National Blog - page 167
Tax Day Tunes
Tax man got you down? Well, cheer up and listen to some music by folks who truly feel your pain... Taxman - The Beatles Me and the IRS - Johnny Paycheck Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks Taxman, Mr. Thief - Cheap Trick And once you're [...]
TSA Agents Manipulate Screening Systems to Fondle Attractive Men
An investigation by CBS Denver, discovered that TSA Agents as Denver International Airport were purposely manipulating the screening process of attractive men so that agents could fondle them. From CBS Denver: According to law enforcement [...]
CPS takes (kidnaps?) children for walking alone
Parents who dare to allow their children to play unsupervised outside of their home better watch out for nosy neighbors and big government officials who feel that children should be supervised at all times. One family in Maryland learned this the [...]
Plain Packaging coming to a convenience store near you?
Plain Packaging is the newest craze of the Nanny Statists. As the name suggests “plain packaging" is a regulatory scheme requiring products be sold in a plan box that simply identifies the type of product and the name of the manufacturer. In [...]
DEA tracking your calls since 1992
In my recent remarks on the PATRIOT Act I remarked that a lot of the PATRIOT Act consisted of proposals the Justice Department had been seeking for years but was unable to get through Congress until the panicked atmosphere following the 9-11 [...]
Phony Civil Asset "Reform"
In January, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder announced some "reforms" of the "Equitable Sharing Program." This program allows the State and local government to equitably share in the proceeds of...civil asset theft. While the pro-Obama [...]
House to vote on reining in IRS this week
This week, the House of Representatives will vote on legislation, the Fair Treatment for All Donations Act (HR 1104). HR 1104 stops the IRS from discriminating against groups like Campaign for Liberty in its application of the "gift tax" [...]
The New Militarism: Who Profits?
Militarism and military spending are everywhere on the rise, as the new Cold War propaganda seems to be paying off. The new “threats” that are being hyped bring big profits to military contractors and the network of think tanks they pay to [...]
Congress Should Kill the Death Tax
If there's one thing Americans should agree on, it's that death should not be a taxable event. Over the past five years, Campaign for Liberty has participated in an effort to fully repeal the estate tax, or death tax as it ought to be known, [...]
Can Congress Effectively Oversee the Vast Surveillance State?
According to a new report from the Associated Press, the Senate Intelligence Committee is creating a sort of "secret encyclopedia" of America's surveillance programs. Surprisingly, this hasn't picked up as much media attention as it [...]