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The Last Bastille – by Kyle Reardon

Statists have always told libertarians that if we don’t like the law, we should work to change it. Unfortunately, what this means is that if individuals want to secure their liberty, they must do so by begging for it from those tyrants who imagine themselves to be our rulers. Worse, some opportunists use this dynamic in order to put themselves on this week’s news cycle, in order to further their own self-aggrandizement. As the Austrian economists put it, human action is purposeful behavior, yet, what behavior can be said to be purposeful if the actors are doing the same things over and over again, all the while expecting different results?   Continue reading “Grassroots Lobbying Does Not Work: A Review of Chris Cantwell’s “Anarcho-Lobbyist” Series (Season One)”

American Mercenary

Midgetman’s request will be answered. Specifically why medium caliber sniper rifles are not going to be the the answer to the proliferation of body armor on the battlefield.

Do you have or know of a good write up about about this myth that will not die?
I would like to see more on the subject of sniper (and service rifle) vs body armor.

Continue reading “Military body armor and small arms.”

Supreme Court and GunsAmmoLand

Denver, CO -(AmmoLand.com)- In yet another decision that thumbs it’s nose at the Supreme Court’s landmark D.C. v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago rulings, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held today that the Second Amendment does not protect gun rights outside of one’s home.

The case, Bonidy v. United States Postal Service, challenged 39 C.F.R. § 232.1(l), which prohibits the storage and carriage of firearms on USPS property. The district court decision found that the law was unconstitutional as applied to its prohibition on guns in parking lots, but not the ban on carry inside government buildings.   Continue reading “Another Federal Circuit Court Unravels Second Amendment Gun Rights”

Wake Up From Your Slumber

This little fact changes everything.

In 1943, Germany forced the Bank of Greece to lend it two loans worth 11 billion euros in today’s money.

And Germany has still not paid back the debt.

This money is not war reparations, which are a separate and much more complex issue.   Continue reading “German hypocrisy: Germany owes Greece 11 billion euros in unpaid loans”

Market Watch – by Silvia Ascarelli

Here’s what it looks like in Greece today, after a weekend in which the government walked away from negotiations with creditors and declared a referendum on debt-holder demands for this Sunday: Banks are closed, and there are lines outside ATMs, where withdrawals from a Greek account are limited to just 60 euros.

That’s if there is still money in the ATM.  Continue reading “7 photos that sum up what it looks like in Greece today”

Advocate

After sunset on Decision Day, the White House is awash in rainbow light tonight, and the rainbow revolution has spread to the other coast and overseas.

And, cue the camera phones! Here’s a roundup of what Twitter users have so far found being illuminated in rainbow spirit after today’s marriage ruling. (Update: Other Twitter users point out that some of these photos being shared in celebration are from previous times when the landmarks were lit up.)   Continue reading “More Than A Dozen Landmarks You Won’t Believe Were Turned Rainbow”

AP_240969580256Breitbart – by John Nolte

“While a symbol of anti-Christian hate and repression — the rainbow-colored gay “pride”  flag — flew everywhere, Father Jonathan Morris, a Catholic priest frequently seen on Fox News, reported via Twitter Sunday that during a pro-gay marriage parade in New York, “two men walked by and spat on me.”   Continue reading “Rainbow of Hate: Catholic Priest Reports Being Spit on at Gay Marriage Parade”

Reuters / Juan MedinaRT

The Security Cabinet of Israel has approved construction of new sections of the fortified fence on its border with Jordan. When finished, it will fence Israel off from the outside world completely.

The cabinet of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to finalize fortification of the national borders with constructing a barrier on the remaining parts of the frontier.   Continue reading “Israel to be fully encircled with hi-tech fence”

Pro Liberate

It isn’t often that honest people receive detailed intelligence about a planned gathering of violent men who steal for a living and kill with impunity. An event of that kind will occur from August 10-12th here in Idaho.

In fact, I can provide the specific address of the armed robbers’ summit — 700 South Stratford Drive in Meridian. The location is conspicuously marked and easy to find: It is the Idaho Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST) Academy, which will host a two-day session of Desert Snow’s “Phase 2015” asset forfeiture workshop.   Continue reading “Road Pirates — Assemble! “Desert Snow” is Coming to Idaho”

corporationsGrams Gold – by USA Watchdog

Attorney and public banking expert Ellen Brown says the recent Obama trade deal is bad news. 

Brown contends, “We don’t even know how bad it is.  All we know we got out of WikiLeaks.  

It’s all secret.  They are negotiating what would be called a treaty which should require a two-thirds vote under the Constitution.  

They are negotiating it for “fast-track” and it is completely secret. . . . Continue reading “We Now Have a Government of the Corporations, by the Corporations and for the Corporations”

It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government – Thomas PaineMilitia News – by Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D.

The United States no longer has, as the Constitution designed, a government composed of executive, legislative and judicial branches, separate, but equal in power.

The federal government is now an alliance of branches, devoted to the preservation of government itself, separate, not from each other, but from the American people and dedicated to tyranny.   Continue reading “America’s only remaining choices – Civil Disobedience or Collapse”

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

Remember back when newspapers were considered the leading defenders of the First Amendment and free speech? Apparently that’s over. Newsday (the newspaper I grew up reading) has an editorial up by Anne Michaud (the publication’s “interactive editor”) in which she argues for adismantling of the First Amendment when it comes to “hate speech.” These kinds of arguments have become popular again lately (in fact, many in the US seem to think that hate speech isalready not protected under the First Amendment). Michaud’s piece starts out by highlighting how she, herself, explored the white supremacist world a few years ago:   Continue reading “Newsday Editor: Carve Hate Speech Out Of First Amendment, Hold Websites Responsible If Users Post Hate Speech”