Soldiers die for banker profits, not your freedom

Soldiers represent a certain American idealism and there is no doubt every country needs a national defense.  But America doesn't do defense.  We do nothing but offense. 

Not a single soldier soldier since WWII has died for our freedom.  They die for banker profits.   It is the banks and Wall Street who win every war, for no matter what the conflict, they get paid.  They get paid a lot and they ultimately fund all sides of war. 

Today, freedom is defended in the courts and via Cultural Activism, not the blood of soldiers. 

Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine did more to defend your freedom than all of the soldiers who died in your lifetime put together. 

I defended freedom when I founded the Indiana Tea Party, led the revolt against property tax, while simultaneously litigating the City of Indianapolis who persecuted me for what amounted to teaching art in my home.   Americans who want to defend freedom need to unite across party lines, employ Cultural Activism, and work together to free humanity.  Sending a soldier to war does nothing but bring heartache. 

Melyssa Hubbard, a former professional dominatrix, founded the Indiana Tea Party.  In 2014, the Indianapolis Business Journal published her memoir Spanking City Hall.

Cultural Activism: It's past time the left and right united

The Tea Party and Occupy share this common enemy. Arguably it is the root of our shared anger.  If we put other differences aside, united, and focused on defeating this common enemy what could be achieved via our Cultural Activism and what would we learn about humanity and each other in the process? 

Maybe it is time to lay down swords. 

Maybe it is time the right stopped attacking the left.  Perhaps time the left stopped attacking the right.  Maybe it is time America was united, not divided. 

Do you think it is possible that our common enemy who controls media and media messaging knows we are weaker when divided?  Do you think it is possible that programming is in place to divide us when we really share the same dream of peace and prosperity? 

Cultural Activism, across party lines and political ideology, is how we defeat our common enemy.  


Melyssa Hubbard is a former professional dominatrix who founded the Indiana Tea Party.  Her memoir Spanking City Hall was published by the Indianapolis Business Journal in 2014.

A good sign for Indiana: Monica Boyer's disgust at the GOP

On May 12th, Monica Boyer attended her county's republican's annual Lincoln Day dinner and was outraged that Lt. Governor Sue Ellsperman encouraged Indiana republicans to expand their tent and become more diverse.   

Boyer insulted the the Lt. Governor's keynote speech as 'non-memorable' then promptly penned a 2,033 word blog post about it.  For my readers who aren't writers, that's about one third the size of a major cover story a publication runs spanning several pages of print  -- quite a bit of wordsmithing for something so non-memorable.  

I promise this post won't be so burdensome in length. 

I'm happy Boyer calls for social conservatives (those who oppose protected equality and freedom for our LGBT citizens alongside our citizens of faith) to take their boots off the ground and withhold volunteer efforts to GOP candidates who don't support an agenda to ostracize and marginalize citizens who aren't straight (or Christian).   

Indiana's reputation ended up bloodied and bruised because GOP candidates need boots on the ground during the republican primaries.  They need door knockers, phone callers, and poll workers to support candidates. It's social conservatives like Boyer  who do this work for them.   In order to get their help, otherwise reasonable candidates will hold their noses and swing far right to get this help from the social conservatives. 

In a nutshell, the GOP pandered to a small faction of citizens who volunteer help for the primaries.  This does not represent the majority of people in our state, but rather it represents a minority who put their boots on the ground. 

Boyer compared this softening stance of Indiana's GOP toward social issues as a filthy lake that goes through dredging so that it can once again become a crystal clear beautiful lake.   She claims it is up to the social conservatives to dredge and clean GOP lake of the filth of sinners. 

Seems to me that the dirty lake in Indiana was caused by our social conservatives.  The price of which we'll never know, but we know for sure the first $750,000 payment to a PR firm was recently authorized to start to clean up the mess they made. 

Ironically, it is the non-partisan Cultural Activism of Indiana's citizens across party lines who are causing the GOP lake to be cleaned.   

