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Lysander Spooner is an important – and not exactly obscure – figure in the history of the liberty movement. He’s an idiosyncratic figure from the 19th century with no small cheerleading section in the 21st century. A bit of a throwback to a very different time, Spooner was a champion of the labor movement and was even a member of the First International at a time when socialists and anarchists coexisted peacefully within that movement. Perhaps one of the most interesting things about Spooner is that he ran a private company in direct competition with the United States Post Office....

When the agents went into the house, they searched all over, including in the children’s rooms. They asked Kolfage about his guns, how many and their characteristics. They allowed Kolfage to only take his medications with him and then took Kolfage outside while his two children huddled in their room with fear. What happened next likely violated numerous articles of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Once outside the 15 agents dragged triple amputee war hero Brian Kolfage with one good arm and no legs into their arrest vehicle! This was extremely humbling and unsafe for Kolfage!

NBC 6 cameras were at both facilities where Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz attempted to enter after speaking with union membersThe congresswoman says she received pictures showing mail dating as far back as July at facilities in the area. Wasserman Schultz told NBC 6 she went to one of the facilities in Opa-locka in February. A member of Congress from South Florida was denied entry to United States Postal Service facilities early Friday morning as questions remain over mail times for ballots ahead of the upcoming general election. NBC 6 cameras were at both facilities in Opa-locka and Northwest Miami-Dade...

The U.S. Postal Service has racked up billions of dollars in excessive overtime from its workers over the last several years, even as its employee numbers have gone up and its mail delivery has declined, according to a new audit likely to raise questions about congressional Democrats' demands for a bailout. Overtime pay has become so predominant at America's premier mail delivery service that more than 4,000 postal workers last year actually earned more in OT pay than their base pay, a 429% increase in highly compensated overtime earners since 2014, the agency's internal watchdog reported this week. "A mail...

.Those of you who know me know that I’ve moved on from polls in early 2016 when all but two (Trafalgar and People’s Pundit Daily—now Big Data Poll) were proven wrong. Never going back. You also know that using other measures, namely the same ones that allowed me in early 2016 to predict a Trump electoral college victory of “300-320 electoral votes” (final was 306), I think President Donald Trump is headed for a decisive win. No victory can be called a “landslide” without the states of California, New York, and Illinois, which Trump won’t get. But he’ll come in...

DeJoy appears before the House committee today. "Reclaiming My Time" should be a drinking game!

The House of Representatives kicked off heated debate Saturday morning over a $25 billion funding bill for the United States Postal Service (USPS) that Democrats say is needed to prevent President Trump from trying to "destroy" the Post Office before the 2020 mail-in election, while Republicans dismissed this "conspiracy theory" and blasted Democrats for staging a purely political vote between two presidential conventions. "I am again on the floor of the House of Representatives watching a cartoon," said Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark. "About the only outcome this debate is going to have today is one of entertainment value -- nothing...

Apparently, Congress doesn't have time to pass an economic stimulus package and save the American economy, but they do have time to address — in an emergency session no less — the Post Office. Yeah, yeah, we're being told that it's some deep plot to fiddle with the election by suppressing mail-in ballots, but why don't we look at the facts? I do know a little about the Postal Service — my dad was a "letter carrier" for over thirty years. Back then, we called him a "mailman" because, well, he delivered mail, and he was man. But today... Anyway,...

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) continued to tow the Democrats' latest idolization on something President Trump has voiced criticism on, with this time being the United States Postal Service on Wednesday. Liberals have floated conspiracy theories about the USPS in recent weeks, including spreading the false claim the Trump administration is purposely removing mailboxes across the country to suppress mail-in ballots.

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If you believe the mainstream media, Donald Trump is involved in a nefarious scheme to somehow make the USPS into something inefficient and incompetent, which comes close on the heels of his plot to make the sun start setting in the West. If that’s his plan, he already pulled it off decades before he first hit the cover of the New York Post. We conservatives think the president has done a lot of great stuff since humiliating Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit in 2016, but not even the most hardcore Trump Train engineer would go as far as Trump’s frothy pie-holed...

