by Oliver DeMille Question: "How much of the First Amendment would you like us to ignore?" Answer: "How many lives would we want to save?" --State of Affairs television debut The Enemy? Almost every police drama and movie has a similar bad guy. The hero, usually a dedicated police officer or government agent with a painful personal past … [Read more...]
What is Government? Part II: The Visa/Mastercard Solution
October 20, 2014 by 2 Comments
Just Try It In response to my article about Government is Force (where I mentioned that government was created mainly to protect our inalienable rights and that to do this it must focus almost entirely on law enforcement and national security and not get distracted on other things), a number of people asked about services and infrastructure like … [Read more...]
What Is Government?
October 13, 2014 by 10 Comments
(the short answer) What Must Be Understood I’m going to keep this very short, so it can be passed on to as many people as possible. It is extremely important, and every free person in the modern world needs to understand this! Here goes: Many modern Americans don’t understand what government is. The huge problem with this is that since they … [Read more...]
Reconsidering the White House – Oliver DeMille
September 24, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The United States doesn't get very many great presidents, only about three per century. That's surprising to most people. But it's exactly what the American framers wanted. If we take a deeper look, it actually makes sense. The American Framers didn't write the Constitution with the goal of always putting the nation’s top leaders in the … [Read more...]
The “BIG” Problem by Oliver DeMille
August 20, 2014 by 7 Comments
The "BIG" problem isn't just hugely important, it's also the incredible set of challenges that are created when any institution, organization, or endeavor is just plain too big. This problem is predictable, and therefore solvable, but only if the right people are keeping an eye on the right things. Specifically, our modern government is too … [Read more...]
A Missing Piece of Entrepreneurship – Oliver DeMille
July 30, 2014 by 5 Comments
I write a lot about entrepreneurship, even though my main focus is freedom. The reason for this is simple: free nations are always nations with a strong entrepreneurial sector. There are no exceptions in history. Put simply, the great free nations of human experience had a flourishing free enterprise. This was true in ancient Athens and … [Read more...]
Were the Founders Lawyers? – Oliver DeMille
July 2, 2014 by 2 Comments
"You frequently mention that free nations have a lot of entrepreneurs," my friend said. "But I've been studying the American Founding era and it turns out that many of the framers were lawyers. Why don't you tell people that a lot more of us should go into law?" It was a good question, so I nodded my head. "You're right, but there is one big … [Read more...]
Who Will Stand For Freedom? -Oliver Demille
May 27, 2014 by Leave a Comment
In 1961 the great legal scholar Bruno Leoni, writing about freedom in modern times, said: "It seems to be the destiny of individual freedom at the present time to be defended mainly be economists rather than by lawyers or political scientists." Why? Leoni's answer was intriguing: "As far as lawyers are concerned, perhaps the reason is that … [Read more...]
An Alarming Analysis of 7 Types of Government – Oliver DeMille
May 13, 2014 by 5 Comments
Every government seeks to increase its power. And "power" is control over obedience, according to the great writer Bertrand de Jouvenel. "Force alone can establish power, habit alone can keep it in being..." But one more thing is needed to have absolute power: credit. (This is Jouvenel's word, meaning "recognition" or "validation," not … [Read more...]
Two Reasons Why We Keep Losing the Freedom Battle -Oliver DeMille
April 16, 2014 by 7 Comments
Why does government keep growing, no matter who we elect, no matter which party is in charge? Why do freedom lovers, those who truly want limited, Constitutional government, continue to lose the battle? There are two answers. First, the freedom battle loses -- year after year, election after election, decade after decade -- because it is … [Read more...]
