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Fear the Sequester

This morning the Washington Post ran an article highlighting Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s dire warning to lawmakers that if nothing is done to stop the draconian budget cuts then 800,000...

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Getting Supplies into the Occupied Territories

Magpul industries has launched a freedom fighting program to supply as many standard capacity AR magazines to the people in their home state of Colorado before any capacity limitations are implement by...

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More Sequester Fallout

I made the mistake today of turning the radio on during my morning commute instead of my usual drive in silence. What came on NPR wasn’t even a veiled attempt to hide their big government loving ways...

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Alert: Bitcoins Crashing

The exchange rate for bitcoins has fallen off a cliff losing upwards of 50% of its value in less than 2 hours. watch the fall live here Is there a bottom in sight? Update: looks like BTC gas recovered...

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Dow and S&P close at record highs

In a nearly completely up trading day, the Dow Jones and the S&P have closed once again at all time record highs. DJ: 14,802.24 SP: 1,587.73 How much more upside remains is the $64,000 question.

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Sequester re-revisited

Two months after Janet Napolitano claimed the lines at airports would be hours long from the sequester “cuts”, America’s favorite defenders of freedom, the TSA, has been exposed for spending $50...

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Warning to Kokesh Marchers

There’s been a lot of confusion about Adam Kokesh’s armed protest march into Washington and multiple people have stated the group will simple turn around if they are met with resistance. I’d like to...

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Young People Rejecting Government Involvement

Young America’s Foundation conducted a survey of college aged students regarding their attitude toward government involvement in their lives. The results strongly suggested government should be rolled...

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Defense Distributed Shutting Down

The U. S. Government has issued an order to Defense Distributed to “remove from public access” the schematics and instructions for 3D printing its Liberator pistol and other designs. #DEFCAD has gone...

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USD/JPY Breaks 100 Yen

Reuters is reporting here that the Yen has weakened to the point where it is now trading at 4 year lows to the US dollar. The spin doctors are reporting this event as dollar strength from a positive...

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Full Court Press

Occasionally I find myself clicking on links to economics articles posted to PBS’ The Business Desk. It should come as no surprise to readers that this blog follows the Austrian tradition. So imagine...

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Japanese Investors Buying Up Foreign Bonds

With the Yen in free fall from the massive stimulus administered by the Bank of Japan, Financial Times is reporting that Japanese investors are swapping their JGBs for foreign bonds. For sure there’s a...

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46 Year Old Toyota Sets Asian Car Auction Record

In another sign that the wealthiest are the biggest winners in Bernanke’s inflation fueled monetary policy, a 1967 Toyota 2000GT sold at auction for $1.2 million. It was last sold in March 2011 for a...

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Maryland Latest State to Enact Citizen Disarmament Legislation

Today Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed into law a gun control bill as strict and ridiculous as Colorado and New York. The bill contains several stinging provisions to Maryland gun owners: - All...

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It’s For The Children

Ignoring the misleading headline Breitbart is reporting, there’s a more important story that’s going unnoticed. The story goes like this: a group of children afflicted with down’s syndrome were refused...

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Rutherford Institute Files Suit on Behalf of Brandon Raub

The Rutherford Institute has filed suit on behalf of Brandon Raub in federal court over his unlawful arrest, detention, and institutionalization. You may remember Raub as the marine veteran that posted...

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Weak Yen Causes Apple To Raise Prices

Yet another sign the Bank of Japan and Abenomics are wrecking havoc on the Japanese currency, Apple has raised the price of its iPads and iPods in the land of the rising sun. Full size iPads see a $70...

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Remember the Tank Man

24 years ago today, a single individual stood in defiance before the overwhelming power of the state. Read more about “The Tank Man” here

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Massive Protests Break Out in Brazil

Developing: Going completely unreported in the US mainstream media are the massive nationwide protests occurring right now in Brazil. In all the major population centers, including Rio de Janeiro, Sao...

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Updates from Brazil

As the night wore on, talk spread of follow up protesting to continue in the days to follow. Also stoking the public’s wrath, there’s a constitutional amendment being voted on the 26th of this month,...

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