Some of you may have heard some noise in the media over the past week about the small dip in ...
The wisdom of Milton Friedman
The wisdom of Milton Friedman
May 2, 2012
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/04/wisdom-of-milton-friedman.html
There is a Price We Will Not Pay!
April 30, 2012
America is a strong country that deserves a strong leader. Ready to get fired up about that? Watch this video!
Obama makes free speech a felony
April 26, 2012
Another reason to elect someone else as President. New law makes it illegal to protest in Obama's presence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SGWH3kirzg
We aren’t stupid!
April 20, 2012
But the media wants us to be. Check out these statistics to see the damage illegal immigration does to the American people.
Paul Harvey on “How to Destroy America”
April 17, 2012
Remember the famous ABC radio news commentator Paul Harvey?
I just listened to a haunting commentary, broadcast April 3, 1965, that captures in less than three minutes the social and political changes he would make if he "were the devil."
Click here to enjoy this piece. Pay particular attention to a bit near the end, between seconds 2:07 and 2:14. It's amazing the insight he had more than 35 years ago!"
Let’s give the Fed some competition
April 16, 2012
If we don’t like a product one company offers, we can instead choose to use the product of another company. This competition forces accountability for both companies. The federal government allows no such competition for currency. We’re stuck using the dollar and stuck with its value being tied to the whims of bureaucrats who manipulate it to achieve their own goals.
A picture is worth a thousand words
April 13, 2012
Judge Andrew Napolitano on our Natural Rights
March 21, 2012
I couldn't have said it better myself!
"Judge Andrew Napolitano gives a speech from the heart about freedom and from where our rights come. The Judge explains the hard core truth about the Constitution and why we must fight to regain and retain our freedoms. Courtesy of www.CampaignForLiberty.com."
The Battle of Athens
March 20, 2012
Wow, I didn't know. Very interesting piece of American history!
“The Battle of Athens was an armed rebellion led by WWII veterans and citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the tyrannical local government in August 1946.”
Civilization
March 13, 2012
Interesting take - and one you don't hear much... Read this eloquent and profound letter and pay close attention to the last paragraph of the letter.....
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation…and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.
Marko Kloos
