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"Your Liberty is Our Interest" |
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"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."--Winston Churchill Comments on: Tort Reform, Paying For Political Primaries, and Race Relations By Theresa Fritz Camoriano Doctors around the country are staging walk-outs, and increasing numbers of doctors are refusing to deliver babies, because their medical malpractice premiums are so high. At the same time, many of the products we buy are much too expensive, because the manufacturer has to buy expensive insurance to defend against product liability lawsuits. (Click to Read More) Undermining Our 1st Amendment Rights By Richard Lewis (continued from last week) Under the campaign laws, ordinary citizens, candidates, political organizations, and even political parties become second class citizens, bound by the regulations which restrict their rights to raise money to pay for paper, ink or air time to communicate their political opinions, while the institutional press retains the freedoms that once belonged to all of us. (Click to Read More) Bernie Kunkel’s Comments to Northern Kentucky Legislative Caucus members on Saturday February 22, 2003 in Burlington -- Boone County My name is Bernie Kunkel and I reside in Walton. Thanks so much for this opportunity to speak to so many legislators at one time. (Click to Read More) Killer Compassion – Part One (Sweat Shops) By Pat Pending We Americans are very compassionate people. We feel compassion for those who are struggling to make ends meet, for single parents trying to raise children alone, for children who are abused or neglected, for people who are destroying their lives with drugs, for people who are poorly educated, for people with various disabilities, and so forth. (Click to Read More) KHIK By Terry Gray I am a smoker. I shouldn’t smoke. I do it anyway. It is my right. I take my chances. (Click to Read More) I Wouldn't Take Tommy Thompson's Medical Advice, Would You? By Mike Ferguson When liberty and emotions like fear collide, liberty often loses. Working to protect personal freedom becomes more difficult when tragic events, no matter how isolated and unusual, cause an emotional reaction that leads some people to turn to government to "do something!". (Click to Read More) LEGAL MURDER By Terry Gray The grand jury failed to indict the police officer who shot and killed James Taylor. I cannot bring myself to say or write the name of the cop, because I lose total control of my ability to write. (Click to Read More) Economists Criticize Economic Study Promoting Gambling Penn State Gambling Study "Inaccurate and Misleading," Professors Say Nationally recognized experts criticize PSU report as "an exercise in one-sided advocacy masquerading as objective economic analysis" (Click to Read More) TRIM Bulletin – see how your elected officials voted (Click to Read More)
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The
"private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector;
and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector.
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth. -- George Reisman
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