Tag Archives: Individual Freedom

Los Angeles Times: Charlotte Allen: Liberals vs. Conservative, What Makes Us Different and Similar

Source:FreeState Now If you understand both liberalism and conservatism and don’t just go by what the “mainstream media” reports about them and actually get passed the negative stereotypes about them, you understand that they don’t sound very different. To someone … Continue reading

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Universal Newsreel: President John F. Kennedy Proposes Tax Cut (1962)

Source:FRS FreeState In 1962, President Kennedy a Liberal Democrat, but an actual Liberal Democrat, not someone who’s called a Liberal Democrat, but who’s politics suggests they are something else instead, realized that economic growth was too low. And tax rates … Continue reading

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Common Sense Capitalism: Milton Friedman: Limiting The Role of Government

Source:The FreeState If you look at the Federal Government in America and its size post-World War II, we’ve generally spent around 20% of our GDP on the public sector. Defense, law enforcement, foreign affairs, social welfare, etc. And then you … Continue reading

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Wide World of Wisdom: The Phil Donahue Show: Milton Friedman- Freedom vs. Fairness

Source:The FreeState Milton Friedman has a point when he talks about freedom vs. fairness. When he says he’s not for fairness, but for freedom. Give people the freedom to live their own lives and resources to make that happen for … Continue reading

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Liberty Pen: The Mike Wallace Show: Ayn Rand- Liberty vs. Statism (1959)

Source:FRS FreeState If you’re a Liberal such in my case, or a Libertarian/Objectivist in Ayn Rand’s case, you believe in individual liberty. That the people have the right to essentially govern themselves. Now, my approach to liberty compared with Ayn … Continue reading

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AlterNet: David Morris: Why You Want Government Running Health, Education and Defense

Source:Free State MD The title of this post from the AlterNet that I read is called “Why You Want the Government Running Health, Education and Defense”. No for real, just look up top incase you missed it. Yet the whole … Continue reading

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Learn Liberty: Aeon Skoble- Individualism vs. Collectivism

    Source: FRS FreeState There are many types of of governments in the world, governments where freedom is vast economically and socially and people have the right to elect their own leaders with open and free multi-party elections and can … Continue reading

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Adam Goss: ‘The United States Constitution’

Source:Adam Goss– A big part of the U.S. Constitution, is the Rule of Law. Source:FreeState MD  “This video talks about the articles of the United States Constitution and all of its amendments.” From Adam Goss I love America because it is … Continue reading

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Greatest Audio Books: The Bill of Rights

Source:Free State MD To everybody out in blogland, I want to use this blog as a way to express my views in public on the key issues of the day, anything from foreign policy, to education, to fiscal policy, to … Continue reading

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