This is the speech I delivered at the opening ceremony for the Free State Project's 2009 New Hampshire Liberty Forum this past weekend in Nashua, New Hampshire ( Read more... )

So I did my taxes this past week. It was irritating as usual. It takes me several days all together to get everything done and the result is the government plunders the fruit of my labor. Someday, I'll expand on my developing idea that government is actually a church of a well defined set of religious beliefs with forced membership. I'm more ( Read more... )

On Wednesday, I went to Concord for two committee meetings of the New Hampshire State House of Representatives Education Committee. They were hearing testimony relating to House Bill 367 and House Bill 368. I went to deliver my own testimony relating to those bills ( Read more... )

If Newsweek represents the average or majority view in America, I find myself at odds with my fellow Americans. This may raise the question of what it really means to be American, which might be better left to another discussion.

This week, Newsweek's website featured an article titled "You Opened A Door." The article is a compilation of ( Read more... )

A Christian libertarian friend of mine passed this article on to me today. It's outstanding:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article5400568.eceThe whole article is worth reading, but this paragraph was particularly excellent ( Read more... )

Will Buchanan of Walk For Liberty fame came through Keene this past week. He has videoed his entire trip across the United States. Keene was day 214. I saw Will the previous night and discovered he would be walking right in front of my house. I decided to go walk with him for a little bit. He wound up interviewing me and publishing, among ( Read more... )

In this article, Jacob Gordon of treehugger.com provides this brilliant caption for a photo showing a gas station sign with 'low' prices: "The national price for unleaded gas has dropped more than 125 percent from a year ago ( Read more... )

Dr. Ron Paul (R-TX) recently gave the following speech on the floor of the United States House of Representatives in honor of Marshall Fritz ( Read more... )

Unsolicited, in an IM conversation with a friend this morning came this report of the result of wisdom applied:

"My life has been filled with good things ever since I decided to be more patient."

There you have it... :)

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This came across my email and I thought it is a good enough illustration to pass along ( Read more... )