Vice surveys the conservative resistance movement — from Tea Parties in Texas, to Oathkeeper rallies in Massachusetts, to the followers of faux-libertarian Alex Jones, with his dire, conspiratorial warnings of a pending New World Order. How dangerous is the threat of a totalitarian government, and can the public mobilize to safeguard our freedoms? Are we on the brink of a 2nd American Revolutionary War?
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Reason.TV surveys the Nanny of the Month award winners from 2012, narrowing the field down to select the biggest Nanny of the Year. Who will it be?
Might it be the Arizona pol who’s cracking down on advertisers who photoshop models to make them more attractive? How about that New Jersey crusader who’s itching to bust bikinis? Or the police chief from Massachusetts who refused to let obstacles like the First Amendment deter him from championing an ordinance that fines folks for public profanity?
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Lee Doren exposes the myths, the miscalculations and the outright lies behind Democrats’ plans to tax the rich as a means to ease the federal government’s mounting debts. The catalyst for his critique is an animated piece of propaganda called Tax the Rich, created by the California Federation of Teachers. Narrated by lefty loon Ed Asner, the video blames the rich for pretty much all of the country’s economic and social woes, and even has a scene depicting the wealthy urinating on poor people. Here’s Doren’s rebuttal, followed by Tax the Rich, which should otherwise be known as Teachers Can be Just As Stupid, Biased and Bigoted As Anyone Else, If Not More So.
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Revealing Politics’ Caleb Bonham hit the streets to talk with his fellow man in this Christmas-themed double-feature.
Revealing Politics was curious how far some people think our government should go to regulate carbon emissions during this busy shopping season. “Should the government regulate Christmas to save the environment? ” and “What is more important, Christmas or Earth Day?”
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Bands like Green Day might market themselves as punk rock rebels, but in fact, they are hypocrites who have sold out to the Establishment by plugging bloated, Big Government policies. The punkers might sneer and ridicule the corporations, but they no longer can claim to be anti-establishment when they have embraced socialism and a creeping bureaucracy, argues Alfonzo Rachel in this edition of ZoNation. H/T PJTV
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The National Park Service has evicted Drakes Bay Family Oyster Farm in Point Reyes, Calif., putting 30 people out of work and shutting down the last oyster cannery in California. The farm had been in operation for 40 years under a lease with the federal government, but had come under attack from “wilderness advocates” who believed the operation marred a pristine coastline. Now, the coastline will be empty and open, at the same time that 30 more Americans will be unemployed and one more small business destroyed by the Obama Administration.
Here is a short video about the oyster farm created by local students from Tampalais High School in 2010. The students titled the video Love on the Half Shell.
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The Northside school district in San Antonio, Texas, has won November’s Nanny of the Month Award for its decision requiring students to wear electronic tracking devices. The students actually wear radio frequency identification chips (RFID chips, for short) that can be monitored from dozens of electronic readers installed in schools’ ceiling panels to keep tabs on the kiddos during the schoolday.
With school-based tracking going back to at least 2004, the Lone Star State has been something of an RFID trailblazer. In fact, Northside is considering expanding the program to cover all of the district’s 97,000 students.
Reason.TV named two runners-up for the Nanny of the Month Award:
* The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where administrators may ban booze in dorms — even for students of legal drinking age.
* The city of Chicago, where officials are using GPS devices to track food trucks to make sure they don’t wander within 200 feet of any fixed businesses that sell food, including convenience stores. Violators could face fines of $2,000.
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In his first Afterburner since the election, Bill Whittle weighs in. Now that Barack Obama has been re-elected president, ObamaCare is certain to remain unchanged. Whittle thinks this is the first step towards massive tax increases, socialized health care and a citizenry more dependent on the federal government than ever. So the foreseeable future of our great country looks grim. Hear why Whittle believes patriots must continue to fight the good fight for the duration.
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The country might be going broke, and Americans everywhere are tightening their belts, but President Obama continues to spend like a drunken sailor on White House state dinners. A May 2010 dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón cost nearly $1 million, or $4,700 per attendee. Three other state dinners cost in excess of $500,000 apiece. Darrel Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has called upon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to document what Issa calls “excessively lavish” state dinners.
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Reason.TV awards its Nanny of the Month booby prize to the city of Los Angeles. Poised on the brink of bankruptcy, battling double-digit unemployment, strangled by a sea of red tape, the Los Angeles City Council nevertheless demonstrated its misplaced priorities by banning the sale of breeder-raised cats and dogs by pet stores. The stores will face hefty fines unless they sell rescued and adopted animals. What will be the next kooky do-good inanity to come out of California?
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