Author: "For Liberty"

By Michael MaHarrey

Some progressives here in Florida learned a tough lesson recently.

Actually, I don’ know that they learned it, but they sure had the opportunity.

One of the very first Constitution 101 articles I ever wrote was titled “Living and Breathing Is Dead.” In a nutshell, the article explains the absurdity of interpreting the Constitution as you go along. You can’t have “rule of law” if the law is subject to change at the whims of politicians and government officials. And that’s exactly what adherents of the “living breathing” Constitution believe. The Constitution, they say, must change with the times.

Continue reading “A Tough Lesson”

By John W. Whitehead

“Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.”—Justice William O. Douglas, dissenting, Colten v. Kentucky, 407 U.S. 104 (1972)

Forget everything you’ve ever been taught about free speech in America.

It’s all a lie.

There can be no free speech for the citizenry when the government speaks in a language of force.

What is this language of force?

Continue reading “Welfare Checks Turn Deadly: You Might Want to Think Twice Before Calling the Cops”

By: Mike Maharrey

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Sept. 26. 2019) – A law legalizing the sale of CBD in the state is now in full effect. This will not only open up markets in Ohio; it also takes a crucial step given the FDA’s continued regulation and prohibition of CBD.

A large bipartisan coalition of senators and representatives sponsored House Bill 57 (SB57). The new law creates a licensing program for the cultivation and processing of industrial hemp. It also legalizes the possession and sale of hemp products, including cannabidiol and food products containing CBD. Under the law, “the addition of hemp or a hemp product to any other product does not adulterate that other product.”

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By: Tenth Amendment

Excerpted from Political Observations, 20 April 1795

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Continue reading “James Madison on War as a Great Threat to Liberty”

By: Mike Maharrey

The fiscal year budget deficit surged passed $1 trillion last month. Spending deficits necessarily mean more government borrowing and we’re seeing that in the numbers as well. Uncle Sam’s outstanding public debt grew by $450 billion in August alone.

The national debt stood at $22.02 trillion on Aug. 1 and surged to $22.47 trillion as of Aug. 27.

Continue reading “Half-Trillion in One Month: Borrowing us into Oblivion”

By: Pat McGeehan

Some sixteen hundred years ago, in the year 410 AD, barbarian armies under King Alaric captured the ancient city of Rome, ransacking and pillaging the center of the Roman Empire. The fall of the once-great capital sent terrifying shockwaves throughout the Western world, triggering Saint Jerome to lament that it was like “the bright light of all the world was put out.”

Continue reading “Uphold the Constitution, Bring Our Troops Home”

By: jprivate

The public trust has been betrayed. District Attorney’s (DA) are using CCTV cameras and license plate readers to create public surveillance networks.

According to U.S. Legal, the definition of a DA is “to investigate alleged crimes in cooperation with law enforcement.” Not a single one of the 22 definitions includes running a public surveillance network.

What is happening in Pittsburgh’s Allegheny County is not an aberration, it is fast becoming commonplace.

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By Dave Daubenmire

I Guess I Am Just Old-Fashioned

One of the most difficult things about growing older is adapting to the new fangled ideas that people come up with.

I suppose it has always been that way, the idea that each new generation has different views on just about everything.  But I think that things are really different now than they were when I was a kid.  Although things were certainly different when I was a child most young people held the same values as their parents.

At least, until the massive social upheavals that occurred during the turbulent sixties.  In my lifetime I have watched basic morality turned on its head.   Back in the gold-ole-days of the Beatles and Bonanza, at least we had a common sense and agreement on things that were right and things that were wrong.  That is no longer the case.

Continue reading “I Have Come To The realization That Absolute Right And Wrong No Longer Exist”

By: Judge Andrew Napolitano

When the Constitution was written, the idea of owning arms and keeping them in the home was widespread.

The colonists had just defeated the armies of King George III. The colonial weapon of choice was the Kentucky long rifle, while British soldiers used their army-issued version of Brown Bessies. Each rifle had its advantages, but the Kentucky (it was actually a German design, perfected and manufactured in Pennsylvania) was able to strike a British soldier at 200 yards, a startlingly long distance at the time. The Bessies were good for only about 80 yards.

Put aside the advantages we had of the passionate defense of freedom and homeland, to say nothing of superior leadership, it doesn’t take any advanced understanding of mathematics or ballistics to appreciate why we won the Revolution.

Continue reading “Red Flag: The Dangerous Urge To Do Something”

By Michael Maharrey

Nobody reads George Orwell’s 1984 and says, “Man, that’s the kind of future I want,” right? But have you ever stopped to think that the people who lived in that fictional world didn’t want to live in it either?

So, how did they get to that point?

They crept there one little step at a time.
Continue reading “Creeping Toward Tyranny”