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Waning Freedom - Wherefore The Dilemma

Al Cronkrite / The Covenant News:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is concerned about domestic terrorists and her potential targets are making a hero of Texas suicide pilot Joe Stack who crashed his private plane into an Internal Revenue office. There is a resentment tsunami rising in America that threatens the established terra firma. It is a complex dilemma. The two puppet political parties are still sources of intense interest even for individuals who should know better. The media promotes their significance through constant publicity. Ron Paul is a hero for his straightforward approach to political issues and his sensible solutions, but he remains in the Republican Party and that organization will never allow his ascent.

Law & Liberty on 'Law and Authority'

Chalcedon Podcast:
Chalcedon podcast hosts, Martin Selbrede and Andrea Schwartz, discuss Chapter 7 of Rushdoony's powerful book Law and Liberty on "Law and Authority." These podcasts are a great way to systematically work through the thinking of Dr. Rushdoony, so we encourage you to share them with others.

Related:
Law and Liberty (Second Edition)
Chalcedon Store:
All law is based upon morality, and morality is itself based upon religion. Therefore, when the religion of a people is weakened, so also is its morality undermined. The result is a progressive collapse of law and order, and the breakdown of society.

National ID: Who Will Resist?

Timothy Baldwin / Liberty Defense League:
U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) introduced a bill which would require all persons in the United States ("U.S.") seeking to be employed to obtain a government-issued biometric National Identification card.(FN1) Not so surprisingly, this measure has come in the name of "protecting America" against illegal immigrants working in the U.S. unlawfully. Thus, "[t]o ensure that only people legally in the U.S. can work here, the bill will propose a biometric I.D. for EVERY AMERICAN before anybody can get a job." (FN2) This is yet another method by which the federal government continually institutes practices and principles contrary to what a Free Confederated Republic should be and contrary to principles of limited government, self-government, natural rights, and true constitutional intent and meaning. Judge Andrew Napolitano rightfully calls this legislation a "monstrosity" and predicts that this bill will not pass.(FN3) Perhaps Judge Napolitano is correct, but we should consider what the people of the U.S. once rejected but now embrace.

The Reformation and The Founding of America

Larry Temple / Cross, Crown & Covenant:
The Protestant Reformation and its tremendous influence on the political order of today barely gets mentioned by most contemporary (secular) and anti-christian historians. The very related ideas like; limited Government, the Rule of Law, and the Social Contract Theory all have their origins and developed from the Reformation and more specifically from Calvinism. Instead, contemporary historians (often purposely) omit the influence of the Reformation and point to men like Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan, 1651), John Locke (Two Treatises of Government, 1689) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( The Social Contract, 1762) as the architects of the modern political order whom they consider much more friendly to their bias worldview.

A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579)

Stephen Junius Brutus / LONANG.com:
[Translated anonymously from the latin, 1648. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized.] Obedience To Princes Or To God? This question happily may seem at the first view to be altogether superfluous and unprofitable, for that it seems to make a doubt of an axiom always held infallible among Christians, confirmed by many testimonies in Holy Scripture, divers examples of the histories of all ages, and by the death of all the holy martyrs. For it may be well demanded why Christians have endured so many afflictions, but that they were always persuaded that God must be obeyed simply and absolutely, and kings with this exception, that they command not that which is repugnant to the law of God. Otherwise, why should the apostles have answered, that God must rather be obeyed than men, and also seeing that the only will of God is always just, and that of men may be, and is, oftentimes unjust, who can doubt but that we must always obey God's commandments without any exception, and men's ever with limitation?

