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I believe in freedom. Without apology.
Taxes encroach on freedom.
State power encroaches on freedom.
I am not an absolutist. I am not an ideologue. I am not an anarchist.
I believe that taxes and the state are necessary.
Yet so is water. Too much of it, and you drown. You die.
From an article published in the Daily Camera by Brian T. Schwartz. His protest against a Boulder ballot issue applies to all government “charity”.
When it comes to the bank bailouts, we see the true colors of the major parties: both enthusiastically favor spending $500 billion, $700 billion, $1 trillion that the government simply doesn’t have (the budget deficit is already around $500 billion).
In Saturday’s radio address, Barack Obama said: Read the rest of this entry »
War on Marijuana is defended as necessary to keep drugs out of the hands of young people. Judged by that standard, the War on Pot is a farce and an extraordinary failure. This month, the pro-Drug War National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
(CASA) released a new study that shows that marijuana is more available than
ever before to junior high and high school kids. CASA surveyed 1,002 youths ages 12 to 17, between April and June.
I call it the Security Sickness. We discard like old rubbish all the values of America because we perceive her as under attack. Bring in security! Don’t ask questions! Don’t ask how much it costs! Obey any order given you by anyone dressed in black …
These are listed in order of difficulty. How far down the list can you go??