Posts Tagged ‘foreign policy’

Why America Should Apologize

In an interview this week about his forthcoming book, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness, Mitt Romney was asked what he meant when saying that America need not apologize. He responded as follows: While we’ve made some mistakes, we have a record of promoting freedom, peace, and prosperity throughout the world. There ...

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, ...

10 Tenets of Freedom

Fantastic list created by Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation, detailing 10 tenets of freedom. Excerpts from each tenet, read the entire 2-part article here: Income Taxation How can a person be considered truly free if the state has the power to take whatever percentage of income it wants from ...

Save Those Bullets for the Monsters

John Quincy Adams once said that the United States does not go "abroad, in search of monsters to destroy." We all know that ceased to be true a long time ago. Over the last hundred years or so America has identified (created) a number of monsters and in most instances ...

O = W

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Foundation for an Ideal State–Part VI Enforcement of Law and Limited Government

This is an essential exercise for Latter-Day Saints to know how a government of liberty should be structured in order to safeguard freedom and individual rights against the judicial and legislative attacks that have eroded our inspired Constitution. This essay contains Principles 7, 8, 9 and 10. This is a continuation ...

Preventive War and the Book of Mormon

The doctrine of preventive war implies fighting your enemy on your terms, before they (may or may not) fight you on theirs. It is an extension of the idea that “the best defense is a good offense,” and requires a massive network of surveillance and spies to supply the necessary ...

Do God’s Commandments Violate the Libertarian Principle of Non-aggression?

A recent article by LDSFreemen.com contributor Skyler Collins raises an important issue regarding the (seemingly) apparent contradiction between the “libertarian” non-aggression principle and the actions and commands of God, in particular the command from God to Nephi that he should kill Laban, found in 1 Nephi 4 in the Book ...

America’s Foreign Policy: The Analogy of the Beehive

photo credit: Jokull While shrouded in layers of propaganda and political intrigue, the foreign policy of the United States of America is really not too difficult to understand. In discussions with others, I have often employed the use of an analogy I created to demonstrate its core circumstances. It is simple ...

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  • 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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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.

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