Obama Endorses 'More Jobs for Illegals' Plan

Stephen Dinan / The Washington Times:
Legalize Illegals: Obama on Thursday gave a thumbs-up to the framework of a plan to legalize illegal immigrants and create a flow of low-skilled foreign workers for the future, saying the bill being worked on by a Republican lawmaker and his Democrat counterpart is "promising." The long-awaited framework, written by Sens. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, and Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, calls for illegal immigrants to be put on a path to citizenship and would create a temporary program for future foreign workers. Maybe most contentious of all, it would turn all Social Security cards into tamper-proof IDs to be checked by employers when they are about to hire a new worker. The cards would include biometric information designed to prevent counterfeiting — but the senators said the information would not be stored in a government database.

Census Is For Counting Not Prying

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
The constitutional requirement for the Census is found in Article. I. Section. 2. Paragraph. 3. "The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct." The purpose of the Census is that of counting the US population in order to apportion among the states the number of representatives in the US House of Representatives. That's it. Nothing more. Nothing less.

'Social Justice' Is Not Christian Charity

Paul Proctor / NewsWithViews.com:
"Social justice" is not "Christian charity." You will find the word "justice" in scripture, as you will the word "gospel" -- but you won't find the word "social" in front of either of them because "social justice," like the "social gospel," is the wily work of men, not the Will and Word of God. . . . Justice is about righting a wrong, defending the innocent and punishing the guilty. It is a commendable work but it is not Christian charity. . . . Charity has empathy for those in need and shares with them, cares for them, comforts them, encourages them, prays for them and provides for them as a divine demonstration of God's love, compassion and generosity.

Do the Healthcaremongers Hold Us in Contempt?

David McKalip, M.D. / Campaign for Liberty:
Obama and Congress appear to be holding the American people in contempt. The Dictionary defines contempt as "Lack of respect or reverence for something; disdain; The state of mind of one who despises, the act of despising something." That seems to be the state of mind of a majority in Congress and Obama: lack of respect, reverence and actually despising the American people. It is this contempt that should propel Americans to a second -- but peaceful -- American Revolution to replace elected officials at all levels with those who believe in limited government and individual liberty by January 2013.

Why Should Your Children Pay for My Retirement?

Gary North / LewRockwell.com:
For the same reason that my children will pay for yours: because the government has offered them a deal: it will pay for our retirement. The problem is, Social Security goes bust this year. If you don't believe me, click here. The government has promised to pay for my retirement and yours. How? Congress has stuck a gun in the collective bellies of all of America's workers and has said, "You owe the IRS the money to fund millions of oldsters. Your turn will come. Trust us." What if our children ever decide that Congress's promises are not reliable? What if they decide that their children – our grandchildren – will decide to stiff them? Will they pull the Medicare/Social Security plug?

Remember the Father of the Constitution

Gary Galles / Mises.org:
March 16 marked James Madison's birthday. He was "the father of the Constitution"; no one had a greater hand in constructing and interpreting the highest law of our land. His understanding is especially important today, given how far we have moved away from the very limited government the Constitution authorized and toward one that continually expands its power at the expense of Americans. We could all profit by remembering Madison's understanding of the federal government authorized under the Constitution, a sharp contrast to what we see everywhere around us.

Career Opportunities in the Torture State

Will Grigg / Pro Libertate:
Eight years ago, three insignificant, position-seeking henchmen in the Bush administration were handed the equivalent of the Joker's improvised punji stick. The White House, at the initiative of Vice President Cheney, had secretly ordered the use of torture against suspected terrorists and other detainees, and it was prepared to reward Justice Department attorneys who could swaddle that criminal enterprise in a suitable cloak of pseudo-legal sophistry. In this the Bush junta displayed a trait is shared with Josef Stalin's regime, which fastidiously preserved the pretense of legality even as it carried out torture and mass murder.

The U.S. Federal Government Is Fascist

Robert Higgs / LewRockwell.com:
A popular slogan of the Italian Fascists under Mussolini was, "Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato" (everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state). I recall this expression frequently as I observe the state's far-reaching penetration of my own society. What of any consequence remains beyond the state's reach in the United States today? Not wages, working conditions, or labor-management relations; not health care; not money, banking, or financial services; not personal privacy; not transportation or communication; not education or scientific research; not farming or food supply; not nutrition or food quality; not marriage or divorce; not child care; not provision for retirement; not recreation; not insurance of any kind; not smoking or drinking; not gambling; not political campaign funding or publicity; not real estate development, house construction, or housing finance; not international travel, trade, or finance; not a thousand other areas and aspects of social life.

