News articles dedicated to the liberty movement in Missouri
“The main colors of Missouri are: Green for the grass and the trees Blue for the sky and the lakes Brown for the bricks, the dirt, the mud, the rivers—and the bullshit.” -me, November 18, 2003 Missouri has always had an identity crisis. We don’t know if we’re Southern or Midwestern. Missouri had a star…
My Long, Strange Trip to Liberty or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Laissez-faire by Chris Morrill My evolution into a libertarian took place in three phases: Phase 1: Confused Childhood Dixiecrat I grew up in southeast Missouri, a place so uniformly conservative that anyone to the left of our native son…
Peter Hasson Attorneys representing Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who displayed firearms after a group of protesters broke a gate and approached their private property, want St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner disqualified from the case after she cited her prosecution of the pair in a fundraising email for her re-election campaign….
“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.” -Thomas Paine in The Age of Reason Earlier…
by Joshua Ferguson In a stunning and brave example of top-tier Twittering, Libertarian Party Chair Nicholas Sarwark has shown us, once again, how to analyze a complex situation and get it completely wrong from even a basic understanding of libertarianism. For many the fundamental part of American libertarianism is the Non-Aggression Principle. Think “do no harm”. One…
On Saturday a Catholic prayer event in front of the St. Louis statue in Missouri was interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters. Violence broke out at the event as Black Lives Matter members attacked participants of the prayer event. The event was documented by Conor Martin who was present at the event and was attacked…
This Constitutional reform created an entire system of personal and commercial medical marijuana licensing which has been the focus of significant controversy after almost 90% of applicants were denied applications for cultivation, manufacturing, or dispensary licenses due to onerous restrictions in the Amendment 2 framework (now Article XIV of the Missouri Constitution). These restrictions are…
Mary Margaret Olohan The governor of Missouri announced that he is mobilizing the National Guard on Friday as part of the state’s coronavirus response. Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson tweeted Friday morning that he signed an executive order mobilizing the National Guard. His declaration came after the Missouri Health Department reported 502 cases of coronavirus in the…
As the United States works to limit the spread of COVID-19, states have responded in varying degrees. Many have closed public schools, limited the number of people in social gatherings, and ordered restaurants and bars to close their dining rooms. California, New York, and Illinois have effectively told their entire population to ‘shelter in place’,…
My father loves to tell jokes. Most of them are horrendously stupid and not funny. To make matters worse, he loves to repeat them, much to my chagrin. Because of this, I became fond of the phrase, “don’t beat a dead horse”, to rebut any attempt he would make to retell these terrible jokes. This…