Perhaps, just maybe, this non-partisan effort in Indiana will thoroughly clean our lake.  A sign that better days are ahead can be seen from the way GOP leadership talks publicly at their rural meetings outside of Indy.  It's refreshing to hear they see a future to be inclusive of all of Indiana's citizens. 

Culture is the ultimate weapon to drive policy.  Cultural Activism is far more effective tool to bring about social change than political activism and it appears in Indiana that it is working. 

Kudos to Indiana Equality and Freedom Indiana for their efforts to lead cultural activism in Indiana and show the world how the majority of our people view Freedom.  

After all, isn't Freedom is big enough for all of us? 

Melyssa Hubbard, a former dominatrix, founded the Indiana Tea Party in 2007. In December 2007, she accepted the country's first Tea Party Prize in Chicago.  Her book Spanking City Hall was published in 2014. 

An Indiana story about race relations

Here's MY INDIANA story.  I would love to hear your stories. 

Sometime in the 1970's my grandmother was buying cemetery plots in Kokomo, IN around the time Kokomo was having race riots.

Grandma was ready to sign the paperwork, when the salesman (who didn't know when to shut up when a sale is closed) exclaimed,

"And don't you worry, ma'am. We don't allow any coloreds to be buried here."

That's when Grandma stood up and said,

"Well if your cemetery isn't good enough for them, it's not good enough for me."

Then she walked out.

Melyssa Hubbard is the author of Spanking City Hall and won America's first national tea party prize after forming the original Indiana Tea Party. 

Angie's List, Christians, the Dominatrix & Why Family Research Council is dead wrong

In late February, after I gave Angie's list CEO a signed copy of Spanking City Hall, (which I'm honored he keeps in his office) the Star called me to get quotes about Bill Oesterle for an upcoming bio about business leaders in Indy.  This happened weeks before the Religious Freedom Restoration Act battle played out in Indianapolis.  I am not sure what happened to the bio they wanted to run, but they opted instead to publish my quotes when our CEO resigned ostensibly to insert himself into Indiana politics as an advocate for both personal and religious freedom. 

Melyssa Hubbard, a self-professed dominatrix who works in sales at Angie's List, said the company hired her in 2006 despite knowing about her work in sexual bondage. She wrote a book, "Spanking City Hall," about her conflicts with the city. 

"I wish every place on earth was like this," she said in a recent interview. "The employees come from various walks of life. That's important to Bill. I've always told him how grateful I am to be working here.

 "We have the conservatives and the liberals and really buttoned-up people and people with pink hair and tattoos. Bill creates platforms for people to self-actualize."

Oesterle said he keeps an autographed copy of Hubbard's book in his office.
"She found a job here. It's kind of a safe place for her. She is not being judged," he said.

The news item was picked up the next afternoon by Gannet's USA Today.  I'm thrilled the word "self-actualization" was included, for this is the crux of what we all should strive to give ourselves and to aid that path for others to achieve. 


While I am not pretending to be a corporate spokesperson for Angie's list, I stand by my quotes. Angie's list has been an elevating career experience for me for nearly a decade.  I was accepted there and given a platform to be a good citizen, advance my sales skills, and participate in an incredible corporate culture that I could not have experienced anywhere else.  I founded the Indiana Tea Party during my second year of employment.  I often say Angie's list is my family.   It's why I returned after taking a couple years off to write a book, that I felt guided by God to write. 

I dedicated my book to my late Grandmother Lola who is the greatest influence on my life and whose dedication to be a servant of Christ and love made a huge impact on my moral compass.

In October 2013 after the manuscript was written, I announced my name change to Grandma's maiden name of Hubbard to reflect that I am a member of her tribe, not just physically, but very much spiritually.

Sure the book is about sex and vicious politics.  But it is about so much more.  It's about fear liberation, owning one's individual power and self-actualization.

I don't stand by the false assertion made by Family Research Council that you can't be an "orthodox" Christian and work at Angie's list.  While I'm not orthodox, I am certainly a Christian and know many very conservative Christians who have enjoyed long term employment at the list working alongside the likes of me.  I have no doubt that even the most orthodox of Christian or any other faith are welcome at the list if they have a skill set to serve the goals of the company to "relentlessly elevate the local service experience".

