Archive for the Liberty Commentary Category
Is the Understanding of Freedom Something You Are Born Knowing? Is It Learned?
by Freedom Lady A recent article titled “When You’re Talking You Ain’t Learning,” How Do You Define Freedom, Issue 722, seems to have stirred the intellectual nettle of some of my readers, and any discussion about Freedom deserves more attention. I have written many articles relative t
What Will They Say To Say To Shadrach, Meshach, And Abednego?
by Chuck Baldwin Let me start with a story. A man who had survived the great Johnstown flood died and went to Heaven. And not long after, all of the inhabitants of Heaven were allowed to take center stage and tell everyone about the most significant event that had happened to them while on Earth.
What Are Liberals Liberal About?
by Russell D. Longcore The world of politics in America seems to be all about the fantasy that there is a substantive philosophical difference between Conservatives and Liberals. I have already written an article about conservatism, entitled “Conservatives Aren’t.” You can find that article
How CISPA would affect you (faq)
by Declan McCullagh, CNET It took a debate that stretched to nearly seven hours, and votes on over a dozen amendments, but the U.S. House of Representatives finally approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act on April 26. Passions flared on both sides before the final vote on
Voluntaryism Defined
PayPal Donations: http://tinyurl.com/DonateAnCapChase In this video we will define the tenets of Voluntaryism and contrast them with its antithesis: the State! Subscribe to www.YouTube.com/AnCapChase Luke Bessey's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/lukebessey
What You Should Know About Drug Prohibition
from LearnLiberty In its history, America has experienced two major periods of drug prohibition. This first was the Federal alcohol prohibition from 1920-1933. The second is the current war on drugs, which began in 1971. According to Prof. Angela Dills, during these periods of prohibition
Romney and Obama Agree: Power Is Good
Under corporatist bipartisanship, the people lose. by Sheldon Richman, Reason So the presidential campaign is shaping up as a contest between a Democrat who says we had a free market from 2001 through 2008 and a Republican who . . . agrees—he says “[w]e are only inches away from ceasing
Proposed Arizona law would censor the internet
by JD Heyes, NaturalNews As hard as it is to believe, the state of Arizona could find itself in similar company with communist and hardline countries like China and Syria, if a new piece of legislation recently passed by the state Legislature is ever signed into law by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer.
How the US uses sexual humiliation as a political tool to control the masses
Believe me, you don't want the state having the power to strip your clothes off. And yet, it's exactly what is happening by Naomi Wolf, Guardian In a five-four ruling this week, the supreme court decided that anyone can be strip-searched upon arrest for any offense, however minor, at any tim
Illegal Aliens and Unemployment: Causes and Effects
by Gary North I recently wrote an article on how Ben Bernanke's explanation of the rate of unemployment rests on Keynesian economics. He blames a lack of aggregate demand. This was Keynes' explanation for all forms of unused resources, which he presented in The General Theory of Employment, Int
Ockham’s Razor and Secession
by Russell D. Longcore Ockham’s Razor is the principle that “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity” (entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem). The popular restatement of this principle is that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. William of Ockham was
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