There are a variety of definitions of freedom. Most often people confuse freedom with license, or more particularly licentiousness. They assume that their personal wants and desires can be pursued without boundary or at least as long as they are ...
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The Real Story Of Scottish Independence
In 1320 at Arbroath Abbey, Scotland declared independence or perhaps more accurately, reasserted its independence. Signed by 51 nobles, and accompanied by a letter from King Robert I, the epistles, written in Latin to the Pope, declared that the English ...
Read More »The Covenant and Freedom (Part 2)
Covenant was to be a lasting theme in Scottish Reformation and its aftermath, one in which they would go far beyond Calvin. —Douglas Kelly, The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World (1992) Scotland became Europe’s first modern literate ...
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A long time ago in Ireland there lived a man named Columba who loved books. —Jean Fritz, The Man Who Loved Books (1981) My son, I tell thee soothfastlie;/ No gift is like libertie;/ Then never live in slaverie. ...
Read More »Walter E. Williams On The Best Arguments For Small Government (Radio)
When that friendly, liberal neighbor or relative starts promoting Big Government and leftist ideas, do you know how to respond? Sure, you know that Obamacare is a bad idea and that a growing government is a death knell to freedom, ...
Read More »‘Impeach Obama’ Signs Sparking Arrests, Debates Over Freedom
A Pennsylvania business owner feels that his First Amendment rights were violated when his landlord painted over an Impeach Obama sign. Brent Kovac maintains that the landlord threatened him with eviction if the sign was not taken down. Kovac says ...
Read More »The Consent of Tyranny
Locke held that all legitimate governments rest on consent. Society is not natural to man, but rather conventional. —Rousas J. Rushdoony, The Roots of Reconstruction (1991) Indeed, to respect autonomy is often understood to be the chief way to bear ...
Read More »Liberty For All?
And what is liberty? Can it be limited, or is true liberty only unlimited liberty? —Rousas J. Rushdoony, Law and Liberty (1977) Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord/But you’re gonna have to serve somebody. ...
Read More »The Progressive War On Homeschooling
Homeschooling families are the latest to become the target of the liberal attack on individual liberties. Millions of folks once legally immigrated to America because of the multitude of freedoms which were drafted into the Constitution by our Founding Fathers. ...
Read More »No Need For Conspiracies When We Gladly Give Away Our Freedoms
Immediately after 9/11, there was a groundswell of support for anything the government deemed necessary to make us safer. American flags flew on every car and new legislation passed at a dizzying rate as everyone wanted to do something, anything, ...
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