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Freedom of Association and Cancel Culture

October 11, 2024 Wanjiru Njoya

Murray Rothbard conceptualized liberty as an emanation of property rights and self-ownership. Freedom of association is, therefore, best understood as “a subset of private property rights.” Just as property rights are absolute and limited only by respect for other people’s property rights, freedom of association is absolute and constrained only by other people’s freedom to … Read more

Religious Intolerance at The University of New Hampshire (UNH)

December 30, 2022 Steve MacDonald

UNH typically gets good marks from groups like FIRE for free speech that, in my opinion, they do not deserve. UNH may put policies in writing that sell a commitment to open and free expression, but the entire campus culture stands on the intolerance baked into identity politics.

Right To Work Protects Our Freedoms While Growing Our Economy

April 6, 2021 Skip

In the coming vote on Right to Work legislation Senate Bill 61 (SB61 text below) before the New Hampshire House, representatives have a clear choice.

Using This Logic We’ll Have to Start Giving Democrats Seats on the NHGOP Exec. Committee.

January 23, 2021 Steve MacDonald

The NHGOP Executive Committee has become something of an affirmative action project. They keep giving seats to groups, but they can’t give a seat to every group, so how do you get there from here? Well, the Log Cabin Republicans “invested” at least 50,000.00 dollars to buy a seat.

What Some Nitwit Said to Satisfy His Fringy Base

October 22, 2019 Steve MacDonald

We have an abundance of material that fits into the nitwit said to their fringy base category. Today’s lesson comes courtesy of Senator Ben Sasse. The nitwit is Bobby O’Rourke. That fringy base consists of Democrat primary voters. Our topic is religious freedom.

California Law Requiring Public Release of (Trump’s) Tax Returns has Been Thrown Out

October 2, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Last month a federal judge blocked a law in California created to force Donald Trump to make public his tax returns. The same judge just tossed the law altogether, calling it an unconstitutional limitation on ballot access, among other things.

Janus vs. AFSCME – a personal take

September 26, 2018June 27, 2018 Skip

UPDATE: As the Supreme court just decided for Janus and against the unions, this post is appropriate. Best news? SCOTUS rules that public sector union MUST be opt-in for payments. Essentially, this returns freedom to individuals over the unions; no more paycheck protection for unions.

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“Live Free or Die” – that’s our state motto and unlike many on the Left that find that absolutely abhorrent, it’s one of the reasons why I’ve stayed in the Granite State for over three decades (yep, came for a job, stayed for the motto). The rest of the motto is not one that is repeated too often, that saying from General John Stark to his former soldiers: “Death is not the worst of all evils“. The Progressives here shudder every time it is stated.

For them, life is not to be free in the traditional sense of the word. Freedom is the Collective. Freedom is belonging to such a collective. It also isn’t about remembering history because much of their philosophy regresses back to the mistakes and catastrophes of the 20th and 19th Centuries when Collectivism tried to overwhelm that most radical of American ideals – the idea that the Individual is sovereign and happens to have a government instead of what most of the world’s history and actions show to be the opposite – a country with subjects.