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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
What’s another $1.7T in the omnibus when you’ve taken the national debt to $31.4T?
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:19:14 by Charles_Byrd
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Congress concluded last week the annual shenanigans with funding the government. And while the body’s refusal to get the omnibus done before the 59th minute of the 11th hour is grounds for harsh criticism, its shirking and dodging is only a tiny part of the problem, which is how utterly irresponsible DC is with its checkbook. The $1.7 trillion omnibus itself was loaded with laughable pieces of pork — self-named monuments for various legislators; a chauffeur for the IRS commissioner — but it’s just the latest in a long trend for DC’s free spending and ever-growing government bureaucracy. Click for Full Text!
Objection, Professor Harari! Logic Proves the Existence of Free Will
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:11:45 by Charles_Byrd
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Yuval Noah Harari, professor of history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is not only a best-selling author but also a top advisor to Klaus Schwab, founder and front man of the World Economic Forum (WEF). In 2018, Harari wrote: “Unfortunately, ‘free will’ isn’t a scientific reality. It is a myth inherited from Christian theology.” Click for Full Text!
Christmas: The Shot Heard 'Round the World
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:05:07 by Charles_Byrd
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Here we are at Christmas, and the hustle bustle has given me some thoughts. Most aren’t very festive ones, so heads up— this will start as a sort of long and nostalgic Festivus post, a nod to the Seinfeld holiday for the “rest of us,” and conclude with battle commentary, although I’m no Victor Davis Hanson. As I see it, the face of Christmas hasn’t exactly been a holly, jolly scene so far. First, I live in Atlanta, a city that has experienced increasing crime under those who believe in decreasing consequences. I’ve navigated stores full of stony, masked faces, with my own unmasked face stoically turning to stone as well. Our traffic is epic, although ...
Natural Law or Chaos
Post Date: 2022-12-27 00:32:19 by Charles_Byrd
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I have started watching a video series entitled “Welcome to Negative World.” That would be our world. The speakers are Aaron Renn, Joe Rigney, and James Wood. I am only into the second video of seven, so I cannot speak to the value of the entire series. However, I am so far finding it of value. I discovered the series via a video by Paul VanderKlay, where he examines the first video in the series. The second video in the series is a talk given by Joe Rigney: The Three Worlds and the Tao. He presents the case for natural law as what has been broken in our society – yes, there was always sin, but it is today where the sin is codified, celebrated, even mandated by the law. ...
R.G. Collingwood on the Collapse of Civilization
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:54:45 by Charles_Byrd
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R.G. Collingwood, a philosopher, historian, and archaeologist who taught at Oxford in the first half of the twentieth century, was much esteemed by Ludwig von Mises, especially for his essay “Economics as a Philosophical Science” and, more generally, for his work in the philosophy of history. In this week’s column, I’d like to consider a point that Collingwood makes in his “Fascism and Nazism,” published in Philosophy in 1940, that helps us answer a vital question that confronts us today. The question is this. The case for a complete free market and a noninterventionist foreign policy is an excellent one. Mises showed conclusively that socialism cannot work, ...
Maybe 'Marshal Law' Can Save the Republican Party?
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:34:03 by Charles_Byrd
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In the "Marshal Law" comic-book series, Law is the last name of a law- enforcement officer "with superpowers in the city of San Futuro, the near- future metropolis built from the ruins of San Francisco following a massive earthquake," according to Wikipedia. I've never read these comics, but they offer a satirical take on superhero characters and our government. Perhaps some Republican officials mixed up the Marshal Law character with the term "martial law"—defined by Investopedia as "the substitution of a civil government by military authorities with unlimited powers to suspend the ordinary legal protections of civilian rights." Click for ...
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town Is the Most Libertarian Christmas Special
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:30:09 by Charles_Byrd
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On it's surface, the 1970 Christmas classic Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town is a origin story for the titicular jolly elf. Like the other Rankin/Bass stop- motion animated holiday classics (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Little Drummer Boy) of the era, Santa Claus uses a popular mid-century Christmas song as a jumping-off point for a kid-friendly story about Chirstmas cheer, magical animals, and overcoming adversity. But Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town is also a parable about prohibition, black markets, and the awful consequences of arbitrary laws enforced by nanny states. It casts Santa Claus as a heroic individualist who disdains nonsensical regulations, operates by his own ...
