Obama's new free speech threat

"Billy club to the fucking skull."

Highway Robbery in Tennessee

Crime Pays

Obama Preparing to Turn Over Firearms Regulation to the United Nations

Freedom Activists as Government Entrapment Targets?

Glory Days: A pundit's rosy view of the Pax Americana

DHS Considers Collecting DNA From Kids; DEA and US Marshals Already Do

Is There a Drone in Your Backyard?

First American To Shoot Down Spy Drone Will Be A Hero

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress. -- Frederick Douglas

President O's Hollywood Cult

Stuffing the federal government back into its constitutional box

Back to Burke

Even Worse Than Democracy

The Bureaucratic Berlin Wall in Amerika

The Washington Monument Defense

Jonah Goldberg: Raise the voting age?

When the looter is the government

By Abandoning the Gold Standard We Accepted Central Planning and Chaos

Tax man makes it hard to be an American

Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber. Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. Every trial held to prosecute a drug user or seller is court time that could be used to prosecute a rapist in a case that might otherwise have been plea bargained. -- Randy E. Barnett

The Freakonomics Guys (And Mark Cuban) Are Catching Up to MCT on College Tuition

NH Bridge to Nowhere – Thanks Federal Government

United States ranks 10th for economic freedom

Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education

Robert Reich to New College Grads: "You're F*cked"

"The Truth Gets Out Eventually"

Governments Frightened of Panic Liquidation Event

Why Older Americans Have the Worst Long-Term Unemployment Crisis

Printing money is the only thing keeping the UK and US afloat

Get Ready: We're About To Have Another 2008-Style Crisis

There's a widespread belief and common conception that somehow or other business and economics are the same, that those people who are in favor of a free market are also in favor of everything that big business does. And those of us who have defended a free market have, over a long period of time, become accustomed to being called apologists for big business. But nothing could be farther from the truth. There's a real distinction between being in favor of free markets and being in favor of whatever business does. -- Milton Friedman

Bipartisan Congressional Bill Would Authorize the Use of Propaganda On Americans Living Inside America

How the Game is Played

The War on Drugs: Cui Bono?

Chicago Police Smashed Up Apartment, Captured Suspected Protesters

The Debt Ceiling Is Coming Again

The Spendicans Ride Again!

Unintended Consequences of Government Regulation

Bad Policy, or Bad Intent?

Chuck Schumer Channels Nazi Germany, Goes After Americans Attempting to Escape Taxes

Don't You Dare Mention Defense Cuts in the Pentagon or be Charged with a Crime

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve. -- Henry George

theCL Report (“The Truth Gets Out Eventually”) is a post from: The Classic Liberal Blog

"Total amateur night mixed by insane econometricians."

The Disastrous Student Loan Mess

The Obamacare dominos fall: Franciscan University drops health insurance

Enemies of the People: This Group of Hawaiians Undermines Government Stimulus

Facebook Is Being Proven To Be Overhyped and Overpriced

The "Corzine-Dimon Syndrome"

Bank Run!

The curious calculus of the US employment numbers

"If you want to work you have to pay."

There will never be a free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. -- Henry David Thoreau

Our snooping betters in DC cast a wide net

Will drones be used to spy on American citizens?

If Cops Can't Taze a Pregnant Woman, The Terrorists Will Win

Video: Michigan education official testifies that educators, not parents, know what's best for kids' education

The Elite Believe That You Are Ruining Their Planet And They Want You To Stop Reproducing

Video Released of Houston Police Beating of 15-Year-Old Suspect Holley

The No Texting While Walking Law is a Threat to the Law

Regular Patrol Cops To Get "Ballistic Shields" In Florida

Believing You're Free Doesn't Make It So

MeK and That Dastardly T-Word

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. -- Justice William O. Douglas

Is Ron Paul in or is Ron Paul Out?

Why Voting "Not Romney" Is Rational for Conservatives (Conclusion)

Only half clever

Secret Left Wing Summit in Miami

In Search of Fiscal Responsibility

How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' - and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook

Should We Obey All Laws?

The Tyranny of Liberalism

Small business flees California

You Can't Fight City Hall

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. -- Ludwig von Mises

The Truth About New Technology X

Twitter users given legal warning in Britain

Louisiana is the world's prison capital

No Joke: Stimulus Money Went to Study Erectile Dysfunction In Obese Men

War on Patients

President Obama executive order gives Treasury authority to freeze Yemeni assets in U.S.

