Political freedom

Rahm Emanuel and Compulsory Servitude

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

As you may or may not know, an explicit statist named Rahm Emanuel is who Barack Obama has chosen to be his chief of staff.
Rahm Emanuel, just to be clear, is the same person who, in his poorly written book, penned these chilling words:
“It’s time for a real PATRIOT Act that brings out [...]

The Danger of Democracy

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

“Statues of Liberty” — oil painting by Beth Haynes

The United States is not a democracy, nor was it ever intended to be.
The United States is, as Benjamin Franklin put it, a Constitutional Republic.
The word “democracy” does not appear one time in either the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence – and for very good reasons:
Democracy [...]