Libertarian Examiner

Idaho police sodomize man with Taser

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:47:49 -0700

Via Manuel Lora, Boise police officers put a Taser up a man's anus and fired it -- after he was already handcuffed.Then they placed the taser on his genitals and threatened to do the same. The suspect still had burns inside his right buttock 13 days ...

Republican HA-HA-pocrisy on Obama health care plan

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:18:55 -0700

And might I add HO HO HO HO. Don't look now but Republicans are calling King Barack's health care plan "socialism."Of course it is, but so is every other statist program endorsed by the GOP, whether the current heavily-regulated government ...

No so beautiful America

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:25:33 -0700

Pat Buchanan has a great article today explaining why the socialist American state is headed for collapse under the weight of tyrannical taxation and central planning.

As far as this observer is concerned, it can't come fast enough.

The irony of government health care

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:11:03 -0700

Is that programs ostensibly intended to improve the health of the people actually create human suffering.Lew Rockwell applies the straightforward law of demand to explain why forcing businesses to provide health insurance will result in more unemploy...

Pay up, slave

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:09:50 -0700

In the name of a health-care overhaul, Commufascisocialityrantking Barack Obama is moving another step closer to guaranteeing he'll be a one-term president by promising to confiscate nearly 60 percent of the wealth generated by society...

Marylanders pledge to pay more for food

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:14:14 -0700

I suppose it's only appropriate during a government-induced depression that politicians would push programs increasing our costs of living. In particular, the Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission is "challenging" consumers ...

Government misuse of tax money: A-OK

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:48:39 -0700

The Buffalo News reports that a Clarence Center woman known for helping refugees settle in Western New York has been charged with "misusing tens of thousands of dollars in money from the United Nations."The U.S. Attorney's office charged De...

Land of the free

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:05:07 -0700

Police in Wausau, Wisconsin confiscated an American flag belonging to Vito Congine after the man flew it upside down to protest the village board's refusal to grant him a liquor license.In mid-June, Congine, 46, began flying the flag u...

Who will put an end to U.S.-led genocide in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:26:17 -0700

More than 7,500 Afghan men, women, and children have been murdered by the American regime in its apparent War on Poor Farmers, yet the Holy One maintains "we still have a long way to go."Maybe Obama should just tell us what his magic number...

Gun rights aren't absolute, but property rights are

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:45:43 -0700

Throughout college and up till about five years ago, I was known to engage in heated political debates with friends, usually at parties around the keg -- you know, where most of the world's problems are never solved. Since then, however, I've realize...

VIDEO: Obama Man

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:33:59 -0700

Great song from Canadian comedian Greg Morton. Best part is at the 1:47 mark.

Thanks to G.A. Plauche.

More Heller redux

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:55:37 -0700

Thanks to Manuel Lora for alerting us to the abominable Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, NJ and champion of a program encouraging neighborhood snitches to turn in gun owners for $1,000.To everyone who naively believes the Heller decision was a vict...

Are the Swiss the next target of American bombs?

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:20:29 -0700

For vowing to prevent UBS from turning over to the FBI data on more than 52,000 Americans who hold Swiss bank accounts?The Swiss Justice Ministry said on Wednesday that Swiss law prevents UBS from handing over client information and the government wo...

Tennessee's new gun law is a non-issue for restaurant owners

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:44:31 -0700

"In Tennessee, we apparently are going to have 225,000 vigilantes shooting in bars."That's a quote from Randy Rayburn, a restaurateur in Nashville who's complaining about a new state law that will allow gun owners to carry concealed in esta...

I miss NY

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:58:45 -0700

Buffalo's Jim Ostrowski makes me feel a bit envious of NY residents today, as he revels in the fact that the state senate has remained deadlocked at 31-31 for three weeks now. This has already resulted in more than a billion dollars in saving fo...

More immigrants, less crime

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:36:01 -0700

Radley Balko examines why El Paso -- relatively poor, teeming with Mexican immigrants, and situated just across the river from violent Juarez -- is one of the safest big cities in America.(Hint: Turns out there's merit to treating others th...

Celebrating evil

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:03:52 -0700

Today I will be celebrating friendships at the Fourth of July party I'll be attending. Unlike the vast majority of people, however, I will not be celebrating the decision to shed one criminal enterprise for the formation of another, nor will I delude...

We're quickly becoming a nation of criminals

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:59:14 -0700

Yesterday I used the example of a drunk-driving incident to briefly illustrate how unjust the American legal structure is. From your county commissioners right on up to the federal government, the state constantly seeks to prosecute us for the mere p...

Our unjust legal system

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:18:27 -0700

Prosecutors in New Jersey are seeking the maximum penalty of nearly three years in prison for a man who initiated a head-on collision with a truck carrying a man and his daughter while he was intoxicated.Shaun Campbell of East Rutherford told a ...

A Taser twist in PA

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:52:03 -0700

A Pennsylvania student could serve almost two years in jail for using a police officer's Taser against her as she tried to arrest him.Twenty-year-old Jeremy Spisak, of McDonald, was sentenced Monday after pleading no contest in January to disarming a...