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Tales of Tyranny XII: The Kay Kohler Story

From the Freedom Foundation: Kay Kohler inherited her Snohomish County family farm property, which had been in her family since the 1930s. She never developed the land. This property was valued by the...

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Rep. Gosar Votes to Cut Business-Strangling Red Tape

‘Set Our Small Businesses Free’         WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) voted in favor of the Small Business Capital Access and Job Preservation Act (H.R.1105),...

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City bans “God Bless America” Signs?

When exactly did we tell government: “We are your serfs”? They make it their business to mind your business. And recently busybodies have made it their business to ban doorknobs in Vancouver (next...

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Is Government Bureaucracy Failing Our Veterans?

Bureaucracy isn’t efficient. Bureaucracy doesn’t care about you. This is the way government is. Government cannot love you. But providing care and benefits to U.S. veterans IS a legitimate function of...

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City tries to bankrupt business with parking ticket debt that wasn’t even theirs

This is what arbitrary bureaucratic tyranny looks like. David Petrich owns the Farm Boat, a floating farmers market in Seattle. He faced losing this business when the City of Seattle came after him for...

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Ugenti Proposes County Regulation Reform

STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX (Dec. 11, 2013) – In an effort to reduce the regulatory burden and reduce costs on Arizona businesses, Rep. Michelle Ugenti, R-Scottsdale, has introduced legislation that will...

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Tales of Tyranny XIII: Errol Speed

When Errol Speed built an accessory building on his property, he thought he’d followed San Juan County’s rules. According to the County, buildings under 1,000 sq. feet did require permits, fees, or...

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The Boot of the Administrative State

The administrative state has grown exponentially, usurping much of our freedoms to govern ourselves and the states we live in. John Marini, a professor of political science at University of...

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The inmates are running the asylum . . . and it’s driving business abroad

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. According to Wikipedia, the former aphorism may have...

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Mike Lee’s shocking image: 80,000 pages of regulations written by unelected...

Here is how Senator Lee captions the image: Behold my display of the 2013 Federal Register. It contains over 80,000 pages of new rules, regulations, and notices all written and passed by unelected...

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