In the trenches with his men, his Excellency George Washington contemplated whether his infant country would be moral enough to hold onto its freedom. Washington said, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. … It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.” So what is morality? Morality is a set of principles or values held by an individual that di

“I know my rights!!!” Let’s start with a blank canvas and talk about your rights. Are you alive? Then you have a right to keep living. To live you must eat. To eat you must produce. When you produce you obtain a property right in result of your labor. Liberty – freedom from incarceration – stems from both our right to live and our need to produce. A life incarcerated by the state (jail) is no life at all. Also, we cannot produce if our movements are restricted. These – life,

Liberty and Security A couple of weeks ago, when Dr. Ben Carson announced his Presidential Bid for 2016, he blamed liberal policies for the sour mood across America. He went on to say that taking care of the downtrodden was not the government’s responsibility thereby showing his opposition to government welfare. But is Dr. Carson right? What is the correlation between liberal policies and the sour mood of people across the country? Are these two things related at all? In this

Recently, my social media feeds have been lighting up with discussion about a fascinating micronation called Liberland. As Matthew Humphries of Geek.com reports, “With the advent of modern communication and means of travel, it seems unlikely there is any area of the world left unclaimed by one nation or another. But such land does, or in fact did exist within Europe, and one man has just made his claim to it and created a brand new European nation.” Liberland claims to be a s