Summer Shirts Rolling Out!

Up here in the Soviet Republic of Minnesota, summer has been less than aggressive warming the hardened, unforgiving tundra. Just last week there were frost advisories.

But now its in the 80s and officially t-shirt season! Here are a few new selections just launched in the past week or so.

From the great satirist Ambrose Bierce to historical American Revolution battle flag-inspired designs, we're trying to create some liberty-loving apparel that's never been seen before.

Cash for Clunkers? More Changism Gone Crazy

The House Obamunists have passed the "Cash for Clunkers" bill. The states that consumers would be paid up to $4,500 in vouchers for trading in their current vehicles for more fuel-efficient models. It now moves to the Senate.

Congress must be trying to see how much taxpayer money it can dump into an industry in one calendar year.

So let's get this straight. People with clunkers that don't have money for new, fuel efficient cars will be given $4,500 for the down payment on a new car they can't afford and will go into debt for in the midst of the most crushing recession in generations.

That sounds like something Congress would do.

Right Wing Extremists: Saving America Since 1776

With the 233rd Independence Day celebration on it's way in America, we thought it would be a good idea to honor the radical extremists that founded this country.  

Now, it might be true that calling Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin "right wing" is a bit historically questionable within the original context of the old Left-Right paradigm laid out in the French Assembly in the late 18th Century. We understand that technically the founders had more in common with what would historically be deemed the "left" than anything.  As Dean Russell wrote last month: 

The first leftist would not be popular in America today. That is true because the original leftists wanted to abolish government controls over industry, trade, and the professions. They wanted wages, prices, and profits to be determined by competition in a free market, and not by government decree. They were pledged to free their economy from government planning, and to remove the government-guaranteed special privileges of guilds, unions, and associations whose members were banded together to use the law to set the price of their labor or capital or product above what it would be in a free market.

 So way back Liberty Maniacs would be about as left-leaning as they come.  Indeed, as many of you know, the left side of the National Constituent Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution iRight Wing Extremists: Saving America Since 1776n 1789 was comprised of elected representatives that wanted to abolish the established, privileged, preferential treatment of the royal coterie industries and replace the system with markets and freedom.  The right was comprised of reactionary hangers-on, that were resistant to liberty--or at least the rapid changes represented by those on the left.

Of course, political terminology changes like the weather.  The definition of terms in practical politics certainly hold no scientific, immutable hold on the people that use them.  Along the way--in America at least--the left mutated more into statism as the progressive movement took hold while the right became a more comparatively vocal critic of government aggrandizement. 

Not that a false dichotomy of left-right could ever be tidy.  I recall Murray Rothbard's article "Confessions of A Right-Wing Liberal" in David Horowitz's New Left periodical Ramparts in 1968 that explaned the rather odd journey of Rothbard from hardline right-wing Taft Republican to left-wing, war-protesting, black-power-supporting radical within a decade--all without changing his political views one iota. (The former New Left radical Horowitz, now neoconservative author and owner of the site frontpage.com is as great an example as the libertarian Rothbard of how the left-right dichotomy lends itself to confusion more than anything.)

So yeah, "Right Wing Extremist" might not be as historically accurate as we like for this design, but nothing pithy ever is.

Posters & Prints for Rebels

A few new posters are out, so I thought I'd highlight them.
The 1st is a retro remake of an old WWII propaganda poster that I redrew and repurposed. The idea came up after I was talking with a close friend about the acceleration of the Obama Administration's retrenchment on all promises antiwar.

This isn't a surprise at all seeing as the liberal Obama seems bent on showing hawkish bona fides early on. What is a bit chilling is how often you hear about how WWII was the event that ended the Great Depression, which, when trumpeted by the opinion makers in Washington seems to read like an ellipsis considering the current malaise.

Considering the insane things the government is doing right now to juice the economy, is it really that bizarre to think that the government would stoke massive war for stimulative effect? It's clear the power brokers have no concept of capital formation or monetary restraint, let alone an underlying respect for the Broken Window Fallacy. Our draft days might now be done folks.

The second poster is the next in the "Trust Government" Line, featuring Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.

I did a few treatments with the illustration, and more products will actually be coming out. Right now we have shirts, posters, a skateboard, and a few different other products in our CafePress store.

We've been pretty busy making posters this last month. There are actually more than I'll comment on right now. It's probably best just to let the work speak for itself.

Don't Tax Me Bro!

Tons of new designs were posted this week. The above is one of the many. As you know Tax Day approaches, so we thought a little anti-tax humor was appropos.

President Obama has been on a spending rampage since he took office while effectively nationalizing industries like banking and autos.

There already isn't a tax base in the World that could ever support the amount of spending Obama has initiated, but don't worry, He'll try.

Inflation alone--another hidden tax on American families--will decimate the economy.

Just as "Don't Tase Me Bro!" has become a rallying cry against the political police state, "Don't Tax Me Bro!" is the cry for the people to keep the government's boot off our neck.

Our Friend Steve Beirfeldt Harrassed By TSA: Must Watch!

Check out our friend from the Campaign for Liberty being forcibly detained by TSA thugs.

You did a wonderful job in the face of open tyranny Steve!

Trucker Hats for Liberty

Spring is here, so why not lighten up the headwear with a little hat fashion?

Take This, Missouri

So according to Missouri, Liberty Maniacs like yourselves are nothing more than 'domestic terrorists.' Well, we have two words for MIAC and the liberty-hating, knuckle-dragging, authoritarian meatheads... Check out some of the stuff here.

Obama is Bush: Evidence #001

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Mess O'Potamia - The Iraq War Is Over

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Important Things w/ Demetri Martin

Political Humor
Jim Cramer

In Missouri if You Support Ron Paul Your a Terrorist

Just throw this news coming out of Missouri on the pile of Facist moves the government is taking these days. It's really hard to believe for a lot of people unless they start reading and seeing for themselves how far the government will go to keep us all under it's thumb. This article here in the Kansas City Star is very disturbing indeed.