Month: August 2014

‘Open Carry’ States

Gun-rights advocates see the practice of carrying firearms in plain view as a way to normalize gun ownership and deter crime, while gun-control activists believe carrying guns in stores and restaurants is disruptive to the public and encourages violence. Recently, Target, Starbucks and Chipotle have…

Rome Burns While Obama Golfs

How clueless can the Obama administration be? Last week Deputy State Department spokesman Marie Harf, while condemning the beheading of American journalist James Foley by ISIS, also had the audacity to say that it “is not about the United States…

Conflicting Stories and Common Threads

“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.” – Dr. Josef Mengele, German SS officer Around 100 B.C., Rome had no fire department, and army general/politician Marcus Lacinius Crassus established a personal…

A Moral War

According to reports out of Iraq, ISIS is beheading children, raping and then killing their mothers, and hanging or crucifying their fathers.   Entire Christian and non-Muslim communities are being decimated. Over a million Christians have been slaughtered in the name…

Empowering The Purveyors of Division

Many Americans were surprised to learn that recently the US Navy, prompted by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, was forcing military hotels to remove all Bibles from their rooms. Of course, once the situation was revealed to the general public,…

Taxation Should be Criminal

Governments and their defenders insist that taking taxes from citizens in perfectly okay. As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes alleged, it is “the price we pay for civilization.” Like saying handing over your money to a hood amounts to paying for…

MILITARY AMERICA

Perhaps it’s finally dawning on many Americans the adverse effect that the national-security state apparatus, which was grafted onto America’s governmental system after World War II, has had on American society. It’s taken the events in Ferguson, Missouri, to cause…

How the State Attempts to Replace God

From the Christians for Liberty Conference, August 2nd, 2014: Jason Rink is the Executive Director of the Foundation for a Free Society and the award-winning producer of the documentary “Nullification: The Rightful Remedy”. In this presentation, Jason shows how statism…