Cher said Wednesday she offered to volunteer at a post office amid concerns across the country over changes to the U.S. Postal Service ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The actress asked if people can volunteer at their local post offices before tweeting that she called two in Malibu, Calif., and asked if they accept volunteers. “Said She Didn’t Know & Gave Me # Of Supervisor.I Called & Said Hi This is Cher Do U Accept volunteers.”NO,Need Fingerprints & Background Check,” the “Believe” singer shared. SNIP

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., proposed a new idea for pumping money into the U.S. Postal Service ahead of November's election -- which is expected to see a rise in mailed ballots -- by encouraging people to purchase more stamps. In an Instagram video, the first-term congresswoman suggested a letter-writing campaign for progressives -- not to public officials, however, but to each other.

VIDEO The notoriously fact-challenged Brian Williams is back to his old antics and is now hyping the fiction that the Post Office is being intentionally slowed down by Trump. This latest from Williams is as much a fairy tale as his fantasy about his helicopter being hit by an RPG in Iraq which is the reason why he is now an MSNBC hellhole outcast rather than in his old comfy evening anchor gig at NBC News.

In light of the 2020 US presidential elections, Trump admitted to denying funding to the US Postal Service (USPS), despite the mailing service’s proposal on Thursday of a new patent for a blockchain-powered voting system, which would make ballot casting more secure. President of the United States (POTUS) Donald Trump had been reported by Forbes to have denied USPS’ funding in order to block mail-in voting, sparking rage from Joe Biden’s Democratic Party, who allegedly needs that money sponsoring to keep the post office rolling and the ballots coming. With all this ongoing, the U.S Patent and Trademark Office presented...

Washington (CNN)The House is set to return on Saturday to vote on legislation related to the US Postal Service, House Democratic leaders announced Monday, with an eye toward providing the financially strapped agency with $25 billion in funding despite White House objections. The bill is still being finalized, top Democrats told members during a caucus call, but it will incorporate a version of Rep. Carolyn Maloney's Delivering for America Act, which would prohibit recent USPS operational changes the Trump administration has made that have slowed mail service around the country. The bill will also include Democrats' initial ask for $25...

This November, election integrity is on the ballot as well. If the final tally is close, is there any doubt which way the final votes will land? Sometimes a few votes make all the difference. Just ask former Senator Norm Coleman. On the morning after the election in November 2008, the official tally showed him with a 725-vote lead out of 2.9 million total votes cast. Coleman claimed victory. But Democrats flooded the state with lawyers to challenge the outcome. After the first recount, his lead was down to 206 votes, but things were just getting started.Caches of ballots showed...

VIDEO So how secure are mail-in ballots? Not very secure at all as you can find out on these video clips of today's Steve Kane Radio Show (WWNN 1470 AM) in South Florida. Co-host Brian Craig, with the help of several callers, exposed the yuuuge mail-in ballot problem due to the fact that party affiliation can be determined on the outside of the ballot in many parts of the country. Adding to the problem is the fact that the large postal union, the National Association of Letter Carriers, just endorsed Joe Biden. Yes, the very letter carriers who endorsed...

Over the course of any election season, there are surprises and moments of outrage that test our expectations of what acceptable behavior is. We shock each other’s consciences and blame the other side for their lack of decorum. Even knowing that, what the mainstream media have done in the past few days is drastically, almost absurdly, irresponsible. There is a solemnity to their duty, and they refuse it here in these potentially revolutionary times. When you witness the degree to which widespread misinformation was propagated by journalists as it relates to the United States Postal Service, it serves as a...

In fact, between 2011 and 2016, there were roughly 14,000 USPS mailboxes removed, which was during the Obama-Biden administration. A 2009 Washington Post article stated, "In the past 20 years, 200,000 mailboxes have vanished from city streets, rural routes and suburban neighborhoods – more than the 175,000 that remain." "The U.S. Postal Service says it removes 'underperforming' mailboxes – those that collect fewer than 25 pieces of mail a day – after a week-long 'density test,'" the report read, echoing what Frum said last week. Because of the hysteria over the relocated mailboxes, the USPS said they would not remove...