Missouri House Passes Health Care Freedom Act

Michael Boldin / Tenth Amendment Center:
The Missouri State House has passed House Joint Resolution 48 (HJR48). The legislation, known as the "Missouri Health Care Freedom Act" seeks to make public policy for the state that every person within the state of Missouri is and shall be free to choose or decline to choose any mode of securing health care services without penalty or threat of penalty by the federal government of the United States of America.

Money, Wealth, and Power

Mark R. Rushdoony / The Chalcedon Foundation:
In 1965, just before I turned eleven, my father taught my sisters and me how to examine every dime, quarter, and half-dollar we received. Every silver coin (those minted before 1965) we were instructed to keep and never spend, because silver was valuable and would become even more so, while the new coins were what he called "slugs." About that time he encouraged us to get our savings together and buy gold coins. I managed to scrape together, I believe, just under fifty dollars, and he bought me a one-ounce U.S. twenty-dollar "double eagle" gold coin.

Ignore D.C. by Taking the Tenth

Fred Reed / Fred on Everything
Washington is out of control. It does as it likes, without restraint. It spends American money and American lives to fight remote wars for which it cannot provide a plausible reason. It determines what our children will be taught, who we can hire and fire, to whom we can sell our houses, whether we can defend ourselves, even what names we can call each other. The feds read our email and track the web sites we visit, make us hop around barefoot in airports at the command of surly unaccountable rentacops. They search us at random in train stations without even a pretense of probable cause. We have no influence over them, no way of resisting. Except, perhaps, to ignore them.

Patriotic Nullification

Clyde N. Wilson / The American Conservative:
"The people, acting through their natural polities, the States, had created and given authority to the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution conferred powers on a general government to handle certain specified matters that were common to the "general welfare" of all the States. That government was an agent. It could not be the judge of its own powers. To allow it to be so would mean nothing less than a government of unlimited power, a tyranny. The partners to the Constitution, the sovereign peoples of the States, were the final judges of what they had intended the Constitution to mean. When the general government exceeded its power it was the right and duty of the State to interpose its authority and defend its people from federal acts of tyranny – yes, to render a federal law inoperative in the State’s jurisdiction."

Census Resisters Cite Distrust of Government

Kristen Mack / LewRockwell.com:
To Charles Turrisi Jr., the 2010 census - even with its shorter 10-question form - goes beyond what the framers of the Constitution intended. To his way of thinking, it's about nine questions too long. Turrisi is among a number of conservatives, Libertarians and tea party adherents who believe the census should be nothing more than a head count, not a collection of personal information. They plan to answer only the first question on the census forms arriving this week – the one that asks how many people live in the house.

Homosex Mark Foley Makes Appearance in D.C.

George Bennett / Post On Politics - PalmBeachPost.com:
Former Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Foley continues to elevate his public profile. Last week, he made his first appearance at a Forum Club of the Palm Beaches luncheon since his 2006 resignation in a national firestorm over homosexually charged Internet messages he sent to former congressional pages. This week, Foley is planning to attend Wednesday night's 66th annual Radio and TV Correspondents' Dinner as a guest of Talk Radio News. It's Foley's first Washington appearance since his resignation, according to Foley publicist Jamie Holmes.

