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Showing posts with label Liberty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liberty. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Monday, August 8, 2016
Nervous Breakdown Election?
Actually, nah.
I think folks are perfectly lucid about things, but just now at Drudge.
He's linking CBS News Dallas, "Woman’s Home Vandalized Because of ‘Trump’ Signs."
Also, at CBS News Pittsburgh, "Trump Voter Shot After Bar Political Debate Turns Violent."
Heh, good times.
I think folks are perfectly lucid about things, but just now at Drudge.
He's linking CBS News Dallas, "Woman’s Home Vandalized Because of ‘Trump’ Signs."
Also, at CBS News Pittsburgh, "Trump Voter Shot After Bar Political Debate Turns Violent."
Heh, good times.
Here's Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth
More on economics, considering Trump's big speech on the economy right now.
At Amazon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War.
At Amazon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War.
Reupping Ian Fletcher's, Free Trade Doesn't Work
Donald Trump's speaking right now on economic policy. He was saying "free has big benefits," while at the same time talking about how he was going to bring "trillions of dollars" back home, heh.
Good times.
Here's Fletcher's book, at Amazon, Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why."
Good times.
Here's Fletcher's book, at Amazon, Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why."
Monday, July 25, 2016
Jan Crawford at the National Constitution Center (VIDEO)
Watch, an interesting segment, at CBS This Morning, "National Constitution Center tells the story of America":
The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia tells the story of how our founders created a government by the people with an elected president -- and a Constitution that endures and protects us all. Jan Crawford reports.I don't think the question is whether we can "keep" the Constitution so much as we can preserve the liberty that it was originally designed to protect. The Constitution will be with us for a long time. It's how much the interpretation and practice of our constitutional norms have changed that's troubling.
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Revolutionary Reading [BUMPED]
I posted Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution the other day.
But see also, Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution.
Plus, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815.
Also, Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life.
And, by Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson.
Gary Wills, Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
More, from Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848.
BONUS: From Dana Loesch, Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To.
But see also, Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution.
Plus, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815.
Also, Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life.
And, by Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson.
Gary Wills, Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
More, from Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848.
BONUS: From Dana Loesch, Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To.
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Monday, July 4, 2016
Hey Ungrateful Leftists, Catch a Flight to Cuba, LOL!
Michelle Malkin cracks me up.
She's got an Independence Day video, at the link.
I think conservatives took over the #AmericaWasNeverGreat hashtag, lol.
She's got an Independence Day video, at the link.
I think conservatives took over the #AmericaWasNeverGreat hashtag, lol.
To the #AmericaWasNeverGreat ingrates: It's our day to tell you to SIT DOWN==> https://t.co/GRYH1xmaST #IndependenceDay— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) July 4, 2016
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Our Eternal War for Independence
From Daniel Geenfield, at FrontPage Magazine, "We are a nation of rebels":
How will you celebrate the Fourth of July?
With fireworks and parades, hamburgers and hot dogs, sweating bands playing Sousa marches and parades down Main Street? Will you remember the men who fell in the first war and all the following wars that were fought to preserve our political and personal independence from foreign and domestic tyrannies? Will you consider what you might have done in the days when revolution was in the air?
Those are all good things. They remind us to celebrate and what it is we are celebrating.
I sat on the warm grass beneath the shade of a spreading fig tree listening to a band run through a repertoire of everything from Yankee Doodle Dandy to Over There. An elderly disabled veteran with a flag listened intently to the orchestra and a small child clambered awkwardly up a tree as his father worriedly urged him to climb down. It could have been a scene from any century. The Fourth is timeless.
It is timeless because it is still going on. The War of Independence went on underneath that fig tree, it continues on in your town, your city and in your community on this day and on every day.
Independence Day is a commemoration, but it is not a mere commemoration. The struggle is not over.
America became America out of a hatred of powerful central government. The War of Independence was not a battle between two countries. America’s Founding Fathers started out as Englishmen who wanted to preserve their rights from a distant and out of touch government.