Poking Holes Through Man Made Climate Change a Crime Against Humanity?

California State Psychology Board Launches Psychiatric Probe of Activist Psychologist

Why college degrees make no financial sense for many students

Statist Leadership: Missing in Action

By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments. The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments, that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity. -- John Hospers

theCL Report (No Texting While Walking) is a post from: The Classic Liberal Blog

What Jamie Dimon Doesn't Know Is Plain Scary

Medicare, Medicaid and USPS losses are orders of magnitude larger than JP Morgan Chase

A great example of the coming financial repression

200,000 Lose Unemployment Benefits This Week, Nearly Half From California

The Suspicious Growth of the Financial Industry

Bundesbank Confirms German Gold Held By FED, BOE and Banque De France

Moody's downgrades credit of 26 Italian banks

Sovereign Debt Risk Rises as Spain Bank Woes Heighten Euro Alarm

Greece Exit, Euro-Zone Collapse, Spain and Portugal Will Follow Within 6 Months

Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts. -- Ron Paul

Did Ron Paul's Team Sell Out?

Jesse Benton to Politico: Paul feared convention mayhem … didn't like disrespect at recent events

Oklahoma GOP State Convention

Ron Paul delegate strategy is perfectly legitimate

Brief recap of the Libertarian National Convention

Ghost Voting in TN and Elsewhere

It's Not Just the Liberals Michele Bachmann Needs to Worry About

Chris Matthews Thinks Black Evangelicals Need to "Evolve"

Politics? No way!

Content with Caligula's Coin

Without free speech no search for truth is possible … no discovery of truth is useful … Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race. -- Charles Bradlaugh

The Constitution: The God That Failed (To Liberate Us From Big Government)

TSA, keeping us safe from Henry Kissinger

The Stench Will Find You

Cooperation between US spy agency and Google to remain a secret

Joint Military-Police Training in South Florida: "No Need to Panic!" Yet.

3 Reasons Obama Should End the Federal Crackdown on Medical Marijuana

"Lifestyle Rationing": denying medical care to those who make unhealthy lifestyle choices

They're Carpet-Bombing Chicago

What Are You Afraid Of if You Have Nothing to Hide?

How US Debt Risks Dollar Doomsday

In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrants feet. Then the oppressed many will rise in rebellion and overthrow their masters. -- Ludwig von Mises

Famous last words

"Who is made safer by these warn­ing labels?"

OMG, Austerity!

Jobs programs never die

Krugman, Bank Regulation, and a Bit of History

Keeping Them Dishonest

If You Live In California Things Just Got A Whole Lot Worse

Guilt by Association

"As a general rule, progressives do not get worked up about property rights the way conservatives do. This is a mistake … "

Fewer Workers, More Welfare

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell

theCL Report (The Coming Financial Repression) is a post from: The Classic Liberal Blog

Fed Foe Ron Paul Breakfasts With Bernanke at Central Bank

Six Months Left… Can They Do It?

And the 'dumbest person of the week award' goes to…

Former Soviet Citizen Confronts OWS

Huge Majority of Americans Support Defense Cuts

Romney Takes Swipe at Ron Paul's Budget Blueprint

Dump the Statist Monkey Off Your Back

Government-Created Racism

Caught on Tape: Rampant Vote Fraud By Government Officials On House Floor

How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on, and stop getting swept away by rhetoric? -- Thomas Sowell

Pentagon Propaganda ‘Fiasco’ Gets Scrutiny in House

$100 Million NATO Mission to Invade Chicago

Geraldo On TSA: 'I Got Manually Raped By A Guy,' '[He] Was Getting Off On It.'

Drone warfare: politically expedient and disturbingly inaccurate

Have we become desensitized to police brutality?

This Is How You Beat A Man To Death

Big Bad He-Man Cops

NJ state test requires 3rd graders to disclose their deepest secret

What Constitutes a Fair Trial?

Cop thwarts Al-Qaeda attack at Middle School Dance

As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion. -- Murray Kempton

Why Aren't There Any Lines at JPMorgan Chase with Depositors Trying to Pull Their Money Out?

