Please Don't Attend a Godless Church

Franklin Graham On The Wrong Side Of The Bible And History

March 22, 2013

Chuck Baldwin

3/21/2013

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According to TIME magazine, “Rev. Franklin Graham and other leading evangelical figures are publicly backing efforts to require background checks for all gun purchases, providing a shot in the arm to stalled congressional efforts to enact elements of President Barack Obama’s gun control plan.

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Does your congressman's voting record qualify him/her to be a libertarian? Beware Imposters!

Here's their report card. Flush out the phonies & imposters. If their voting & oath violation have not supported the Constitution in the past, just changing a label to "libertarian" won't make a difference how they vote in the future!

The Freedom Index: A Congressional Scorecard Based on the U.S. Constitution

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The Freedom Index: A Congressional Scorecard Based on the U.S. Constitution rates congressmen based on their adherence to constitutional principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, national sovereignty, and a traditional foreign policy of avoiding foreign entanglements. The percentages below are cumulative scores are based on key votes from 1999 through 2013. Click on a senator's or representative's name to get a detailed breakdown of his or her voting record. Current Members of the 113th Congress

Alabama Sen. Jefferson Sessions - 70% Sen. Richard Shelby - 63% Dist.1: Jo Bonner - 54% Dist.2: Martha Roby - 66% Dist.3: Mike Rogers - 54% Dist.4: Robert Aderholt - 57% Dist.5: Mo Brooks - 80% Dist.6: Spencer Bachus - 53% Dist.7: Terri Sewell - 14% Alaska Sen. Mark Begich - 17% Sen. Lisa Murkowski - 50% Dist.: Don Young - 56% Arizona Sen. John McCain - 64% Sen. Jeff Flake - 82% Dist.1: Ann Kirkpatrick - 20% Dist.2: Ron Barber - 5% Dist.3: Raul Grijalva - 28% Dist.4: Paul Gosar - 77% Dist.5: Matt Salmon - 73% Dist.6: David Schweikert - 82% Dist.7: Ed Pastor - 21% Dist.8: Trent Franks - 75% Dist.9: Kyrsten Sinema - 0% Arkansas Sen. John Boozman - 54% Sen. Mark Pryor - 21% Dist.1: Eric Crawford - 64% Dist.2: Tim Griffin - 66% Dist.3: Steve Womack - 64% Dist.4: Tom Cotton - 70% California Sen. Barbara Boxer - 14% Sen. Dianne Feinstein - 13% Dist.1: Doug LaMalfa - 70% Dist.2: Jared Huffman - 20% Dist.3: John Garamendi - 10% Dist.4: Tom McClintock - 92% Dist.5: Mike Thompson - 20% Dist.6: Doris Matsui - 18% Dist.7: Ami Bera - 0% Dist.8: Paul Cook - 70% Dist.9: Jerry McNerney - 14% Dist.10: Jeff Denham - 62% Dist.11: George Miller - 23% Dist.12: Nancy Pelosi - 16% Dist.13: Barbara Lee - 27% Dist.14: Jackie Speier - 20% Dist.15: Eric Swalwell - 20% Dist.16: Jim Costa - 18% Dist.17: Michael Honda - 22% Dist.18: Anna Eshoo - 19% Dist.19: Zoe Lofgren - 23% Dist.20: Sam Farr - 21% Dist.21: David Valadao - 40% Dist.22: Devin Nunes - 56% Dist.23: Kevin McCarthy - 70% Dist.24: Lois Capps - 20% Dist.25: Howard McKeon - 52% Dist.26: Julia Brownley - 0% Dist.27: Judy Chu - 18% Dist.28: Adam Schiff - 17% Dist.29: Tony Cardenas - 22% Dist.30: Brad Sherman - 20% Dist.31: Gary Miller - 60% Dist.32: Grace Napolitano - 22% Dist.33: Henry Waxman - 18% Dist.34: Xavier Becerra - 19% Dist.35: Gloria Negrete McLeod - 22% Dist.36: Raul Ruiz - 0% Dist.37: Karen Bass - 18% Dist.38: Linda Sanchez - 