Category: Freedom

Venezuela’s democratically elected socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro shows us what we can look forward to after Democrats have finished with the health insurance industry: National guardsmen, some of whom had assault rifles, were positioned around outlets of an electronics chain that Maduro has ordered to lower prices or face prosecution. Thousands of people lined up […]

If the penalty for rolling a stop sign or forgetting your turn indicator is extreme anal intrusion, the penalty for attempting to rescue a 3-year-old from a fire is a few blasts from a stun gun: The family of a 3-year-old killed in a northern Missouri house fire is outraged after police used a stun […]

You know we truly live under tyranny when econazis won’t even let cheerleaders raise funds with a carwash: Students in San Jose, Calif., can no longer hold car washes to raise for money for school events because city officials say they endanger the environment. Cheerleaders at Lincoln High School had to cancel a scheduled Oct. […]

Five years ago, did you think you would ever read stories like this in America? [T]he Department of Homeland Security and Maryland State Police were involved in a predawn raid of her Shady Side, Md. home on Aug. 6. [Audrey] Hudson is a former Washington Times reporter and current freelance reporter. They had a search […]

Like some nightmarish laboratory experiment gone spectacularly awry in a horror movie, Seattle statism has gotten out of control. It started when masterminds decided they would limit parking, so as to force people to use more politically correct mass transit and ride around on bicycles like they do in Cuba. This drove parking prices into […]

In a free country, only one thing would be required for employment: that both employee and employer come to a mutually acceptable arrangement. Conversely, in a soft tyranny run by dhimmified moonbats: A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that trendy clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch wrongly fired a Muslim worker who insisted on […]

I hear a lot of people complaining that the Obama Administration is leading us down a path where one day we will be living in a police state. I ask you this: What do you consider “a police state?” Does it mean residing a place where authorities are standing in your living room, watching everything […]

Homosexuals constitute a tiny fragment of the population, and in a permissive culture like ours have very little to complain about. Why is their agenda suddenly such an urgent priority for the leftists running the government and media? Because as community organizers like to say, the issue is never the issue. The “gay rights” jihad […]

Other than government employee and welfare recipient, there aren’t many occupations that can be pursued without harassment from federal officials. Not even magicians are safe. Marty Hahne, who specializes in magically producing a rabbit for the amusement of children, reports on demands made by our bureaucratic overlords: My USDA rabbit license requirement has taken another […]

Researchers tell us that seeing patriotic displays on the Fourth of July makes people less likely to be moonbats. That could be why NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants sparklers banned — even beyond the city limits: Mayor Bloomberg will urge Gov. Cuomo to veto legislation that would legalize the sale of sparklers outside New York […]

Liberal totalitarianism has reached the last extreme of self-parody in New York City, where the mom and pop owners of the British-themed Longbow Pub have been fined $2,500 for running an employment ad seeking someone with an appropriate background. [The owners’] legal problems started when they posted an advert on website Craigslist looking for new […]

Not since Krupp supplied the Nazi war machine has the ostensibly private sector worked in such close cooperation with Big Government: In Virginia, a telecommunications consultant reported, Verizon had set up a dedicated fiber-optic line running from New Jersey to Quantico, Va., home to a large military base, allowing government officials to gain access to […]

It was a bizarre, yet all too common story in our public schools. Fourteen year old Jared Marcum wore a NRA “Protect Your Rights” t-shirt to school. A teacher saw it, started yelling at him and demanded he change shirts. Marcum respectfully refused. Next thing you know, he was suspended from school and arrested. Students […]

Per the 4th Amendment, The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things […]

What are progressives progressing toward? Absolute control of every aspect of your existence. Close cooperation between politicians and the major corporations that bankroll them in return for relatively favorable regulations has allowed the rate of progress to increase, as seen by the collusion of Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, et al. in the brazenly unconstitutional […]