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Ronald Reagan - and Tibet / China? What would he do?

“If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based upon what we know in our hearts is morally right. We cannot buy our security, our freedom from … threat … by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion now in slavery behind […]

Quote of the Day

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

Quote of the day: tyranny for the good of its victims

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own […]

Public Gardening

Government: “it takes money from some people, keeps a bunch of it and gives the rest to other people.” (Dave Barry as cited in David Boaz´Libertarianism: A Primer). These days I had a chance to see municipal government at work. A troup of communal workers trimmed a group of 4-5 trees outside the building where […]

Political Lackmus Test

I took the lackmus test at The Advocates for Self-Government and this is the result:

I am not surprised by the result :-) Try it out for yourself! libertarian, conservative, individual, liberty, self-government

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