In Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” there is a villain named Ellsworth Tooey. In the book he has a niece who has been brainwashed into his socialist/altruist viewpoint. Her main goal throughout the story is to help her community, and once she starts she feels so...
The APA (American Power Act. I know scary name) deserves another look. It has been addressed many times recently (including here) but deserves to be put down once and for all. National crises have been used before to power otherwise unpopular government legislation into law and...
Dear Friend, The Freedom Action National Conference is sponsored by Tom DeWeese and the American Policy Center and 23 co-sponsoring organizations and will take place August 12, 13 and 14 at Valley Forge, PA. 29 Leading spokesmen of the Freedom movement; including Thomas Woods, Sheriff Richard Mack,...
This year's 4th of July did not leave small business owners in Wisconsin with a feeling that liberty was alive and well in America. In fact it left them with quite the opposite. Of all days of the year the Wisconsin State Government chose Independence Day...
Piggy back rides are a whole lot of fun when you give one to your little brother. They are not however so much fun when the come from Big Brother. When the federal government decides to give a piggy back ride it usually does not...
"Climate Scientists" have come up up with another theory. This one is not however a crack pot theory about the climate, it is a crack pot theory about their fame. Climate Scientists, (so the story goes) because they have been published in more magazines, newspaper...
One of my highly-esteemed colleagues, Wilton Strickland, who is an author, columnist, attorney in Florida and Montana, magna cum laude graduate of the college of William and Mary law school and a fond friend of liberty accurately described a major problem in America relative to...
President Obama has been very successful in destroying millions of jobs with his “stimulus” bill. Eight million jobs are gone, four million since the onset of Obama’s “stimulus” bill. Last week Joe Biden assured us that these jobs are not coming back. Obama’s stimulus bill has...
The Second Amendment Foundation on Monday filed a federal lawsuit in North Carolina, seeking a permanent injunction against the governor, local officials and local governments from declaring states of emergency under which private citizens are prohibited from exercising their right to bear arms. Joining SAF in...
Modern Progressives love the term “smart” to describe their approach to everything from zoning to energy. For them, attempts to expand the role of the State are smart, which means free markets must be “stupid.” By the late nineteenth century, Progressives believed that scientific knowledge was...