Individual Revolution

Commentary: School vouchers versus educational liberty

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 02/13/2020 - 01:14

By Jacon G. Hornberger

January 31, 2020 - It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Amerika’s public school systems are in perpetual crisis. That’s what socialism does. It produces crises or what the economist Ludwig von Mises called “planned chaos”.

It would be difficult to find a better model for socialism than public schooling. We call it “public schooling” but the more accurate name would be government schooling. This is a government program from top to bottom. The schoolteachers and administrators are government employees. The government provides the textbooks and establishes the curriculum. The government enacts compulsory school-attendance laws, which are enforced on parents through threats of incarceration and fines. To fund its operations, the government forcibly takes money from people through taxation.

93 Vermont towns have no public schools but great education

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 02/06/2020 - 19:58

How do they do it?

PUTNEY, Vermont (PNN) - January 31, 2020 - In just a couple of weeks, 50 boys with learning disabilities will take to a stage in Vermont, one after the other, to recite the Gettysburg Address from memory. It’s a daring experiment undertaken each February at the Greenwood School and its population of boys who’ve struggled in public schools. Diagnosed with ADD, dyslexia, and executive function impairments, Greenwood’s boys stand before an auditorium full of people (and once even a Ken Burns documentary crew) to recite powerful words many adults would struggle to retain.

Commentary: Brexiteers want Freedom not democracy

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 02/06/2020 - 19:54

By Stephen MacLean

LONDON, England (PNN) - January 30, 2020 - When the Fascist United Kingdom exits the European Union late on Friday, Brexit will be hailed as a victory for British democracy. Three times Britons voted to leave the EU and “take back control”: in June 2016, when the Leave campaign won at the EU referendum; in the general election the following June, when the vast majority of voters cast ballots for political Parties promising to fulfill the referendum will of the people (even though the Conservative Party itself only achieved a minority government); and finally, in December 2019 - the second general election in as many years - after months and months of Remainer parliamentary obstruction, Britons overwhelming elected Boris Johnson on the pledge to “get Brexit done”. Third time’s the charm.

Thomas Paine on government, liberty and power

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 02/06/2020 - 19:50

January 29, 2020 - January 29 is the birthday of Thomas Paine (1737-1809), the fiery rhetorician of America’s Revolution whose importance was such that John Adams said, “[W]ithout the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.”

Common Sense, first published in January 1776, argued strongly for Independence from England and was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution, selling almost 500,000 copies to a population of 2.5 million. The first essay of The Crisis (with the famous opening line, “These are the times that try men's souls”), written by Paine at the front lines with Washington’s army in 1776, was read aloud in every army camp. Its essays (from 1776-1783) were read by a larger fraction of the population than now watch the Super Bowl. Paine did not make a penny from either, as the proceeds went to the revolutionary cause.

Commentary: All government is evil

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 01/29/2020 - 21:18

By Gary D. Barnett

January 21, 2020 - The weak-minded cattle called the general population accept government as their god, observe all of its bogus laws, support its worldwide murders, use it to steal from their neighbors, worship its hired killers even while in so-called religious houses on Sunday, vote in fraudulent elections meant to give power to those who rule over them, and call these elected criminals representatives while ignoring their nefarious deeds; never taking responsibility for the evil they commit in the name of that same population. This is today’s Amerika, and this is the result of a national religion that worships the State.

Is mass civil disobedience our future?

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 01/29/2020 - 21:13

RICHMOND, Virginia (PNN) - January 21, 2020 - On the holiday set aside in 2020 to honor Martin Luther King, Junior, the premier advocate of nonviolent Gandhian civil disobedience, thousands of gun owners gathered in Richmond to petition peacefully for their rights.

King had preached that there was a higher law that justified breaking existing laws that mandated racial segregation.

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, when Freedom Riders integrated bus terminals, when black students sat at segregated lunch counters in North Carolina, they challenged State law in the name of what they said was a Higher Law.

Massive Virginia gun rights rally kicks off in Richmond

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 01/22/2020 - 21:56

RICHMOND, Virginia (PNN) - January 20, 2020 - Virginia's annual Lobby Day pro-Second Amendment demonstration will be noticeably larger this year, thanks to the fact that the Democrats, who control Virginia's governorship and both houses in the General Assembly, are plotting sweeping gun control legislation that could include red flag laws, limits on handgun purchases, universal background checks, and a draconian assault weapons ban.

Gun confiscation bill pulled as huge gun rights crowd shows up at Legislature to protest

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 01/22/2020 - 21:53

RICHMOND, Virginia (PNN) - January 14, 2020 - Democrats might wield power in the Old Dominion, but gun rights backers haven’t given up the fight.

As lawmakers met Monday to consider a slew of gun control bills, they were greeted by thousands of Second Amendment supporters determined to voice their opposition.

A 2020 Citizenship questionnaire for millennials

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 01/16/2020 - 06:32

By Thomas DiLorenzo

January 3, 2020 - The following is a set of propositions about the nature of government and its relationship to the citizenry that I think should be of special interest to the younger generation, whether they are “millennials” or one of the other nicknamed younger age groups. Look at it as a quiz, with each answer either “agree” or “disagree”, and see how you do. Here we go.

Commentary: The Cause of Amerika’s Dysfunctionality

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 01/16/2020 - 06:04

By Jacon G. Hornberger

January 3, 2020 - In analyzing the causes for the dysfunctional nature of Amerikan society (e.g., soaring suicide rates, especially among young people, massive drug addiction and alcoholism, and widespread violence, including irrational mass killings), among the things to consider is the replacement of Amerika’s founding economic, monetary, and governmental system with a different system.

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