The first rule of the philosophy of liberty is …

… You Own Yourself [boldfacing mine]: While self-ownership may seem like a simple and self-evident concept, I believe that most Americans residing in the land of the free would become very uncomfortable when the full implications of self-ownership become evident. We know for example that many of our fellow Americans are Statists in one form or …

How the dream of going to the prom transformed a teen girl's life

Two themes came together for me in a post I just read by Afrocity celebrating the first birthday of her blog yesterday, April 8. One is the power of a dream to transform one’s life — the dream of going to the prom, the dream of marriage. I’ve been too emotional about the story of …

Punksmacking for Gay Patriot, bitchslapping for Peggy Noonan

Gay Patriot fell into bad company yesterday, by which I mean Peggy Noonan, who is too elitist and envious to understand the miracle that is Sarah Palin, and Noonan persuaded him that our nation’s ills are due to us pampered, spoiled Baby Boomers. Here is Noonan’s central problem: Obama is deliberately bringing down this country, …