Public School District Refunds Illegal Charges Against Good News After-School Club

Midlothian, TX – A school district has repaid hundreds of dollars to Child Evangelism Fellowship’s (CEF) Good News Club at the request of Liberty Counsel, because the fees violated the First Amendment. The Midlothian Independent School District agreed that CEF

Timeless Motivation From General Orders, George Washington, 1776

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own;

Self-Made Men By Frederick Douglass

We are sometimes dazzled by the gilded show of aristocratic and monarchical institutions, and run wild to see a prince. We are willing that the nations which enjoy these superstitions and follies shall enjoy them in peace. But, for ourselves, we want none of them and will have none of them and can have none of them while the spirit of liberty and equality animates the Republic.

 Excerpted from Self-Made Men, by Frederick Douglass, 1872

“Obsta principiis”!

“Obsta principiis*, nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast,

First Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1801

Thomas Jefferson’s first Inaugural address including interesting facts and observations:

All Power Tends to Corrupt; Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

Barry Goldwater

“Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do

Franklin and Douglass Advise Us To Step Up

 

Benjamin Franklin/Frederick Douglass

Channelling wisdoms from a couple of American heroes from the past who knew a thing or two about activism for the cause of liberty.

Who Owns You?

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While the answer to this question is naturally obvious among the liberty-minded, the answer is unclear or unknown to a significant many.

A 1774 Prophecy By John Adams? No, But You May Think Otherwise

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 ”Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards.

Sociopolitical Outcast, or Subscriber to an Emergent Philosophy?

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My positions on issues are often chastised and praised in equal measure by people holding various extreme left and right views. I sometimes wonder whether my sociopolitical philosophy makes me a societal and political outcast., or perhaps a subscriber to an emergent, mainstream sociopolitical philosophy.