Flashback - October 06, 2006
Foley, Gay Republicans, And The List
Public Eye / CBS News:
On Tuesday night's "Evening News," Gloria Borger said this: "One senior House Republican tells CBS that there's a lot of anger at what he describes as 'a network of gay staffers and gay members who protect each other and did the speaker a disservice.'" The New Republic's Michael Crowley picks up on Borger's comment. He argues that "it's becoming clear that some people on Capitol Hill are promoting a storyline that involves gay Republican staffers--apparently led by [Tom Reynolds's chief of staff Kirk] Fordham--covering up for Mark Foley." Crowley suggests "maybe this is how Dennis Hastert and his compatriots are explaining themselves to the base." He also notes David Corn's report on "The List" – a document being passed around political circles of high-level Republican congressional aides who are gay. Corn, a liberal, says he will not publish The List, even though he has a copy.

Flashback - October 12, 2006
Homosexual Blackmail on Capitol Hill
Cliff Kincaid / Accuracy In Media:
[S]ecret Republican homosexuals are working behind-the-scenes to sabotage a conservative pro-family agenda in the Congress. They are acting more like Democrats than Republicans, if indeed they are Republicans. Whatever their actual party affiliation, these operatives are using the liberal media, homosexual publications, and radical bloggers like Michael Rogers to accomplish their objectives. In fact, this modus operandi was already employed in the case of Rep. Jim Kolbe, the only openly homosexual Republican member of Congress who came out of the closet after he was threatened with being “outed” for voting for the pro-family Defense of Marriage Act. Kurt Wolfe, the reporter behind that outing, said that, as a result of the campaign, “Jim Kolbe did the right thing and his voting record changed." Despite Kolbe’s living a lie and changing his position on legislation in response to homosexual pressure, Hastert and Vice President Dick Cheney hailed his congressional career in video tributes delivered at the 2006 convention of the Log Cabin Republicans, the (GOP's) homosexual activist group.

Flashback - November 29, 2006
The Secret Gay Network
By Cliff Kincaid / Accuracy In Media:
[T]here was inside information, available to radical gay activists allied with the Democrat Party, which could be used to create scandals for Republican gay members of Congress. Of course, the problem wouldn't have surfaced in the first place if Congressional Republican leaders had not been protecting homosexuals in their ranks. House leaders knew that Foley was a homosexual but permitted him to serve as a co-chair of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. In the case of Kolbe, who announced that he was a homosexual after being threatened with "outing" by a radical homosexual publication, House leaders still defended him.

'Nullify Tyranny'

John Lofton / The American View:
Interview with one of the good Kennedys, Walter Donald Kennedy, Re: New Book "Nullifying Tyranny," co-authored with his brother, James Ronald Kennedy. That is the topic on this "The American View" radio program which broadcasts live, daily, from 11 am to Noon (EST) and is now on the Liberty News Radio Network. Our call-in phone number is 1-866-986-6397. Do listen, please, and give us a call. The Liberty News Radio Network site is LibertyNewsRadio.com.

Animal Farm in Atlanta

William N. Grigg / Pro Libertate:
A loud banging on the door pried Rob Rudnick from sleep's insistent embrace shortly before 7:00 the morning of March 10. When he opened the door to the Carrollton, Georgia warehouse that serves as unofficial headquarters for Neal Horsley's gubernatorial campaign (and sleeping quarters for volunteers), "the first thing I saw was a SWAT shield and a bunch of machine guns pointing at me," Rudnick recalled to Pro Libertate.

Interposition, Nullification and James Madison

Kevin R.C. Gutzman / Tenth Amendment Center:
In 1836, the expiring James Madison offered "Advice to My Country": The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions, is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated. Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened, and the disguised one as the serpent creeping with deadly wiles into Paradise. Madison’s concern for the future of the union had been piqued by the Nullification Controversy and the growing appeal of states' rights.

Is There Any Gold in Fort Knox?

Constance Gustke / LewRockwell.com:
Buried inside a 109,000-acre U.S. Army post in Kentucky sits one of the Federal Reserve's most secure assets and its only gold depository: the 73-year-old Fort Knox vault. Its glittering gold bricks, totaling 147.3 million ounces (that’s about $168 billion at current prices), are stacked inside massive granite walls topped with a bombproof roof. Or are they? It's hard to know for sure. Few people have been inside Fort Knox, a highly classified bunker ringed by fences and multiple alarms and guarded by Apache helicopter gunships.

