Why I hate school but love education

Armistice Day | The Beacon

Anthony Gregory details how a day dedicated to peace was hijacked to give politicians cover to promote perpetual war.

Blame Woodrow Wilson | Antiwar Radio

HIstorian Jim Powell explains to Scott Horton how the American Empire bagan with Woodrow Wilson.

Let’s Forget 9/11 | The Daily Reckoning

Let’s Forget 9/11

Lawless America: The Movie update by Bill Windsor | Lawless America

The Case Against Taxpayer-Funded Crop Insurance | Reason

Why? For starters, its expensive, fradulent, wasteful and a giveaway to corporations, says Baylen Linnekin.

Going Off Grid - Montana Style! | Alt-Market.com

Using a former pharmaceutical sales rep as an example, Brandon Smith shows how living in harmony with nature is not just for hippies anymore.

America, the law-crazed | The Orange County Register

John Stossel details how never in U.S. history have so many Americans been locked up for so little.

Are People Being Thrown Into Psychiatric Wards For Their Political Views? | Washington's Blog

Brandon Raub is the latest example of Soviet-style repression.

Biggest Businesses Run by College Dropouts | CNBC

For these 10 CEOs, leaving college was the doorway to success.

Is a State Run Gold Standard Really the Answer? | The Daily Bell

The Republican National Committee has the right idea, but the wrong solution.

Judge orders release of US Marine detained for Facebook posts | RT

Is "The Government" the Country? | Downsize D.C.

Not by a long shot, says Perry Willis

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Rooney On Lives Taken | 60 Minutes

Woman says past Mason sheriffs mismanaged estate | West Virginia Record

Gina Eads alleges Ernie Watterson, Shorty Huffman, Scott Simms and David Anthony, during their terms are sheriff, transferred more money from the estate of her grandmother, Grace Thornton, for the care of her father, Richard Gaylor, than they were supposed to.

America and Israel: Modern-day Spartas | theintelhub.com

The militarism embraced by both democracies will be their death kneel, says Stephen Lendman.

How the Kelly Thomas Killing Sparked a Citizen Revolt | Reason.com

Steve Greenhut uses a "contempt of cop" case in Fullerton, Calif. as a practical, if horrific, example of how regime change begins at home.

Mother’s Day, 2012, and We’re Still at War | LewRockwell.com

The intentions of the two women who started it over a century ago were otherwise says Murray Polner.

Arrested Development: The Criminalization of America’s Schoolchildren | The Rutherford Institute

For those hoping to better understand how and why we arrived at this dismal point in our nation’s history, where individual freedoms, privacy and human dignity have been sacrificed to the gods of security, expediency and corpocracy, look no farther than America’s public schools.

Violence Against Women Act Sanctions Rights Violations | The Beacon

Violence Against Women Act Sanctions Rights Violations

Former Mason deputy challenging certification revocation, termination | West Virginia Record

Eric Lynch alleges he was forced out of Sheriff's Department due to "racial prejudice."

Lynch also alleged race a factor in '02 termination in Chesapeake | West Virginia Record

Lawsuit maintains town officials tolerated misconduct by white police officers.

Former deputy sheriff sues Mason school chief for defamation | The West Virginia Record

A former Mason County Sheriff's deputy alleges the superintendent of schools defamed him in remarks she gave to the media about him being investigated for making inappropriate remarks about a student's T-shirt.

Suzanne Dickens is named in a three-count defamation suit filed by Robert Glenn in Mason Circuit Court. In his complaint filed March 9, Glenn alleges Dickens last year prematurely affirmed to a television station Glenn, while working as the prevention resource officer at Hannan Senior and Junior High School sexually harassed a female student.

In West Virginia, prevention resource officers are uniformed police officers who, among other things, serve as security guards in public schools, and teach students about bullying.

For more on this story, go to The West Virginia Record.

The First Amendment Needs a Rape Kit | Future of Freedom Foundation

Wendy McElroy provides as SANE analysis of recent violations.

National search begins for state higher ed chief | The Charleston Gazette

Replacement for Brian Noland expected by May.

Student Loans: America’s Next Debt Bomb | Openmarket.org

The kill radius is magnified by a dumbed-down curriculum says Hans Bader.

Gasoline Prices Are Not Rising, the Dollar Is Falling | Forbes

Louis Woodhill explains.

Jim Rogers: U.S. Presidential favorites clueless on economy | Reuters

Mason sheriff resigns, pleads to fraud and firearms-related charges | The West Virginia Record

The law enforcement career of one West Virginia sheriff has come to end following his resignation from office, and entering pleas to charges he both endangered the life of his son and defrauded the county.

David Lee Anthony II appeared in Mason Circuit Court March 6 to plead guilty to four charges of the 42-count indictment returned against him in January by the grand jury. In tendering his plea, Anthony, 42, agreed to plead guilty to charges of brandishing, and shooting near a dwelling and no contest to charges of fraudulent scheme and embezzlement, all misdemeanors.

For more on this story, go to The West Virginia Record.

Photo:  Former Mason County Sheriff David Anthony II, foreground, exits the courtroom after entering a plea agreement to four counts of a 42-count indictment returned against him in January. The plea agreement called for Anthony both resigning as sheriff, and dropping his bid for re-election which negated a scheduled hearing next month by a three-judge panel to consider a petition filed by the county comission for his impeachment, and removal from office.

Democracy versus Liberty | The Daily Bell

Tibor Machan explains the important difference your teachers never told you about.

Mason sheriff faces removal effort in midst of criminal charges | The West Virginia Record

Before May's primary election, Mason County Sheriff David Anthony II's bid for re-election will have to successfully run a gauntlet of legal and political trials next month.

The Mason County Commission on Feb. 13 filed a petition in Mason Circuit Court for Anthony's impeachment, and removal as sheriff. The petition cites four counts of malfeasance of office as ground for Anthony's removal that include nearly $2,500 in unauthorized expenditures last year in Florida, his arrest in November for discharging a handgun over the head of his 14-year-old son and applying for and receiving grant money without the Commission's knowledge or consent.

For more on this story, go to The West Virginia Record.

12 Planks of Modern Survivalism | The Survival Podcast

Jack Spirko, host of The Survival Podcast, explains his core values for prepping.

Victory on SOPA: Lessons Learned | LewRockwell.com

Gary North chronicles the takedown.

SOPA and PIPA explained | The Khan Academy

Former Mason deputy gets $24K in back pay following judge's ruling | West Virginia Record

Settlement also allows for Robert Glenn to resign with clean employment record.

How to file a Freedom of Information Act request in West Virginia | The Gilmer Free Press

The heroic Gilmer Free Press provides a primer.

Blackout Wednesday: The Time Has Come | Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom

Jeffrey Tucker, publisher and executive editor of Laissez-Faire Books, applauds Wikipedia, and other Internet sites for going dark today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act.

10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free | The Washington Post

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley reminds those in Washington, D.C. that for every finger pointed in judgment of other nations violating the rights of its citizens, there are others pointed back at them.

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence- April 4, 1967

Writer sues Cabell officials over access to records | West Virginia Record

Suit filed by Lawrence Smith, freelance journalist, and owner/publisher of The Mason Free Press part of on-going investigation into former Pleasant Valley Hospital physican Jack M. Levine.

Is it time to leave? | Backwoods Home Magazine

Claire Wolfe weighs the pros and cons of expatriation.

Nullification: The Rightful Remedy trailer | Foundation for a Free Society

Why Governments Make War | Antiwar.com

P-O-W-E-R says Justin Raimondo