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It’s Time for Big-Time College Football to Split from the NCAA

February 23, 2013
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It’s Time for Big-Time College Football to Split from the NCAA

The NCAA has long been a farce of a governing body, more hypocritical and corrupt than the old Soviet Politburo — but with “death penalties” that are only metaphorical, and with fewer pairs of contraband blue jeans smuggled to favored apparatchiks. It is long past time for the commissioners of the Division I-A football conferences (I refuse to use the Newspeak version: “FBS Division”) to convene the football equivalent of a “Continental Congress” and sign a Declaration of Independence from the NCAA. With apologies to…

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Facts, Principles, and the Nature of Liberty

November 14, 2012
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Facts, Principles, and the Nature of Liberty

A truly liberal person will steadfastly oppose actions of government that force people to act against their conscience or allow individuals to do harm to other human beings. I believe that those are the principles we should consider when looking at facts about government-financed public education and a government-enforced policy of unlimited elective abortions. I welcome those who disagree, to state the principles by which they do so, with equal directness and brevity. Nothing else can justify any sort of collective action against individuals. .…

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Original Poem: ‘The Fourteenth of July’

August 31, 2012
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Original Poem: ‘The Fourteenth of July’

Another artfully written poem by Esther Cameron, with deep political and cultural implications.

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Virginia Police Put U.S. Marine Veteran in Mental Institution for Political Facebook Posts

August 21, 2012
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Virginia Police Put U.S. Marine Veteran in Mental Institution for Political Facebook Posts

Remember this name: Brandon Raub.Raub, a twenty-six-year-old former U.S. Marine, was arrested and sent to a mental institution for writing political comments on his Facebook page. He has remained in custody since his arrest last Thursday. He has not been charged with any crime.Raub's arrest and detainment are actions of a police state, reminiscent of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Communist China, and other dictatorships around the world. The Virginia authorities have made Raub's case for him. . . .

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Liberty Ain’t the Problem

July 4, 2012
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Liberty Ain’t the Problem

Modern liberals are fond of claiming that capitalism is inherently selfish, and that with too much liberty and not enough government come greed. I found a novel take on this idea in a New York Times Op-Ed piece by Kurt Andersen called “The Downside of Liberty.” He sees in the 1960s cultural revolution the seeds of not only personal individualism run amok, but money-grubbing-Ayn-Randian-greed-is-good-egoism. For him the 60s social changes were all of a piece:

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Is Freedom Divisible?

June 8, 2012
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Is Freedom Divisible?

"Living a human life consists in the pursuit of a variety of values, some material, some not. Thus dividing freedom into spheres is both arbitrary and ultimately destructive."

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The Myth of True Communism

June 7, 2012
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The Myth of True Communism

Since my anti-Communist satire, Vampire Nation, was published over a decade ago, it has drawn a surprisingly large number of complaints from self-styled Communists who voice an identical theme: That Communism as practiced to date is not "true Communism," which remains noble and viable and should not be judged by its past history. . . .

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Robertson No Fan of SNL

December 21, 2011
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Robertson No Fan of SNL

Pat Robertson, the lightening rod televangelist and former presidential candidate, doesn’t much like Saturday Night Live mocking Tim Tebow, or Jesus Christ. He called last Saturday night’s skit part of wave of "anti-Christian bigotry that is just disgusting."

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Klavan: Baby Boomers Undermined Liberty

October 18, 2011
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Klavan: Baby Boomers Undermined Liberty

Andrew Klavan is one of the most perceptive cultural analysts of our day, and his Klavan on Culture at Pajamas Media is a frequent stop of mine. In a recent post on a new book called Willpower, Klavan takes the Baby Boomer generation to task for ruining American culture. I suppose Boomers can be an easy target for such a charge, but Klavan does it in a way that shows how our liberties are lost at the door of license. Without personal responsibility, as the…

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Oprah’s Public Confessional Trashed Liberty & Personal Responsibility

June 4, 2011
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Oprah’s Public Confessional Trashed Liberty & Personal Responsibility

The Oprah Winfrey Show is no more. The last episode aired on May 25, 2011 after 25 years on the air, and in my opinion, it could not have come sooner. Oprah Winfrey made a fetish out of emotional exhibitionism, boosted New Age spirituality, normalized the blurring of gender roles, and influenced millions to privilege feelings and emotion over rational thought. The Media Research Center’s Erin R. Brown and Matthew Philbin present a bracing tonic to all those gushing reports about the end of Oprah’s…

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‘New York’ Magazine Critique of Libertarianism Has Positive Unintended Consequences

January 11, 2011
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‘New York’ Magazine Critique of Libertarianism Has Positive Unintended Consequences

A recent New York magazine article has raised a bit of a ruckus on the right. In his long article on libertarianism, Christopher Beam appears both fascinated and puzzled by the odd phenomenon under his microscope. Anyone at all familiar with libertarianism will recognize that his characterization of the movement and the philosophy behind it is something of a caricature, but there is a serious critique to be found in his article. That critique is seriously wrong, as it happens, and understanding just where Beam…

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‘The Second Day of July, 1776, Will Be the Most Memorable Epocha in the History of America…’

July 2, 2010
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‘The Second Day of July, 1776, Will Be the Most Memorable Epocha in the History of America…’

Independence Day may be my favorite holiday. Sure, I love Christmas and Thanksgiving, and Easter and St. Patrick’s Day are not without their charms. But America’s birthday is a holiday like no other. Over the past eight years or so, with two exceptions, we’ve helped put on a large block party, complete with games, food, strong drink, music, patriotic readings, and, when the sun goes down, plenty of fireworks. I love the fellowship. I’m dismayed at the ignorance of some of my fellow Americans, of…

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Liberty, Equality, and ‘Barack the Good’

March 30, 2010
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Shelby Steele returns to the pages of the Wall Street Journal with another provocative essay on the Barack Obama Phenomenon. But is freedom really in conflict with "the good"? Or is something else going on?

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Are Liberty and Freedom Synonymous?

March 6, 2010
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Are Liberty and Freedom Synonymous?

Ever since I came to political awareness many moons ago, I’ve been puzzled by the words liberty and freedom, and why we have two words for what appears to be the same idea. I have a feeling that I’m not alone. I’ve never researched it specifically, and in all my reading I’ve never seen an explanation that differentiates the two words, until now. On the advice of a friend I purchased David Hackett Fischer’s at least seven pound tome, “Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History…

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Glass Hammer Cheers

February 23, 2010
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Glass Hammer Cheers

For well over a decade, Glass Hammer has been one of the most impressive and productive rock bands while remaining resolutely independent from the music industry’s star-making and -consuming apparatus. Taking advantage of that independence and the liberty it affords, the Chattanooga, Tennessee-based group led by multi-instrumentalists and songwriters Fred Schendel and Steve Babb has produced some of the most musically impressive and thematically interesting albums of our time. Releases such as Lex Rex, Perelandra, On to Evermore, and The Inconsolable Secret are classics of…

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