“The Modern Liberal believes in the supremacy of the state,” writes Mark Levin, in his just released book, “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto,” he continues, “thereby rejecting the principles of the Declaration and the order of the civil society, in whole or part. For the Modern Liberal, the individual’s imperfection and personal pursuits impede [...]
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Unconstrained By Constitutional Prohibitions, What Is Left To Limit The Statists?
Posted in Constitutional Government, Tyranny Also tagged Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, Mark Levin, Tyranny Leave a comment
Civil Disobedience: Hit Them in the Wallet
Post by Dan Jensen As we work harder, more and more people feel entitled to the fruits of our hard work. These people have organized and elected a federal government that sees fit to transfer 100% of the tax burden to the upper 49% of wage earners in this country. If successful, please tell me [...]
Posted in Markets and Morality Also tagged free markets, Ludwig von Mises, Obama Administration, Socialism, The Freedom Factory, Thomas Jefferson 1 Comment
Freedom, Prosperity, and Government Obstruction
Adam Smith, who lived in the eighteenth century, provided the philosophical and most systematic arguments for the underpinnings of a laissez-faire economic system in his book “The Wealth of Nations.” Smith makes the argument that it was only the interference of government which disrupted the natural working of economic society and created poverty and decay [...]
Posted in Free Markets Also tagged Adam Smith, Obama Administration, The Wealth of Nations 1 Comment
Freedom – Quote of the Day
Since it is indisputable, that our great country was founded on the principles of rights granted by God, the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” and a limited government which as John Locke would argue, receives its authority by the consent of the people, a consent that is a continuous process and [...]
Posted in Freedom Philosophy Also tagged F. A. Hayek, God, life, Limite Government, Locke, property, Pursuit of Happiness 4 Comments
SOCIALISM?…What Now?…Reflect, Assess, Plan and Act!
“Few discoveries are more irritating than those which expose the pedigree of ideas.” – Lord Action As I watch our political “leaders” vote to steal the wealth of our children and grandchildren, as I watch our nation running to embrace the concepts of socialism as a solution for the nation’s economic crisis, I must say [...]
Posted in Free Markets, Freedom Philosophy, Individual Liberty, Socialism, Uncategorized Also tagged Ayn Rand, Central Planning, F.A Hayek, Freedom, Germany, Leonard Read, Newsweek Magazine, Socialism, The Road to Serfdom Leave a comment
This Question of Legal Plunder Must be Settled Once and For All
This is my final post from the writings of Frederic Bastiat’s, “The Law.” Hopefully, through the discussion of the fundamental,, God given freedoms, which Bastiat has provided for us in “The Law,” you are able to more clearly identify the means by which the legal system is perverted resulting in the usurpation of the freedoms [...]
Inaugural Post – Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the [...]
