Positive Rights vs Negative Rights

“Prof. Aeon Skoble describes the key differences between positive and negative rights. Fundamentally, positive rights require others to provide you with either a good or service.

Milton Friedman Debunks Socialism

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In this 6 1/2 minute video, famed economist the late Milton Friedman illustrates and expands upon one among the many inherent evils of socialism.

“The Spending Is Nuts”

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“The Spending is Nuts” is an inspired animated 5 min video from Power Line. I believe this deserves to go viral, so here’s my part and I’ll leave the rest up to you.

This is without question one of the most interesting and entertaining (read educational but funny) videos I’ve seen on the topic of insane government spending.

Government And Society Are Not One And The Same

“Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher.”
~Thomas Paine (excerpted from Common Sense, 1776)

Horse (Common) Sense

If horses could talk, and offer us their perspective of the differences between what Americas Founders and Framers firmly established under the laws of Nature and Nature’s God and what we have become, what sort of analogy do you suppose they would offer?

Fighting Agenda 21 And ICLEI

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“Is Obama Implementing U.N. Agenda 21?“. In this recent post, I presented some of the information that is currently known, and present the following additional information for your consideration:

Thomas Sowell on the Difference Between Liberal and Conservative

In this 4 1/2 minute video, Thomas Sowell discusses characteristics that define liberals and conservatives, and his own personal transition from Marxism to libertarianism.

“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,

The Common Sense of Thomas Paine on Government

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries By A Government, which we might expect in a country Without Government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.”

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.