LDS Freemen
LDS articles, political commentary, principles of freedom, proper role of government by liberty-minded latter-day saints.
Archive for January, 2010:
Partisans And The Saints: Choosing A Side Or Choosing The Right?
The Prophet Joseph Smith cautioned latter-day saints to avoid undue political partisanship because it didn't amount to much more than giving one side or another the rope with which to hang us. He said, “And if we have to throw away our votes, we had better do so upon a ...
The Failure of Foreign Aid
Almost half the world—over three billion people—live on less than $2.50 a day. The condition of humanity’s well-being is, in the aggregate, a story of poverty, suffering, and deprivation.
Sympathetic Americans have, to their credit, and due to their more affluent position resulting from their relative economic freedom and capitalist system, ...
O = W (3rd Term)
The Cato Institute has the evidence.
The 28 Principles of Liberty: Principle 20
"Efficiency and Dispatch Require Governments to Operate to the Will of the Majority, but Constitutional Provisions Must be Made to Protect the Rights of the Minority"
One of the serious mistakes Of the Articles of Confederation was the requirement that all states must approve in order for any changes to be ...
Racing Toward Tyranny
On January 19th, 2010, the people of Massachusetts spoke. A previously unheard-of State Senator by the name of Scott Brown was swept to victory by a wave of frustrated citizens representing all the degrees of the political spectrum. The turnout was more that double that of the previous primary election. ...
Mark Skousen Interview
A great interview with Mormon economist and liberty-lover Mark Skousen was just published. An excerpt:
Daily Bell: Give us some background as to how you became an Austrian economist? How did you discover them and when?
Mark Skousen: My father, Leroy Skousen, was like his brother Cleon, involved in the conservative anti-communist ...
Muddy, Dusty Dirt Roads
I live at the end of a long dirt road. And that’s just fine with me.
But, in my younger years I abhorred dirt roads. My attitude then was, “Give me pavement or give me death.”
I couldn’t wait to make a life for myself in the big city. It ...
Trial By Jury: An Essential Safeguard for a Free Society
About two centuries ago Thomas Jefferson said "I consider Trial by Jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution". We live at a time in which we have the potential to learn perhaps more from history ...
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness… Unless You’re in Utero
By the time their reign of terror had finally come to an end, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis) had murdered roughly 20 million people. So abhorrent were these crimes (though they pale in comparison to Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong’s), that in an attempt to distance themselves from ...
License to Live
Recently I met with a couple who were in need of some legal services. They wanted to meet with me because they wish to pursue their chosen profession, but to do so they each need a license from the state. Unfortunately, the state conditionally denied their application for the license ...
Store or Starve: A Beginner’s Guide to Food Storage
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
~ Proverbs 6:6
I want people to store food not only for their sake, but for mine as well. I don’t want to decide which of my kids have to go hungry when you and your unprepared kin come ...
On Whether to Tear Down or Build Up
A recent article by Utah attorney Jerry Salcido touched on the battle many patriots face when they realize the magnitude of our awful situation: do we focus our time on outing conspiracies and pointing out corruption, or do we study and advocate correct principles to win people over to the ...
Mises on Drug Paternalism
Ludwig von Mises was wise to the unintended consequences caused by government interference in not only the economy, but many other aspects of human action. Pulled from a recent article by Anthony Gregory is this quote by Mises fitting for the War on Drugs (emphasis added):
The problems involved in direct ...
Living the Nephite Nightmare
The Book of Mormon is a prophecy for our time.
This has been my thesis since the mid-1980s, when I wrote Parallel Histories: The Nephites and The Americans. It was written over 20 years ago in response to then church president Ezra Taft Benson’s call to carefully and diligently re-examine the ...
Fear of Science
Steven Peck wrote a fantastic post at his blog, The Mormon Organon, on the fear of science:
There are still those trying to separate science and religion. Who try desperately to dichotomize and put up barriers between the two. To rank order ‘ways of knowing’ into absurd hierarchies in which one ...
Osama bin Laden is Winning
I'm not sure the current state of affairs can be viewed in other way. Here's why, from Eric Margolis:
Bin Laden proclaimed his grand strategy in the 1990’s. He would oust the modern "Crusaders" by luring the US and its allies into a series of small, debilitating, hugely expensive wars to ...
Murder, What Else?
Hat-tip LRC:
American drones dropped in Pakistan kill at least 10 times as many civilians as terrorists and/or Taliban (Pakistani and/or Afghan), according to a July Brookings report. Now the Pakistan government reports that 39 out of 44 drone attacks killed nothing but civilians in 2009. Obama now owns the Afghanistan War ...
The Moral Consequences of Paternalism
[Written by Daniel B. Klein for The Freeman, May 1994. Changes from original in brackets.]
Picture a man gobbling a second helping of chocolate cake, or chain-smoking a pack of cigarettes, or injecting heroin into his vein. Is there a crime being committed? Is aggression or violence being done to an ...
Christ & Politics
[Written by Isaac M. Morehouse for LewRockwell.com.]
When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, "If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes." Luke 19:41–42 (NASV)
As Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm ...
Partisans And The Saints: Choosing A Side Or Choosing The Right?
