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Memorial Day has become the unofficial start of Summer, a time for businesses to hold sales and a time for family barbecue’s. It has also lost a lot of meaning in recent years, as people say “Memorial Day is a time to remember our men & women in uniform.” Memorial Day was first celebrated as “Decoration Day” when friends and family would decorate the graves of soldiers killed during the American Civil War. In 1971, Memorial Day became an official federal holiday and became a holiday to remember all victims of war. Most people only think of soldiers, their families...

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There aren’t many things a civil libertarian will say the Obama Administration did right, their minor reforms on federal mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines were certainly steps in the right direction. The Trump Administration has now reversed course and taken giant steps backwards. On May 10, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a MEMORANDUM FOR ALL FEDERAL PROSECUTORS stating in part, “It is of the utmost importance to enforce the law fairly and consistently.” Adding the goal of the memo is to “achiev[e] just and consistent results in federal cases” by requiring prosecutors to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable...

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According to media reports, Donald Trump has proposed slashing the budget for the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) from nearly $400 million per year to $24 million in fiscal year 2018, which begins September 1, 2017. UPI reports that such a funding cut would eliminate 33 jobs from the the so-called "drug czar" personnel. UPI adds, the ONDCP which was “created in 1982 under President Ronald Reagan, is responsible for managing the executive branch's anti-drug efforts and coordinating with state and local authorities to those ends.” In other words, the ONDCP is responsible for government propaganda that tells...

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George Orwell once wrote, “Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” This statement has become increasingly truer over the last decade with Thomas Drake, Shamai Leibowitz, Chelsea Manning, Donald Sachtleben, Stephen Kim, Jeffrey Sterling, John Kiriakou and Edward Snowden having been charged with violating the Espionage Act during the Obama Presidency. John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer who was the first to confirm specific torture methods used by the CIA, said “You can either go through proper channels and risk prison, or you can go to the press and risk prison. Or you can just keep your mouth shut....

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US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH) recently sent out an email titled “Tax Day Should Be Simple”.

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In March 2014 the Institute for Justice filed suit on behalf of Celeste Kelly, Grace Granatelli and Stacey Kollman against the Arizona State Veterinary Medical Examining Board. IJ reports, “each [woman] turned their lifelong love of animals into their own businesses through which they offer animal massage. Massaging horses is Celeste [Kelly]’s livelihood; Grace [Granatelli] massages dogs; and Stacey [Kollman] owns a horseback riding and horse training business where she also massages horses. Each [woman] spent hundreds of hours learning animal massage techniques to obtain private certifications, and each woman has more than ten years’ experience massaging animals.” However the...

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Nicolas Maduro is a perfect analogy for government: those at the top will enrich themselves while everyone else is left in a worse state.

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer recently said the DOJ may increase enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that allow its recreational use.

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From a boycott of Starbucks because their cups aren’t sufficiently Christmas-y enough, to boycotts of Star Wars movies, a #deleteUber campaign, Nordstrom, Budweiser, Target, and the States of Utah & North Carolina for various reasons; it seems there is always a boycott of some sort. Which leads to the question: Do boycotts work? The short answer is: sometimes. One can find examples of boycotts leading to their desired outcome, the Montgomery Bus Boycotts, for example led to the end of segregation on city buses. One can also look at the boycott of Chick-fil-A over the company CFO’s opposition to same-sex...

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President Donald Trump recently signed an Executive Order aimed at withholding federal funding from so-called Sanctuary Cities.

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Donald Trump has repeatedly said that he was going to build a wall on the US border with Mexico and that Mexico is going to pay for it.

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Libertarian Party Chairman Nicholas Sarwark recently received some criticism for a statement he made on the Lions of Liberty podcast. When asked about Ron Paul, Sarwark responded, “He had policy prescriptions that were straight-up wrong and anti-libertarian... None of us should be given a pass on having to have actual libertarian positions... State’s rights is not a libertarian position, and it’s something Ron Paul had pushed for a long time.” (more…)

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January 1 is more than just the date that marks the start of a new year, and the time that many people make resolutions about how their life is going to change. January 1 also marks the date that hundreds of new laws and regulations take effect across the country. (more…)

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I read a headline that perfectly answers the question posed by a meme that asks: “There are over 350,000 churches in America. So why are there over 200,000 people sleeping on the streets?”

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Families across the country use The Elf on a Shelf to watch their children and report back to Santa about whether the kids should be on the Nice List.

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Samsung and Apple have not only been battling in the marketplace for customers, but also in court over various patents.

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Despite a last-minute effort to halt the change, federal investigators received expansive powers on December 1. Reuters reports, “Democratic Senator Ron Wyden attempted three times to delay the changes, which... allow U.S. judges [to] be able to issue search warrants that give the FBI the authority to remotely access computers in any jurisdiction, potentially even overseas... In a speech from the Senate floor, Wyden said that the changes to Rule 41 of the federal rules of criminal procedure amounted to ‘one of the biggest mistakes in surveillance policy in years.’” Adding “The government will have ‘unprecedented authority to hack into...

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Still one of the top shopping days of the year, ShopperTrak, a website which counts foot traffic in retail stores, reports “preliminary retail visit data for Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday 2016, [found] that shopper visits declined a combined 1 percent when compared to the same days in 2015.” (more…)

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A couple of weeks ago most Americans, many in Arizona and everyone in Hawai’i excluded, “fell back” with the end of Daylight Saving Time. And as happens in this twice a year ritual of changing the clocks, they “spring ahead” in March, there is some discussion about ending Daylight Saving Time. For example, Jacqueline Ronson writes for Inverse, “Daylight saving time is a nightmare... If you do business between Los Angeles and Phoenix, say, you’ll have to remember that they’re on the same time part of the year, and an hour apart the rest.” (more…)

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Every few years it seems the political compass flips around. You may recall following Barack Obama’s re-election, petitions were placed on the White House petition website supporting secession for Texas and several other states. While petitions ultimately went up for all 50 states, only the Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas petitions gathered the requisite number of signature to garner an official response. Someone even started a petition to deport those favoring secession, though that petition did not specify where they would be sent. (more…)

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Memorial Day: Remembering the victims of war & “war” May 28, 2017

Jeff Sessions takes two steps backward on sentencing reform May 14, 2017

Ending Drug War propaganda May 7, 2017

Trump to continue Obama’s War on Whistleblowers Apr 23, 2017

Make “Tax Day” simple, again! Apr 16, 2017

The tyranny of occupational licensing Apr 2, 2017

The curious case of Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela Mar 26, 2017

White House out of touch with the rest of the country in regards to cannabis Feb 26, 2017

Sanctuary Cities are nullifying at a local level Feb 12, 2017

Cheaper viagra cialis levitra Border Adjustment Tax: is a tax on you Jan 29, 2017

Libertarians support individual right not States’ Rights Jan 8, 2017

New Year, new laws Jan 1, 2017

Church facing fine for hosting homeless Dec 25, 2016

Precio levitra 10 mg bucodispersable NSA to reveal depths of Section 702 spying Dec 18, 2016

What the change to Rule 41 means for you Dec 4, 2016

Is Black Friday dead? Nov 27, 2016

Do we really need time zones? Nov 20, 2016

The secession debate has a new flavor Nov 13, 2016