23% Dist.39: Edward Royce - 73% Dist.40: Lucille Roybal-Allard - 20% Dist.41: Mark Takano - 10% Dist.42: Ken Calvert - 52% Dist.43: Maxine Waters - 26% Dist.44: Janice Hahn - 28% Dist.45: John Campbell - 72% Dist.46: Loretta Sanchez - 26% Dist.47: Alan Lowenthal - 10% Dist.48: Dana Rohrabacher - 76% Dist.49: Darrell Issa - 53% Dist.50: Duncan Hunter - 77% Dist.51: Juan Vargas - 30% Dist.52: Scott Peters - 0% Dist.53: Susan Davis - 17% Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet - 11% Sen. Mark Udall - 22% Dist.1: Diana DeGette - 18% Dist.2: Jared Polis - 21% Dist.3: Scott Tipton - 78% Dist.4: Cory Gardner - 75% Dist.5: Doug Lamborn - 79% Dist.6: Mike Coffman - 74% Dist.7: Ed Perlmutter - 13% Connecticut Sen. Christopher Murphy - 16% Sen. Richard Blumenthal - 12% Dist.1: John Larson - 21% Dist.2: Joe Courtney - 14% Dist.3: Rosa DeLauro - 19% Dist.4: James Himes - 7% Dist.5: Elizabeth Esty - 10% Delaware Sen. Thomas Carper - 15% Sen. Chris Coons - 14% Dist.: John Carney - 6% Florida Sen. Marco Rubio - 80% Sen. Bill Nelson - 14% Dist.1: Jeff Miller - 70% Dist.2: Steve Southerland - 74% Dist.3: Ted Yoho - 90% Dist.4: Ander Crenshaw - 53% Dist.5: Corrine Brown - 19% Dist.6: Ron DeSantis - 90% Dist.7: John Mica - 56% Dist.8: Bill Posey - 86% Dist.9: Alan Grayson - 18% Dist.10: Daniel Webster - 67% Dist.11: Richard Nugent - 69% Dist.12: Gus Bilirakis - 64% Dist.13: C. Young - 49% Dist.14: Kathy Castor - 9% Dist.15: Dennis Ross - 80% Dist.16: Vern Buchanan - 58% Dist.17: Thomas Rooney - 74% Dist.18: Patrick Murphy - 10% Dist.19: Trey Radel - 70% Dist.20: Alcee Hastings - 22% Dist.21: Theodore Deutch - 8% Dist.22: Lois Frankel - 10% Dist.23: Debbie Wasserman Schultz - 14% Dist.24: Frederica Wilson - 17% Dist.25: Mario Diaz-Balart - 46% Dist.26: Joe Garcia - 10% Dist.27: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen - 41% Georgia Sen. John Isakson - 53% Sen. Saxby Chambliss - 58% Dist.1: Jack Kingston - 63% Dist.2: Sanford Bishop - 27% Dist.3: Lynn Westmoreland - 74% Dist.4: Henry Johnson - 16% Dist.5: John Lewis - 25% Dist.6: Tom Price - 72% Dist.7: Rob Woodall - 69% Dist.8: Austin Scott - 78% Dist.9: Doug Collins - 80% Dist.10: Paul Broun - 90% Dist.11: Phil Gingrey - 65% Dist.12: John Barrow - 31% Dist.13: David Scott - 19% Dist.14: Tom Graves - 81% Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz - 10% Sen. Mazie Hirono - 13% Dist.1: Colleen Hanabusa - 16% Dist.2: Tulsi Gabbard - 30% Idaho Sen. Michael Crapo - 67% Sen. James Risch - 84% Dist.1: Raul Labrador - 87% Dist.2: Michael Simpson - 55% Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin - 11% Sen. Mark Kirk - 33% Dist.1: Bobby Rush - 22% Dist.3: Daniel Lipinski - 20% Dist.4: Luis Gutierrez - 21% Dist.5: Mike Quigley - 14% Dist.6: Peter Roskam - 72% Dist.7: Danny Davis - 23% Dist.8: Tammy Duckworth - 0% Dist.9: Janice Schakowsky - 23% Dist.10: Bradley Schneider - 0% Dist.11: Bill Foster - 10% Dist.12: William Enyart - 10% Dist.13: Rodney Davis - 70% Dist.14: Randy Hultgren - 74% Dist.15: John Shimkus - 53% Dist.16: Adam Kinzinger - 65% Dist.17: Cheri Bustos - 10% Dist.18: Aaron Schock - 69% Indiana Sen. Daniel Coats - 70% Sen. Joe Donnelly - 25% Dist.1: Peter Visclosky - 28% Dist.2: Jackie Walorski - 70% Dist.3: Marlin Stutzman - 82% Dist.4: Todd Rokita - 72% Dist.5: Susan Brooks - 70% Dist.6: Luke Messer - 70% Dist.7: André Carson - 12% Dist.8: Larry Bucshon - 69% Dist.9: Todd Young - 