Liberty Institute

What Kids Used To Read About George Washington

Today's Children Would Not Understand Something Written in 1886. Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Wouldn’t it be a sign of a regenerating spirit of republicanism and of the primary things that kids ought to be learning as opposed to the compulsory things that we force them to learn -- this magazine, my point, is pitched to young people. I just want to read the introduction to the story on […]

March 16, 2014 8

Liberty

Srdja Trifkovic – Everything You Wanted To Know About Putin And Crimea But Were Afraid To Ask, Part I

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript –"If we wanted to look for a parallel with Hitler -- and frankly, I’m sick and tired of this Reductio ad Hitlerum. We seem to be keen on finding the Hitler de jure whenever there’s a crisis, whether it’s Slobodan Milosevic or Saddam Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi or Bashar al-Assad. The Hitler parallel is invoked. In the case of Ukraine, we actually have a fairly decent […]

March 13, 2014 14

Liberty

Thomas Jefferson To Us: Sorry, We Blew It But Here’s Some Pointers, Scuttle the SCOTUS

Mandeville, LA - On Tuesday's SiriusXM radio show I shared this letter with commentary. Jefferson's frame of mind here runs contrary to the "riding off into the sunset, having preserved liberty and prosperity for his countrymen" narrative. Monticello, March 4, 1823 Dear Sir, —I delayed some time the acknowledgment of your welcome letter of December 10th on the common lazy principle of never doing to-day what we can put off […]

March 12, 2014 2

Liberty

How The Non-Profits Expand Government by Shooting Lame Ducks

Mandeville, LA- [r]epublican (and listener to the Mike Church Show) Sandi discovers first hand what Mike speaks of when he decries the "non-profits" as "being in on it". The "It" being the revolving door of money that flows to non-profits via Mordor's tax shelter policies (tax codes) that is then used to devise new ways to "reform" or "improve", heck even "expand" the already menacing Leviathan. (editor's note, this piece […]

March 5, 2014 3

Gentleman's Corner

Jan Brewer Veto-Did This Change The Laws In His Kingdom?

Mandeville, LA - In the aftermath of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's veto of SB 1062 An Act for Extending Religious Freedom I offer the following candid observations. Rod Dreher says the culture/political and propaganda war for SSM is over and the Traditional side has lost, get over it. Isn't that a bit like Simon Peter saying the Romans & Pharisees beat Jesus, get over it? You don't "get over" canon or dogma. […]

February 26, 2014 6

Liberty

The Parable of Four Farmers Explains What A State Is For republicans

"This is another interesting point of discussion when we talk about this. Exactly what is a State? Is a State a geographical entity? Well, you could say that you call the State of Georgia, for example, Georgia because of the border it has with Tennessee and South Carolina and Alabama and Florida, which are very well-defined and well-known, but does that make it a State or is that just a […]

February 16, 2014 9

Liberty

You Say You Wanna Rethink The Union? Consider Secession From Mordor

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – [Mike, mocking] “What’s so big about the big, bad central government? There are a lot of things bad about it. One of the things it does is it desensitizes the citizen. It deprives the citizen of the responsibility of self-government. No longer does the citizen feel as though he is the citizen soldier who is responsible for he and his. Now the citizen is […]

February 11, 2014 8

citizen soldier speech of Thomas J jackson

Liberty

Why The Founders Chose Citizen Soldiers Over a Standing Army

The Citizen Solider, replaced by the standing army Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The standing army is open tyranny, Duane, and you’re not going to get very many conservatives to admit that the standing army is a threat to their way of life and to their liberty. We think that controlling and dominating and acting in a domineering fashion across the entire known universe is how the freest and […]

January 29, 2014 15

Founders Corner

Patrick Henry-American Statesman, The Book

Who is Patrick Henry? Most Americans recognize Patrick Henry as “The Orator” who delivered the “give me liberty or give me death” speech which thus delivered the United States a free and independent nation. This view of Henry’s life is rather like believing that George Washington’s signature achievement was chopping down a cherry tree.

January 28, 2014 13