National Blog - page 192
IRS seizes property because taxpayers followed the law
No, that is not a misprint. Sunday's New York Times reports on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)'s practice of seizing people's bank accounts because they obeyed federal money laundering laws. You see, the Bank Secrecy Act (with should be called [...]
WATCH: Dr. Ivan Eland at LPAC
Dr. Ivan Eland addressed the 2014 Liberty Political Action Conference on Friday, September 19th, at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRPM784OJQM
The Second Amendment: the first and still the best anti-terrorism policy
Fox News Commentator and former judge, Andrew Napolitano, recently made the common-sense observation that the best protection against "Lone Wolf" terrorist attacks, such as those that occurred in Canada this week, is an armed [...]
WATCH: Glenn Jacobs at LPAC 2014
Glenn Jacobs, also known as the WWE Superstar "Kane," addressed the 2014 Liberty Political Action Conference on Thursday, September 18th, at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center on the topic of free market economics. Watch as he lays the [...]
Cutting Foreign Aid: Smart and Safe
Neoconservative (and leading Rand Paul critic) Jennifer Rubin's latest attack on Senator Paul centers on Senator Paul's proposal to end foreign aid. Most of her article is filled with the same old clichés supporters of a constitutional foreign [...]
A Time for Choosing
Today is the 50th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" Speech. Watch below:
Once-Peaceful Canada Turns Militaristic; Blowback Follows
In 1968 the government of Canada decided to openly admit Americans seeking to avoid being drafted into the US war on Vietnam. Before, would-be immigrants were technically required to prove that they had been discharged from US military service. [...]
Common Core Bringing People Together...
... against it, as a wide coalition continues to push to rid education of this latest federal assault. Politico looks at actions on the local level challenging adoption of the Common Core: School districts from New Hampshire to Oregon are [...]
National debt may be paid off.....in 400 million years
Thanks to Simon Black at Sovereign Man for suggesting we start measuring the national debt in what he calls "work years." As the name suggests, work years means how many years it would take to pay off the debt if every American man, woman, and [...]
WATCH: Mark Sanford at LPAC 2014
Rep. Mark Sanford (SC-1) addressed attendees at the 2014 Liberty Political Action Conference on Thursday, September 18, at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center. Sanford talked about the growth of the House Liberty Caucus in recent years and [...]