Tag: individual liberties
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How Many Illegals, Refugees and Addicts Can We Afford?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2017 (Feb. 12, 2017) — According to the Federal Highway Administration, more than 68,000 American bridges are structurally deficient. They estimate the cost to repair and maintain those bridges at $71 Billion. The Transportation.gov website has determined that most of America’s roads are in…
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Positivism and Intellectual Cowardice: America’s Kryptonite
“AN OPENLY DESPOTIC GOVERNMENT” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Oct. 28, 2016) — “As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose–that it may violate property instead of protecting it–then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against…
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Why It Always Gets Worse and Never Better
“ACTS OF TYRANNY” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jul. 30, 2016) — Author’s note* As previously noted, discussions with readers and friends brings up subjects I have previously written about. Recently, I had an email exchange about those who are in and those who seek political office in this country are…
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Will You Be Government’s Next Target?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (May 15, 2016) — “No oppression is so heavy or long lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.” Joseph Addison, (1672–1719) English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician * * * * * * * * * * *…
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Why America Is In Generational Demise
“AMERICA IS RIPE FOR THE TAKING” by JB Williams, ©2015 (Jun. 1, 2015) — Since Nixon’s Watergate era in the 70s, public trust in our Federal government has been below 50%, more than 40 years of a government most Americans do not like or trust. Only once since, in the fall of 2001, post 911, when…
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What Would I Do If I Were President?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2015, Founder and President, NARLO (Jan. 18, 2015) — NOTE: With the Republican candidates for president beginning to fill up for 2016, it seemed appropriate to recycle this article we wrote in June of 2011. It is not likely that every conservative will agree with our “platform,”…
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Vietnam Veterans Assert First Amendment Rights in New York City
AND ARE ARRESTED by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 8, 2013) — On Monday, an assemblage of Viet Nam and World War II veterans assembled at the New York City Vietnam Memorial at 55 Water Street to speak out against foreign wars, particularly the ongoing war in Afghanistan; government “atrocities;” First Amendment rights; and to remember the…
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Separate But Not Equal
WHO HAS THE BIGGEST STICK? by OPOVV, ©2013 (Jun. 9, 2013) — The “Bully” concept. We’re all familiar with it: the playground bully who has to have the ball, has to call the shots, has to make the rules up as the game goes along to give him an unfair advantage. A cheat, an undesirable, a…
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Does Obama Intend to Silence Christians and Christianity?
POLITICAL GROUPS WITH LEFT-WING AGENDA ATTACK CHRISTIANITY AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH by Sharon Rondeau (May 1, 2013) — CitizenLink has reported that the Pentagon is poised to enforce a policy which would punish, and possibly court-martial, U.S. service members who express their Christian faith with other military personnel while in uniform. The report comes after…