Archive for March, 2009:

The Context Behind ‘The Test’

During the Fall 2008 session of General Conference, President Boyd K. Packer delivered a  powerful message that Latter-day Saints should "do honor to the memories of the heroes of the Revolution" and unite our voices with those championing the cause of liberty and constitutional purity against "corrupted and degenerate administration[s]" of our ...

Happy Is The Man (and Woman)

Temporal, spiritual, and eternal liberty and the blessings of a righteous posterity are inseparably linked.  Are you enslaving yourself?< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

How to Fix the Health Care Industry

Further regulation is not the answer, and less government-not more-will allow market forces to both improve quality and decrease prices, as occurs in so many other types of markets.

Dissent Continued: The M.O.

The aims, methods, tactics and strategies of ancient and modern secret combinations.

The Magic School Bus, The Environment, Frederic Bastiat, & The Economy

Making artificial economic interventions, especially inflating the money supply, will cause the chain reaction of easy credit, over-consumption, high supply, over-supply, glut of product, dropping prices, and recession.

The Right and Responsibility of Self-Defense

There is one principle which is eternal; it is the duty of all men to protect their lives and the lives of the household, whenever necessity requires, and no power has the right to forbid it... (Joseph Smith)

Agency and the Mormon Case for Libertarianism

It all comes down to the War in Heaven...

The Rule of Law vs. Man

Rarely in this country's experiment on liberty has the federal government obeyed the restraint of the rule of law. Power and control, it seems, are too tempting to resist.

Tolerating the Intolerant: Yes on 8 = Yes on Hate?

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!     -Isaiah 5:20

Proposition St8

The outcome of this week's hearings in the California Supreme Court may result in maintaining the status quo of marriage or it could cement the earlier judicially-created civil right to same sex marriage, but in the end marriage will not be strengthened-only California's power over what otherwise should be a ...

Secret Combinations: Examining the Dissent

An examination into the nature of the "dissent" among the Lamanites and how that compares to modern-day Marxism.

“Limited” Government, Unlimited Power

Let us perform a thought experiment to arrive at the following conclusion regarding "limited government": that it is given virtually unlimited power and will inevitably morph into a cancerous growth.

The Economists’ Crystal Ball

The overwhelming majority of people continue clinging to the fairy tale that media-embraced economists possess a crystal ball that grants them insight into our future. Until America wakes up and rejects these impostors, we must brace ourselves for more centralized, statist Keynesian government intervention into the marketplace.

Capitalism in the Work of the Lord

In "The Road to Serfdom" F.A. Hayek demonstrated how the spreading of capitalism was a necessary precursor to the implementation of a free society.  Likewise, one can see the hand of the Lord in preparing nations for the blessings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the spread of capitalism.

Recent Blogs

  • An Invitation From Mark Skousen

    I’m writing to invite you to join me in “the greatest libertarian show on earth” — FreedomFest — set for July 7-11 at Bally’s Events Center in Las Vegas.

  • The Optimal Size of a Nation

    Experience shows that a very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed; since all cities which have a reputation for good government have a limit of population. We may argue on grounds of reason, and the same result will follow: for law is order, and good law is good order; but a very great multitude cannot be orderly.

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We believe that God has given to every individual the unalienable right to Life, Liberty, and Happiness (Property) as part of the Plan of Salvation. Any violation of these rights, whether by a single individual or a group of people (i.e. government), is immoral and against the will of God. The only just and proper role of government is to protect these rights from the aggression of others.

The Founding Fathers were inspired men whose efforts secured a society with the greatest enjoyment of liberty in modern times. The political environment of freedom they created allowed for the Church of Jesus Christ to be restored and thrive in the last days. Unfortunately, the principles upon which America was founded are under constant attack by "kingmen" (Alma 51:5) all around us. Many Latter-day Saints, either knowingly or unknowingly, support those who would destroy our Lord's work in the latter days.

We seek to educate others about the truth in hope that many more will "awake to a sense of [our] awful situation" (Ether 8: 24-25).