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National Right to Carry And Its’ Opponents From Within

“Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?” —Thomas Sowell  The Union Leader’s Mark Hayward features a front page story today entitled, “Activists: Feds’ bill would lead to gun control“. The …

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NH Dems Target ‘Free State Project.’

It sounds like the folks at the Suckley (Sullivan/Buckley) School for Orwellian Linguistics are using peoples lack of knowledge about the liberty movement to frighten them out of voting for anyone they can label as a Free Stater.

Jim DeMint’s Palmetto Freedom Forum

Mike had posted the video from Senator Jim DeMint’s Palmetto Freedom Forum where most of the current Republican candidates for President went through a grilling, one by one, from the moderators. One of those moderators was Princeton Professor Robert George, a Constitutional guru.  After the forum, he spoke to the reporters concerning the real meaning …

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If You Are Not Following Me On Twitter….

Twitter inspires the opportunity to aggravate the leftists who insist on following conservatives there. Not every witticism will fit on Twitter. Sometimes you have to write a blog and post a link. And then there are the thoughts that are too short to blog and too long to tweet. (Some things can’t be said in under 140 characters.)

Why Political and Economic Freedom Matter So Much

Every year, the Wall Street Journal and Heritage compile the index of economic freedom, and recently, while soem other countries, notably in Asia, have been getting the message that more freedom means more prosperity, some western countries, notably the USA and the UK have not gotten the mesage, and are going in the wrong direction. …

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And you thought Freedom didn’t matter? It certainly has a bunch of correlation to your family’s standard of living…

"Economic freedom is good for people" When people have more freedom to choose for themselves in terms of what they do for work, what they can buy, society itself is better overall.  This quick clip shows why: Freedom – the ability to choose.  When you look at "List B", one thing is in common is …

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How Much Is Enough? (And Other Problems With Left Wing Policy)

Taxation is a legalized theft with no limit; Ask Mark Fernald, the current titular class-warfare mouthpiece of the left in New Hampshire, how much property he needs the state to confiscate to end the class warfare he wages? What are the terms of peace Mark, or are they terms of surrender? Every month you go on and on with your class warfare but tell us, how long and how much? At what point is government large enough to solve all the problems you imagine it must confront?