tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46588798111609106302024-10-25T01:37:51.522-05:00Observations on life in a formerly free country.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658879811160910630.post-2934955177892180882007-12-19T23:33:00.000-06:002007-12-19T23:36:32.890-06:00

Have you seen this one? A ten-year-old girl in Ocala, Florida, was arrested and stuck with felony weapons charges after bringing a small steak knife to school and using it...to cut her steak.I gotta tell you, folks, this whole Zero Tolerance issue really boils down to the fact that our schools are run by the government. When you look at private schools, there are almost no instances of ZT

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658879811160910630.post-91773706207831734102007-11-02T10:46:00.000-05:002007-11-02T10:50:54.866-05:00

I promise, I'll have a substantive new post up soon - I've been swamped with everything else on my plate, but I will get something out.Until then, I've tweaked the links there on your left, so feel free to check them out - Reason.tv is excellent in particular. There's a fantastic video hosted by Drew Carey regarding free-market roads which is well worth a watch.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658879811160910630.post-46110732575714825832007-08-24T07:38:00.000-05:002007-08-24T07:44:06.072-05:00

Hiya, readers!Sorry I disappeared on you there for a few weeks - I've been a bit busy with some Ron Paul activism, and to be perfectly honest, I burned out pretty quickly doing the whole Liberty 101 thing. There's really enough of that on the Internet now.So, I'll be changing my focus a little bit - the blog might become a little harder to follow for those not already comfortable with the

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658879811160910630.post-9588727375600358582007-07-27T10:41:00.000-05:002007-07-27T16:33:25.268-05:00

So, on to drug laws. I suppose the best way to start any discussion of our government's "War on Drugs" is to point you to Wikipedia's article on alcohol prohibition in the United States. You can skip ahead to the "End of Prohibition" section if you want to get to the meat of the horrible effects alcohol prohibition had on the country; things like organized crime, racketeering, police corruption,

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658879811160910630.post-85363655198050104382007-07-24T12:36:00.000-05:002007-07-24T13:27:10.154-05:00

Here's a topic that's irked me for a long time: so called "vice" laws. I'll do deeper explorations on the individual items in later posts, but I wanted to do an overview of the whole mess for now. Vice laws generally boil down to three topics. Substance vice laws cover drugs of all kinds, including alcohol and tobacco. Sex vice laws restrict things like sodomy (which, by the by, covers anything

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658879811160910630.post-59816281359720980692007-07-23T16:46:00.000-05:002007-07-23T17:44:49.331-05:00

I heard a great point while listening to a back episode of Free Talk Live today (specifically, the show from 2007-06-30) - "illegal" immigration is a welfare problem, not an immigration problem. If you put out a bowl of milk every night for the stray cats in your neighborhood, don't complain when the strays from other neighborhoods start turning up for the free meal. Of course they're going to

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658879811160910630.post-91220756293572791732007-07-18T15:04:00.000-05:002007-07-19T11:27:00.809-05:00

I was over at a buddy's house the other day, shooting the breeze and having some drinks, when he mentioned that he was having some trouble with his 5 year old truck. He made the comment, "It's a good thing the government made it so car manufacturers have to warranty their exhaust systems for 10 years or 100,000 miles." [note: he's wrong about that, by the way. It's 2 years/24,000 miles or 8 years

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658879811160910630.post-53449751829202131252007-07-11T12:54:00.000-05:002007-07-11T21:44:05.840-05:00

I'd like to discuss the difference between legality and morality. Legal, according to Princeton University's WordNet, is, "established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules." Note that the main indicator to legality is the fact that it is, of course, required by law. Moral, on the other hand, is defined by WordNet as, "concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658879811160910630.post-18806329717902757402007-07-10T08:05:00.000-05:002007-07-10T08:21:04.443-05:00

Hiya, folks! Welcome to my brand new, shiny blog. Up here from my soapbox, I'll write about plenty of topics, with one common theme: personal liberty, or our lack thereof. I won't claim to have all the answers; some of my posts will be merely observations, random thoughts, or calls for comment. I'll also do my best to define any non-obvious terms I may use. I will also do my best to provide

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