A Century of Bipartisan Tyranny | by Tom Mullen -- Campaign For Liberty

Excellent article. Tom Mullen writes, too many fail "to evaluate either party on its core purpose: to secure their unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property."

Campaign For Liberty — A Century of Bipartisan Tyranny   | by Tom Mullen

A TIME TO KILL by J. Neil Schulman

J. Neil Schulman writes, "Violence is not of itself always wrong. Sometimes committing an act of violence is a right and a moral necessity. When violence is righteous, it is glorious. If we do not understand this and ready ourselves with arms and training for the rightful violence that is necessary to defend the innocent, then the random violence eating away at our nation's substance is just what we have coming to us."

http://homepage.usask.ca/~sta575/cdn-firearms/Schulman/a.time.to.kill

The Marijuana Conspiracy | Vaporizers|Vaporizer Reviews

Very eye-opening review of hemp in history. Didn't get this in my government-school education in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Marijuana Conspiracy | Vaporizers|Vaporizer Reviews

High School Football—A Terrorist Threat « Women of Caliber

Kellene Bishop writes, "Fight the real enemy, folks, not a fictitious enemy that the media and some government officials perpetuate in order to accomplish other horrible agendas."

High School Football—A Terrorist Threat « Women of Caliber

WSJ dares ask the question -- legalize drugs? -- The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive

Jason Pye writes, "Social conservatives need to consider this point, legalizing marijuana is more popular than the Republican Party."

The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive » WSJ dares ask the question…

The Maneater – Conceal carry not so dangerous

Good defense of responsible concealed carry on campuses.

The fewer the victim disarmament zones, the safer for the law-abiding (and less safe for would-be criminals).

The Maneater – Conceal carry not so dangerous

Why the Government Loves Inflation -- Austrianism - Tu Ne Cede Malis

Jonathan Galt writes:

After all, it was Keynes himself who said, "Lenin was certainly right, there is no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." Keynesianism is nothing more than the redistribution of wealth from the financially prudent to financially imprudent, wealth destruction at its finest and Sir Keynes knew it!

Austrianism - Tu Ne Cede Malis: Why the Government Loves Inflation

Campaign For Liberty — Nullification Revisited | by Robert Hawes

Good study by Robert Hawes.

Far from being a discredited political doctrine, nullification is, in actuality, a constitutionally consistent principle whereby sovereign states can defend their reserved rights and powers from federal acts of usurpation, most of which are motivated by partisan politics and power scheming. It is in every way consistent with the Constitution's fundamental principles, most notably the concepts of delegated powers and the separation of powers. Indeed, it should be recognized that it is not so much a state that nullifies a federal law or act, as it is the Constitution that does so, in that the Constitution limits what the federal government may rightfully do. Viewed in that light, nullification is really nothing more than a state saying to the federal government, "The Constitution does not authorize you to do this, therefore, we are not obligated to submit to you in this matter, and are choosing not to do so."

Campaign For Liberty — Nullification Revisited   | by Robert Hawes

Earth Day—exchanging the creation for the Creator

Good Christian perspective on this popular observance.

Earth Day—exchanging the creation for the Creator

Inside Ronald Reagan: A Reason Interview - Reason Magazine

Nice interview of Ronald Reagan in 1975, just after his second term as governor of California and five years before he would be elected president.

Inside Ronald Reagan: A Reason Interview - Reason Magazine

Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com

Fascinating story. Almost makes me cry for some reason.

Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com

Thanks to Tony Galliano (sonotony) on Twitter

Twitter / Tony Galliano: : "What happens when one of the world’s best violinists plays in a metro station for change? http://tr.im/ave3 using a $3.5-mill violin"

Austrian Theory for Everyone - Wladimir Kraus - Mises Institute

Great book! Currently on page 46 of 163.

Austrian Theory for Everyone - Wladimir Kraus - Mises Institute

1819: America's First Housing Bubble - C.J. Maloney - Mises Institute

Great review of Murray Rothbard's thesis.

