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Ted Cruz, Military Spending, and the "Liberty Vote"
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in a presidential campaign speech in South Carolina earlier this week, made it very clear that, despite any old Tea Party talk about shrinking government, he as president...
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IRS Agrees to Apply New Forfeiture Standards to Old Case, Give Back...
The IRS is finally acting justly by retroactively applying new standards in civil forfeiture (that is, naked government theft) law to an older case out of North Carolina, as announced today by the...
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Texas Can't Restrict Candidates from Calling Themselves Psychologists, or...
A state can't make it illegal to call oneself a psychologist or to enforce laws "limiting the ability of individuals to dispense personal advice about mental or emotional problems based on knowledge...
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Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Nevada, and the Silent Armies of the Non-Voting
Rosie Gray at Buzzfeed reports from Nevada, where Ron Paul fans have had an outsized influence on the state Party, to find that it seems many of his old supporters can't see fit to go to Cruz (as many...
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No Debtors Prison in America--Technically, At Least
Rex Iverson, 45 years old, died after being placed in jail in Box Elder County, Utah, last month. What had he done, ultimately, that had him facing his last moments on earth in a cage? He had not paid...
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Private Citizens Try to Help Homeless By Giving Them Tiny Houses; City of Los...
Government is just another name for how we make sure generous attempts to better the lives of the destitute come to naught, as reported in the Los Angeles Times today under the headline: "L.A. seizes...
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Yet Another Tale of Death in Jail Over a Debt, in a Nation Officially Without...
One often doesn't receive the best medical care in jail. The relatives of Joyce Curnell, who died in jail last July, are threatening to sue the jail's medical contractor, the Carolina Center for...
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Police Shoot and Kill Fleeing Suspect in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Day City...
Relatives are claiming details about today's police shooting and killing of 24-year-old father of two Akiel Denkins that are damning to the police, including that Denkins was shot in the back while...
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Launching a Real Third Party in Election Year: Even with Trump as a...
Nick Gillespie wrote earlier today about libertarian legal whiz Randy Barnett's call in today's USA Today for a new, anti-Trump party dedicated to the Constitution to provide a home for voters who...
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How Might Libertarian Party Presidential Candidates Deal with Donald Trump as...
It's not a done deal yet, but Donald Trump continues to lead in both states won and delegates collected in the Republican Party's decision making process. His success has triggered a lot of talk from...
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Ayn Rand Warned Us About the Dangers of a President Like Trump
Tyler Cowen, George Mason University economist and chief of the Mercatus Center, warns us at his blog Marginal Revolution that: if you own a large company, it is virtually impossible to be in...
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FBI Beat Tor Anonymity Via Academic Research, According to Revelations from...
Some grim news snuck out from the "Silk Road 2.0" prosecution last week. Andy Greenberg of Wired gets right to the terrible point: the FBI was able to bypass the anonymity software Tor—the central...
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Husband of New Hampshire State Representative Arrested in FBI Home Raid in...
According to reports from both the New Hampshire Union Leader and the Portsmouth, NH, Patch, Jerry DeLemus, a Tea Party activist and husband of New Hampshire state Rep. Susan DeLemus, was arrested...
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Wave of Arrests Yesterday Over 14 New Indictments Over 2014 Bundy Ranch Standoff
Some more context on my reporting yesterday on the arrest of Jerry DeLemus, husband of New Hampshire state Rep. Susan DeLemus, over his role as part of the "armed militia" in the 2014 standoff on...
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Obama Renews Declaration that Venezuela is a National Security Threat
Venezuela's opposition to socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro this week has called on the Organization of American States to help them oust him, Time reports. At the same time, President Obama is...
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