Posted on August 21, 2017 by sartre
Justifying the Glorious Revolution of 1688, John Locke advanced natural-rights theory of government. He argued that all just governments are founded on consent and are designed solely to protect people in their inherent rights to life, liberty, and property. By “property,” Locke meant more than land and goods that could be sold, given away, or even ...
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Posted on July 26, 2017 by michael-snyder
Throughout history, dictators and tyrants have always wanted to take guns away from the people. Hitler confiscated guns once he took power in Germany, Stalin confiscated guns in Soviet Russia, and Mao confiscated guns when the communists took power in China. An armed population is one of the cornerstones of a free society, and our ...
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Posted on July 23, 2017 by sartre
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. – Charles de Montesquieu Rational thinking and moral conduct are rare in a society that has no respect for other individuals or succumb to the dictates of an all powerful government. ...
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Posted on July 16, 2017 by brandon-smith
Tyranny is not a wholly definable condition. There are many forms of tyranny and many levels of control that exist in any one society at any given time. In fact, the most despicable forms of tyranny are often the most subtle; the kinds of tyranny in which the oppressed are deluded into thinking that because ...
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Posted on July 11, 2017 by the-sleuth-journal
(The Rutherford Institute) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — In a victory for the First Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that citizens and journalists have a right to record police in public without fear of retaliation. Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute had filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case arguing that ...
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Posted on July 9, 2017 by brandon-smith
Is it true that freedom is an overly idealized concept? Perhaps, but it is one of the few concepts worthy of idealization. It is so worthy, that it is worth dying for. Since the dawn of recorded history human beings have fought and sacrificed to attain freedom. It is an inherent psychological construct. It is ...
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Posted on July 7, 2017 by bradlee-dean
“The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks.” –Jonathan Gruber architect of Romney-Obama-Care The hot topic again this week coming from today’s conservatives is an attempt to get you caught up into a debate about what is illegal. The GOP is attempting to appease the American voter with a change ...
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Posted on June 20, 2017 by michael-snyder
The left never lets a good crisis go to waste. Within hours of the shooting of U.S. Representative Steve Scalise and other Republicans at a baseball field in Virginia, top Democrats were already calling for more gun control. Of course the shooter, 66-year-old James Hodgkinson, is from a state that already has some of the ...
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Posted on June 15, 2017 by guest-post
By: John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute | “What are the defenders of free speech to do? The sad fact is that this fundamental freedom is on its heels across America. Politicians of both parties want to use the power of government to silence their foes. Some in the university community seek to drive it ...
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Posted on June 14, 2017 by guest-post
By: Carla, therightsideoftruth.com | Internet freedom is on the decline. It has been ever since companies began centralizing control over where users congregate, and things have only gotten worse with ever increasing government intervention. Some might see said claims as alarmist and will say things aren’t “that bad,” citing dictatorships such as North Korea as examples of ...
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Posted on June 11, 2017 by guest-post
By: Cory Doctorow, BOING BOING | Muckrock filed Freedom of Information Requests with multiple US police forces to find out how they were using “mobile phone forensic extraction devices” — commercial devices that suck all the data out of peoples’ phones and make it available for offline browsing. They discovered that the practice of sucking up the entirety ...
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Posted on June 3, 2017 by michael-snyder
What would America look like today if the dream of our Founding Fathers of a limited central government had actually been realized? We have become so accustomed to big government that many of us simply assume that this is the only way that things can be done. But the truth is that things don’t have ...
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Posted on May 26, 2017 by michael-snyder
The constitutional republic that our founders intended to create has become a monster, and it is time to tame that monster and restore the federal government to its proper size and scope. The left loves big government, because it allows them to impose their progressive vision of how the world should work on all the ...
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Posted on May 22, 2017 by bernie-suarez
A new bill, HR 1313, has been introduced by North Carolina Congresswoman Virginia Foxx which is designed to give employers absolute power over the employee by mandating whatever they deem to be proper “heath prevention” measures. These measures would include submitting DNA records as well as mandatory vaccinations and other perceived “health preventive” measures designed ...
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Posted on May 14, 2017 by guest-post
By: Gary ‘Z’ McGee, Waking Times | “A man without a government is like a fish without a bicycle.” ~Alvaro Koplovich Just as a fish does not need a bike, a man does not need a government. Especially not an oppressive one. As it stands, our government is cruel and arbitrary; certainly not free. Ironically, ...
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