Thoughts, essays, and writings on Liberty. Written by the heirs of Patrick Henry.

Life, Liberty, Property

Life, Liberty, Property

April 24, 2008

BATF Doesn’t Like Beer Made In Weed

In the rural areas of Northern California, in the shadow of beautiful Mt. Shasta, lies a sleepy small town. In that town, however, lurks a menace. The town itself elicits laughs from degenerate drug users all over the nation. In fact, the town itself is a literal advertisement for drug use.
At least […]

Posted By: Brad Warbiany @ 10:38 am || Permalink || Comments (1) || TrackBack URI || Categories: Free Speech, Government Regulation, Legal, The War on Drugs
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April 11, 2008

Quote Of The Day

There’s a reason we have a Bill of Rights:
Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don’t give it any value.– Dean Steacy, Canadian Human Rights Commission.

Posted By: Doug Mataconis @ 7:38 am || Permalink || Comments (4) || TrackBack URI || Categories: Dumbasses and Authoritarians, Free Speech, Individual Rights, Political Correctness, Quote of the Day, The Bill Of Rights
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March 20, 2008

Free Speech And Fraud

An interesting case-in-point raised by this article in The New York Times:
When Xavier Alvarez was asked to say a few words about himself at a meeting of a California water board last summer, he decided on these: “I’m a retired marine of 25 years. I retired in the year 2001. Back in 1987, I was […]

Posted By: Doug Mataconis @ 1:05 pm || Permalink || Comments (7) || TrackBack URI || Categories: Constitution, Free Speech, Individual Rights, Legal
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March 6, 2008

Should A School Be Able To Punish A Student For What They Write On A Blog ?

That’s the issue that the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is currently dealing with:
Avery Doninger, 17, claims officials at Lewis S. Mills High School violated her free speech rights when they barred her from serving on the student council because of what she wrote from her home computer.
In her Internet journal, Doninger said […]

Posted By: Doug Mataconis @ 5:50 am || Permalink || Comments (7) || TrackBack URI || Categories: Education, Free Speech, Individual Rights, Legal
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February 13, 2008

Judge Andrew Napolitano Discusses the History of Civil Liberty Violations in America

Judge Andrew Napolitano gave a speech for Reason Magazine in Washington D.C. in October of last year on the history of Constitutional infidelity. Virtually every president from George Washington to George W. Bush has broken his oath of office to defend the Constitution. President John Adams, the nation’s second president, was the first president who […]

Posted By: Stephen Littau @ 11:45 am || Permalink || Comments (26) || TrackBack URI || Categories: Constitution, Crime and Punishment, Dumbasses and Authoritarians, Election '08, Founding Fathers, Free Speech, Freedom of the press, History, Human Rights, Individual Rights, Politics, Privacy, Property Rights, The Bill Of Rights, The Surveillance State, The Welfare State, Theory and Ideas, War on Terror
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January 16, 2008

I Thought The Pole Tax Was Unconstitutional?

Or was that the poll tax?
Either way, I’m not a big fan of this new Texas law:
There is a new price to be paid for looking at naked women in Texas. On January 1st the state’s strip clubs began imposing a $5 surcharge for each visitor. The “pole tax,” as it is commonly called, is […]

Posted By: Brad Warbiany @ 10:28 pm || Permalink || Comments (2) || TrackBack URI || Categories: Constitution, Free Speech, Government Regulation, Political Correctness, Taxation, The Nanny State
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January 10, 2008

Does This Mean That LaDainian Tomlinson Isn’t Qualified To Plug HD TVs?

The people who’ve taken a legislative axe to archaic concepts like free speech and made it almost impossible to find a cold medication that works now have a new cause celebre…cracking down on celebrity endorsements for consumer products.
The ads in question this time are for the top-selling Pfizer product, Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering drug that from all […]

Posted By: UCrawford @ 1:11 pm || Permalink || Comments (12) || TrackBack URI || Categories: Dumbasses and Authoritarians, Free Speech, Government Regulation, Healthcare, Socialism, The Nanny State, The War on Drugs
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November 29, 2007

Religious Tolerance, Teddy Bears, And The Insanity Of Sharia Law

Today, an English teacher who went to Sudan to teach was sentenced to jail and deportation for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammed:
KHARTOUM, Sudan (CNN) — A Sudanese court found a British teacher guilty of inciting religious hatred and sentenced her to 15 days imprisonment Thursday for allowing a teddy bear to be […]

Posted By: Doug Mataconis @ 12:34 pm || Permalink || Comments (26) || TrackBack URI || Categories: Free Speech, Individual Rights, Religious Liberty