Jared Marcum, a 14-year old eighth grade honor student, is staring down the possibility of spending his next year in jail … for the crime of wearing an NRA t-shirt.

You see, according to "our" brave pansy-assed men in blue, Marcum "almost incited a riot." Like, OMG!

It's Rule 5 Monday!

It's Rule 5 Sunday!

"As Western Civilization is swept into the dust-bin of history, it is crucial for us to ask: what will replace it? What values, moral principles, economic understanding, and social practices will prevail in the future? You will not hear these questions asked by any of the establishment hacks – who will confine themselves to refashioning statism in a "new and improved" package … They will continue to entertain us with trivia from the lives of the political sinners, but will not explore either the causes of, or the alternatives to, what brought down our freer and more prosperous culture … their minds do not work in any transcendent, principled manner. It is power, and power alone, that both impresses and motivates them."

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The most anti-business administration ever

States Propose Fees on Hybrids to Cover Gas Tax Losses

I'd Like A Refund, Please

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The 'Paradox of Thrift' Nonsense

This Is What Crisis Feels Like: "It All Changed. Literally Within A Day …"

"They daily shred our constitution, our liberty … then demand that anyone who … fesses up to our government unconstitutional shenanigans, is some kind of traitor."

The NSA scandal has resurrected perhaps the dumbest argument (non-argument, really) in all of American politics: Anyone who criticizes the government, especially the Almighty Security State apparatus, does so "Because they hate America." Companion non-arguments include throwing around the word "extreme" and implying association with "the left."

No matter ...

Crushing the Middle Class

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Another bad European idea waiting to cross the Atlantic

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The Collapse of the American Dream: Animatated for Your Convenience

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Yippee! More Bank Runs in Our Future

Prosecute the patent trolls!

Rothbard on Rent Seeking

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Good News! Leviathan Will Eat Itself To Death

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First Quarter Hourly Compensation Plunges 3.8%, Most on Record; Manufacturing Hourly Compensation Plunges 6.9%; What's Going On?

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Cancerville, D.C.

The National Security Agency (NSA) has been monitoring the telephone and Internet records of Americans. Which means "The right of [millions of people] to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects has been violated, and will continue to be violated, without probable cause or any reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.

But have no fear. Hugh Hewitt and other "conservatives" have come to the NSA's rescue. "Wait a minute, we are in a war," they say.