The Prophet Joseph Smith cautioned latter-day saints to avoid undue political partisanship because it didn't amount to much more than giving one side or another the rope with which to hang us. He said, “And if we have to throw away our votes, we had better do so upon a ...The Failure of Foreign Aid
Almost half the world—over three billion people—live on less than $2.50 a day. The condition of humanity’s well-being is, in the aggregate, a story of poverty, suffering, and deprivation. Sympathetic Americans have, to their credit, and due to their more affluent position resulting from their relative economic freedom and capitalist system, ...O = W (3rd Term)
The Cato Institute has the evidence.The 28 Principles of Liberty: Principle 20
"Efficiency and Dispatch Require Governments to Operate to the Will of the Majority, but Constitutional Provisions Must be Made to Protect the Rights of the Minority" One of the serious mistakes Of the Articles of Confederation was the requirement that all states must approve in order for any changes to be ...Racing Toward Tyranny
On January 19th, 2010, the people of Massachusetts spoke. A previously unheard-of State Senator by the name of Scott Brown was swept to victory by a wave of frustrated citizens representing all the degrees of the political spectrum. The turnout was more that double that of the previous primary election. ...Mark Skousen Interview
A great interview with Mormon economist and liberty-lover Mark Skousen was just published. An excerpt: Daily Bell: Give us some background as to how you became an Austrian economist? How did you discover them and when? Mark Skousen: My father, Leroy Skousen, was like his brother Cleon, involved in the conservative anti-communist ...Muddy, Dusty Dirt Roads
I live at the end of a long dirt road. And that’s just fine with me. But, in my younger years I abhorred dirt roads. My attitude then was, “Give me pavement or give me death.” I couldn’t wait to make a life for myself in the big city. It ...Trial By Jury: An Essential Safeguard for a Free Society
About two centuries ago Thomas Jefferson said "I consider Trial by Jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution". We live at a time in which we have the potential to learn perhaps more from history ...Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness… Unless You’re in Utero
By the time their reign of terror had finally come to an end, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis) had murdered roughly 20 million people. So abhorrent were these crimes (though they pale in comparison to Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong’s), that in an attempt to distance themselves from ...License to Live
Recently I met with a couple who were in need of some legal services. They wanted to meet with me because they wish to pursue their chosen profession, but to do so they each need a license from the state. Unfortunately, the state conditionally denied their application for the license ...Store or Starve: A Beginner’s Guide to Food Storage
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. ~ Proverbs 6:6 I want people to store food not only for their sake, but for mine as well. I don’t want to decide which of my kids have to go hungry when you and your unprepared kin come ...On Whether to Tear Down or Build Up
A recent article by Utah attorney Jerry Salcido touched on the battle many patriots face when they realize the magnitude of our awful situation: do we focus our time on outing conspiracies and pointing out corruption, or do we study and advocate correct principles to win people over to the ...Mises on Drug Paternalism
Ludwig von Mises was wise to the unintended consequences caused by government interference in not only the economy, but many other aspects of human action. Pulled from a recent article by Anthony Gregory is this quote by Mises fitting for the War on Drugs (emphasis added): The problems involved in direct ...Living the Nephite Nightmare
The Book of Mormon is a prophecy for our time. This has been my thesis since the mid-1980s, when I wrote Parallel Histories: The Nephites and The Americans. It was written over 20 years ago in response to then church president Ezra Taft Benson’s call to carefully and diligently re-examine the ...Fear of Science
Steven Peck wrote a fantastic post at his blog, The Mormon Organon, on the fear of science: There are still those trying to separate science and religion. Who try desperately to dichotomize and put up barriers between the two. To rank order ‘ways of knowing’ into absurd hierarchies in which one ...Osama bin Laden is Winning
I'm not sure the current state of affairs can be viewed in other way. Here's why, from Eric Margolis: Bin Laden proclaimed his grand strategy in the 1990’s. He would oust the modern "Crusaders" by luring the US and its allies into a series of small, debilitating, hugely expensive wars to ...Murder, What Else?
Hat-tip LRC: American drones dropped in Pakistan kill at least 10 times as many civilians as terrorists and/or Taliban (Pakistani and/or Afghan), according to a July Brookings report. Now the Pakistan government reports that 39 out of 44 drone attacks killed nothing but civilians in 2009. Obama now owns the Afghanistan War ...The Moral Consequences of Paternalism
[Written by Daniel B. Klein for The Freeman, May 1994. Changes from original in brackets.] Picture a man gobbling a second helping of chocolate cake, or chain-smoking a pack of cigarettes, or injecting heroin into his vein. Is there a crime being committed? Is aggression or violence being done to an ...Christ & Politics
[Written by Isaac M. Morehouse for LewRockwell.com.] When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, "If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes." Luke 19:41–42 (NASV) As Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm ...LDSFreemen.com Newsletter
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LDS Liberty Podcast
- The Free Capitalist – Part I March 6, 2010
- Suffer the Illegal Immigrants February 27, 2010
- The Coming Apostasy February 20, 2010
- You Don’t Have To Be Poor February 13, 2010
- Who Owns Your Children and Ideas February 6, 2010
