Showing posts with label revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revolution. Show all posts
Joseph Shattan: Right Of Revolution?
Reflections on a senator and the 2nd Amendment. About 15 years ago, I served on the staff of a Senator who was an ardent opponent of gun control. Once I asked him why he was so adamantly opposed to any restrictions on gun sales, when even the police favored banning sales of certain kinds of assault weapons. The Senator dismissed these ... MORESheldon Richman: Nullify The Drug War
Reclaiming individual liberty. Thomas Jefferson said a revolution every 20 years would be a good thing. Regardless of what one thinks of that, perhaps a little constitutional crisis every now and then would have its benefits. One such crisis may be brewing now. On election day, solid majorities of voters in Colorado and Washington voted to make ... MOREWalter E Williams: Parting Company
Secession is really the battle for self-determination. For decades, it has been obvious that there are irreconcilable differences between Americans who want to control the lives of others and those who wish to be left alone. Which is the more peaceful solution: Americans using the brute force of government to beat liberty-minded ... MORED.J. Garth: The Secession Obsession
Why so many are more than hoping for change. As of the 13th of November, there are 70,983 signatures on a petition asking the Obama administration to allow Texas to peacefully secede from the union. For an updated tally, you can check the We the People page of the White House website. Personally, I don't quite think it is sane to be talking ... MOREChristopher Chantrill: A Pre-Revolutionary Situation
Unsettling rumblings among the peasants. Once upon a time, there was a nation that had trouble paying its bills. The people were restless. So the king called for his advisors, and they advised a little inflation to stimulate trade. A few months passed, and the people were still restless. So the king called for his advisors once again and asked ... MORECharles C. Johnson: Ray Bradbury - Enemy Of The State
Remembering the late science fiction writer. Ray Bradbury won’t “live forever,” as he wished, but he may well live on as the most-read critic of the state in America’s public schools. It was in public school that I first encountered Bradbury’s magnum opus, Fahrenheit 451, which is required reading in the government schools that made him shutter. ... MOREJames S Robbins: The Coming American Counterrevolution
A divided nation faces down fundamental change. The partisan divide in the United States may be past the point of no return. It could well be a symptom of greater changes in the American polity that herald the advent of potentially revolutionary change. On Monday, the Pew Research Center issued its annual report on American values, which revealed ... MORE
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