Why Some People Want to Stick it to the Rich

Gary DeMar / The American Vision:
The rich often get a bum rap. Liberals are incensed when it is suggested that "the rich" get any type of tax reduction even though the top 50% of wage earners pay 96% of all income taxes. Since they spend more money, the rich also pay a disproportionate amount in sales, property, entertainment, and excise taxes. Without the rich, most people would not have jobs.

An Abomination to Retire from Supreme Court

The Philadelphia Inquirer:
John Paul Stevens, leader of the Supreme Court's liberal wing, said in an interview that he would decide in early April whether to retire at the end of this court term. Stevens, the oldest "justice" at 89, told the New Yorker he has his "options open." Although he has hired only one law clerk for the nine-month term that will start in October, Stevens said that three former clerks had agreed to work for him again should he decide to stay on for another term. He said he would certainly step down before Obama's term expires in January 2013.

John McCain's Attack On Liberty

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
Anyone paying attention knows that John McCain has been a Big-Government Globalist Neocon (BGGN) for virtually his entire senatorial career. As with many BGGNs hiding out in the Republican Party, McCain likes to talk about smaller government, but his track record is littered with the promotion of one big government program after another. But, what else would one expect from a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)?

The 'Pentagon Shooter'

John Lofton / The American View:
You don't have to be a paranoid, bi-polar, pothead, nutcase to be angry with and distrust government today. That is the topic on this "The American View" radio program which broadcasts live, daily, from 11 am to Noon (EST) and is now on the Liberty News Radio Network. Our call-in phone number is 1-866-986-6397. Do listen, please, and give us a call. The Liberty News Radio Network site is LibertyNewsRadio.com.

Supporting the War Instead of the Troops

Ron Paul / Texas Straight Talk:
Last week, Congress debated a resolution directing the President to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan no later than the end of this year. The Constitution gives the power to declare war to the Congress, so it is clearly appropriate for Congress to assert its voice on matters of armed conflict. In recent decades, however, Congress has defaulted on this most critical duty, essentially granting successive presidents the unilateral (and clearly unconstitutional) power to begin and end wars at will. This resolution was not expected to pass; however, the ensuing debate and floor vote served some very important purposes.

U.S. War Criminals

Gary Solis / The Washington Post:
In our current armed conflicts, there are two U.S. drone offensives. One is conducted by our armed forces, the other by the CIA. Every day, CIA agents and CIA contractors arm and pilot armed unmanned drones over combat zones in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including Pakistani tribal areas, to search out and kill Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters. In terms of international armed conflict, those CIA agents are, unlike their military counterparts but like the fighters they target, unlawful combatants. No less than their insurgent targets, they are fighters without uniforms or insignia, directly participating in hostilities, employing armed force contrary to the laws and customs of war.

When Gangsters Sing Their Own Praises

Will Grigg / Liberty Minute:
Americans are being told that our future will include massive levels of "permanent" unemployment. Millions of Americans once securely ensconced in the middle class confront the prospect of homelessness. Yet we're being told to praise the Federal Reserve -- the architect of the credit bubble and ensuing economic crash -- for supposedly alleviating the crisis that it created.

The Economy Is Not Recovering

Marc Faber / LewRockwell.com:
Washington is patting itself on the back for having orchestrated an amazing economic recovery. But Washington lawmakers are a delusional bunch of boneheads, say Marc Faber and Mike "Mish" Shedlock, editor of the Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report and investment advisor at SitkaPacific Capital Management, respectively. The economy is NOT recovering, they say, and the U.S. faces a depressing "eventuality" of either crushing deflation (Shedlock) or runaway inflation (Faber). The timing and type of this eventuality is uncertain, say the gurus, but they are certain it's too late for America to change course.

