The Free Kareem protest is going on today at 12 pm outside of the Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau on New Hampshire just south of Dupont Circle. If you’ll be in the area, please stop by and show your support for Kareem Amer, the blogger who is serving a four-year prison sentence for criticizing the Egyptian government.

UPDATE: Check out photos and video from today’s rally.

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Louisiana police stopped and detained an American citizen for displaying the historic Gadsden “Don’t Tread on Me” flag on his car, World Net Daily reports. The flag has a treasured history in America - named after an American general and statesman, Christopher Gadsden, and was once used by The United States Marine Corps as a motto flag. In any case, political talk show icon G. Gordon Liddy was incensed by the reported incident and is now encouraging patriotic and First Amendment…

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Hundreds of people turned out in the pouring rain for Washington, DC’s Tea Party - one of many tax protest events taking place around the U.S. today. A sea of multi-colored umbrellas filled Lafayette Park, which is situated near the White House. Many protesters made a family day of the outing, carrying homemade signs expressing outrage at the unprecedented government bailouts of the banking and auto industries over the past year, along with the high level of government spending to…

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Bureaucrash just posted a new round of libertarian lolcats to the networking site, Bureaucrash Social. Many are topical. Many are hilarious. Some (such as this one, I think) are both. Check them out and let us know what you think!

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Tomorrow, electric utilities and green groups team up at the National Press Club to ask for billions of new spending on what they term energy efficiency. New versions of such stimulus and bailout proposals appear almost daily.

We spend a lot of time at CEI now proposing wealth-enhancing alternatives to these massive wealth transfers to government contractors and corporations. The right “stimulus” instead liberalizes wealth creation, it doesn’t spread around the dwindling wealth that already exists, like a self-appointed Benevolent Vulture;…

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Maybe not really him, just a new viral email flying around. Pretty funny anyway.

1. The US has made a new weapon that destroys people but keeps the building standing,. Its called the stock market - Jay Leno

2. Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are ?? Wall Street is now being called Wal Mart Street - Jay Leno

3. The difference between a pigeon and a London investment banker. The pigeon can still make a deposit on a BMW

4. What’s…

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JOBS, ROADS, BRIDGES, SCHOOLS, BROADBAND, ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS, ENERGY…blares the Drudge Report. It’s President-elect Obama’s weekend plan—not to produce, but to transfer yet more of the nation’s dwindling wealth to those with political pull.

On Sunday’s Meet the Press interview he stressed “shovel ready” projects — shoveling from right-hand to left remains the extent of it. Look at the 5-points in the Politico article: Each wave of the wand diverts an awestruck media and a truly fearful public from the “instead…

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Well, who can possibly be surprised by the revelation that “The federal government’s economic stimulus package will include investment in broadband Internet infrastructure and funds to upgrade and repair the national power grid alongside more traditional funding for road and bridge repair.”

Details, as usual, do not exist, other than the obvious golden chains that come with power grid investment: get the cash, but throw it away on inferior “renewable” investments, thereby draining future wealth and resources (for example, no fuel…

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My occasional “Least Objectionable Legislator Award” (no prize) takes a detour today and goes to a bureaucrat instead. So the LOL Award (pun intended, I guess) is temporarily the Least Objectionable Bureaucrat Award.

The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman, the alarmed Sheila Bair, sounded the warning that the government must devise an “exit strategy” for the bailout.

I regard the lack of an exit strategy as a feature built into every government program. She does not, however, and that’s commendable. But,…

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Some of the brightest minds in the online conservative movement — John Hawkins, Patrick Ruffini and Mark Tapscott — are discussing what it would take to build a “rightroots” movement, aimed at replicating the political activism of the left “netroots.” As Patrick makes clear in a further post, this is not about building a partisan shilling machine (if it was, the effort would deserve to fail), but about a grassroots-driven insurgency and about harnessing ideological lightning (of which lots more later) to…

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Courtney and I have been working for weeks on creating libertarian versions of the popular hilariously-captioned kitty pictures known as “lolcats.” Bureaucrash just posted our handiwork to their site.

Check it out!

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Just in time for the multi-holiday shopping season, Bureaucrash is here to solve all of your gift-giving needs. Tell that special someone how much you love them (and liberty) with a stylish Bureaucrash t-shirt or hoodie. Shirts are patriotically priced at a mere $17.76. Buy now! Click the video below to see spokesmodels Michelle and Alex demonstrate the product.

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Phone companies deserve immunity from lawsuits for cooperating the with federal antiterrorism surveillance program, according to a recent report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. It explains that the many lawsuits filed against the companies could indirectly lead to billions of dollars being transferred from American consumers’ right pocket to their left, with millions of dollars being skimmed off by lawyers for legal fees.

We previously explained why the phone companies merit immunity, and how a legal double standard threatens them…

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Check out Bureaucrash’s latest video on drug lag at the FDA — with real people affected by those delays. Just released on Friday, it already has over 1,000 hits.

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Jason and the rest of the Bureaucrash crew are making their way across the northeast part of our great continent this week, as part of Crash Across America 2007, a traveling celebration of liberty. You can see the map of their route here, and watch their videos from the road. Here’s the first one to get you started.

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This week DC played host to the anti-corporate shenanigans of The Yes Men, self-proclaimed “culture jammers” who get off on impersonating corporate and government spokespeople and proceeding to make ridiculous and/or horrifying public statements. The general idea behind culture jamming is to use a mainstream medium to communicate a subversive message. A more specific (and jargon-filled) definition comes to us courtesy of our good friend Wikipedia:

Culture jamming is the act of transforming mass media to produce commentary about itself,…

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Congratulations to Jason and our friends at Americans for Prosperity and the Moving Picture Institute for their recent anti-Sicko demonstration here in DC. Photos and video available here.

Better yet, the protest has garnered a mention in Jason Robertson’s story about Sicko in the Dallas Morning News:

Weeks before the film opened, some health care activist groups began sending e-mails to journalists disputing Mr. Moore’s assessment of America’s health care system, as well as the efficiency of systems in other countries.

Bureaucrash, an international…

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Apparently, in Arkansas, skateboarding is a crime. Witness the ridiculous overreaction of one Hot Springs police officer to the threat of youngsters on skateboards. Law enforcement pulls a jerk move, and YouTube is there:

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One of the highlights of our big annual dinner last week was our faux public service announcement from a future where nanny-state regulators have taken over. Behold, the terrifying possibilities of the Department of Pre-Regulation:

Credits (in no particular order) include: Erin Wildermuth, Cord Blomquist, Ivan Osorio, Brooke Oberwetter, Jeremy Lott, Megan McLaughlin, William Yeatman, Julie Walsh, Kate McLaughlin, Dominick Saran, Jason Talley, Greg Conko, Christine Hall, Sam Kazman, Al Canata, Holly Jackson and Richard Morrison. Also, special thanks to Philip K.…

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When it rains anti-anti-smoking indignation, it pours. In addition to Brooke’s press statement, Jason reminds me that Bureaucrash was hot on this MPAA/smoking tip long ago. Last July several crashers headed out to an anti-MPAA protest march where demonstrators demanded an ‘R’ rating for any film that includes any smoking whatsoever. This week’s policy change didn’t go quite that far, but we can all spot a slippery slope when we see one. To re-live those heady days, tune into “Operation Tobacco…

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