Category Archives: Liberty

Where Liberty Clashes With Liberty: A Study of the Leftist

Posted on April 13, 2010 | Leave a comment

So, what is Liberty? What is a “human-right”? People say all kinds of things are human-rights. In fact,in many nations, more and more things are becoming human-rights.

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Posted in Economics, Immigration, Liberty, Lobby/PAC, Politics: International, Politics: National

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What's In Your Tea

Posted on April 8, 2010 | Leave a comment

Some time ago I began a piece on the Republican Party’s Platform.  Sadly, I didn’t finish it but I made it far enough to illustrate my point.  And that is there are parts that I disagree with.

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Posted in Liberty, Politics: National, Politics: North Carolina

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And The Winner Is: Freedom and Liberty!

Posted on April 7, 2010 | Leave a comment

A very critical court battle was decided Tuesday.  At risk was the ability for internet providers to handle traffic at their discretion.  Basically, the FCC wanted to regulate how a private provider would treat traffic on its own network.  A network, by the way, that they paid billions of dollars to build.

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Who Is This Tea Party

Posted on April 6, 2010 | Leave a comment

Strange thing happened on the way to the party today.  I realized that Republicans don’t represent a majority of those who affiliate or support the Tea Party movement.  The majority of their supporters are Independents and Democrats.

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Tea Anyone?

Posted on April 5, 2010 | 2 comments

The test is coming.  The energy and excitement that is and has been caused by, the Tea Party movement is gonna be tested in the coming months.  It’s one thing for a group of folks to get mad and meet in the park.  It’s another thing entirely for that group of people identify a leader, for that leader to be qualified, and move the group from loosely connected to organized force.

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Posted in Diplomacy, Liberty, Lobby/PAC, Politics: North Carolina

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Ooohh, That Dog'on Religious Right!

Posted on April 1, 2010 | Leave a comment

I hate it when opportunities are lost.  And I hate it even more when people go out of their way to make things tougher.  But it would seem that the religious right continues to insist that the restriction of Liberty is no good; unless it’s them that’s doing the restriction.

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Don't Ask Don't Tell: Time To End It

Posted on March 26, 2010 | Leave a comment

It’s long past time for the Government to enter the modern era.  In a time when being LBGT is becoming less and less a consideration when hiring or promoting someone, the military continues to exclude members of its workforce for that very reason.

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The Shortest Word in the English Language

Posted on March 26, 2010 | 2 comments

You know that old joke?  Remember?  Well, the answer is ‘ere as the joint is passed around the circle.

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Liberty Wept

Posted on March 25, 2010 | Leave a comment

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

– Dr. Adrian Rogers

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ACORN: Gone

Posted on March 23, 2010 | Leave a comment

Wow, the good news keeps rolling in over here at tarheelred.  First it was news that Fannie and Freddie are going the way of the dinosaur and now we learn that ACORN will never turn into that giant oak tree.

The national group ACORN is folding, an official there, Kevin Whelan, said in an emailed statement:

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