The War of Independence was a civil war between those who wanted a strong central government and those who wanted to govern themselves. The fundamental breach between these two worldviews led to the creation of an independent nation dedicated to the preservation of independence. This independence was not mere political independence. It was personal independence.
America as a separate nation did not yet exist. Even the Constitution that embodies its purpose was a decade, a war, a failed experiment in government and many bitter debates away.
Nations come and go. Political unions are created and dissolved. There are nations today named Egypt and Greece that have little in common with the historical entities that once bore those names. The Declaration to which those remarkable men pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor was not for a flag, which then still bore the Union Jack, or for the invention of yet another administrative body, but for the rights of peoples, nations and individuals to be free to exercise their personal and political rights.
The war for these things was fought, but it has not ended. It began then, but it continues today.
It is not a war against King George III. It is the ongoing struggle between the people and those who would govern them that is at the heart of our independence.
There are two visions of how men are meant to live today, just as there were in 1776. Revolutions and wars may occasionally clarify these visions, but they do not permanently resolve them. New governments are quick to adopt old tyrannies. Freedom is a popular rallying cry for rebels. But few rebels wish to be rebelled against. That is what made America unique. That is what still does.
We were not meant to be a society of sinecures for public servants. We did not come into being to be ruled by bureaucrats. Our birth of freedom was not meant to give way to the repression of a vast incomprehensible body of regulations administered by an elite political class in Washington D.C.
Americans are rebels. And if we are not rebels, then we are not Americans.
We are not a nation founded by men and women who followed the rules. It is not our capacity for obedience that makes us true Americans, but our capacity for disobedience.
The Declaration of Independence was a document of rebellion by a band of rebels. “Damned rebels” as the big government monarchists saw them. The men who signed it pledged their lives because they expected to be executed for treason. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were acts of rebellion against the entire order across what was then seen as the civilized world.
American greatness came about because we were willing to break the rules. It was only when we began following the rules, when as a nation we made the maintenance of the international order into our notion of the greatest good and when as individuals we accepted the endless expansion of government as a national ideal that we ceased to be great.
When we think of great Americans, from Thomas Jefferson to the Wright Brothers, from Andrew Jackson to Daniel Boone, from Theodore Roosevelt to today’s true patriots, we think of “damned rebels” who broke the rules, who did what should have been impossible and thumbed their noses at the establishments of the day. American greatness is embodied in individual initiative. That is why the Declaration of Independence places at the center of its striving, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
It was for these individualistic ends of freedom that government had to be derived from the consent of the governed, that a war was fought that changed the world and it is these ends that we must celebrate.
Rebellion does not always mean muskets and cannon. Long before the War of Independence, we had become a nation of rebels who explored the wild realms of forests and streams, who forged cities out of savage lands, who argued philosophy and sought a higher purpose for their strivings, who refused to bow to their betters out of an accident of birth. And at our best, we are still rebels today.
When we dissent from the system, we rebel. When we refuse to conform, when we think differently, when we choose to live our own lives instead of living according to the dictates of our political rulers and pop culture arbiters, then we are celebrating the spirit of freedom that animates the Fourth.
When we defy the government, when we speak out against Obama and the rest of our privileged ruling class, when we demand the right to govern ourselves, when we fight to hold government accountable, when we question what we are told and the need to be told anything at all, then we are keeping that old spirit of rebellion alive. We are still fighting for our independence from government every day and every year that we choose to live as free people. That is the glorious burden of freedom.
Freedom is not handed to us. It is not secured for us by politicians. Like the Founding Fathers, we are made free by our fight for freedom. Preserving their legacy cannot be meaningfully recreated through any means other than the committed struggle for the same ideals.
This Fourth of July, celebrate by continuing to be a rebel, question and challenge the left’s worship of government. And don’t stop on the Fifth or in July. Or in any year or any decade or any century.
We here at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and at Front Page Magazine don’t.
Our family of writers, activists and commentators, and that includes you, inspired by David’s courageous spirit continue to question authority, challenge government and fight for the independence of the individual against the tyrannies of the radical left and Islamic theocracy, every day, week and month of the year.
