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Wisconsin Takes Historic Step Towards Legalizing Raw Milk

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Tweet Many US states and the federal government have passed laws banning or severely restricting the sale and distribution of raw milk. In fact, organic food stores and family farms have been victimized by SWAT style, guns-drawn raids, as law … Continue reading

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Portland, ME Legalizes Marijuana While IL Approves Same-Sex Marriage

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Tweet While the media drooled over the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial contests last night, voters in Portland, Maine were launching an all-out assault on cannabis prohibition. A referendum called Question 1, which legalizes recreational possession of up to 2.5 … Continue reading

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Jury Nullification Ad Appears in Subway Near DC Superior Court

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Tweet For the uninitiated, jury nullification is a de facto right of jurors under common law, since citizens serving on a jury can vote based on their conscience and can’t have their vote challenged on the basis of their rationale. … Continue reading

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Out of 72 “Potential Terrorists” 24 are our Rebels of the Week

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Tweet There’s a great post over at TheTruthWins.com titled “72 Types Of Americans That Are Considered “Potential Terrorists” In Official Government Documents” and normally I’m plenty skeptical of this kind of thing, but in this case every one seems pretty … Continue reading

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Malala Yousafzai Stands Up to Obama on Drone Strikes

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Tweet At age 16, Malala Yousafzai has already achieved prominence as one of the world’s top political activists, possibly of all time. At age 11, she began her battle for a woman’s right to pursue an education in the Taliban-controlled Swat … Continue reading

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Truckers Could Shut Down America

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Tweet The funniest thing about the government shutdown is all the whining from Statists about stuff that can’t be done without the State, because usually the whole list is licenses and permits they won’t be issuing, but will still be … Continue reading

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CA Governor Signs Bill Nullifying NDAA Indefinite Detention

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Tweet The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 contains a provision in which the federal government claims to have the authority to indefinitely detain individuals suspected of terrorist activity, including US citizens. This extraordinary assertion of power violates … Continue reading

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Northern California Counties Vote to Secede from California

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Tweet California is a geographically massive state. Stretching from the southern border of the United States all the way up the west coast to Oregon, state officials are tasked with finding compromise between communities facing drastically different circumstances. The state … Continue reading

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PA Homeowner Pays Property Tax Debt in $1 Bills

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Tweet For some homeowners, property taxes can be deeply frustrating. Many Americans work for years to pay off a home, only to lose it to an unpaid tax bill during tough times. The main objective of homeownership for most people … Continue reading

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Principal reports anarchist student to cops for thought crime

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Tweet Kinnan Zaloom is a former student at Hampstead School and he wrote under the pseudonym Sludge at The Hampstead Trash Blog. Principal Jacques Szemalikowski was so offended by Zaloom’s writing that he blocked the website on school computers, forbid … Continue reading

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