Gun Control – Leaders and Followers

By MamaLiberty

It hit me last night that a lot of us may have been wasting much of our time trying to fight the “gun control” leaders, on several levels.

Obummer has pretty much stayed out of it, being busy with vacations, golf, plotting world war, adding to the latest list of those he’d like to have “renditioned,” and redefining occasional words in the English dictionary, among many other things. Too much work for one man, of course, but it’s been hard for him to really count on Holder, the DOJ, BATFE, NSA and the IRS, etc,. because they have been very busy too. Imagine the scope of all the lies to remember, hard drives to destroy, things to lose and then find, sort of… like emails, guns and stuff. They send out their swarms of armed goons when they can, but it’s not always that easy. Interdepartment political wars and snarking contests make it hard to get down to the real business of destroying liberty and the economy, but they do what they can. Continue reading

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Libertarian commentary on the news, #15-07B: Jihad and other news

By Nathan Barton

Good morning.   Let’s start out with some more on European Jihad:

Just a few miles from Copenhagen, where a member of the Caliphate killed two and wounded others, Northern Germany’s largest Carnival parade in the city of Braunschweig has been called off following a terror alert. Authorities have reported a threat of of an attack with an ‘Islamist background.’ Braunschweig Mayor Ulrich Markurth (SPD) and parade marshal Gerhard Baller canceled the parade at short notice shortly before 11.a.m. (1000UTC) on Sunday. The spectacle had been due to begin at 12.20 p.m. local time. Local Braunschweig police said the Karneval parade had been called off after reliable state sources became aware of a ‘concrete threat’ of an attack with an ‘Islamist background.'” Continue reading

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Libertarian commentary on the news, #15-07A: The elite with us.

By Nathan Barton

Good morning!  Though still very much under the weather, I hope to have several commentaries published this week. Here are several stories from recent days.

Elites?  Gag. The WaPo claims that “love brought Oregon’s governor down” when he resigned, drowning in scandal, this week, just days into his fourth term.  Garbage: it was CORRUPTION and DOUBLE-DEALING and ARROGANCE OF POWER that did that TO HIMSELF.  Cohabiting with this scumbag politician in the governor’s mansion, his self-proclaimed “first lady” was STILL squatting on government land, wasn’t she?  Morals DO matter: politicians who marry and divorce and remarry and do not take individual and personal relationships with each other have no moral sense, no ability to live up to their written or spoken word in anything.  This scumbag should have been removed from office some time ago, and the legislature should have done so.  But Oregon’s culture is damaged and contaminated, and obviously its people are weak and irresponsible. Of course, the elite think that they are beyond this sort of “morality.” Continue reading

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Review: “The Testament of James”

By MamaLiberty

Imagination, story telling, tall tales and sharing of ideas, adventures and speculation of every kind must have been among the earliest attributes of human beings. The ability to think like this, to attempt to analyze and explain one’s environment and self, is the difference between sapient and other beings. Spirituality is an essential part of all life, however it is expressed.

Nobody knows just when the first organized religions developed, but I suspect it was about the same time that humans began to record their experiences and ideas, dreams and aspirations. Many of the most ancient cave paintings have spiritual overtones, as well as recording daily living. Continue reading

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #15-06A: Overcoming! (This and That)

By Nathan Barton

[Mama’s Note: So glad to see Nathan posting again! He’s been quite ill, and is not 100% yet, but I’m sure he’ll be well soon. Welcome back, my friend. ]

Well, we are half through the winter, but some common sense has somehow gotten into the most dense of heads, and the New Great War may not be upon us… yet.  The leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine have agreed a deal to end fighting in eastern Ukraine, participants at the summit talks said on Thursday. The deal reached after all-night negotiations. Continue reading

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Nathan under the weather…

Dear Readers,

Nathan has been fighting a flu bug of some kind this last week, and is unable to contribute here until he can recover. If you are the praying sort, please include him in yours.

In the meantime, I hope you will enjoy Brad’s rants as much as I do.

MamaLiberty

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Impaired Self Defense

By MamaLiberty

First, of course, it helps to define “impaired.” Perfectly alert, with perfect judgment, perfect physical ability, and perfect training/experience describes nobody on earth, which makes every single human being “impaired” to some extent, if compared to perfection. If not perfection, to what is it compared? Who decides? And why? A person’s physical abilities and judgment is relative to so many things, and the perception of those things is subjective and individual.

Don’t think so? Try this: You say you are hungry, thirsty, or tired… Even if you can begin to articulate any measurable criteria that would apply to everyone (go ahead and try… I’ll wait…), are you really willing for someone else to define hunger or thirst, etc. for YOU – and dictate what you must or must not do in that case? Continue reading

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Libertarian commentary on the News, #14-05C: Freedom or ???

By Nathan Barton

There are many threats to liberty, to freedom, today: and I shall write about some of them.  But NONE of these public threats; the state (government), Islam, war, dishonest business, or our snoopy and “well-meaning” neighbors, are the danger that we ourselves pose to our own freedom – refusal to take a stand, to accept personal responsibility, to defend ourselves, our families, and our communities. And just plain a refusal to understand what freedom really is.

“Freedom lies in being bold.” — Robert Frost Continue reading

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Libertarian commentary on the news, #15-05B: Giving versus taking, Freedom

By Nathan Barton

Good morning!  Politicians love to equate giving with taking:  they take and take and then give (some of it) to others.

This is the sort of thing you expect more from Democrats than from Republicans, but they are all statists.  John Kasich, a GOP governor, claims that the Bible, specifically Matthew 25:42-43, supports that Abomination called ObummerCare: that it is government’s “duty” to steal from people to pay for other people’s health care.  Sorry, it is not there: there is NOTHING in the New Testament that says that it is right for government to force people to care for or feed other people, nothing that says that government can force “sharing.”  But Kasich, like so many other politicians desperately wants to have religious justification for his power-grabbing habits. Continue reading

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States, United States: America’s James Bond Complex

by Sheldon Richman

Today, American politicians of both major parties — conservatives, “moderates,” and so-called liberals alike — insist that the United States is an “exceptional,” even “indispensable” nation. In practice, this means that for the United States alone the rules are different. Particularly in international affairs, it — the government and its personnel — can do whatever deemed necessary to carry out its objectives, including things that would get any other government or person branded a criminal.

This is nothing new. “American exceptionalism” goes back to the founding. When American politicians set their sights on Spain’s North American possessions, they were driven by the same attitude. In their view the new “Empire of Liberty,” as Jefferson called it, was destined to replace the old, worn-out empires of Europe in its hemisphere. They had no doubt that the Old World’s colonial possessions would eventually fall under the jurisdiction of the U.S. government, either formally or informally. Continue reading

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