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Two Illegitimate Functions of Government

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The question every American needs to ponder and discuss is one that our American ancestors were debating at the inception of our nation: What should be the role of the federal government in American society? That was how we ended up with the Constitution. The Framers didn’t want to bring into existence a government with the general power to do whatever it deemed necessary, beneficial, and wise. For one thing, they knew that the American people would never accept that type of government. But they also knew that freedom for the citizenry is nonexistent when people are living under a government of general powers. So, the Constitution limited the powers of the federal government to the few powers that are enumerated in the Constitution. While that persuaded Americans to permit the federal government to come into existence, Americans were still not satisfied. They demanded a Bill of Rights, which really was a Bill of Prohibitions, which expressly forbade the federal government ...

Liberty, Peace, and Prosperity in 2016

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For libertarians, things are obviously moving in a very bad direction. The welfare state continues to expand. Government spending is out of control, with the federal government incurring ever-increasing amounts of debt. The Federal Reserve is inflating a new bubble. The feds continue to wage their decades-long war on drugs. The Cold War-era national security state, which continues to play the dominant role within the federal governmental structure, continues to foment perpetual crises and chaos. Military invasions, occupations, assassinations, support of dictatorships, bombings, and other foreign interventions are now the norm for the United States. The federal government wields the totalitarian-like power to round up people, incarcerate them without trial, torture them, and assassinate them. The war on immigrants continues unabated, including against refugees who are fleeing the violence and chaos unleashed by U.S. intervention abroad. Thus, it’s easy to conclude that the prospects for liberty in the coming year are bleaker than ever. It’s easy to just say, “What’s ...

The Fear Of Terrorism Is Destroying Our Freedom

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The year that is just closing, 2015, has been full of events that continue to dominate the news, including renewed racial tensions on the streets of American cities, growing fears about terrorist attacks on the territory of the United States, and one of the most fear-focused presidential campaign seasons in living memory. Through it all there is one underlying thread that is not always given the attention it deserves: the increased political straightjacketing and threatened loss of individual liberty. Let us be frank. Race relations may not be what they were, say, fifty or sixty years ago, but it remains a fact that tensions and conflicts still abound in the interactions between people of differing racial and ethic backgrounds in the U.S. The Legacies of Collectivism The legacy of cultural, social and economic history dies hard, and this is true not only for the United States, but around the world. For thousands of years people everywhere lived their lives in often tightly knit ...

What If Jesus Had Been Born 2,000 Years Later in the American Police State?

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“Two thousand years later … the memory of the revolutionary zealot who walked across Galilee gathering an army of disciples with the goal of establishing the Kingdom of God on earth, the magnetic preacher who defied the authority of the Temple priesthood in Jerusalem, the radical Jewish nationalist who challenged the Roman occupation and lost, has been almost completely ...

This Thanksgiving, Let’s Say ‘No Thanks’ to the Tyranny of the American Police State

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“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”—Daniel Webster Thanksgiving is not what it once was. Then again, America ...