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- Alexander's Column · Jun 17, 2010The Centennial of Father’s Day
family therapist, Dr. Edwin Cole. “The lack of effective, functioning fathers is the root cause of America’s social, economic and spiritual crises.” I note here that while most fatherless … collective social pathology of the fatherless has dire consequences for the future of Liberty, free enterprise and the survival of our republican form of government as outlined by our Constitution
- Opinion · Jun 16, 2010End the Drug War
drugs really justify the militarization of the police, the violent disregard for our civil liberties and the overpopulation of our prisons? It seems hard to believe. I understand that people … beer smugglers. Beer sellers don’t smuggle. They simply ship their product. Drug laws cause drug crime. The drug trade moved to Mexico partly because our government funded narcotics police
- Alexander's Column · Jun 10, 2010‘In God is Our Trust’
that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: “In God is our trust … president, Dwight D. Eisenhower. That message, “In God We Trust,” is the keystone of liberty, and our nation. But there are those who are endeavoring to remove
- Opinion · Jun 8, 2010Comfort Care?
case, oxygen was still administered while his body was shriveling up from dehydration, causing the blood vessels in his nose to burst and bleed into his throat. The hospital staff … documents you don’t understand. Call for free legal help – you can contact the Liberty Counsel at 800-671-1776 or www.lc.org . The organization moves quickly to intervene in situations
- Alexander's Column · May 27, 2010In Memoriam: American Patriots
preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.” -- Declaration of the Cause and Necessity of Taking up Arms , July … should be so: “[O]ur cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.” Since the opening salvos
- Opinion · May 25, 2010Primary Victims of Medical Care Rationing: Elderly and Ill
medical care that is abandoning its promise not to “give advice which may cause death.” One night I received a call from my family in Florida that Dad was dying … loved one is being denied food and water or other basic life necessities: Liberty Counsel attorneys intervene, for no charge, on behalf of the vulnerable: You can contact Matt Staver
- Opinion · May 21, 2010High Tea in the Wilderness
full facial identification. The two are in sync over what’s important -- personal liberty and responsibility, tax cuts and smaller government. What the tea partiers have accomplished, along with dramatically … often astoundingly vulgar.” He quotes longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer’s observation that “every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Many conservatives
- Opinion · May 10, 2010Law and Disorder
remarkable how many Republicans and conservatives deplore the liberty-infringing perils of big government, yet applaud Arizona’s draconian new immigration law, which empowers the police to interrogate anyone suspected … immense influx of immigrants made possible by that policy was often the cause of tension and suspicion. It was also an extraordinary blessing, transforming America into the most prosperous, vibrant
- Alexander's Column · May 6, 2010Liberty and Our National Prayer Legacy
basis of our Constitution, has dire implications for the future of our Essential Liberty. In 1952, Congress established the National Day of Prayer as an annual event by a joint … free pardon through Jesus Christ, supplicating His Divine aid ... [and] above all to cause the religion of Jesus Christ, in its true spirit, to spread far and wide till
- Opinion · Apr 26, 2010Despite Forecasts, Freedom Takes More Than Technology
Iron Curtain later that year, many voices extolled the power of technology to advance liberty and undermine authoritarian regimes. Two decades later, many are still hailing the ability of information … only a tool, and like all tools it can be used to promote the cause of freedom, or to oppose it. That was the sobering theme of a conference
- Opinion · Apr 23, 2010Obama’s Profits Allergy
didn’t go on to elaborate on the wonders of entrepreneurship, capital formation, liberty or the robust economic growth that free markets produce and which cannot be replicated, with … doesn’t tell us is that it wasn’t an unregulated market that primarily caused the financial crisis -- the crisis that facilitated his ecstatic quest to completely transform America into
- Opinion · Apr 22, 2010Tea Partyers, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Clinton
nothing more than a civic upheaval inspired by American constitutional liberties. The tea partyers are no cause for alarm. For Clinton to suggest that these generally peaceful and good-natured
- Article · Apr 22, 2010Blame Game Stays the Same
care protest but media reports accept the charge as absolute gospel. In truth, these liberty-loving protests come off with few problems and the venue is often cleaner afterward than … that fateful April day in 1995, it’s likely that once again the cause will be deeds, not words
- Opinion · Apr 21, 2010There Bill Clinton Goes Again
respond to Clinton White House-generated accusations that our Contract with America rhetoric had caused Timothy McVeigh to bomb the Oklahoma City government building. As preposterous as the charge … Jefferson and Madison’s effort to squelch a big federal government from overwhelming American liberty. Backcountry resistance to Hamilton’s new excise tax on distilling and selling liquor was over
- Opinion · Apr 15, 2010Establishment Terrified by Tea Party Movement
less experienced Republican candidates in November. Either that, they believe, or it will cause a big chunk of disenchanted Republican voters -- either establishment or Tea Party -- to sit out this … manifestation of anger and fear over taxes, government growth, and possible abridgements of future liberty and security. I don’t buy it. The Tea Party
- Article · Apr 15, 2010Alexander: Remarks for Tea Party Rally
from Boston, members of a secret organization of American Patriots called the Sons of Liberty, boarded three East India Company ships and threw into Boston Harbor 342 chests … pound the Rule of Law into submission is the U.S. Tax Code. The cause of, and necessity for, the American Revolution was the violation of fundamental rights, those to which
- Alexander's Column · Apr 15, 2010The Power to Tax ... and Revolt
coming due. It will most certainly be paid back in the currency of liberty. The time is at hand when we must inquire with a unified voice: “If there … last step into a thousand years of darkness.” Which will it be? The cause of, and necessity for, the American Revolution was the violation of fundamental rights, those to which
- Opinion · Apr 13, 2010Good Riddance, Congressman Stupak
back on his own amendment, he turned his back on his own pro-life cause, he turned his back on his own Michigan constituents. He deserves no abuse … bullets, are the way the Founders provided for protecting our lives and preserving our liberty
- Opinion · Apr 13, 2010The Left Squashes Life’s Little Pleasures
between the two sexes has been banned. In the attempt to eliminate all pain caused by potentially inappropriate comments, the Left has done what it tries to do about … only a source of much pleasure, it is also rightly identified with individual liberty. But here, too, to the extent the Left is able to, it will tell you what
- Opinion · Apr 9, 2010The Grievance Machine
slavery -- what Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens called the “cornerstone” of the Southern cause. Downplaying this context, as McDonnell initially did before later amending, was a sin of omission. When … quite Antietam, but many Americans feel that their deepest beliefs about liberty and self-government are being undermined. Passions run high. Activists slip easily into reckless talk of tyranny