Frederik Bastiat, in his classic “The Law”, wrote: Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. How true these words are, yet they're miles and miles from our current reality. Today governments decree what we may own, … [Read more...]
Who needs the Constitution when you can have a Police State instead?
You’ve heard the saying many times before… The solution is worse than the problem it’s supposed to solve. That’s precisely the state of affairs in Paragould, Arkansas, a small town roughly 90 miles northwest of Memphis, Tennessee, today. Citizens of this small town, population 26,000, stripped of their Constitutional Rights, are now subject to … [Read more...]
New York is screwed up. What else do you call threatening to charge the man who saved a cop’s life?
I read this story a while back about the school safety agent who helped save a cop's life in New York. The part where they were threatening to charge the guy who picked up the wounded cop's gun and shot back at the attackers is what caught my eye. Imagine that... It takes a pretty sick prosecutor to threaten charges against someone who's actually one of the heroes of the … [Read more...]