1819: America's First Housing Bubble - C.J. Maloney - Mises Institute

Secession – One Year Later by William Buppert

Dean May: Lincoln changed his mind.

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right – a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit."

~ Abraham Lincoln, (speech in Congress January 1848)

Secession – One Year Later by William Buppert

Eastern time zone not in kids' best interests | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star

I agree with Mrs. Dillon, Indiana would be better off being entirely back on central time again.

Eastern time zone not in kids' best interests | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star

Why Does America Have a Drug War?

I heartily second the motion!

Jacob Hornberger, "It is impossible to reconcile the drug war with the principles of a free society. The war has accomplished nothing positive and has done horrific damage. Enough is enough. The time has come for the American people to lead the world out of the drug-war morass. The time has come to repeal all civil and criminal penalties for possession and distribution of drugs. The time has come to end the war on drugs."

Why Does America Have a Drug War?

TEN COMMANDMENTS OF COMMUNICATING WITH PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES - Trainer's Toolchest

My company has a training session coming up with this title, so I thought I would get a preview.

TEN COMMANDMENTS OF COMMUNICATING WITH PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES - Trainer's Toolchest

John Quincy Adams on U.S. Foreign Policy (1821)

I agree with John Quincy Adams on appropriate United States national government foreign policy.

"[America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy"

John Quincy Adams on U.S. Foreign Policy (1821)

Should Marijuana Be Legal? | Cannabis News - Medical Marijuana, Marijuana News, Hemp, Cannabis

This seems like a pretty level-headed and balanced analysis of the pros and cons of legalization.

Personally, I would rather see the government completely out of the business of regulation and licensing of adult use and commerce of marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco.

Should Marijuana Be Legal? | Cannabis News - Medical Marijuana, Marijuana News, Hemp, Cannabis

What the Bible Says About Big Government | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty

James C. Patrick wrote:

What is needed in the United States is to repeal laws, not to pass new ones. Repeal laws that vest some men with authority over other men. This is not to set the clock back, it is to set it right.

As Samuel warned the people of Israel when they chose big government, various prophets have warned the people of America. Prophets can only tell what to expect, however, not when to expect it. More than a century of suffering passed before the people of Israel rose to throw off the yoke from their necks.

What the Bible Says About Big Government | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty

What the Bible Says About Big Government | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty

Why government-provided "welfare" is bad for the productive and the parasites alike.

"Government is society’s mechanism for protecting and defending... but when it takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong, government commits an act of plunder. One person who uses force or the threat of force to take from another what has been honestly earned or built or created, commits an immoral act and a crime. Two or more persons banding together do not acquire any moral rights that they did not have as individuals. When government provides benefits for one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime, it performs an act of plunder. Not only is governmental plunder immoral, it reduces the general well-being of the people. It does so by taking away from some people what they have produced but are not permitted to use. It reduces well-being by distributing to other people what they have not been required to produce. Both the producers and the receivers are thus deprived of incentive. And government reduces the general well-being by creating an unproductive administrative bureaucracy to do the taking away and the distributing. Society needs the productivity of all its able members."

What the Bible Says About Big Government | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty

Civil Liberties Examiner: Phoenix cops raid the home of an online critic

"Unaccredited grassroots Web site"? As opposed to ... what?

Civil Liberties Examiner: Phoenix cops raid the home of an online critic

The War on Drugs is a War on You

Michael Boldin: A free society just wouldn't force you, under the threat of punishment, to be "good" to yourself all the time. That was the job of your parents - unless, of course, you want the feds to be your new "daddy." Every day that the war on drugs continues is another day of injustice; another day of spending countless billions to lock people up that don't behave the way the bureaucrats want them to behave. It's time to bring this multi-billion dollar attack on your liberty to an end.

The War on Drugs is a War on You