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Lions of Liberty Podcast Ep. 30: Murray Sabrin for Senate!

The Morning Roar: Krugman to Earn $25,000/Month with “Income Inequality Institute”, Victory for Student Charged with Recording Bullies, Protestors Shred Gun Registration Forms

NYC Unapologetically Disbands Muslim Spying Unit

A Rebuttal On Natural Rights and Law

The Morning Roar: IRS Fining Business On Taxes Never Due, Teacher Suspended For “Dangerous” Science Project, and Ron Paul Group Defies IRS

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Lions of Liberty Podcast Ep. 30: Murray Sabrin for Senate!

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Marc Clair Posted in Podcast, Politics Leave a comment

In this episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Murray Sabrin, Professor of Finance at Ramapo College and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in New Jersey. Dr. Sabrin describes how he and his family came to America from West Germany after surviving the Holocaust, before going on to discuss how he became a libertarian, studying with Murray Rothbard, and what he hopes to achieve with his Senate campaign. I also get Dr. Sabrin’s thoughts on

The Morning Roar: Krugman to Earn $25,000/Month with “Income Inequality Institute”, Victory for Student Charged with Recording Bullies, Protestors Shred Gun Registration Forms

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Marc Clair Posted in Current Events, Economy Leave a comment

Welcome to your Thursday edition of The Morning Roar! Paul Krugman to Earn $25,000 Per Month with “Income Inequality Institute” Our old pal the Krugster is at it again! This week the salary Paul Krugman will be receiving in compensation for his forthcoming role with City University of New York (CUNY)’s Luxembourg Income Study Center – a research branch which focuses on the study of income inequality – was revealed when his formal offer letter was obtained thanks to New

NYC Unapologetically Disbands Muslim Spying Unit

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Brian McWilliams Posted in Police State, The Constitution Leave a comment

There is good news and bad news stemming from New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton’s decision to shut down the department’s division that was responsible for tracking and cataloguing the actions of the city’s Muslim population. From the NY Times: The New York Police Department has abandoned a secretive program that dispatched plainclothes detectives into Muslim neighborhoods to eavesdrop on conversations and built detailed files on where people ate, prayed and shopped (Writer note: plus logged conversations), the department said. The

A Rebuttal On Natural Rights and Law

Posted on April 16, 2014 by James E. Miller Posted in Liberty & Law, Philosophy of Liberty Leave a comment

Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them. – Romans 2:14 & 2:15 My recent essay “On Natural Rights, the Egoists Have Nothing” has generated

The Morning Roar: IRS Fining Business On Taxes Never Due, Teacher Suspended For “Dangerous” Science Project, and Ron Paul Group Defies IRS

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Marc Clair Posted in Current Events, Taxation Leave a comment

Welcome to your Wednesday edition of The Morning Roar! After yesterday’s “police state” theme, today we have a running theme of “taxes”, just a day after every single American had to make sure they properly reported their income to the IRS. Everyone loves taxes, right?! IRS Fining Business On Taxes That Were Never Due That pesky IRS is always up to new tricks! WKMG out of Orlando has a story detailing how the IRS has doled out a hefty fine to a

The Constitution…Be Careful What You Wish For

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Marc Clair Posted in Philosophy of Liberty, The Constitution Leave a comment

I’ve discussed before the trouble with relying on the Constitution when making arguments for this or that policy, particularly among libertarians. There is a great irony in seeing those that deride “statism” stand side-by-side with a document that created one of the largest, most overreaching states in the history of the world. Before the Constitution, the “united” states were loosely affiliated under the Articles of Confederation, but there was no overriding federal authority until the Constitutional Convention formed the federal government

U.S. Calls It Quits In The Global War On Terror?

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Marc Clair Posted in Foreign Policy, War & Peace Leave a comment

By Bionic Mosquito One of my pastimes in writing involves speculation – speculation about historical events, speculation about current events, and speculation about what these might mean toward future events. I can get to rambling a bit on this topic – I am trying to put into meaningful form ideas that are often abstract speculation still being worked out in my head. Often, my writing is just me in the process of working things out. I suspect I will ramble

The Morning Roar: Police Are Testing a “Live Google Earth,” 90% of NY Gun Owners Refuse Compliance With SAFE Act, And FBI Plans To Have 52 Million In NGI Database By Next Year

Posted on April 15, 2014 by John Odermatt Posted in Current Events, Police State 2 Comments

Welcome to your Tuesday edition of The Morning Roar! Today we have a police state theme throughout the roar. This was not planned intentionally. Each article covers an avenue the police state is actively encroaching upon individual rights or ways the despots are planning to extend their reach further into the live’s of American citizens. Police Are Testing A “Live Google Earth” To Watch Crime As It Occurs There is an intriguing new technology innovated by Persistent Surveillance Systems that would

Mondays with Murray: Rothbard on the Bundy Ranch Standoff

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Marc Clair Posted in Philosophy of Liberty 2 Comments

This past weekend a standoff – as discussed in an edition of last week’s Morning Roar - in Nevada at the ranch of Cliven Bundy between Federal Agents and a large group of Bundy supporters has seemingly been settled without violence, thankfully. The most basic summary of the events leading up to the standoff: Cliven Bundy’s ranch has been in his family since 1877, and his cattle regularly graze on the the “public” land in the surrounding area which is “owned” (claimed) by

The Morning Roar: NJ Students “Shelter In Place” As Cops Look For Drugs, Feds Confiscate Tax Refund To Pay Relative’s 50 Year Old Debt, And Disabled Boy Convicted For Recording Bullies Tormenting Him

Posted on April 14, 2014 by John Odermatt Posted in Liberty & Law, Police State, Taxation Leave a comment

Welcome to the Monday edition of The Morning Roar! NJ Students “Shelter In Place” As Cops Look For Drugs Lehigh Valley Live is reporting on a drug raid that occurred last Friday at Hackettstown High School, New Jersey. Students were asked to “shelter in place” as police officers using K-9 teams searched through their personal belongings. Working with the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office and using K-9 teams and personnel from police departments in Hackettstown, Independence Township, Washington Township, Morris County, and South