Category Archives: The Government is Not Your Friend

To not live withing the confines of the City of Seattle. As if there weren’t enough reasons already Seattle to fine residents for not composting Seattle residents who fail to separate food waste from trash will be fined. The City … Continue reading →

The 4th Amendment is going, going Illinois judge rules police entitled to Swat raid over parody Twitter account The police hadn’t even come for him. When four fully-armed officers of a Swat team burst into Jacob Elliott’s house in Peoria, … Continue reading →

To answer this question: More businesses are closing than starting. Can Congress help turn that around? Congress can do very little. So long as people are more afraid of what the government can do to them than they are in … Continue reading →

You mean the government could be rewarding bad behavior? How could this be? Why Americans are flocking to their sinking shores even as the risks mount Once you get through the golwball warmening angle (I really don’t mind the part … Continue reading →

They got their “top performer” awards and nobody bothered looking into the illegalities the system was committing. They hope it works even better this time. Auditor that Accredited VA Hospitals Where Patients Died to Review Same Hospitals The same independent … Continue reading →

Welcome to your official reality According to the Los Angeles Times, while introducing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who said America is “the other Mexico,” Brown “spoke about the interwoven histories of Mexico and California.” He “nodded to the immigrants … Continue reading →

The President and his friends see their time in power waning and are hellbent on “fundamentally transforming the nation.” Groups that closely follow regulations are expecting the Obama administration to continue issuing controversial rules through the midterm elections, despite the … Continue reading →

Until now. After Losing 2 Passenger Jets, Malaysia Airlines Suspends Trading And Plans To Become State-Owned One plane was shot down by a hostile foreign power. Before that, one of their aircraft was flown off course by a possibly deranged … Continue reading →

Why should we trust them to run the country? Wikipedia Blocking Congress from editing Wikipedia Wikipedia administrators have imposed a ban on page edits from computers at the US House of Representatives, following “persistent disruptive editing”. The 10-day block comes … Continue reading →