Archive for the Freedom Discussions Category
Waterboarding for dummies
Internal CIA documents reveal a meticulous protocol that was far more brutal than Dick Cheney's "dunk in the water" by Mark Benjamin, Salon Self-proclaimed waterboarding fan Dick Cheney called it a no-brainer in a 2006 radio interview: Terror suspects should get a "a dunk in the water." But rece
Do You Feel Free Anymore?
by Don Cooper, LWR My entire adult life I’ve felt the injustices imposed upon honest, hard-working individuals in our society: frivolous traffic tickets, lying politicians, extorted taxes for things we neither want nor need, abusive law enforcement and the like. I’ve always been passionate ab
Bonds? What Bonds?
by Tom Baugh One unseasonably warm spring day in Annapolis, an excited buzz was in the air. The eagerly anticipated cargo ship would dock by noon, and the risk and investment carried by many of those who were gathering in the square of the east port downhill from the courthouse circle would soon
Chicago and the Second Amendment
by Michael LeMieux, NWV By now many of you have heard of the Chicago Supreme Court case to hear NRA vs. City of Chicago and McDonald Vs. City of Chicago to try and overturn the no handgun rule for the city residents. Now with this next statement I am sure I am going to get a ton of hate mail b
My Plan for a Freedom President
How I would put the Constitution back in the Oval Office by Rep. Ron Paul Since my 2008 campaign for the presidency I have often been asked, “How would a constitutionalist president go about dismantling the welfare-warfare state and restoring a constitutional republic?” This is a very import
Deconstructing Sunstein
by Keith Johnson, RotP “Some of the nation’s most important policies are implemented through regulation. In domains as diverse as energy efficiency, environmental protection, health care, occupational safety, civil rights, communications, homeland security, and many more, the government att
It’s Not About Political Parties. It’s About Liberty
by Michael Boldin, LR The following is based on a speech at the first annual Tenth Amendment Summit in Atlanta, GA on February 26, 2010. How can a “crazy” Californian and a “conservative” Georgian be friends? It’s simple – through the principles of ’98. In 1798, the John Adams ad
Meddling Where We Oughtn’t (yet again)
by Fred Reed, FoE Mexico, if left alone, would be a reasonably successful and stable country of the upper Third World. It isn’t Haiti, isn’t Bangla Desh, isn’t a dying patient with multiple tubes in every orifice. If not strong-armed into chaos, it would be all right. But the United Stat
China insider sees revolution brewing
by John Garnaut, SMH China's top expert on social unrest has warned that hardline security policies are taking the country to the brink of ''revolutionary turmoil''. In contrast with the powerful, assertive and united China that is being projected to the outside world, Yu Jianrong said his pre
The Tenthers
by Karen De Coster Nolan Finley is a very conventional columnist for the Detroit News. Nolan has just published a very good column (for the most part) on the Tenth Amendment movement. However, he just has to get in that one little comment that separates him from the radical states’ rights mov
How Long Before You Wake Up, Politicos?
from The Market Ticker I'm going to write today about a very somber subject. It will be, as it usually is here in one form or another, about math. First, some background. If you believe that we have "escaped" from the mess that gripped this nation in 2008 and 2009, or that said mess "sudde
Mainstream Media Refuses to Disclose that “Independent” Pundits Are Actually Lobbyists
from WashingtonsBlog As reporter Sebastian Jones points out (see this and this), former Congressman Richard Gephardt runs a lobbying firm representing giant insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Retired General Barry McCaffrey sits on the board of a giant defense contractor, DynCorp, and l
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