By Author "Norm Singleton" - page 133
The Government is spending how much on art at a Customs facility?
This is why we are broke. The federal government is planning to spend $500,000 on art for a US Customs and Border Facility in San Diego, according to The Weekly Standard: The "busiest land port of entry in the Western Hemisphere" is getting [...]
Government propaganda: Coming soon to a TV near you
Good news. Starting this week, the American people will at last be able to see programs produced by the federally-funded Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). You see, for years the BBG, which operates outlets such as the Voice of America, Radio [...]
The Inaugural Food Freedom Fest!
C4L's Matt Burrow and I are traveling down this weekend through the visually stunning Shenandoah Valley to the 2014 Food Freedom Fest in Staunton, Virginia. This year's inaugural event, hosted by the frequent-LPAC sponsor, Farm-to-Consumer [...]
Happy Birthday Sarah Murnaghan
Sarah Murnaghan recently celebrated her twelfth birthday. For those who do not remember, Sarah is the girl who almost died last year because of federal regulations prohibiting children from receiving adult organs. Fortunately for Sarah, a federal [...]
If you have nothing to hide, you still have something to fear
Defenders of the NSA, TSA, PATRIOT Act, etc. like to say that "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." Three stories show the fallacy of that statement. First, is a survey from the Pew Research Center showing that only 42% of [...]
Are the government's nutrition standards making us fat and unhealthy?
As I wrote back in May in my review of the documentary Fed Up, the federal government's nutrition standards are often driven by lobbyists and corporations, rather than actual nutrition. The results can lead to the government subsidizing the very [...]
Is this why they wanted our donor information?
Courtesy of The Daily Caller comes this bizarre story about the IRS collecting the names of donors for an as-yet-to-be revealed "research project:" The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) improperly obtained donor lists from nonprofit groups as part [...]
Massie on Hemp
In a segment of a larger interview with cn|2's Pure Politics with Nick Storm, Rep. Thomas Massie talks about the early progress made on legalizing the domestic cultivation of industrial hemp through pilot projects authorized by a provision in the [...]
Campaign for Liberty to Congress: No New (Internet) Taxes
Campaign for Liberty has joined a collation of over forty other organizations in a letter urging the Senate to reject efforts to attach the National Internet Tax Mandate to the Internet Access Tax Moratorium. Instead the letter urges the Senate [...]
Mark Mix Talks Right to Work on C-SPAN
On Labor Day, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President, Mark Mix appeared on C-SPAN to discuss what Right to Work means for workers. Be sure to catch Mark at LPAC this Year!