Charles Murray’s field guide to civil disobedience

In his provocative new book, “By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission,” acclaimed social scientist and bestselling author Charles Murray shows us why we can no longer hope to roll back the power of the federal government through the normal political process. InfoGraphic by Olivier Ballou gives us an instant look at Murray's proposal. Read More......

Stephano: What really went down in Wisconsin

FOX/Opinion by Jennifer Stephano - What happened in Wisconsin Tuesday night was not about an election or a politician. It wasn’t about collective bargaining or budget deficits. It was about something far more important and far more intangible. It was about who and what we are as Americans. ✧ The people of Wisconsin had a choice. Would they, and in turn the rest of America, whose eyes were riveted on this small northern state, be a people with their hand constantly extended to the public trough shouting “give me, give me, give me”? Or, as the Tea Party has tried to exemplify, would we become the people pushing the plough, demanding, “give me liberty,” whatever the cost. It was about Barack Obama’s view of America versus the Tea Party’s. And once again, the Tea Party emerged victorious. Read more at Fox News...

Jennifer Stefano is the Pennsylvania state director for Americans for Prosperity. Read More......

D. Limbaugh: About Those Self-Evident Truths

TOWNHALL.COM, 12/16/2011 by David Limbaugh - "We hold these Truths to be self-evident..." What truths? What has happened to our passion for liberty? I am concerned that we conservatives, instead of making our case as fearless champions of liberty, are too often on the defensive, preoccupied with trying to prove we aren't the demons the left says we are. Read more at Townhall... Read More......

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls

RASMUSSEN REPORTS, 7/24/2010 - One of the key issues in the political debate now roiling the country is how big a part government should play in our lives. ∴ And on this topic there is a huge gap between the Political Class and the rest of the nation. ∴ Seventy-five percent (75%) of voters prefer free markets over a government-managed economy. But a plurality of the Political Class takes the opposite view. Read more at Rasmussen's... Read More......

Gov. Pawlenty: Obama Corrosive to Freedom, Liberty

NEWSMAX, 10/26/2009 by Ronald Kessler - President Obama has used bait-and-switch tactics first to get elected and now to push his healthcare proposal, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty tells Newsmax. ∴ During the campaign, Obama portrayed himself as a centrist but has governed as a “movement liberal,” says Pawlenty, who is widely seen as preparing for a presidential bid and has started Freedom First PAC to raise funds for Republican candidates in next year’s elections. ∴ “His solutions are federalization of policy, spending way beyond anything we’ve seen in terms of deficit or debt levels, spending the country into bankruptcy,” Pawlenty says. “And what’s behind it is a philosophy that government knows best, a nanny-state mentality on domestic issues that will ultimately be corrosive to the other pillars of our country — to markets, private enterprise, individual responsibility, freedom and liberty.” Read more at Newsmax... Read More......

Imprimis: Future Prospects for Economic Liberty

IMPRIMIS, 9/2009 - From a speech by Walter Williams, Professor of Economics, George Mason University - Excerpt (on the expansion of government at the cost of contracting liberty):

"Ironically, the free market system is threatened today not because of its failure, but because of its success. Capitalism has done so well in eliminating the traditional problems of mankind—disease, pestilence, gross hunger, and poverty—that other human problems seem to us unacceptable. So in the name of equalizing income, achieving sex and race balance, guaranteeing housing and medical care, protecting consumers, and conserving energy—just to name a few prominent causes of liberal government these days—individual liberty has become of secondary or tertiary concern."

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“Reprinted [in part] by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College.”
Adapted from a lecture delivered on August 2, 2009, during a Hillsdale College cruise from Venice to Athens aboard the Crystal Serenity. Read More......