Category Archives: Individual Liberty

Atlas Shrugged Part 1 – Trailer

I am so excited about this project. This is the trailer for the movie Atlas Shrugged Part 1 and the movie will be in theaters on April 15th. Tax day, how appropriate. Check the Atlas Shrugged Part 1 website.

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The Death of Entrepreneurship

Here is a short video based on an new book entitled, “New Threats to Freedom,” published by Templeton Press which discusses how government regulation has the tendency to crush the entreprenueur and his ability to create wealth and jobs. Check it out.

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Ideas Have Consequences! What Ideas Will Influence You in 2011?

As 2011 approaches I have been thinking more and more about what I would like to study next year to continue to grow in my understanding of the philosophical, theological, legal and economic ideas that have shaped the U.S. and history in general. There is no shortage of books in print that can be added [...]

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The Personal Is the Political: Who makes the tradeoffs?

By Steven Horwitz • Posted February 11, 2010 on The Freeman In the last couple of decades, one of the most popular political slogans on the left, especially among feminists, has been: “The personal is the political.” For feminists the phrase is invoked to point out that the personal choices women make — for example, [...]

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The Cause Of Liberty

By Matthew Spalding* Liberty is the essential idea that is America. It is at once our greatest inheritance, our greatest achievement, and our greatest bequest to posterity. The Declaration of Independence asserts unalienable rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” and the Constitution is meant to “secure the blessings of liberty.” In his [...]

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The Real Meaning of Thanksgiving: The Triumph of Capitalism over Collectivism

Written by Richard M. Ebeling Monday, 24 November 2008 00:00 This time of the year, whether in good economic times or bad, is when we gather with our family and friends and enjoy a Thanksgiving meal together. It marks a remembrance of those early Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the uncharted ocean from Europe to make [...]

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Drive Your Car With Your iPhone…This Is Cool!

O.K., I admit that this is way off subject for this blog-site, however one must remember that in our battle for liberty we are providing freedom for folks to do stuff like this. Enjoy.

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Give Up? Are You Kidding?

B Y L AWRENCE W. R E E D These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is [...]

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Free Trade Is At Risk…Here Is Something We Can Do About It Now!

“The proof of the enormous economic benefits of free trade is all around us, not least in the impoverished third world that has already benefited mightily from so-called globalization. It is immoral and irresponsible, or just plain stupid, that politicians, and the special interests they protect, would sacrifice this humanitarian improvement in welfare for their [...]

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Tyranny And Abuse By Connecticut Attorney General! This Is Outrageous!

Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Attorney General is nailed in this interview with Glenn Beck on his abuse of power in going after the AIG bonuses. He admits that there has been no law broken, but, and this is the outrageous part, he says that “they (the AIG executives who got the bonuses) were undeserving of it [...]

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