In response to my previous entry, Tony pointed out my preposterous, if not confusing, statement:

"I'm not shocked that fewer than half of the Denver MSA's 2 Million residents attended this event." (Note: MSA means Metropolitan Statistical Area)

He replies, "This seems to say that although you were not shocked at the number who attended, you had ( Read more... )

The Free State Project had a table at the Faith and Liberty Conference in Denver, CO last Saturday, July 24th, 2010. The Faith and Liberty Conference brought together people who have adopted that seemingly rare (these days) combination of Christian theology and libertarian political philosophy. Chuck Baldwin and Alan Keyes were the keynote ( Read more... )

I need help. I need to find two different words to contrast two different ideas. Both ideas are best described as freedom, however, both are different and, depending on your interpretation, contradictory. For now, I'll briefly describe the two ideas using modifiers for clarity.

Political freedom means not being coercively subject to the rule ( Read more... )

A coupe of weeks ago, a document called "Manhattan Declaration" was released. That document has, at this writing, over 200,000 signatures. I considered writing a fairly extensive analysis and opinion response to the Declaration. After reading it, I realized it would be better not to (yes, this is the short version... hah ( Read more... )

I haven't written a blog entry in a while. It seems I've had some complicated (= long) trains of thought and just never seem to finish them. The result is that, while my facebook status gets updated semi-regularly, there's not much substantial content flowing from my brain. In the interest of solving that, I hereby give myself 30 minutes to get ( Read more... )

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The Free State Project's 2009 Porcupine Freedom Festival has come to a close. It was another record shattering event. The last incomplete data I had indicated right at 500 registrations. I saw a number of people walking around without name tags (likely unregistered), and talked to several who said they never registered. Maybe there were 600 ( Read more... )

Now that some time has passed since returning home from our frenzied East Coast vacation, it's time to take a different look at all that we saw. 6 blog entries ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) covered the basics: what we did, when we did it, what and who we saw, photos, and so on. I did hint at things that were on my mind from time to time. For example, I ( Read more... )

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... )

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... )