Daily Archives: June 1, 2011

School choice – it’s been ours all along

Common core has a lot of dity money behind it and distorts rather than teaches.

School choice need not come from government. We can have it at any time—by doing it ourselves.

From responsibility to dependency

In his inaugural speech on January 20, 1961, President Kennedy said,

Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.

Though many may remember those famous words, most have forgotten what they really mean. Kennedy had a clear sense of civic responsibility. His understanding unleashed a host of civic-duty-type organizations, like the Peace Corps. Fifty years later the blanket of government entitlements has smothered the concept of self-reliance.

Liberty, federalism and the conservative statesman

Isaiah Berlin

Good government in a free society keeps positive and negative liberty in balance. These two forms of liberty are out-of-balance today.

Positive and negative liberty – definitions

In his 1958 lecture, “Two Concepts of Liberty”, Isaiah Berlin established the modern framework for discussions of liberty, and with it a model for federalism based on positive and negative political liberty.

According to Berlin, negative liberty describes the extent to which one is free of obstacles to one’s actions.  Negative political liberty acts inwardly and restricts “the area in which a man can act unobstructed by others.”  Conversely, positive liberty refers not to “freedom from…”, but rather “freedom to…”, for instance, freedom to be in control of one’s destiny.   Such self-actualization is an expression of positive liberty, which by its nature acts outwardly.

Chris Christie still an AGW alarmist

Chris Christie as United States Attorney

Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) has always been a global warming alarmist. He still is, despite pulling out of RGGI recently.

A conservative sounds the alarm on Chris Christie

This morning, the site Net Right Daily said that Chris Christie “shifted” into the global warming alarmist camp. They also said that Christie had been skeptical of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) last year. His remarks last month, when he pulled New Jersey out of RGGI, show that he believes that the earth is getting warmer and that man is making it warmer.

Debt free in a few innovative steps

Debt free, not debt ceiling

You want to be debt free. No one wants the burden of a debt-stricken life. Here’s how to break out of that life and be debt free.

The problem of debt in America

Millions of Americans simply do not know how to manage money. That’s why debt settlement services have mushroomed in America. That’s why any TV channel that carries ads, carries as many ads for debt settlement as for home test kits for diabetes! Surely you would never want to count yourself among these financially crippled people?