“they who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Ben Franklin
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Conservative Founding Fathers Who Saved America
The threats to the new republic were not so different then as they are today and the future of the United States of America was no more in question then as now.
Government Abuse – Walter E Williams
“those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ~ C. S. Lewis
Hey–Where Did My Freedom Go?
About a third of Americans won’t be willingly sold into slavery. Another third will, perhaps out of ignorance, fear, ideology or even smug confidence that their own gang will be the ruling authorities, so what the heck. Another third of Americans wobble in the middle. In the heat of emotion, they’re all for the next government control.
Back to the Future
Today we have small leaders with small ideas. Freedom is a fragile thing. Like all abusers or tyrants, the leaders a majority of us have empowered to push us around and keep advancing the line of collective slavery away from individual liberty may go one step too far.
What Libertarians Get Wrong
The liberty that libertarians love in America is implicitly linked to Christianity. Certainly our Constitution would not exist without it. Having legislation that reflects Christian morality is no detriment to liberty.
Your Privacy Is Yours
Hold the state up to the same standard as your neighbors… because there are no double standards of right and wrong. Privacy is a right, not an admission of guilt. Your identity properly belongs to you… not to the state.
Needed: A New Era of Classical Liberalism
Today’s “progressives” scream that the government should stay out of the womb and the bedroom, but they have no problem with the government reaching into the doctor’s office, the bank account and just about everywhere else.
Why is the Catholic Church Surprised?
Elections have consequences. If Americans continue in their willingness to surrender more of their liberty in order to receive another entitlement, we will even further embolden those, who, while claiming to serve us, are seeking to become our masters.
A timely reminder: Marxism in America
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) W.G. Boykin gave this chilling description of what is happening in America just before the election in 2010. It serves as a reminder of why we MUST get off the couch, turn off the TV and work to oust the current Marxist administration.