Top 4 Predictions for 2023
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:24:52 by Charles_Byrd
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International Man: What important trends do you see unfolding in 2023? Doug Casey: Perhaps the biggest turning point in recent modern history will turn out to be 2020. Governments and their minions found novel ways to gain huge amounts of control. These things were well underway before 2020, but since Covid, they’ve all gone hyperbolic. That trend will accelerate this year—albeit with some much-delayed pushback. Click for Full Text!
What If Christmas Is Real?
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:23:03 by Charles_Byrd
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What if Christmas is a core belief in the birth of Jesus Christ who lived among us and many times offered a freely given promise of eternal life that no believer should reject or apologize for? What if Christmas is the rebirth of Christ in the hearts of all believers? What if Christmas is the potential rebirth of Christ in every heart that will have Him, whether currently a believer or not? Click for Full Text!
Charity: Biblical and Political
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:16:14 by Charles_Byrd
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Charity is defined as an “act of loving all men as brothers because they are sons of God.” This is a purely personal matter; an act voluntarily performed by one person for another; an act of faith in God and His commandments for governing our relationships with our fellow men. When we keep this concept in mind, it becomes a simple matter to distinguish between true charity and the spurious schemes that now masquerade under its name. The original concept of charity as an expression of love, now appears to have been largely replaced by a concept of government-guaranteed security…. [But] how can charity — the love of a person for his fellow men — ever be connected ...
The Mainstream Media and the U.S. Military
Post Date: 2022-12-20 16:39:06 by Charles_Byrd
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I served in the U.S. military for 20 years, and for the last 15 years I’ve been writing articles that are generally critical of that military and our nation’s drift into militarism and endless warfare Click for Full Text!
Yes, Jesus Would Have Been Branded a Domestic Extremist
Post Date: 2022-12-20 16:23:17 by Charles_Byrd
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The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary traveled to the little town of Bethlehem so that they could be counted. There being no room for the couple at any of the inns, they stayed in a stable (a barn), where Mary gave birth to a baby boy, Jesus. Warned that the government planned to kill the baby, Jesus’ family fled with him to Egypt until it was safe to return to their native land. Click for Full Text!
If we believe in limited government, we must save the Electoral College.
Post Date: 2022-12-19 19:15:17 by Charles_Byrd
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The Electoral College is under bitter attack by Democrats and has been for decades. After the 2000 presidential election, Hillary Clinton told reporters, “it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president.” Twenty years later, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren advocated abolishing the Electoral College while running for president. The Electoral College is a friend to those who believe in limited government and our federalist system. We must save it. Click for Full Text!
Motherhood Isn’t Fatal
Post Date: 2022-12-18 16:23:57 by Charles_Byrd
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Abortion advocates have said over and over that having a baby will derail a woman’s plans for college and a successful career. According to the pro-abortion mantra, women must sacrifice the lives of their unborn children to succeed in life. Click for Full Text!
Holes in the Constitution
Post Date: 2022-12-16 17:22:55 by Charles_Byrd
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In his famous dissent in Olmstead v. United States, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in 1928 called the right to be left alone the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. He was referring to the right to be left alone from the government — a right that today we call privacy. Olmstead was involved in bootlegging, and the feds tapped his phones without any search warrants. The Supreme Court, which had never recognized the right to privacy, permitted the use of the overheard conversations as evidence in his criminal trial. Click for Full Text!
Politics Is Getting in the Way of What Makes Cities Great
Post Date: 2022-12-16 16:50:53 by Charles_Byrd
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Progressives loves cities, yet refuse to address the degree to which their policies have made urban life a bigger chore than needed. Conservatives depict cities as dystopian hellholes. They delight in highlighting the crime problems, poorly functional school systems, homeless encampments, and other urban problems that seem unsolvable. The message from the former: We should all live in densely packed urban areas, where we can stroll to cafes and stores and take the bus to work, but we can't (or won't) make the streets safer, the schools better or the transit systems less miserable. The message from the latter: Stay away from cities and hole up in placid but uninteresting suburbs. ...
You've Got to Be Kidding: Nussbaum Demands Animals Stop Eating Each Other
Post Date: 2022-12-16 16:11:50 by Charles_Byrd
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Sometimes you encounter a proposal that is so daft that you think to yourself, “The author can’t be serious!” In today’s column, I’d like to discuss an example of this sort that comes from one of the world’s most eminent moral philosophers, Martha C. Nussbaum. In her article, “A Peopled Wilderness,” appearing in the New York Review of Books, December 8, 2022, Nussbaum suggests that we need to think seriously about curbing predation in nature. It disturbs her that animals eat other animals: this is not how things ought to be. We must be careful in what we try to do to correct this morally bad state of affairs, since through lack of knowledge, we may ...
