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UN Wants to Eliminate the 1st Amendment
Wed, 03/04/2009 - 8:26pm | posted by Brett Bittner
As Lou Dobbs notes, there is a movement, primarily among the Islamic member nations in the United Nations, to pass a binding resolution that would mandate national legislation in sovereign nations making it a crime to offend members of a religion. On the surface, this appears to be a resolution promoting tolerance, but it is obvious that it is aimed squarely at the freedom of speech available in Western nations. Dobbs is joined by Vanity Fair journalist, Christopher Hitchens, to discuss the totalitarian desires of the UN to control thought by eliminating free expression.
And I Am Not A Liberal
Thu, 11/06/2008 - 6:48am | posted by Brett Bittner
Now that I have alienated all of the conservatives that read my articles, it is only fair that I explain how I should not be classified as a liberal either. I made my case for most of the tenets of liberalism I support in part one, so let’s see how I stack up against “the other side.”
“2A Today for The USA”- New Video on the 2nd Amendment
Fri, 10/24/2008 - 10:10am | posted by Shana Kluck
I can’t imagine the framers of the Constitution thought the simple wording of the 2nd Amendment would ever be brought into question.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Wed, 10/15/2008 - 6:36am | posted by Austin Wilkes
While Americans should at all times continuously educate themselves about the founding of this nation, its founding fathers, and its founding documents, this is especially true during times of great uncertainty and inevitable political change. I think it would be safe to guess that Thomas Jefferson is the favorite revolutionary American philosopher and politician of a majority of United Liberty readers, so I have compiled some of my favorite Jefferson quotes-
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
Happy Bill of Rights Day
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 2:12pm | posted by Jason Pye
It’s Bill of Rights Day. A day for us to commemorate the document that secured and protected our basic liberties and natural rights against intrusion from the federal government.
You see, our Founding Fathers believed that rights did not come from government. Each of us, as sovereign individuals, are born free, or as Thomas Jefferson so eloquently wrote, “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Over time, the Congress, presidents and the Supreme Court have slowly deconstructed the Bill of Rights and Constitution. As Tim Lynch explains in detail over at Cato @ Liberty, each of the ten amendments that make of the Bill of Rights, save the Third Amendment, has been trampled over.
Sadly, this is how both the left and the right view our protected liberties:
Constitution Day
Thu, 09/17/2009 - 7:11am | posted by Jason Pye
“The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press.” - Thomas Jefferson
Today is Constitution Day. I suppose I should wish you a “Happy Constitution Day,” but there is nothing to really be thrilled about the current state of our government and our constitutionally-protected liberties.
Fair Weather Patriots
Wed, 02/18/2009 - 12:43pm | posted by Michael Orion Powell
Patrick J. Deneen at the American Conservative magazine has an article on the resurgent patriotism among the American Left, a quality largely absent on their side since the Vietnam war:
On Voting for the Lesser of Evils
Tue, 11/04/2008 - 1:45pm | posted by Dr. Charles Kennedy
As election day is dawning upon us, emotions are running high, particularly among those entrapped in the major political party of their choice, urging those of us who cannot abide either of the major party nominees to pick the “lesser of evils”. The reason given depends on which side of the divide from which it comes. I’ve been hearing, or expect to hear, from my Obama-supporting friends, “You MUST vote for Obama, because we cannot have eight more years of Bush”.
