“Here We Stand, At The Twilight’s Last Gleaming” These words are written past the midnight hour and I remember back to March 23, 2010 when Obamacare was signed into law at the 11th hour. I remember it well; I was up almost all night, as it was around 11 pm that it was finished. Never […]
Here We Stand, At The Twilight’s Last Gleaming: “All Private Property Rights In The U.S. To Be Strategically Usurped”
Oyster Farmer: ‘We Are Terrified’ Of The Government
Drakes Bay Oyster Company operated in Point Reyes for decades until National Park Service officials used falsified data to force Kevin Lunny’s family-run oyster farm to shut down. The experience has left its mark on Lunny: “We are terrified,” he told lawmakers during a hearing Thursday. “Let me be clear, we did not fail as […]
Attorney Calls Easements A ‘Government Land Grab’
In recent years, conservation easements—agreements between landowners and nonprofit organizations—have gained popularity as a way to protect wildlife, provide various kinds of tax exemptions as well as prevent land and mineral development with an eye toward permanent preservation. At the same time, there has been concerns these easements have caused erosion of local tax bases […]
A Modern Paul Revere
The following is a recent letter from Mr. Jett Ferebee of North Carolina to the Secretary of the Interior (Jewell) and the Director of the US Fish & Wildlife Service (Ashe). Mr. Ferebee and his associates in North Carolina have formed an active coalition of politicians and bureaucrats bent on exposing the lawlessness of […]
John Deere’s Weird Idea of ‘Ownership’
It’s official: John Deere and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership. Sure, we pay for their vehicles. But we don’t own them. Not according to their corporate lawyers, anyway. In a particularly spectacular display of corporate delusion, John Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery maker —told the Copyright Office that farmers don’t own […]
Big Automakers Want to Make it Against the Law to Work on Your Own Car
It was recently reported that automakers could soon be going after car owners for making repairs on their own vehicles. Some of the industries leading companies are now claiming that their software has become so complicated that “tampering with it,” or making repairs on your own property, could be a copyright violation. Interestingly enough, Tesla, […]
CPS Destroying Rengo Family: Demands Erica Separate from her Husband to Get Children Back
It has been more than three months since the dramatic arrest and capture of Erica May and Cleave Rengo’s 3 small children by CPS in California, where Erica shouted to reporters: “Send a message to America for me. Children don’t belong to the government. The government belongs to the people.” Erica and Cleave are from […]
Another Medical Kidnapping at Boston Children’s Hospital: Baby Seized Over Formula Disagreement
It is an all-too-familiar cascade of events that happens all across the world, but for baby Bella’s family, their fairly typical scenario has resulted in their baby being taken from her loving parents. Now Massachusetts DCF wants to adopt this beautiful baby out, permanently severing Christina and Jonathon Hinote’s parental rights to their daughter, who […]