The tyranny of the majority
Post Date: 2022-12-14 21:05:47 by Charles_Byrd
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"Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or three thousand tyrants one mile away?" — Rev. Mather Blyes, 1706-1788 Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by the little-known colonial-era preacher with the famous uncle — Cotton Mather, addresses the age-old question of whether liberty can survive in a democracy. Click for Full Text!
Seared souls: How we abuse our children
Post Date: 2022-12-13 16:58:34 by Charles_Byrd
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Since I’m going to be criticizing a now widely accepted phenomenon, this piece may evoke eyerolls from some supporters. So be it, because certain things need to be said. I must confess that with the way many of my fellow adults behave today, it can make me ashamed to be one. I almost sometimes feel as if I want to apologize to the children for the example the contemporary grown-up world now sets. We often lament, and rightly so, how disrespectful many modern youths are, yet a prerequisite for commanding respect is being respectable. There is little respectable about modern American culture. Click for Full Text!
The Antidote to ‘Toxic’ Masculinity
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:35:33 by Charles_Byrd
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Marine veteran Terry Bagley, a 70-year-old father of five who does housekeeping at a Veterans Affairs hospital, was walking to buy items for Thanksgiving in the Pigtown area of Baltimore, Maryland, on the Tuesday afternoon before the holiday. On his way to the market, a rowhome on the block exploded—likely from a ruptured gas line. Bagley reportedly wasted no time hurrying to the rescue of anyone who might be trapped inside the burning building. Firefighters later found him in the rubble. Bagley, in critical condition, was placed in a medically induced coma. His injuries—including a broken pelvis, femur, and hand—will require surgery. (A GoFundMe page set up for the Vietnam ...
Restoring Society’s Foundations Isn’t a Lost Cause
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:11:44 by Charles_Byrd
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Were you to peer into my brain in recent months, you would find that a main thought running through it is our country’s desperate need for restoration and repair. Not so much in the physical sense, but in the mental, emotional, and spiritual sense—a renewal of the foundations upon which basic life in this country has long been built: faith, family, and education. It’s easy to look at the swampy mess that surrounds us, throw up our hands, and bemoan with the Psalmist, “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Click for Full Text!
Foundations of Faith
Post Date: 2022-12-11 22:37:33 by Charles_Byrd
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Not too long ago, had the sentence “I am a woman trapped in a man’s body” been uttered to anyone – to a doctor, a friend, a relative – it would have been seen as a psychiatric problem in the one speaking the words. Help, from a psychiatrist or a priest, would have been advised or encouraged. Today, even to suggest any help or guidance is needed – let alone to provide such help or guidance – is criminal…even when the one saying such words is a child. Click for Full Text!
Woke Joke
Post Date: 2022-12-11 22:22:41 by Charles_Byrd
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In these willfully ignorant times, the powers that be seem, in their haste to be politically correct, to forget that America fought its bloodiest war to end human bondage. Almost three-quarters of a million men died, yet the Civil War is being refought with fact-purging propaganda that makes cartoon villains of great American soldiers, while one group of citizens is robbed of their heritage in order to please another. About one year ago I found myself in a car with a New York couple, both guests of an ex-headmaster (sorry, head of school; use of the word “headmaster” leads one to a woke gulag) of my prep school who was accompanying me to an unveiling of a wall honoring an ...
While on vacation, we tend to sleep in. But there we were at the crack of dawn, trekking to the beach, drawn to the promise of new life.
Post Date: 2022-12-10 06:31:54 by Charles_Byrd
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A few nights ago, my mother-in-law stopped by to drop something off. As a fellow Christmas enthusiast, she was quite excited that we had a YouTube video of a fireplace playing on our television. I began to share how I discovered it, which brought me to the story of one Christmas in college. A Christmas Eve where I found myself alone in front of my TV, on a channel that was broadcasting a fireplace scene, wishing for a family for Christmas. Click for Full Text!
Save the Baby Humans, Too!
Post Date: 2022-12-10 06:29:51 by Charles_Byrd
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While on vacation, we tend to sleep in. But there we were at the crack of dawn, trekking to the beach, drawn to the promise of new life. Click for Full Text!
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