The Census and the Welfare State

Jacob Hornberger / Campaign for Liberty:
The letter that Ralph Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, recently sent to the American people reflects what America has become under the welfare state. Here is what the letter states in part: "Your response is important. Results from the 2010 Census will be used to help each community get its fair share of government funds for highways, schools, health facilities, and many other programs you and your neighbors need. Without a complete, accurate census, your community may not receive its fair share."

Chlid Rape Charge Rocks TSA

Boston Herald:
A Transportation Security Agency worker who pats down members of the flying public was charged with multiple child sex crimes targeting an underage girl yesterday. The bust outraged privacy and passenger advocates who say it justifies their fears about Logan International Airport’s full-body scanner. "It's a huge, huge issue," said Kate Hinni of FlyersrRights.org. "The TSA needs a complete overhaul . . . If you have a pedophile looking at those naked pictures, they’ve got all your information, it's a gross violation of their authority. . . . They should make sure none of them is corrupted in any deviant sexual manner."

Response To John Piper On 'Infant Death'

Pastor Bret McAtee/ Iron Ink:
There Is Something That Just Isn't Right About Baptists: Recently, John Piper decided to go public w/ his trenchant and deep theological insights regarding infants visited w/ death. Piper writes, "I think they're all saved. In other words, I don't buy the principle that says that children born into "covenant families" are secure, and children born into "non-covenant families" aren't. I don't go there." Piper may not go there but Scripture certainly does. I Corinthians 7:14 – For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

The Need To Liberate 'Black Theology'

John Lofton / The American View:
Interview with Dr. Anthony B. Bradley re: the need to liberate Black Theology from its racist victimology. That is the topic on this "The American View" radio program which broadcasts live, daily, from 11 am to Noon (EST) and is now on the Liberty News Radio Network. Our call-in phone number is 1-866-986-6397. Do listen, please, and give us a call. The Liberty News Radio Network site is LibertyNewsRadio.com.

Prolonging a Pointless War

Will Grigg / Liberty Minute:
On March 10, Congress had an opportunity to extricate the U.S. from the war in Afghanistan. The resolution was defeated by a margin of 356-65, with more negative votes cast by Democrats than Republicans. This critically important debate -- essentially the first time Congress has ever carefully examined the merits of a war that has now lasted nearly a decade -- received little media attention.

Don't Ask Don't Bleed

Matt Barber / Ether Zone:
Consider that current U.S. health regulations prohibit men who have sex with men (MSM - aka "gays") from donating blood. Studies conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration categorically confirm that if MSM were permitted to give blood, the general population would be placed at risk. According to the FDA: "['Gay' men] have an HIV prevalence 60 times higher than the general population, 800 times higher than first-time blood donors and 8,000 times higher than repeat blood donors." A 2007 CDC study further rocked the homosexual activist community, finding that, although "gay" men comprise only 1-to-2 percent of the population, they account for an epidemic 64 percent of all syphilis cases. Do the math: If "gays" are allowed to serve openly – as to appease leftists' euphemistic demands for "tolerance" and "diversity" – how much more would soldiers in the field – where battlefield blood transfusions and frequent exposure to biohazards are commonplace – face pointless peril?

More Republican Health Care Hypocrisy

Laurence Vance / The LRC Blog:
Every issue of Imprimis from Hillsdale College is good for a laugh. The current issue features "Health Care in a Free Society," adapted from a speech delivered on January 13 at a Hillsdale College event in Washington D.C. The author rails against Obamacare, the welfare state, government bureaucrats, and entitlements while talking about the free market and the Constitution. And who is the author? Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the same Paul Ryan who voted for the Republican version of health care reform: the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.

