tim_lebsack, a.k.a. That Damn Libertarian

Liberty I follow many blogs of interest. I post about living free.

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Some people want to play God.

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Published on May 18, 2015

Right now, there's a well-organized, below-the-radar effort to render the Electoral College effectively useless. It's called the National Popular Vote, and it would turn our presidential elections into a majority-rule affair. Would this be good or bad? Author, lawyer, and Electoral College expert Tara Ross explains.

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Published on May 18, 2015

Do you understand what the Electoral College is? Or how it works? Or why America uses it to elect its presidents instead of just using a straight popular vote? Tara Ross explains the Electoral College and its importance to the USA.

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I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance -- a zeal to police the private lives of others   and hammer them into standard forms -- A Nation of Finger Pointers.

Lance Morrow (1939- ) American author, writer, chiefly for Time Magazine Source: A Nation of Finger Pointers, Time magazine, Monday, Aug. 12, 1991

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Civil rights lawyer Gary Haugen at TED. 22 minutes

The pervasive hidden problem keeping poverty alive. Haugen reveals the dark underlying cause.

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Walter Williams recommends specie.

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Economic Freedom in the USA: Down from 3rd to 19th

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People talk with a quite astonishing gravity about the inequality or equality of the sexes; as if there could possibly be any inequality between a lock and a key… A woman is only inferior to man in the matter of being not so manly; she is inferior in nothing else. Man is inferior to woman in so far as he is not a woman; there is no other reason.

G.K. Chesterton (via varangoi)

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Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American author, philosopher, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom Source: The Ordeal of Change (1963), Chapter 15

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Published on Apr 6, 2015

Is profit a dirty word? Would the world be better off without them? Or are profits progressive -- the only thing that can move potatoes from Idaho to Manhattan and medicine from America to Africa? Professor and economist Walter Williams explains.

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Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) American statesman 1831

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Standing armies consist of professional soldiers who owe their livelihood and income to the government. Unlike civilians who render periodic service in local militia, professional soldiers do not own property and therefore do not have any source of income other than the government’s military paymaster. Thus, they are more likely to serve the government’s interests, regardless of whether its leaders are dishonest and corrupt or not. In fact, standing armies may even promote rapacious foreign or domestic policies if such policies enrich the army. In contrast, arms bearing, property owning citizen militiamen have a stake in the health of the republic as a whole and can be trusted to act in the republic’s best interests, whether those interests call for action in support of or against the political leadership of the nation.

Anthony J. Dennis Officer and lawyer for Aetna Life and Casualty Company, author, B.A. cum laude from Tufts University; J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law Source: Article: Clearing the Smoke from the right to Bear Arms and the Second Amendment, 29 AKRON L. REV. 57, 76-77 (Fall 1995).

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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu Source: "The Spirit of Laws" (1748)