David Stockman's Investing Model Is "Anything Bernanke Can't Destroy"

Currency Debasement and Social Collapse

Facebook Billionaire Flees America for Lower-Taxed Shores

American Farmers: An Endangered Species

FHA New Foreclosures Jump as Modified Loans Default

Half of all wage earners made less than $26,364 in 2010, and the typical American wage is at its lowest level since 1999

The Vampire Economist and the Moral Molecule

Inflation Increases, Real Production Falls In Britain

"How long will it be before the first giant US bank is nationalized?"

Have you noticed that what modest economic improvements we have seen occurred during the much-lamented "gridlock" in Washington? Nor is this unusual. If you check back through history, doing nothing has a far better track record than that of politicians intervening in the economy. -- Thomas Sowell

Forest People

Torture isn't fair game, and it isn't effective method

"Wait 'til Obama doesnt have to try anymore ... you're f**ked."

Why has the Obama administration so aggressively protected the financial industry from legal accountability?

Court Upholds Google-NSA Relationship Secrecy

The US schools with their own police

School Says “Jesus” Shirt is Hate Speech

The question of President Obama's draft card: Has evidence been destroyed?

Turning Water Vapor Into Pollution

Frozen in the sands of time: Eerie Second World War RAF fighter plane discovered in the Sahara... 70 years after it crashed in the desert

Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. -- HL Mencken

theCL Report (Does The West Have A Future?) is a post from: The Classic Liberal Blog

HOT: JPMorgan Reportedly Suffered $2 Billion Gross Trading Loss on Synthetic Positions

"China City"

Getting the Government's Permission to Work

Scary Numbers and Data

Europe and (Predictably) Failed Fiscal Stimulus

John Stossel on liberty and private enterprise

"The cost of raising a child from birth to age 17 has surged 25 percent over the last 10 years"

The Golden Rule Reinterpreted

Why Civilized People Buy Gold

The problem with politics isn't the money, it's the power. So long as politicians have the power to grant favors, exemptions, and business protection, people will find some way to subvert them -- if not with money now, then with promises to take care of them later. The only way we will clean up campaign financing is by taking power away from the politicians -- reducing the federal government to just the functions specified in the Constitution. -- Harry Browne

"We are gutless, worthless frauds with absolutely no core principles."

Obedience

"My question is, what's coming across her intelligence desk that she is making an out for herself?"

Romney Must Be Hearing Ron Paul's Footsteps

"DHS should have stepped in right then, and used that event to start the clampdown"

The long, long reach of Bradley Manning

Uncle Sam turns tricks (and stiffs sex workers)

1996 Republican National Convention Establishment Pushed Moderates and Liberals and Shut Out Conservatives: Will it Happen in 2012?

Stop Grading Obama's Foreign Policy on a Curve

Two words: Screw that.

I eagerly await the day when taxpayers can keep all the money they earn, and pro sports teams have to hold bake sales in order to finance stadium construction. -- Doug Newman

The Youngest Victim of Police Abuse

'Trekkie Traffic Stop'

USAF Drones May Conduct "Incidental" Domestic Surveillance

Lockdown in Downtown Chicago: The NATO Meeting

Uncle Sam the snooper

Terrorists Pose As Married Couple In An Attempt To Cross US Border

Cops Should Act Like Firemen in a Free Society

Snails. Got to preserve the snails.

Good grief: Now, it's pea personhood!

"What would you do if someday the government made it mandatory for everyone to receive an implantable microchip for identification purposes?"

To the extent that a society limits its government to policing functions which curb the individuals who engage in aggressive and criminal actions, and conducts its economic affairs on the basis of free and willing exchange, to that extent domestic peace prevails. When a society departs from this norm, its governing class begins, in effect, to make war upon the rest of the nation. A situation is created in which everyone is victimized by everyone else under the fiction of each living at the expense of all. -- Edmund A. Opitz

Why Twitter Is Amazing

Video: Bing (the search engine) mining your Facebook info

Put the Postal Service Out of Its Misery

Separation of Art And State

Paula Deen Sponsors .05K Walk For Diabetes Research

An Angel Caught on Camera?

Listen Up! 15 Techniques to Improve Our Listening

The secret life of your cellphone

Camouflage from Computer Vision

How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet

We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars should be replaced with mass transportation. But it's hard to reach the drive through window at McDonald's from a speeding train. And we're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine? -- PJ O'Rourke

theCL Report (Uncle Sam the Snooper) is a post from: The Classic Liberal Blog