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I have regularly encountered the fear that liberals would control the convention and produce awful results. Let me carefully make the case why this fear is completely unjustified and why patriotic Americans that are not constitutional hypocrites should support the nonpartisan effort of Friends of the Article V Convention.
These policies, and the use of an ever-increasing “Big Government”, have allowed for the deprivation of constitutional guaranteed sovereignty for the several states. Seemingly, the Tenth Amendment is ignored and tread upon by such administrations.
They aren't the same
After freezing his financial assets, the UN war crimes Tribunal in The Hague is refusing to pay Radovan Karadzic's legal team.
The masses are asleep; completely ignorant and apathetic about what is going on in Washington. This, of course, is just what the corrupt oligarchs running America want.
I LOVE Sarah Palin!
by Raven West, J.D. (libertarian, November 17, 2009)With the release of "Going Rogue" Palin proves when the going gets tough, the tough write a book
The primary responsibility of government is to protect its citizens from internal and external threats. Last week, that basic trust was shattered with the attack by Major Hassan on his comrades in arms at Fort Hood.
"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security."
- Benjamin Franklin
Jake Towne's Afghanistan War Plank
by Jake Towne, the Champion of the Constitution (libertarian, November 15, 2009)I describe why the Afghanistan and Pakistan "Wars of Terror" must be immediately ended and how to deal with Osama Bin Laden.
The decision by the Obama Administration to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in civilian courts raises difficult questions about our involvement in Afghanistan and the admissibility of evidence in civilian courts.
When Calvin Coolidge said "The business of America is business," he and very few if any others knew just how deep this sentiment would sink into the American consciousness. Now it seems apparent that the way business thinks has muscled every other kind of thought process out of the American mind. The unfortunate result is that if no business solution exists to an American ailment, it festers into an incurable American disease.
Dr. Rand Paul is running for the U.S. Senate as a Republican. But is he one?
Radovan Karadzic is being denied the same pre-trial preparation time that the Tribunal has afforded to high-profile non-Serbian defendants.
“[Our situation] illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.”
- Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America
How much government is too much government?
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
by Jim Quinn (libertarian, November 11, 2009)In 2025 America will be indistinguishable from the America of today. It could be better, worse or non-existent. This is why proclaiming the truth today about how the ruling elite have hijacked America is so important. When civil unrest overtakes the nation there will be many who urge the American people to rally around a dictator or stronger Central Government. The message of the U.S. Constitution, freedom, liberty, and individual rights will compete for the minds and hearts with a message of fascism, State control central planning, and safety at the expense of freedom.
"Soldiers' supreme wish is to avoid war, for the costs are inevitably paid with their blood and brains." - Jake Towne
Killer Country
by John Kozy (centrist liberal libertarian, November 10, 2009)Oh, the wailing, weeping, and gnashing of teeth over last week's killings at Fort Hood!—a tragic instance of what Americans call an "isolated" event that happens almost daily. America is a killing field! It has been for a very long time. Historically, the oppressed have killed their oppressors. In America the oppressed kill each other. American politicians claim that America is the free-world's leader. But what other country would want to follow America down this road? (Perhaps the stupid British from whom we acquired the roots of this vulture—oops!, culture.) It is noteworthy that since 1789, approximately 70 nations have become democratic, but not a single one has copied the American model. Whom are we leading where? Perhaps only ourselves to perdition.
I interview with the Judge and discuss my independent campaign and the Republocrats.
Either we declare total war in Afghanistan or we leave. There can be no middle ground now.
The English language is being turned into a weapon of the Left, to silence anyone opposed to the socialist agenda of the President and his cronies.
The Saturday vote on the government-run healthcare bill, should be noted as a blatant disregard for the wants and needs of the citizen. That seems to be setting the stage for “taxation, without proper representation”.
Access to health care, health insurance, and reducing costs is important for all Americans. This bill, however, is not the way to accomplish those goals
Congressman Mel Watt (D-NC) is either a charlatan or ignorant of basic economics. Either way he is unfit to serve in Congress let alone serve as chairman of the Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee.
Jake Towne issues a press release challenging incumbent Charlie Dent and challenger John Callahan to debate
International organizations like NATO and the UN threaten America's sovereignty.
The cooperation of political monopoly industry and progressive welfare reform is a fundamental componet of the corporate state.
There is momentum now for us to stand up and make real change in the way our country is being run. We need to take charge of that momentum and get it done.
If you are thinking about filing a class action suit, find an attorney who understands that if s/he is unable to negotiate a substantial award for each member of the settlement class, that you will insist that the suit be taken to trial; otherwise, you are merely involving yourself in a lawyerly boondoggle in which the lawyers will use your misery to enrich themselves. If your lawyer is not going to get you and your colleagues substantial awards, at least make sure that s/he does not get any either.
"People ask an expectant mother how her baby is doing. They do not ask how her fetus is doing, or her blob of tissue, or her parasite. But that is what her baby becomes as soon as the child is declared to be unwanted." - Dr. Ron Paul (R-TX) (The Revolution: A Manifesto, by Ron Paul, p. 59-60)
Ignorance and apathy among the citizenry has dire consequences for the Republic.
In This Corner...
by Kaydee Barnett (libertarian, November 5, 2009)Thoughts on the Puberty War between Teens and the Parents and people who love them.
"Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it." - Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague is considering imposing a defense lawyer on former Bosnian-Serb president Radovan Karadzic against his will.
Raising the Minimum Wage may have made the politicians feel good, but it has wreaked havoc on this Nation's Employment. How good are we feeling now?
Money is a tool: a means of exchange, a standard unity to measure value, and a means to store wealth. There are certain dangers associated with money being limited to a fiat currency. And if the Federal Reserve's inflationary monetary policy was more widely understood, people would demand a return to sound money.
A candid discussion on which Republican candidate would be best for the Constitution in the event that Ron Paul does not secure the nomination of the Republican Party in 2012.
A discussion on Doug Hoffman and the former Republican candidate who has since dropped out of the race.
This article discusses the scam in progress behind the Continental Congress 2009
A treatise on the virtues of free markets and why free people cannot exist without equally free markets.
THE NANNY STATE
by Jim Quinn (libertarian, November 1, 2009)Those who have run up $12 trillion in debt, led us into multiple trillion dollar foreign wars, left our children and grandchildren with a $100 trillion bill for unfunded promises, and have sold their souls to evil banks and corporations, have exercised their powers in a destructive manner.
What Physicians Know
by Joel S. Hirschhorn (libertarian, November 1, 2009)The greatest burden for physicians is dealing with private health insurance companies, which is why so many of them want Medicare to be made available to everyone.
Last Wednesday, President Obama signed a bill into law which adds acts of violence against the disabled, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender folks to the list of federal hate crimes.
The FDIC's recent proposal to collect three years' worth of premiums from its members in order to cover the cost of closing banks now raises a question about what they will do when the crisis gets worse.
Even a cursory understanding of GDP, in context with other statistics, shows the false hope this current statistic is presenting.
Like the days of old, Chicago Unions are battling it out over "Turf"
Yes, the relinquishing of liberty to imbetter society as a whole. Sounds good, doesn't it? If you want government to make the decisions in every manner possible, then that is the plan for you. For me, no.
The costs of the medical industry are related to supply and demand. Why are we not doing what we can to increase supply? Because that would require us to fix a broken tax code.
Many of the assumptions of status quo economics, such as the idea of aggregate overproduction, resemble fairy tales more than actual observation.
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