A few years ago, some of them formed a morning prayer meeting and invited me because they knew I was a Christian.  Those mornings gathered in a big group outdoors on our inner city campus courtyard are fond memories.  It felt so good to have FREEDOM to openly pray with my co-workers and not be judged.

More than once found myself in that circle with tears in my eyes as we prayed for our ill friends, family members, and the well being of our company, our executive leadership, managers, its members, and our service providers.

The judgment must stop.

My prayer is that the prominent LOVE sculpture by Robert Indiana on the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art serves as a reminder to everyone on earth to love and not judge.

Judgment is toxic and it impedes human well-being and self-actualization. 



Melyssa Hubbard founded the Indiana Tea Party in 2007 and won America's first national tea party prize.  In 2014 the Indianapolis Business Journal published her memoir, Spanking City Hall.

Judgers are the terrorists in a world of humans meant to self-actualize

It is likely anyone reading my words on this blog has the lower section on the Hierarchy of Human Needs well met. That's an advantage of the age we live in today.  It wasn't always this cush for most of society throughout history.  We're making progress.  

Our Physical Needs of food, clothing, shelter.  Done.

Our Safety Needs.  It's safe to live in middle America for the most part.

Our Love/Belonging Needs.  Most of us get this met by a biological family or sometimes a created family.

Not everyone in America has their lower needs met, but I'll talk about what can do about that in other posts.  For now, I want to focus on the higher needs and why we get stuck in the rung right below self-actualization.

Our Esteem Needs is the step we must surpass to reach the pinnacle of what I believe to be our raison d'etre.

Esteem is simple.  It is respect for others and respect for self. It cannot be accomplished in an atmosphere of lies or intolerance of the individual's right to sovereignty of being.  Intolerance and judgment presents great pressure. Many choose to project an inauthentic self because that seems safer to the psyche. 

Imagine being a gay man in a pretend marriage to a woman for appearances.  Imagine being stuck in that life of lies due to judgment and/or fear of judgment.  Judgment is a form of social terrorism.

Christ strongly suggests more than once that we not judge.  It impedes self-actualization.

Love instead of judge.



Melyssa Hubbard is the author of Spanking City Hall: Dominatrix to Political Activist.

Filling the Rush Limbaugh Vacuum at WIBC with Free Talk Live

Emmis, who owns WIBC announced this week they are canning Rush Limbaugh's show which aired afternoons for many years at 93.1, the most powerful newstalk station in Indiana.

The station is known for right leaning shows like Garrison in the morning, but with the addition of the popular Abdul show they are drawing a libertarian audience too.   Abdul's ratings are strong because he cuts it up the middle where most Americans are. 

You'd be hard pressed to find an American who would advocate for drone attacks, the drug war, mass surveillance or the myriad of things we get from the two big parties.  Most people at their core want freedom and realize what we're getting might be packaged as freedom, but really isn't.

I'd like to see more liberty minded programming, rather than another conservative talk radio program and the same old stale talking points for people over 60 with war drum bumper music.
How about replacing Rush with the hip syndicated live call in show, Free Talk Live? 

Currently WIBC airs Free Talk Live airs only on Saturdays, but the station has an option to air them live all week from 7pm to 9pm.   Air time filled with live content is a huge plus because Indy listeners can engage. 

With only subtle programming shifts, Indy could have Liberty radio every night.     

Throughout the years I've been on FTL a handful of times. They helped get my message out when I fought local government.  I adore Ian Freeman, the show's host. Here is an archive of interviews I've given on Free Talk Live over the years.  

If you want liberty oriented radio in Indy, call the Program Director 317-266-9422  and let WIBC know you'd listen to Free Talk Live. 

And guys?  You will love FTL's "Shrine of Female Listeners"   There's an old picture of me in there somewhere. 


Melyssa Hubbard, is a former dominatrix who won the first national Tea Party Prize.  She is the author of Spanking City Hall, published by IBJ Books, an arm of the Indianapolis Business Journal.