And we welcome you to our revolution.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Assignment America: A Look at What Makes Texas Texas
At the New York Times.
Thank goodness some Americans are determined to preserve their heritage and values.
Thank goodness some Americans are determined to preserve their heritage and values.
What makes Texas Texas https://t.co/jfY813VjmC pic.twitter.com/iyo61lciLh
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 7, 2016
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty
From Eric Metaxas, out June 14th, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty.
From the Amazon blurb:
From the Amazon blurb:
If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling review of America's uniqueness, and a sobering reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless we truly understand what our founding fathers meant for us to be. The book includes a stirring call-to-action for every American to understand the ideals behind the "noble experiment in ordered liberty" that is America. It also paints a vivid picture of the tremendous fragility of that experiment and explains why that fragility has been dangerously forgotten—and in doing so it lays out our own responsibility to live those ideals and carry on those freedoms. Metaxas believes America is not a nation bounded by ethnic identity or geography, but rather by a radical and unprecedented idea, based upon liberty and freedom. It's time to reconnect to that idea before America loses the very foundation for what made it exceptional in the first place.Pre-order here.
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Friday, March 4, 2016
'You Will Be Made to Care'
The new book out from Erick Erickson and Bill Blankschaen, You Will Be Made to Care: The War on Faith, Family, and Your Freedom to Believe.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Oregon State Police Get Death Threats in LaVoy Finicum Shooting (VIDEO)
Death threats have come in from around the country. Unambiguous death threats.
At KOIN 6 News Portland:
At KOIN 6 News Portland:
Michele Fiore Speaks to Crowd Outside Federal Courthouse in Portland on February 12, 2016 (VIDEO)
Following-up from the other day, "Michele Fiore, Unlikely Mediator in #Malheur Militia Standoff in Oregon."
Via the Portland Oregonian:
Also, "Michele Fiore takes questions after courthouse speech."
Still more, "'In my opinion Mr. Finicum was murdered,' says Nevada Assemblyman John Moore."
Via the Portland Oregonian:
Also, "Michele Fiore takes questions after courthouse speech."
Still more, "'In my opinion Mr. Finicum was murdered,' says Nevada Assemblyman John Moore."
Friday, February 12, 2016
Last Four Holdouts Plead Not Guilty in Occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (VIDEO)
Jennifer Dowling reports, for KOIN News 6 Portland, "Last 4 occupiers plead not guilty to federal felony."
Michele Fiore, Unlikely Mediator in #Malheur Militia Standoff in Oregon
She's a big, beautiful American babe.
At the Los Angeles Times, "Who is the gun-toting, brash-talking Nevada lawmaker who helped end the Oregon standoff?"
At the Los Angeles Times, "Who is the gun-toting, brash-talking Nevada lawmaker who helped end the Oregon standoff?"
An Inside Look at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (VIDEO)
Following-up from earlier, "Last Four Holdouts Surrender at #Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (VIDEO)."
At KOIN News 6 Portland:
At KOIN News 6 Portland:
Last Four Holdouts Surrender at #Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (VIDEO)
I'm back to work for the spring semester, and I was in class yesterday during the final stand at the Malheur refuge. Honestly, from checking Twitter during my breaks, I thought David Fry was going to do something rash. At one point he was said to have put a gun to his head.
And watch, at ABC News, "Dramatic End to Armed Standoff in Oregon."
Fry says he is pointing a gun at his head. #Oregonstandoff— Molly Young (@mollykyoung) February 11, 2016
At the Portland Oregonian, "Oregon standoff ends with a 'hallelujah'," and "Oregon standoff: Last four occupiers surrender at Malheur refuge.""I told everybody that I will have a pistol and I will kill myself." #Oregonstandoff— Molly Young (@mollykyoung) February 11, 2016
Others are trying to talk him down.
And watch, at ABC News, "Dramatic End to Armed Standoff in Oregon."
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