The Roman Empire & The Power of Money

by Robert Fitzwilson, President & Founder of The Portola Group March 4 (King World News) - There have been many analogies drawn between the United States and Rome. We think that to be historically inaccurate. The new Roman equivalent is a strip of discontinuous land stretching roughly from C

Seven Reasons That The Fed’s Housing Policy Isn’t Working

from ConfoundedInterest The Federal Reserve has done everything in its power to get the housing market back on its feet. With record low mortgage rates, The Fed was hoping that the path to recovery would be faster and smoother than it has been so far. Here are some of the reasons that The Fed’s

raw glock buried 2 years in backyard dirt gets fed 500 rounds after spigot bath and NO LUBE

at gunmartblog: http://www.gunmartblog.com/2012/03/glock-21-buried-for-2-years-then-given.html at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj5Kcs4dzro wanted to point out that the video is ten minutes and without any additional insight it's pretty damn boring. that being said, those intere

Profile in Silver

J. Neil Schulman tweet from yesterday and some assorted links https://twitter.com/#!/jneilschulman/status/177565158212767744 http://constitution.org/2ll/schol/2amd_grammar.htm http://jneilschulman.rationalreview.com/2012/02/alongside-night-movie-to-preview-spring-2012-at-george-mason-univer

It pays to be an FBI Terrorist Bomber

from Free Edgar Steele What’s that you say; it’s “sour grapes” from Edgar Steele’s family and supporters when they observe that FBI informant Larry Fairfax soon faces release from his barely 24-month incarceration? Sorry, it goes much deeper than sour grapes when the facts are compared

Guatemala, Colombia, and Mexico are considering the regional legalization of the drug trade

The Atlantic Wire Last week, the president of Guatemala joined former and current presidents of Colombia and Mexico in expressing interest in considering the regional legalization of the drug trade. The U.S. State Department immediately expressed its disfavor, but the question is out in

Fox Edits Anti-war Veteran’s Confrontation with Neocon John Bolton

During a taping of the Stossel show at the 2012 International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington D.C., I got to confront neo-conservative war monger John Bolton on the issue of blowback, and it miraculously made it’s way onto the Stossel show! I’m guessing we have the man himself, Joh

Understanding the Public Pension Crisis

from RebootCongress One of the many forms of public debt that threatens to overwhelm the United States are our public pension obligations. The video above is a good introduction to the problem. From the YouTube description: Public pensions are facing a crisis:$6 Trillion in the red. Watch

‘Finished’ Court IT Project to Cost State 100s of Millions for Years

by Maria Dinzeo, Courthouse News Service The current claim from court bureaucrats that a big IT project is "finished" runs counter to budget documents showing plans to spend $242,000 on the project every single day from now through mid-2014. A memo entitled "Fact Check" was sent by the Adminis

Is Harrisburg’s Nightmare America’s Future?

Your enemy isn’t piracy. Your enemy is obscurity

The Most Important Quote On The Planet! - Cory Doctorow: “Your enemy isn’t piracy. Your enemy is obscurity" Of course your enemy is obscurity and it is intended to be that way. The internet offers the potential for everyone on the planet to communicate with everyone else on the planet. It rem

NatGeo Doomsday Preppers [Not Shown] Are Insane

by Robert Farago, TTAG Survivalism should be a stealthy business. “If people do not know you have something,” thesurvivalistblog.net points out, “then they cannot make plans to take it from you.” Or, as a non-prepper would say, “Why should I prepare for myself when I can just take it