Posts dedicated to philosophy of society, civic governance and general ideas.
We can pay taxes, but we can’t vote? LOUISVILLE – Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that he would support a push for felons to have their voting rights restored. Paul believes it would be good to have a waiting period first to make sure that they don’t relapse, but that he would attempt to push…
They didn’t adhere to objective morality! The AP is reporting that a Russian man was shot when a philosophical debate over Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” devolved into violence. Police in Rostov-on Don said two young men were discussing Kant’s ethics when they decided to throw both ethics AND reason out the window and go…
Penn Jillette took a bite out of his friend Greg Gutfeld for sitting and watching his colleagues on Fox’s The Five suggest that atheists should just leave the country. A controversy has exploded after anchor Dana Perino suggested that atheists should leave because they are upset that the United States government is unconstitutionally promoting…
What have we learned America? Judge Napolitano’s 9/11 soliloquy was set to animation in a beautiful minute-long video that asks the question: What have we learned since 9/11? Are we stronger or better off than we were on that day? Or are our constitution and our civil liberties weaker?
Court decision is a blow to private property rights… A federal judge ruled that Abercrombie & Fitch violated federal anti-employment discrimination guidelines for firing a Muslim employee when she would not remove her headscarf for work. The clothing chain asserted that it was part of their business plan for their employees to have a certain…
Sovereign Citizens Declare their Rights Under Natural Law! Joining a chorus of Americans crying out for relief from big government, Western Marylander Scott Strzelcyk has started the Western Maryland Initiative to begin formal proceedings to sever his regions ties to liberal-leaning Maryland. Their declaration reads: “We, the people of Garrett, Allegany, Washington, Frederick, and Carroll…
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Shifting Tides in the Grand Old Party… Reason Magazine’s Matt Welch appeared on Fox Business to discuss the battle in the US congress over whether to attack the government of Syria. Host Stuart Varney welcomed Welch thusly: “Matt Welch is with me. He’s a libertarian. The libertarians are very much part of this debate, and…
Liberty in California? “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect…
Talk show host Glenn Beck took to the airwaves to argue against Obama’s intervention in the civil war in Syria. Beck has been taking a more libertarian tone on foreign policy recently, claiming that the government is sucking us into another unnecessary war in the Middle East. Of course that would mean that we were…
Lights! Camera! Agora! George Mason University hosted a sneak preview screening of the new libertarian film “Alongside Night” last week. A well-attended event turned out great reactions from the audience in the video below. Go to facebook.com/AlongsideNightmovie to find a screening in your area! More about Alongside Night It’s five years in the future and America…