Tag: individual liberty
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A Reminder to Americans: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
by Robert Kalebra, ©2025 (Jan. 6, 2025) — The right to keep and bear arms is a cornerstone of American liberty, explicitly enshrined in the United States Constitution. The Second Amendment reads: “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” This simple but profound statement has been the subject of intense scrutiny…
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Cancel Culture: Governor Using Stealth to Try to Put Through Red Flag Gun Confiscation
by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2023 (Aug. 24, 2023) — My dear friend, Lucinda Sheth, who is politically active, but not a radical in any sense, has addressed the recent Tennessee issue of a “Special Session to push for an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO)”, better known as Red Flag Law. 1, 2 This…
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Distractions
by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2022 (Mar. 1, 2022) — There’s sure been a lot of distractions the past couple of years. Yes, distractions that take the mind off other, especially more serious affairs, away from the things that we need to and must be working on. Things that are within our purview, like…
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The Grinch Who Stole Freedom
by Jeff Crouere, ©2021 (Oct. 3, 2021) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is the highest paid official in the United States federal government with a salary of $434,000 in 2020. Over the previous ten years, he earned an astounding $3.6 million. Fauci has been…
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Let The Cops Do It. Oops! The Cops Are Gone
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2020 (Jun. 13, 2020) — “We can’t pick out certain incidentals that don’t go our way and act like the cops are all bad… Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn’t for the cops?” — Charles Barkley…
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Voting and Elections—Democracy—Cannot Save Our Republic
“DEMOCRACY’S UNAVOIDABLE OUTCOME” by Matt Erickson, The Beacon Spotlight, PatriotCorps.org (Jan. 28, 2020) — In today’s ever-divisive political climate, the only thing upon which all sides readily agree is, “no matter which way you vote, just make sure you vote.” Nothing is so basic regarding government, or so important, we are told, as voting. Democrat,…
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Socialism Caused The Paris and Caracas Riots!
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2019 (Feb. 3, 2019) — “No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism, which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions, can produce a happier or more prosperous society.” — Charles E.…
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The Distorted Window Through Which Americans Perceive Reality
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2017, President, NARLO (Sep. 3, 2017) — In a book we wrote a number of years ago entitled “Our Cosmic Connection,” we opened one of the chapters with the following observation: “In spite of all of our individual and collective faults, there is a ‘great good’…
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100+ Years of Progressive Rule Unraveling
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2017 (Feb. 5, 2017) — The Democrats are shocked, dumbstruck, blinded-sided and apoplectic! How could a brash, untamed, crude billionaire businessman appear on the political scene and shake the very timbers of 100 plus years of Progressive rule? How dare this champion slayer of…
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Send Environmental Hypocrites Back To The Stone Age
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Dec. 18, 2016) — To millions of Americans, the environmental movement has become a cult-like obsession that has consumed the collective mindset with emotional hogwash, propaganda, outright lies and irrational guilt. Some have labeled this cult “The Green Plague.” (The “Plague“) The “Plague”…
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Little by Little the Progressives Whittle
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Jun. 12, 2016) — Just about everyone is born with sight, but when they grow up, very few gain vision. Vision is the capability to take all that you know and project what might happen in the future, then base your actions on that…
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An Admonition: Always Relevant But Seldom Pursued
“FOLLOW THE MONEY” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jun. 1, 2016) — Author’s note: I fully realize my words below will anger and upset many. As a student of history, I have arrived at my beliefs based on the actions and interactions of politicians and their financial supporters throughout recorded history.…
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Reconstruction Continues 150 Years Later
“UNDER THE DESPOT’S HEEL” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016 (Feb. 24, 2016) — One could certainly believe the below quote could be echoed today in any of the 50 states as we are forced to stand and watch as a totally unconstitutional, tyrannical and oppressive government goes about destroying what little is left of this once…
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America Is On The Threshold Of A Deepening Twilight
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2015 (May 17, 2015) — “Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.” …
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Posse Comitatus Won’t Save You From the U.S. Military
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2015 (Apr. 19, 2015) — GOVERNMENT CAN GET YOU ANYTIME IT WANTS. If a person, group of people, or a government has power over you, that means they can control what you do, or force you to do what you don’t want to do. …
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Putting the Emphasis On America’s Good Side
“IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2014, President, NARLO (Oct. 4, 2014) — “In spite of all of our individual and collective faults, there is a ‘great good’ that exists in a very large number of us. That good is personified in a wide range of human traits and behavior including private and…
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Who’s Afraid of the Hardline Left? pb
“THE CURTAIN WILL SOON BE COMING DOWN” by Don Fredrick, ©2014, blogging at The Obama Timeline (Sep. 27, 2014) — Many argue that Democrat and Republican politicians are all mostly low-life scum who would sell their mothers for money and power. One can vote Libertarian, but if they ever gained power they would probably learn…
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Have You Been Paying Attention? pb
“WE MUST TAKE INDIVIDUAL ACTION” by Gerry Donaldson, ©2014, Drawaline.org (Jul. 10, 2014) — My last email on Tuesday was entitled, “With Masses of Illegals Getting Licenses, It is Time to Restore Our Right to Travel.” As expected, I received complaints such as, “with this massive issue of Illegal Immigrants crossing our borders, you talk…
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A Call to the Clergy
“A RADICAL TRANSFORMATION” by Nicholas Purpura, ©2013 (Aug. 20, 3013) — “Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer The following was read into the Congressional Record January 10, 1963: Communist Goal (s)…