West Virginia Liberty News

Friday, August 14, 2026

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State stalls, Greenbrier shutters casino, 90 jobs gone

POLICE & SURVEILLANCE

Delegates: Flock misled state on your data

Flock blinks, promises privacy guardrails on cameras

Wayne sheriff quits, commission picks his replacement

Morgantown board pushes police bodycam rewrite

TAXES & SPENDING

Morrisey touts audits, savings still years away

Probe deepens into school clothing cash withdrawals

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Least-wired county still waiting on promised broadband

Ronceverte eyes higher water bills

Lubeck water customers face rate hike

$74 million rehab for state's busiest bridge

Data centers strain grid, your bill in play...

Mon commission doubles down on Exit 155

SCHOOLS

First Hope Scholarship money reaches families

Logan County drafts closure papers for three schools

Mingo parents fight for their rural schools

Pierpont aviation school cleared after lengthy delay

THE COURTS

CAMC pays $40 million over unnecessary surgeries

GUN RIGHTS

Court guts federal gun registration scheme, WV wins

THE STATEHOUSE

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Fifty years, no plan: fire deaths mount

Medicaid work rules hit West Virginia January 1

DEP overrides Belle neighbors, permits plastics plant

Morrisey extends emergency powers in 12 counties

CITY HALL

Three names, no ballot: Kanawha picks commissioner

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Wheeling brands island home a public nuisance

Planners map East End's next 20 years

Von Street crumbles while Morgantown waits

NATIONAL NEWS

PODCAST

Mark Monoscalco on The Forbidden Idea, Individual Liberty, and Taking Back Our InstitutionsRon Muhlenkamp on Investing, Capitalism, and the Freedom to Build Wealth Joel Trammell on Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Becoming the CEO Your Company Needs Rob Arnott on Adam Smith, Free Markets, and Why Capitalism Creates Prosperity Kelley Paul on Raising the Next Generation to Love Liberty

STORIES

Liberty at Home Requires Restraint Abroad Lawmakers Raised Their Own Pay. Then Raised Taxes on South Carolinians Transparency Is the Foundation of Trust in Government How Grassroots Activists Forced a Delay in a Surveillance Expansion Vote Jerry Rawls Built a Billion-Dollar Company by Solving Problems, Not Chasing Money How Grassroots Organizing Changed Wyoming's Legislature Douglas La Rose on Why Consumer Choice Matters More Than Government Control

WAR POWERS

Bessent readies Iran siege 'like the world has never seen'^NEW

Ron Paul: Did Israel feed false intel on Trump's plane?

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Tehran official: war may run through Trump's whole term...

Hegseth's new motto: 'We do bad things to bad people'^NEW

SPEECH POLICE

Arrested in Texas... for cussing at a county meeting^NEW

Student punished for 'blasted' comment beats his school in court

Court tosses DOJ's Title VI case against Harvard

Free speech dying a slow death in Europe^NEW

GUN RIGHTS

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'Monumental': judge reverses decades-old gun restrictions

First unregistered silencer sold as NFA injunction bites

TAXES & REGULATION

Court blesses Trump's end of duty-free small imports; shoppers pay^NEW

America paused the Jones Act. Americans won

Surf instructor beats Newport Beach's ban on teaching waves

STATES PUSH BACK

The 17th Amendment broke the founders' kill switch

THE FED

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Rand Paul checks Fort Knox: 'Yes, the gold is there'^NEW

Prices climb again: inflation stuck at 3.4 percent, your paycheck isn't^NEW

'The ingredients are coming together for a US financial crisis'

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Mises: the fairy tale of Fed 'independence'

SPENDING & DEBT

DSA wish list rings up at $200 trillion... and you're the tab^NEW

Merkley rides to big government's rescue^NEW

THE SURVEILLANCE STATE

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Flock camera flags the wrong car; seven months of legal hell follow

Docs: feds ran surveillance op on Minnesota unions, activists^NEW

Flock admits its cameras need reform. Too little, too late

Meta patents glasses that name every face at your dinner party^NEW

Watch: the coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon^NEW

DUE PROCESS

Texas prosecutors stretch teen shooting spree into 'terrorism'

ICE goes shopping for stun gloves^NEW

Fifth Circuit shrugs off Alien Enemies Act case as 'moot'

AIER: the FCC denies the right to a fair trial^NEW

CRONY CAPITALISM

JPMorgan debanks Polymarket over 'regulatory concerns'^NEW

Trump Media sells early peek at president's posts: $100,000 a month

Paramount dangles toothless CNN 'oversight board' to buy merger blessing^NEW

EXECUTIVE OVERREACH

Trump hauls his ballroom fight to the Supreme Court^NEW

FEDERAL FAILURE

Larison: the Pentagon's sickening cover-up

Watch: inside the USS Lincoln crisis, 'the military's shame'^NEW

FBI downplayed 14 informants flagging Biden corruption

Webb: military academies get an 'F' every time. Why are we paying?^NEW

Fauci's diary sheds new light on EcoHealth and the Wuhan lab