Obama's 'No Child Left Behind'

Los Angeles Times:
Obama said he would send to Congress on Monday a blueprint for overhauling the nation's education program and the No Child Left Behind project to improve schools, support teachers and set standards that would give high school graduates "the best chance to succeed in a changing world." Worried that the U.S. is falling behind in education, Obama warned Saturday in his weekly address that "the nation that out-educates us today will out-compete us tomorrow." He said America had "lost ground" over the last several decades, pointing to 15-year-olds who no longer are near the top in math and science compared with their peers around the world, high school graduation rates that have lagged behind most other wealthy countries, and a United States that no longer leads the world in producing college graduates.

Law & Liberty on 'Law and the Future'

Chalcedon Podcast:
Chalcedon podcast hosts, Martin Selbrede and Andrea Schwartz, discuss Chapter 6 of Rushdoony's powerful book Law and Liberty on "Law and the Future." These podcasts are a great way to systematically work through the thinking of Dr. Rushdoony, so we encourage you to share them with others.

Related:
Law and Liberty (Second Edition)
Chalcedon Store:
All law is based upon morality, and morality is itself based upon religion. Therefore, when the religion of a people is weakened, so also is its morality undermined. The result is a progressive collapse of law and order, and the breakdown of society.

Interpreting the Bible With the Bible

Gary DeMar / The American Vision:
Many end times "prophets" seek to pull out individual verses from the Bible and base all their eschatology on that one verse, ignoring the historical and biblical context. Gary DeMar discusses the errors in this way of interpreting the Bible and how to avoid it.

http://www.AmericanVision.com/

Invitation to an Anti-Keynes Project

Gary North / LewRockwell.com:
On March 11, I spoke at the annual Austrian Scholars Conference, sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. It was gratifying to see so many attendees that they could not fit into one room. The Mises Institute is a high-tech outfit. They set up a video camera, and the speech appeared on monitors in other rooms. It will also go on-line within a few days. This will be free. Anyone in the world with Web access can see it from now on. This is a great model for communication and education.

'Zero Tolerance': Cultivating Collectivist Conformity

Will Grigg / Liberty Minute:
The parents of Rachael Greer and Mason Jammer would be thoroughly justified in exploring the possibility of home-schooling their young children. Both Rachael, a seventh grade student from Kentuckiana, Indiana, and Mason, a kindergartner from Ionia, Michigan, were suspended for entirely inocuous behavior considered impermissible under so-called "zero tolerance" policies.

'Elton John Must Die' Sign Gets Man Arrested

WSBTV News Atlanta:
"And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." (Hebrews 9:27)
A Georgia man who posted a video on YouTube of himself holding a sign saying "Elton John must die" has been arrested for making terroristic threats. Atlanta Police Sergeant Curtis Davenport says Neal Horsley was arrested early Wednesday in Carrollton, about 50 miles west of Atlanta. Davenport would not say who Horsley is accused of threatening, but Horsley's son, Nathan, Horsley, says he believed the arrest is connected to the video about the musician. Horsley complains in the video about John's comments in a magazine interview last month that Jesus Christ was a sexual deviant pervert.

"Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost." 1 Thessalonians 2:16

Patriarchy versus Feminism

Martin G. Selbrede / The Chalcedon Foundation:
In the war of the worldviews, we now find ourselves wedged between exposes of feminism launched by patriarchalists and exposes of Biblical patriarchy published by feminists. The Biblical family and its defenders stand on one side of the fixed chasm, and the autonomous individual woman and her defenders stand on the other side. The chasm is infinitely deep, but not so wide as to prevent arrows fired across it from reaching the other side.

Nullifying Federal Tyranny

Clyde Wilson / LewRockwell.com:
The people, acting through their natural polities, the States, had created and given authority to the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution conferred powers on a general government to handle certain specified matters that were common to the "general welfare" of all the States. That government was an agent. It could not be the judge of its own powers. To allow it to be so would mean nothing less than a government of unlimited power, a tyranny.

