Here We Stand, At The Twilight’s Last Gleaming: “All Private Property Rights In The U.S. To Be Strategically Usurped”

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 […]

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 […]