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Why do we celebrate the 4^th of July? – Thomas Sowell - Where there is no rule of law, the richest natural resources and even an educated professional class mean little in terms of raising a country's standards of living. … Tragically, it has recently become fashionable in the West to move backward from universalism toward tribalism, as the intelligentsia seek to Balkanize and promote collective guilt by race. They will never succeed so long as we all celebrate the Fourth of July as Americans.  http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2908

The meaning of America -  The right to life means that every individual has a right to his own independent life, that one's life belongs to oneself, not to others to use as they see fit. .. The Declaration of Independence was a declaration against servitude, not just servitude to the Crown but servitude to anyone. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2899

A medical mistake http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030630/health/30malpractice.htm

Protect your children - As long as there is government funding, there will be government regulation even for non-users of government programs. Government just can't help itself. Why else would custody of the Bryant children, who all involved agree are loved and well cared for at home, be transferred to DSS when no law has been broken? Keep in mind that the Bryants are not users of virtual charter schools or any other sort of government program. The bottom line is that the government would like to regulate this family. And my family. And your family.

The question that needs to be asked and answered is whether or not the government has a legitimate role in the private lives of families.

http://educationalfreedom.com/pages/editorials/ddepoalo_07012003.html

Indianapolis homeowner justified in shooting intruder http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/2/053578-9582-103.html

No reason to allow thugs in today’s school systems – Walter Williams http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?news_id=24173

Persecuting Martha http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2885

Free trade and the moral imperative (in English) http://www.acton.org/pdf/gregg_free_trade.pdf

(in Spanish) http://www.analitica.com/va/economia/opinion/9267277.asp

Mike Ferguson on the Lawrence v Texas case http://www.geocities.com/michaelaferguson/mypage.html

Freedom Outlawed In Leftington (Lexington) Kentucky http://www.willowtown.com/freekentucky/stryarch03/outlawed.html

Reason and Individual Rights Made America Great - The greatness of America is not an “ethnocentric” prejudice; it is an objective fact. This assessment is based on the only proper standard for judging a culture or a society: the degree to which its core values are pro- or anti-life. Pro-life cultures acknowledge and respect man's nature as a rational being who must discover and create the conditions which his survival and happiness require — which means that they advocate reason, rights (freedom), and technological progress.http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1700

Iran is the root of Islamic terrorism http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2888

Montana libertarians host free state conference http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20030611.htm

Suffocating lawsuits http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20030628-094912-1293r.htm

Barry Bright on how to show your patriotism http://www.willowtown.com/freekentucky/columns03/ideas.html

Notes from a public school survivor,

part three  The effort to forcibly eliminate private schools was pushed by the Ku Klux Klan, which was quite powerful then. They simply wanted to eliminate Catholic schools, which had been created to counter the Protestant-controlled "public" schools….Literacy has been on the decline since government took over the schools. Before the end of World War II in 1945, 18 million men were tested to see if they could read well enough to be soldiers. Only 4% failed. By 1952, during the Korean War, 19% were turned away as illiterate. By the end of the Vietnam War in 1973, 27% read too poorly to be accepted.

http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2003/07/04

part one Once I found that I could engage and excite 25 people in a classroom, I could never again have any patience for what normally passes itself off as "education". http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2003/07/02 ;

part two  The root problem is ONE system, and the fact that it's forced on us. Would you settle for ONE book to read?... ONE news source?... ONE view of history?... ONE blog, even if it were this one?

 http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2003/07/03

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