After Years Of Refusal, Utah Will Now Implement The REAL ID Act
By Michael Maharrey SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Jan. 3, 2018) – After nearly eight years of refusing to implement the REAL ID Act of 2005,…
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Texas Bullion Depository Begins Construction
By Michael Maharrey LEANDER, Texas (Dec. 17, 2018) – Last week, officials broke ground for construction of the Texas Bullion Depository building. The creation of the…
Pop Goes the Federal Reserve’s Auto Bubble
By Michael Maharrey It looks like the Federal Reserve-induced auto bubble just popped. Yesterday, GM announced plant closures and layoffs due to sluggish sales. The big…
Trump Administration on Track for $1 Trillion Budget Deficit This Year
By Michael Maharrey The Trump administration is on track to post a 2019 fiscal year budget deficit of over $1 trillion. These are the kind…
CBD Has Gone Mainstream Despite Federal Prohibition
By Michael Maharrey CBD has gone mainstream – this is nullification in action. If there was ever any doubt, it completely vanished last month when…
DEA Plans to Expand License Plate Surveillance Program
By Michael Maharrey The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) plans to expand a surveillance program that tracks the location of millions of everyday people through pictures…
SWIFT and the Weaponization of the U.S. Dollar
By Michael Maharrey The Trump administration dropped 44,000 bombs in its first year, a faster bombing pace than President Obama, who bombed more than President…
Signed by the Governor: California Law Allows People to Expunge Some Marijuana Charges
By Michael Maharrey SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Oct. 4, 2018) – On Sunday, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that creates a process to expunge or…
Feds Set New Spending Record in August: The Swamp is Overflowing
By Michael Maharrey Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp,” but as Peter Schiff put it, “The swamp is now bigger and more expensive than…
New Colorado Law Expands Asset Forfeiture Reforms
By Michael Maharrey DENVER, Colo. (Sept. 1, 2018) – Today, a new Colorado law went into effect expanding asset forfeiture reporting requirements instituted last year. …
Responding to the “Nothing to Hide” Argument in Support of Mass Surveillance
By Michael Maharrey Whenever I talk about government surveillance, there is always “that guy” who claims if I’m not doing anything illegal I shouldn’t be…
Activist Kicks Off Effort to End Enforcement of Gun Control in Oregon County
By Michael Maharrey An activist in Oregon has taken the first step toward placing an initiative on the ballot that would end local enforcement of most…
New AP Iowa High Court Nullifies Horrible U.S. Supreme Court Fourth Amendment Precedent
By Michael Maharrey A recent ruling by the Iowa Supreme Court effectively nullified bad U.S. Supreme Court precedent in the state. The decision was a…
Wyoming Laws to Encourage Cryptocurrency Already Having Positive Impact
By Michael Maharrey Efforts to encourage the use of cryptocurrency in Wyoming have already paid off. Earlier this month, crypto exchange Coinbase announced it will…