Posts Tagged ‘ liberty ’

Political Intolerance

May 21st, 2009 | By Chris Hitzroth | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
I’ve heard a lot lately about how we need to be tolerant of one another’s political views.  I hear this, I suspect, because I’m not tolerant of most people’s politics.  I’m told we can have a good argument about our positions on the issues, but when we’re done, we must ...read more

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Progressive Taxation, an Assault on Liberty

May 15th, 2009 | By Dan Denning | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
Societies that use tax law as a way to achieve political or social goals are societies based on envy and resentment. That is, how a nation treats taxes tells you something of the character of a nation. So when you hear anyone say that the level of taxation in a country ...read more

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An Average Day in a Free Country

May 8th, 2009 | By Chris Lakumb | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
I am fairly vocal amongst my friends (and a few strangers) regarding my bias towards limited government.  The typical response I get is something along the lines of, “Are you crazy, America is the freest country in the world!”  I think the secondhand dealers in information (public school teachers and ...read more

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The Power to Tax Is the Power to Destroy

Mar 20th, 2009 | By Bill Jenkins | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
We watched in dismay as the unemployment numbers soared again last Friday -- a massive loss of 651,000 jobs in February. Thank God it was a short month... But let's put this into perspective. In December, the non-farm payroll (NFP) figure was 577,000 jobs lost. In January, the NFP figure was ...read more

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The Left in Power

Feb 18th, 2009 | By Whiskey Contributor | Category: Featured, Politics
The theme of my book, The Left, the Right, and the State, is that both sides of the political aisle represent a grave threat to liberty — though each of a different sort. It is like two people tugging at a turkey's wishbone: the turkey is liberty, and you are ...read more

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The Social Non-Contract: Governments Have No Right

Jan 30th, 2009 | By Whiskey Contributor | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties
I'm going to start with a most controversial proposition: No government has the right to exist. First, I must specify what I mean by a right. We can define a right in many different ways, but the one thing that all conceptions have in common is that they are, ultimately, a justification ...read more

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The Liberty Equation

Jul 16th, 2007 | By Jim Amrhein | Category: Macro Economics
Today, I want to tell you a story about lost liberty. It begins not with heavy-handed cops, omni-present cameras, smoke-Nazis, meat-martyrs, or eco-fascists — nor Big Brother and the thought-police… But with a woman. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting that women are antithetical to freedom (though that’s undeniably the ...read more

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