Author: "For Liberty"

The U.S. government budget deficit in March came in at $119 billion, according to the latest US Treasury Department Report. That’s a massive budget shortfall. But it’s actually the calm before the storm.

The March 2020 deficit came lower than the $146 billion shortfall in March 2019. But this was primarily a function of the calendar. Significant March outlays were pushed back into February. Overall, the budget deficit through the first half of fiscal 2020 stands at $744 billion, an 8 percent increase over FY2019.

Government receipts in March came in at $238 billion. That was a 3 percent increase over March 2019. Federal outlays totaled $356 billion. That was down about 5 percent year-on-year. But with calendar adjustments, the March deficit was $170 billion, compared to an adjusted deficit of $136 billion in March 2019. In other words, spending is way up overall in fiscal 2020.

And the real budget storm is on the horizon.
Continue reading “The March Budget Deficit Was the Calm Before the Storm”

To Destroy America, First, you must destroy the family unit !

We have all heard it said that the basic building block of society is the family. It’s true and has been true since the Garden of Eden. Until now, that is.

America’s hedonist lifestyle has prevailed and we have made a remarkable decision. We have decided that our wishes and desires, our lusting after, and coveting after well, everything, is far more important than a family. As a result the American family, except for rare instances, doesn’t exist anymore. Oh, we have groups of people we refer to as “family,” oftentimes living beneath the same roof, but it’s not a family… not in the true sense of the word.
Continue reading “How to destroy the greatest nation on earth”

“If 2019 was the year of the street protest, of tear gas and rubber bullets, 2020 might be the year the street protest died, or perhaps fell into a deep sleep, and went online.”—Journalist Christopher Miller

Despite all appearances to the contrary, martial law has not been declared in America.

We still have rights.

Technically, at least.

The government may act as if its police state powers suppress individual liberties during this COVID-19 pandemic, but for all intents and purposes, the Constitution—especially the battered, besieged Bill of Rights—still stands in theory, if not in practice.
Continue reading “Your Freedoms Don’t Have to Be Muzzled Just Because You’re Wearing a Mask”

“They were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

I have never known any government to put the best interests of its people first, and this COVID-19 pandemic is no exception.
Continue reading “Human Lab Rats: The U.S. Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments”

By: TJ Martinel

Even though President Trump has enjoyed the support of “pro-gun rights” groups in the past, that hasn’t stopped him from running roughshod over both our right to keep and bear arms as well as the powers of Congress.

Two years ago the Justice Department essentially altered federal law regarding bump stocks following a 2017 mass shooting. The change was made despite not only the Second Amendment barring any infringement on firearms, but also the congressional authority to make laws.
Continue reading “U.S. District Court: “Federal government forgot the Tenth Amendment” With Bump Stock Ban”

From California to New Jersey, Americans are protesting in the streets. They are demanding an end to house arrest orders given by government officials over a virus outbreak that even according to the latest US government numbers will claim fewer lives than the seasonal flu outbreak of 2017-2018.
Continue reading “What If the Lockdown Was All A Big Mistake?”

“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.”—Lysander Spooner, American abolitionist and legal theorist

Cash may well become a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue reading “COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society?”

At no time in the history of this nation has the government (federal or state) ever attempted to impose such onerous restrictions on the rights of religious individuals as we are seeing play out in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Religious communities are being prohibited from allowing their congregants to gather together for physical worship services or are being told they must abide by government dictates as to where and how they engage with their congregants.
Continue reading “Statement on the Right to Religious Freedom During COVID-19”

“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.”—Martin Luther King Jr. (A Knock at Midnight, June 11, 1967)

In every age, we find ourselves wrestling with the question of how Jesus Christ—the itinerant preacher and revolutionary activist who died challenging the police state of his time, namely, the Roman Empire—would respond to the moral questions of our day.
Continue reading “COVID-19’s Challenge to the Christian Church: What Would Jesus Do?”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”—Viktor Frankl

We still have choices.

Just because we’re fighting an unseen enemy in the form of a virus doesn’t mean we have to relinquish every shred of our humanity, our common sense, or our freedoms to a nanny state that thinks it can do a better job of keeping us safe.
Continue reading “Draconian Lockdown Powers: It’s a Slippery Slope from Handwashing to House Arrest”