What Was Done in Your Name

Will Grigg / Liberty Minute:
Dick Cheney once said that it was a "no-brainer" to give a terrorist suspect "a dunk in the water" -- as if this were the extent of the procedure called "waterboarding." fill in words hereInternal Bush administration documents recently released to the public demonstrate that the actual practice was immeasurably more brutal than what Cheney described. This is not fill in words here "simulated drowning"; it was controlled drowning carried out, in 40-second increments, over two-hour sessions several times a day.

Premature Withdrawal

Tom Engelhardt / Campaign for Liberty:
We've now been at war with, or in, Iraq for almost 20 years, and intermittently at war in Afghanistan for 30 years. Think of it as nearly half a century of experience, all bad. And what is it that Washington seems to have concluded? In Afghanistan, where one disaster after another has occurred, that we Americans can finally do more of the same, somewhat differently calibrated, and so much better. In Iraq, where we had, it seemed, decided that enough was enough and we should simply depart, the calls from a familiar crew for us to stay are growing louder by the week.

Sports 'Idolatry'

John Lofton / The American View:
Interview with Shirl James Hoffman on his book "Good Game: Christianity And The Culture Of Sports." That is the topic on this "The American View" radio program which broadcasts live, daily, from 11 am to Noon (EST) and is now on the Liberty News Radio Network. Our call-in phone number is 1-866-986-6397. Do listen, please, and give us a call. The Liberty News Radio Network site is LibertyNewsRadio.com.

Ron Paul on the Totalitarian ID Card

Ron Paul / LewRockwell.com:
The US House of Representatives passed a spending bill last week that contains provisions establishing a national ID card, and the Senate is poised to approve the measure in the next few days. This week marks the American public’s last chance to convince their Senators they don’t want to live in a nation that demands papers from its citizens as they go about their lives.

The Fate of All Towers of Babel

R. J. Rushdoony / The Chalcedon Foundation:
"At Babel, men resumed the task in process before the Flood. At Sodom and Gomorrah, Assyrian, Babylon, Rome, and in the modern states, men continue that task. The results are still the same, God's destroying judgment on man's Babylonian heart and works. The things which are, God subjects to His shaking, His destroying judgments, so that only those things which cannot be shaken may remain (Heb.12:18-29)." -R. J. Rushdoony, Systematic Theology, p. 1035f

Wyoming Governor Signs Sovereignty Resolution

Michael Boldin / Tenth Amendment Center:
This week, Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal signed House Joint Resolution 2 (HJ0002), claiming "sovereignty on behalf of the State of Wyoming and for its citizens under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government or reserved to the people by the Constitution of the United States."

An Officially Sanctioned Car-Theft Ring

Will Grigg / Liberty Minute:
There are some who, despite ubiquitous and ever-accumulating evidence, dispute the proposition that government is an elaborate criminal racket. A measure before the Washington State legislature might serve as the tipping point for at least some statist holdouts. Washington House Bill 2565, which purports to be an anti-drunk driving statute, would permit police to seize and hold any automobile on the mere suspicion that its operator is driving under the influence of an intoxicant.

Why Aren't Some Six-Day Creationists Consistent?

Gary DeMar / The American Vision:
Henry Morris III is the son of creationist author Henry Morris. Henry Morris is best known as the co-author with John C. Whitcomb of the influential book The Genesis Flood. The elder Morris was a prolific writer having published more than 45 books including The New Defender's Study Bible. Following in his father's creationist footsteps, the younger Morris holds to a six-day creation view and writes frequently on creationist subjects. In an article titled "The Naive Literalist" that appeared in Acts & Facts, Morris writes about the necessity of interpreting the Bible literally. He begins by quoting M. R. DeHaan (1891–1965), founder of the Radio Bible Class: "When the plain sense makes common sense, seek no other sense." I don't know if DeHaan originated the phrase, but dispensationalists use it all the time, describing it as the "Golden Rule of Interpretation." In my reading on the subject, the phrase has been attributed to David L. Cooper.