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May 03, 2012
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"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain."

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The Law, by Frederic Bastiat

Bastiat is my bro

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April 27, 2012
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Noah’s Ark Explained

I’m crying right now.

(Source: facebook.com, via nonplussedbyreligion)

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April 26, 2012
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Oh, look at that

cadburycrazed:

Can someone explain to me why America won’t use the metric system?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act

That sure fixed things, eh?

My grandpa told me about the attempted switch… he’s a big science guy and was all for it. Unfortunately, most people were unable to understand the new system and thought the new metric units were a big conspiracy to rip consumers off lol.

Americans were just too ignorant and stuck in their ways to switch. Ugh.

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April 26, 2012
House passes CISPA

A list of people who don’t like your right to privacy. You know what to do, internet.

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April 26, 2012
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fuckmeinthebutthole:

so i have to do a presentation on any supreme court case

and

which one should i choose

Wickard v. Filburn

It’s just so ridiculous and is still upheld… FDR packed the bench so his New Deal programs would pass. Basically, the Court’s finding was that by not engaging in interstate commerce you are taking part in interstate commerce.

This ruling is what allows the federal gov to use a warping of the Commerce Clause to regulate any economic activity.

It “justifies” federal anti-drug laws so that even if you’re in a state that allows the growing of marijuana the federal gov can come in and arrest you.

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April 26, 2012
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Supreme Court Rulings Defending Your Right to Resist Unlawful Arrest

antigovernmentextremist:

This is so sexy:

“Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer’s life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529. The Court stated: “Where the officer is killed in the course of the disorder which naturally accompanies an attempted arrest that is resisted, the law looks with very different eyes upon the transaction, when the officer had the right to make the arrest, from what it does if the officer had no right. What may be murder in the first case might be nothing more than manslaughter in the other, or the facts might show that no offense had been committed.”

“An arrest made with a defective warrant, or one issued without affidavit, or one that fails to allege a crime is within jurisdiction, and one who is being arrested, may resist arrest and break away. lf the arresting officer is killed by one who is so resisting, the killing will be no more than an involuntary manslaughter.” Housh v. People, 75 111. 491; reaffirmed and quoted in State v. Leach, 7 Conn. 452; State v. Gleason, 32 Kan. 245; Ballard v. State, 43 Ohio 349; State v Rousseau, 241 P. 2d 447; State v. Spaulding, 34 Minn. 3621.

“When a person, being without fault, is in a place where he has a right to be, is violently assaulted, he may, without retreating, repel by force, and if, in the reasonable exercise of his right of self defense, his assailant is killed, he is justified.” Runyan v. State, 57 Ind. 80; Miller v. State, 74 Ind. 1.

Holy freedom, Batman!

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April 26, 2012
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did Rousseau write this?

did Rousseau write this?

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April 26, 2012
Obama's War on Drugs

What an ass… how is this guy a social liberal, again?

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April 26, 2012
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Foreign Policy - hypocrites and false contrasts

Electing Romney could again “waste hundreds of billions of dollars and risk thousands of American lives on an unnecessary war,” Biden said in a clear reference to the unpopular Iraq war that Obama ended.


Do people actually buy this crap? Obama and Romney have theexact same foreign policy! Obama has entered us into more foreign conflicts than Bush… the Iraq conflict is not over, no matter how much they’d like you to believe it is… Guantanamo Bay isstill open, despite Obama’s repeated promises that he would close it…

Any difference between Romney and Obama on this issue is purely superficial, in what they say. As far as actions go, there is no contrast.

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April 26, 2012
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cadburycrazed:

The thing I hate most about University is not the fact that it’s 2AM and I’m sitting here trying to write this stupid assignment. 

It’s the realisation that I am effectively paying thousands of dollars to not learn anything.

　 

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