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Vehicles may not all be pristine in the coming zero government society, but they will not lead to drivers being shot in the back by uniformed thugs.
 
But there's more to the story of the Walter Scott tragedy than a racist cop run amok, as shown in today's ZGBlog.

Talk about deniers, my lord.  The facts of the matter apparently must be ignored in the name of marching on for the cause.  This cultish behavior of these marchers should be obvious to them after a block or two resulting in a bit of clarity, but I guess some people have much higher tolerances for cognitive dissonance than I'm able to relate to.
 
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/04/13/global-warming-protestors-in-the-s...

That's been a hope since the LP was founded. This week Rand Paul declared he's running for Prez, and the latest poll shows him ahead of Hillary. Is this a credible way to bring about a free society?
 
White House Dreams, out today, shows why not.

The video camera has pulled the curtain back to allow more people to see how those who swore to protect and serve the people who pay their salaries (cough, cough) truly act.  After the cop last week shot a man in the back, 8 times, and then the cop planted his Taser next to the body of the man he murdered in cold blood to support his bald faced lie that he "feared for his life", it was a passerby taking a video that revealed the truth.  As cowardly as shooting a man in the back for no reason is, how about beating up a pregnant women?  A team of uniformed thugs invaded a pregnant woman's home in Texas with the purpose of kidnapping her 18 month old child.  When she had the courage to ask for a warrant, the response was "We don't need no stinking warrant!" as they forced their way in and beat her for her trouble before arresting her and taking her child.  Luckily, for the truth, a home surveillance video captured it.  Be warned, watching this video may make you sick:
 
http://rt.com/usa/248125-texas-woman-punched-police/

In spite of the tendency of politicians to cling hard to the status quo, especially when a policy expands their power and control like the drug war does, here is an example of how eliminating laws that make matters worse can help society recover and get better.  Now, if only the lawmakers in the USA can learn from the Portuguese experience, as well as the states that have legalized marijuana, and totally end the war on drugs not sold by Big Pharma.  Then take this principle and apply it to every other area where government intervention has wreaked havoc in our lives. 
 
 
http://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decriminalized-al...
 

Certainly not from government, of course. Where, then; thin air? God?  Today's ZGBlog offers an answer.

Nuclear power is no more workable as a free-market industry in Britain than it is in the U.S., and a new law makes the point by letting the government force communities to host nuclear waste dumps whether they want to or not. 
 
 

The more Socialist an economy becomes, the more shortages of basic goods and services there will be.  It always sounds good to the masses when state central planners promise cheap toilet paper and soap, but when they run out of these items (because the price does not provide enough incentive to manufacture and distribute them) I find it amusing how instead of blaming the real culprits that undermined the economy, the hard core socialist will blame the "black-market".  The "black-market" that only exists because of the state imposed burdens on other-wise free exchange.  It's hard not to laugh at this madness.
 
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-04/venezuela-still-out-toilet-pape...
 
 

The Labor Department that "releases" figures labeled unemployment rates for media hacks and bought and paid for institutional cheerleaders in academia pronounce that the current unemployment rate is 5.5%.  There has been much rejoicing at propaganda outlets, primarily to tout the success of official policies.   If you use the official numbers, which are certainly suspect, the number of people considered in the labor force (156,906,000) represent only 62.7% of the people who could work (250,080,000), which means that 37.3% of the people who could work (the non-institutionalized population between 16 and 54), don't work.  A note: if you are 55 and over and do work then they count you as part of the employable population, but if you don't work, then you are not counted as seeking a job.  I and a lot of other people in that category certainly consider themselves wanting and/or needing a job; so this figure is likely low.  The number of able people not working has now reached levels equal to those when most women stayed in the home in the 1970s. 
 
So, 57.2% of the working population has a job, 5.5% want to work and are actively seeking a job and 37.3% either have given up looking for a job, are rich enough that they don't need a job or just don't give a shit.  As the total working population of people not working increases, it will be telling which of these categories increases the fastest; and their ain't a whole lot of new rich people these days.
  
 
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/americans-not-labor-force-exce...

Some are said to be penny-wise and pound-foolish, but this week Indiana's government turned that old saying on its head; having just written a law, it promptly if partially reversed itself upon hearing a squeal in the national media. Pence Foolish, out today, tells the tale, and reminds readers who has, and who does not have, the right to make business decisions. Enjoy.