Thoughts
From Kerry McDonald
Even the most adamant education reformers often stop short of advocating for abolishing compulsory schooling statutes, arguing that it would not make much difference. But stripping the state of its power to define, control, and monitor something as beautifully broad as education would have a large and lasting impact on re-empowering families, encouraging educational entrepreneurs, and creating more choice and opportunity for all learners.
2018-10-06 at 08:49:41
More From Frederic Bastiat
Your principle has placed these words above the entrance of the legislative chamber: "whosoever acquires any influence here can obtain his share of legal plunder." And what has been the result? All classes have flung themselves upon the doors of the chamber crying: "A share of the plunder for me, for me!"
2018-10-04 at 11:24:00
More From James Bovard
As long as rulers are above the law, citizens have the same type of freedom that slaves had on days when their masters chose not to beat them.
2018-09-30 at 07:42:26
From Friedrich A. Hayek
The more a person dislikes the strange and thinks his own ways superior, the more he regards it as his mission to civilize others.
2018-09-30 at 07:39:32
From James Bovard
The real problem is that the United States Supreme Court is now often little more than a fig leaf to provide legitimacy for a Leviathan government that would have mortified the Founding Fathers. The Supreme Courts betrayal of its constitutional role has vastly increased the stakes for the current and any future Justice nomination.
2018-09-30 at 07:35:43
From Robert Nozick
The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the state to enrich some persons at the expense of others. Eliminate that illegitimate power of giving differential economic benefits and you eliminate or drastically restrict the motive for wanting political influence.
2018-09-26 at 16:53:14
From J. Ollie Edmunds
The time has come for us to reestablish the rights for which we stand -- to reassert our inalienable right to human dignity, self-respect, self-reliance -- to be again the kind of people who once made the United States of America great.
2018-09-24 at 19:12:20
From Rob Faust
It is time to hold the United States Department of Defense to the same fiscal scrutiny that we do with the rest of the government, and maybe it is time to employ the all too logical concept of using the Department of Defense simply for defense. This would not only save money, but it would ultimately make the world a safer place.
2018-09-22 at 14:00:13
From Thomas Day
If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature it is a United States of American patriot signing resolutions of independency with the one hand and with the other hand brandishing a whip over his affrighted slaves.
2018-09-20 at 15:01:35
From Colin Kaepernick
"Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything."
2018-09-19 at 16:26:48
From Richard Dreyfuss
"Unless we teach the ideas that make the United States of America a miracle of government, it will go away in your kids lifetimes, and we will be a fable.You have to find the time and creativity to teach it in schools, and if you do not, you will lose it. You will lose it to the darkness, and what this country represents is a tiny twinkle of light in a history of oppression and darkness and cruelty. If it lasts for more than our lifetime, for more than our kids lifetime, it is only because we put some effort into teaching what it is, the ideas of the United States of America: the idea of opportunity, mobility, freedom of thought, freedom of assembly."
2018-09-17 at 21:21:50
From John Milton
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
2018-09-11 at 16:45:47
From Ms Ayanna Pressley
Our president is a racist, misogynistic, truly empathy-bankrupt man. It is time to show Washington, D.C., both my fellow Democrats, who I hope will stand with us and Republicans who may stand in our way ... change is coming and the future belongs to all of us!!!
2018-09-08 at 11:21:18
From John W. Whitehead
Our founding fathers warned us not to have a standing army on United States of American soil. We did not heed that warning. We now have a standing army on United States of American soil. It is composed of local police across the country, federal agents armed to the teeth, SWAT teams carrying out 80,000 raids a year.
What does this mean for the American people?? Well, in a war zone, you have no rights. When you are staring down the end of a police rifle, there can be no free speech. When you are being held at bay by a militarized, weaponized mine-resistant tank, there can be no freedom of assembly. When you are being surveilled with thermal imaging devices, facial recognition software and full-body scanners and the like, there can be no privacy. When you are charged with disorderly conduct simply for daring to question or photograph or document the injustices you see, with the blessing of the courts no less, there can be no freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. And when you are a prisoner in your own town, unable to move freely, kept off the streets, issued a curfew at night, there can be no mistaking the prison walls closing in! This is happening and will happen anywhere and everywhere else in this country where law enforcement officials are given carte blanche to do what they like, when they like, how they like, with immunity from their superiors, the legislatures, and the courts.
2018-08-31 at 04:04:02
More Thought From Cousin Lucky
As far as I am concerned Korea and even Iran are not the main threats to the United States being blown up by nuclear weapons!!
To me the greatest threat is when Pakistan, or India, or even Israel develops small portable nuclear weapons and begins to sell them to whomever has enough money to buy them!!
2018-08-29 at 13:42:48