:43:27 by Deckard
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George Zimmer is lending his iconic, gravelly voice to the marijuana legalization movement. therichest.org George Zimmer has a penchant for speaking his mind. The 68-year-old serial entrepreneur was fired from Men's Wearhouse, the company he founded 40 years earlier, in 2013 over differences with the company's board. "You know, one of the very small reasons — and I say small — would be that I tended to be kind of a renegade or somebody who said what he thought," Zimmer told Business Insider about his firing. "That made the board of directors increasingly uncomfortable." Zimmer has since launched a tuxedo rental company, Generation Tux, ...
Did Someone Say Government?
Post Date: 2017-02-14 06:18:42 by Deckard
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So…what? The federal government is all shiny, happy politicians now? I suppose all the federal alphabet soups will lay down their arms and all those federal laws they enforce will suddenly become null and void? Oh, and the Pentagon will have to have a yard sale when they want a new trillion dollars worth of weapons? Let’s not forget the great work being done on cutting taxes right now, right? No, I don’t think so. This is the same government, it’s just some people have the same swoon going on that some people had over Obama in 2009. “No, he’s an outsider! He’s different!” Uh-huh. Heard that about Reagan, too. But he was a good actor and this ...
Assaulting Police Officer Would Be A Federal Crime Under Trump Proposal
Post Date: 2017-02-14 04:41:11 by Gatlin
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A proposal to categorize attacks on Chicago police officers as hate crimes has stalled in the City Council. CHICAGO — After calling out rising crime in Chicago six times since taking office, President Donald Trump moved to make assaulting a police officer a federal crime. In a series of executive orders signed by the president just after former Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions was sworn in as attorney general, Trump ordered his new top law enforcement officer to figure out how to use federal laws to "prosecute individuals who commit or attempt to commit crimes of violence against ... law enforcement officers." In Chicago, a similar proposal — known as the "Blue Lives ...
Meet the New "Specially Protected Class"
Post Date: 2017-02-13 21:44:03 by Hondo68
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Adams Lin literally fainted as he read a court order authorizing federal marshals to confiscate his property. The officers seized his car, his designer clothes, a flat-screen television, golf clubs, computer, and even his treasured Samurai sword.Unlike countless other Americans who have been pillaged by federal law enforcement officials, Lin was not a victim of the officially sanctioned plunder called civil asset forfeiture. His property was confiscated after Lin’s boss failed to make a $200,000 payment toward the $22.4 million civil damage award granted to a man who was left paralyzed through Lin’s occupational misconduct.Lin’s boss is Palm Beach County, Florida Sheriff Ric ...
The Most Dangerous National Security Threat That Donald Trump Is Ignoring
Post Date: 2017-02-13 19:32:00 by Willie Green
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Donald Trump was elected president while employing white supremacist, anti-immigrant, and anti-Muslim rhetoric. Now the U.S. executive branch is actively seeking to reduce federal efforts to fight right-wing extremism by removing white supremacist groups from U.S. government countering violent extremism (CVE) programs.Earlier this month, the Trump administration proposed it would repurpose the Countering Violent Extremism task force to focus only on Islamic extremists, considering renaming it “Countering Radical Islamic Extremism” or “Countering Islamic Extremism.”It’s hard not to see the hand of Steve Bannon—the White House chief strategist and senior ...
1859 John Brown and Harper’s Ferry
Post Date: 2017-02-13 19:10:51 by A K A Stone
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On the night of October 1859, John Brown and 21 of his followers raided the Harper’s Ferry Federal Arsenal in Virginia. In 1855 Brown had also perpetrated the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, resulting in five deaths. He was said to be acting on God’s orders. His goals were to free slaves and overthrow the white government to establish a free black state. Who was John Brown? John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut on May 9, 1800. His family moved to Ohio where he spent his childhood, his father owned a successful tannery. At age 16 he moved to Plainfield, Massachusetts and then to Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania he opened his own ...
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
Post Date: 2017-02-13 19:06:36 by A K A Stone
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Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas, one of the architects of the Compromise of 1850, proposed to organize governments for two new territories that belonged to the Louisiana Purchase Lands, Kansas and Nebraska. His motivation had political and economical roots. He had envisioned a transcontinental railroad crossing the country west to east with Illinois, his state, as the eastern terminal. He needed the support of the south. And because the territory was above the 36Ú30’ line of the 1820 Missouri Compromise, the bill would open up territory not previously available to slavery. The bill was approved and signed by President Franklin Pierce. The Kansas-Nebraska Act drew new borders ...
Douglass’ Role in the Civil War
Post Date: 2017-02-13 19:03:07 by A K A Stone
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“A war undertaken and brazenly carried for the perpetual enslavement of the colored men, calls logically and loudly for the colored men to help suppress it.” Growing political tensions over the spread of slavery started a decade before the beginning of the war. As a preamble to the Civil War, between 1854 and 1861, there were a series of violent political confrontations known as Bloody Kansas or Bleeding Kansas as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The conflict arouse primarily on the subject of Kansas being accepted into the Union as a slave-free or slave state. The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 and the of Republican Party’s determination to stop the ...
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