Negative Space: freedom
- Always Trust a Criminal
- Franklin said that those who give up freedom for a bit of temporary safety will lose both. But we now know that restoring freedom can give us true safety.
- Bill of Rights Too Radical
- Clinton: "Americans Have Too Much Freedom"; from 21 Apr 1994 15:30:02 GMT
- Bush: We should live by our principles
- President Bush compares Al Qaeda to the mafia, without apparently realizing that, as during alcohol prohibition, it is our prohibition laws that fund criminals.
- The Case for Democracy
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When did America forget that it’s America?
- Collegium for Research in Interactive Technologies
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The Internet and computers provide—require—a new way of looking at documents and at the world. Cooperative Computing in the 1990s and Computers, Telecommunications, and Western Culture. From the World Conference on Computers in Education, Birmingham, England, 1995.
- Common Sense
- The document that started the American Revolution in the minds of the colonists.
- The Constitution of the United States
- The Constitution of the United States of America, including the Bill of Rights and other amendments.
- Cuban Cigar Aficionado
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Cigar Aficionado is trying to call an old, failed approach to diplomacy “something different” now that it’s being applied to Cuba. But they’re just a cigar magazine. What’s sad is that the President of the United States is also pushing an old failure.
- The Full Face of V: In Your Hands
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The real story in all of Moore’s books is what happens after the final page. This is most obvious in Watchmen, but every one of these books highlights an uncertain future.
- Gravity-driven health care
- All government programs are market-driven, just like all government buildings are gravity-driven. We cannot escape the laws of nature simply by adding the word “government” to the beginning of a phrase.
- The insecurity of an unfree state
- Glenn Reynolds takes a look at the prefatory clause to the second amendment and asks, if we don’t have a militia, are we unfree, insecure, or both?
- On The Day I Die
- “Neither of my girls has children yet. Like every mother, I always wanted them to get going and do it, you know. But to be absolutely honest, now I wish neither one of them would have children… I think she won’t bring a child into a country like this one is becoming.”
- The Pathology of the War on Drugs: The Assault on Justice and Civil Liberties
- The drug war begins to resemble the witch-hunts of centuries past, where lawyers are discouraged from representing the accused. And the tactics of drug warriors resemble the tactics of criminals so much that when criminals put on the uniform and masquerade as law enforcement, their victims can’t tell the difference.
- Patriot’s Day
- Information about what happens on Patriot’s Day.
- The Price of Prohibition
- If we wish to maintain prohibition, we have to understand that we are funding and nurturing terrorism.
- Quantum Mutata
- “There was a time in Europe long ago, when no man died for freedom anywhere…”
- Role-Playing Defense
- Information about anti-gaming organizations and people, as well as a little about the benefits of gaming.
- Strange Bedfellows
- Politics makes for strange bedfellows, and virtual sex in defense of liberty is no vice...
- A tested alternative for Iranian nuclear negotiations
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There is a way to stay true to America and negotiate in good faith with Iran, without capitulating everything at once.
- We are not free unless we fight for the freedom of others
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If we don’t act like freedom matters overseas, we won’t act like freedom matters domestically.
- When You’ve Got Health, You’ve Got Everything
- Freedom? Five bucks. Health? Five bucks. Inciteful Fiction? Free!
More Information
- A Time for Choosing
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“Televised Campaign Address for Goldwater Presidential Campaign–10/27/64.”
- Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do
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Peter McWilliams died in defense of freedom: this book, an incredibly well-written and well-researched book about “the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society” was probably his death warrant.
- Neda
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“I finally looked at her picture, and she looked familiar somehow. I think we have a statue of her in the harbor at New York. Delacroix caught a glimpse of her once on a barricade in Paris. She carried water to the cannon crews at Monmouth, and drove a chariot at Watling Street. She cut off Holophernes’ head. She will be missed, but she will be back. She’s that kind of girl.”
- The Case for Democracy• (paperback)
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Natan Sharansky makes a compelling case that it is in our national interest to link our relations with dictators to the freedom they allow under their rule. That the best way to ensure that a dictatorship becomes a democracy is to require the dictator to allow their subjects to escape their dictatorship, and that democracies are the best chance for peace. (Natan Sharansky)
