Give Up Your Freedom. We are losing our freedom and rights!

The hand of the government extends further as the Head of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lisa Jackson, plans to regulate greenhouse admissions, but not until 2011. Republicans say that this delays “job killing” until after the elections….

How then is tyranny to be ascertained?
December 19 marks the birth of John Taylor of Caroline, a founder called the most impressive political theorist that America has produced, yet who remains virtually unknown. Taylor served in the Continental Army, Virginia Legislature and U.S….

Revisiting another infamous December 7
December 7, 1941–Pearl Harbor–has since lived in infamy. But December 7 had been infamous in America before. In 1683, Algernon Sydney, one of American colonists primary inspirations and sources of insight into political liberty, was…

Exclusive Thomas Sowell Interview
The Orange County Editorial Board sat down for an exclusive interview with one of the most consequential minds in free market thought living today, Thomas Sowell. We are proud to call him a Freedom Politics columnist. Exclusive interview with…

Continued Culture of Corruption
In 2006, Republican earmark scandals helped Democrats re-capture control of the House of Representatives. Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised to address the culture of corruption by introducing earmark reforms on Congress opening day. How have…

Senate Democrats pass outrageous spending bill, defeat GOP filibuster
Senate Democrats passed a massive spending bill that inflates government budgets and various government program coffers well above the rate of inflation. Companies and families are making hard financial decisions and cutting back, but the United…

Terrorists Use Crayons and Finger Paints for Rehab
Terrorists and former Gitmo detainees have been released and sent to Saudi Arabia for an “art therapy rehabilitation program.” Two of the released detainees are thought to be behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet on…

The Predicament of Freedom
In anticipation of Independence Day next week, I find myself thinking of words from American history that capture one of the core ideas of our democracy: “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.” Patrick Henry, speaking at the Virginia Convention in 1775 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights-that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. From The Declaration of Independence, adopted in Philadelphia on July 4th, 1776 When the Continental Congress declared the separation of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain 231 years ago, liberty was foremost in the minds of our nation’s founders. The idea did not originate with them, of course. In every age and across the earth, human beings have, as the inscription of the Statue of Liberty reads, yearned to “breathe free.” Three thousand years before Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, the Hebrew people suffered under bondage in Egypt. They yearned for freedom. God sent a man named Moses who demanded of Pharaoh, “Let my people go!” When Pharaoh refused, God delivered. A thousand years later, the people were again oppressed, both by the tyranny of the Roman Empire and by the powers and principalities of the world, and God sent a man named Jesus. He announced in his inaugural sermon that he had been anointed by the Holy Spirit “to bring good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives. . .to let the oppressed go free.”

Stop Insuring Mortgages
The Federal Housing Administration announced this week that it wants tougher rules on mortgage lenders. It’s about time. Maybe FHA got spooked by the recent New York Times story titled “Easy Loans to Wealthier Areas,” which said: “In its efforts to…

Rediscovering Freedom
December 5 marks the birth of Rose Wilder Lane (Daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder), among America s most ardent proponents of liberty. In particular, The Discovery of Freedom (1943), among the 20th century s top 100 non-fiction books in a Modern…

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