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Fear, Government and Freedom

Fear, Government and Freedom

By Michael Rufo

COVID 19 is real and social distancing is the right idea, authoritarianism is not.

We as a society need to slow down, reflect and understand the harm we are creating which can, and will, be just as bad for society as a whole. This may ruffle feathers and hurt some feelings, but it hits at the core of the unintended consequence of government force. It is for this exact moment in time that I, and millions of liberty minded individuals across the country, are constantly relentless about even the smallest of human rights infringements.

On the Coronavirus and Constitutional Crisis

On the Coronavirus and Constitutional Crisis

By Lee Enochs

Like many Americans, I have been rocked to my very core due to this Coronavirus pandemic. Being placed on virtual house arrest here in California has not been pleasant to say the least.

While I know the health issues related to this contagion are deadly serious and I personally mourn for the loss of life and unparalleled devastation this has caused so many Americans, I believe another serious issue has arisen throughout the United States in respect to the loss of our civil liberties.

Iraq and the Destruction of American Liberty

Iraq and the Destruction of American Liberty

By Jacob G. Hornberger

This week marks the 16th anniversary of the U.S. government’s invasion of Iraq. The anniversary helps to remind us of the important role that country has played in the destruction of American liberty.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq, which was ordered by President George W. Bush, was justified under the rubric of “weapons of mass destruction” or “WMDs.” The argument was twofold: that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed WMDs and, even worse, was about to deploy them against the United States. The invasion, the Bush people argued, was necessary to both “disarm” Saddam and prevent an imminent WMD attack on the United States.

Why were U.S. officials so certain that Saddam had WMDs? Because they had the receipts. It was the U.S. and other Western countries that furnished Saddam with the WMDs that they later used as the excuse to invade the country.

Why the Rise of Socialism is Bad for America

Why the Rise of Socialism is Bad for America

By Lee Enochs 

Socialism, the political and economic theory of social organization, which postulates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange of monetary resources for goods should be regulated by the state, is on the rise in the United States. 

 The economic and political system of socialism are directly related to the concepts of “collectivism,” the practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it, and “statism,” a political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs of a given state or society.

The Unheeded Advice in George Washington's Farewell Address

The Unheeded Advice in George Washington's Farewell Address

When people remember or discuss the address, they most often recall his warning against political parties, his admonition to avoid entangling foreign alliances, and his insistence that “religion and morality are indispensable supports” to political prosperity.  But we often read right over an even more poignant warning in Washington’s address; a warning we failed to heed to our own detriment.