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Faith and Personal Responsibility
Recently, I mentioned Robert Glennon’s book Unquenchable:America’s Water Crisis And What To Do About It. Robert Glennon, who is Professor of Law and Public Policy at the Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona, responded to my characterization of his book in the comment section at the bottom of the article. Read more »
God’s Sustainability Plan: Faith, Freedom, and Hard Work
Allocation of resources is a primary principle of sustainability. Those resources are primarily food, water, and health care. Rather than allow free enterprise to take care of these things, government’s work to control them and “equitably” distribute them. Read more »
Happiness: A Personal Pursuit, Not a Government Mandate
American Ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are not unattainable, impractical things. They are the essence of the American Dream. Protecting life, defending liberty, and pursuing happiness built America. These things will revive America. Read more »
The Right to Life Created the Right to Liberty
Thomas Jefferson wrote in his A Summary View of the Rights of British America that “The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. Read more »
A Matter of Conscience and Duty
The call to protect innocent human life is a matter of conscience and duty. It is a call that has its roots in the deepest ground of our American heritage, and those who hear that call will never abandon it. Read more »
Indispensable Supports of Our Republic
George Washington, in his Farewell Address of 1796 said “Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion, and Morality are indispensable supports.” These are the true supports of work and freedom. Read more »
Rebuilding in a Hostile Environment
Part of the discussion in the TEA Party movement has been centered on how to deal with people whose playbook is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. Some think the answer is to throw Alinsky’s and ACORN’s tactics right back at them. There is only one real way to deal with a bully, either on the playground or in the government. Read more »
Malthus, Sustainability, and Hitler: Final Solutions
In sustainability, we are confronted with a full-blown marriage between Rousseau, Marx, and Malthus. Many people are making connections to Hitler in things happening in America. This is because Hitler was the proponent of the sustainable marriage of Marx and Malthus of his day. Read more »
Creating Devolution
Sustainability is a global war on poverty. It is a war on capitalism and free enterprise, and therefore, on the rights of the people. It is often a war on the traditional family, and therefore on the very foundation of civilization. Read more »
Educating for Collectivization
The “sustainability” movement is everywhere. Sustainable education teaches redistribution of wealth and class envy and warfare. We need a uniting, not collectivization, of parents to take back the school boards and the classrooms from the teachers unions and the Department of Education. Read more »
The Effective Governance of Fascism
Where does “effective governance” stop? It doesn’t, because it is based on a premise that the goal is absolutely essential. Why would we destroy the platform that keeps this from happening? We have a constitutional representative republican form of government. It is our government as the People. Effective governance is designed to abandon or ignore or annihilate the limitations of that system of government for the principle of pragmatism to achieve a special interest. It is fascism. Read more »
Meet Me at King’s Mountain
There are people in media and the government of this country who are calling us an unruly mob and un-American. Town Hall meetings have a long and proud history in this country of ours. This unruly nature is often just the nature of a people who are passionate about our values. It’s the kind of nature that struck a blow for freedom on King’s Mountain long ago. Read more »
Global Governance through Local Government
A startling look at the stealth agenda that some on city councils across America have in mind for you, the citizen. Do you consider property rights and freedom important? Kiss them goodbye under the “sustainability” agenda. Read more »
Sustainability: A Good Intention?
Clark M. Jones of Citizens for Liberty continues his series on “sustainability.” In this installment, Jones continues to look at the origins of the sustainability movement and examines whether the effort is based on good intentions…or something more dangerous. Read more »
The American Dream vs. Sustainability
We are beginning to hear a lot about “sustainability” lately, especially in the Rapid City area. But what is it? It sounds innocuous enough, doesn’t it? Or does it carry with it something more costly and burdensome than we are led to believe? Could it be something we’ve already heard, just re-packaged to sound more non-threatening? Read more »
