A friend of mine recently commented on Facebook that “We need another Magna Carta type event today, led by the states towards the Federal Government.” The original event he refers to took place nearly 800 years ago in a meadow near Runnymede in England. It was there that a collection of influential barons forced King John, at sword point, to … [Read more...]
Obamacare is a Disaster – Oliver DeMille
October 28, 2013 by 2 Comments
The stories are coming out all over the nation. For example, Ashley Dionne is a 26-year-old woman with 2 college degrees. The cost of her monthly insurance premium has risen from $75 previously to $319 under Obamacare. She wrote: "Liberals claimed this law would help the poor. I am the poor, the working poor, and I can’t afford to … [Read more...]
Here’s Proof Leviathan Can Be Resisted
October 18, 2013 by 3 Comments
He probably meant well. After all the upheaval and division during his lifetime, peace and stability were his likely goals. But Thomas Hobbes gave life to a monster when his work Leviathan was published in 1651. Hobbes' depiction of the state as an irresistible strongman whose subjects live in fear and awe has become a popular template for … [Read more...]
What Every Citizen Must Know About Government Finances – Oliver DeMille
October 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Good citizens know as much about freedom, government, economics and laws as their president, prime minister, justices, governors, senators and other officials. When a lot of the citizens are good citizens, freedom flourishes. When only a few are good citizens, freedom declines. This is an incontrovertible law of human history. It is always … [Read more...]
A Letter Every American Should Read
October 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The recent vague though elevated state of “terror readiness” was a nice touch. The timing was perfect. It’s just what we’d expect when serious public dissent over NSA domestic spying is building across America and even within Congress. Someone in the national security state must be getting worried. Maybe that’s why they’re trying to remind … [Read more...]
The Three Kinds of Nations – Oliver DeMille
October 9, 2013 by 11 Comments
There are two kinds of laws, one good and the other bad. The first kind includes only laws that protect inalienable rights. Such laws are necessary to maintain freedom in any society. This kind of law is called Fundamental Law. Societies without good Fundamental Law fail to grow and succeed, because the basic inalienable rights of the people … [Read more...]
How to Understand Budgets and Treaties – Oliver DeMille
October 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The feedback is coming in, and a lot of people who are newly reading treaties and government budgets are asking some really great questions. Mostly they boil down to two main things. First A lot of people are struggling to really understand how government finances and currencies work. This isn't surprising. Lenin is credited with saying that … [Read more...]
What is the “Remnant”? -Oliver DeMille
September 30, 2013 by 1 Comment
I recently gave a speech entitled "The Four Reasons Freedom is Losing the Current Battle for Liberty," and during it I mentioned that the real battle isn't between conservatives and liberals, or the Right and the Left, Hawks or Doves, or Red versus Blue states. It's between the Establishment and the Remnant. I found that there was little need to … [Read more...]
Government Secrecy Kills Freedom – Oliver DeMille
September 25, 2013 by 5 Comments
It's one of the main plots in Hollywood movies and popular TV dramas. The government knows some secret information, but won’t share it because it might cause panic in the regular people. This is the justification for modern government secrecy, spying on its people, and even torture. In the name of security, apparently everything is okay for the … [Read more...]
When the Government Lies – Oliver DeMille
September 23, 2013 by 1 Comment
There's lots of talk right now about the people losing trust in government. The current wisdom seems concerned that this is a bad development, that the government can only continue to grow and expand if the people trust what it is doing. As Orrin Woodward and I recently wrote, the American founders thought the people should strongly mistrust … [Read more...]