64% Iowa Sen. Thomas Harkin - 14% Sen. Charles Grassley - 60% Dist.1: Bruce Braley - 18% Dist.2: David Loebsack - 16% Dist.3: Tom Latham - 51% Dist.4: Steve King - 66% Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts - 61% Sen. Jerry Moran - 63% Dist.1: Tim Huelskamp - 85% Dist.2: Lynn Jenkins - 77% Dist.3: Kevin Yoder - 70% Dist.4: Mike Pompeo - 69% Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell - 61% Sen. Rand Paul - 93% Dist.1: Ed Whitfield - 53% Dist.2: Brett Guthrie - 70% Dist.3: John Yarmuth - 16% Dist.4: Thomas Massie - 100% Dist.5: Harold Rogers - 53% Dist.6: Garland Barr - 70% Louisiana Sen. David Vitter - 58% Sen. Mary Landrieu - 20% Dist.1: Steve Scalise - 74% Dist.2: Cedric Richmond - 17% Dist.3: Charles Boustany - 60% Dist.4: John Fleming - 82% Dist.5: Rodney Alexander - 55% Dist.6: Bill Cassidy - 69% Maine Sen. Susan Collins - 40% Sen. Angus King - 22% Dist.1: Chellie Pingree - 25% Dist.2: Michael Michaud - 27% Maryland Sen. Benjamin Cardin - 17% Sen. Barbara Mikulski - 13% Dist.1: Andy Harris - 80% Dist.2: C. Ruppersberger - 17% Dist.3: John Sarbanes - 14% Dist.4: Donna Edwards - 18% Dist.5: Steny Hoyer - 15% Dist.6: John Delaney - 10% Dist.7: Elijah Cummings - 21% Dist.8: Chris Van Hollen - 17% Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren - 0% Sen. Mo Cowan - 0% Dist.1: Richard Neal - 19% Dist.2: James McGovern - 23% Dist.3: Niki Tsongas - 13% Dist.4: Joseph Kennedy - 22% Dist.5: Edward Markey - 23% Dist.6: John Tierney - 26% Dist.7: Michael Capuano - 27% Dist.8: Stephen Lynch - 24% Dist.9: William Keating - 18% Michigan Sen. Carl Levin - 13% Sen. Debbie Stabenow - 18% Dist.1: Dan Benishek - 70% Dist.2: Bill Huizenga - 76% Dist.3: Justin Amash - 93% Dist.4: Dave Camp - 53% Dist.5: Daniel Kildee - 30% Dist.6: Fred Upton - 48% Dist.7: Tim Walberg - 71% Dist.8: Mike Rogers - 51% Dist.9: Sander Levin - 16% Dist.10: Candice Miller - 51% Dist.11: Kerry Bentivolio - 80% Dist.12: John Dingell - 21% Dist.13: John Conyers - 28% Dist.14: Gary Peters - 15% Minnesota Sen. Al Franken - 8% Sen. Amy Klobuchar - 8% Dist.1: Timothy Walz - 16% Dist.2: John Kline - 56% Dist.3: Erik Paulsen - 72% Dist.4: Betty McCollum - 20% Dist.5: Keith Ellison - 21% Dist.6: Michele Bachmann - 80% Dist.7: Collin Peterson - 46% Dist.8: Richard Nolan - 20% Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran - 53% Sen. Roger Wicker - 52% Dist.1: Alan Nunnelee - 67% Dist.2: Bennie Thompson - 25% Dist.3: Gregg Harper - 70% Dist.4: Steven Palazzo - 68%

Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt - 54% Sen. Claire McCaskill - 19% Dist.1: Wm. Clay - 23% Dist.2: Ann Wagner - 66% Dist.3: Blaine Luetkemeyer - 72% Dist.4: Vicky Hartzler - 68% Dist.5: Emanuel Cleaver - 21% Dist.6: Sam Graves - 56% Dist.7: Billy Long - 66% Dist.8: Jo Ann Emerson - 51% Montana Sen. Jon Tester - 24% Sen. Max Baucus - 20% Dist.: Steve Daines - 70% Nebraska Sen. Mike Johanns - 67% Sen. Deb Fischer - 60% Dist.1: Jeff Fortenberry - 56% Dist.2: Lee Terry - 57% Dist.3: Adrian Smith - 71% Nevada Sen. Dean Heller - 72% Sen. Harry Reid - 17% Dist.1: Dina Titus - 4% Dist.2: Mark Amodei - 70% Dist.3: Joseph Heck - 66% Dist.4: Steven Horsford - 0% New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte - 70% Sen. Jeanne Shaheen - 10% Dist.1: Carol Shea-Porter - 16% Dist.2: Ann Kuster - 0% New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez - 19% Sen. Frank Lautenberg - 14% Dist.1: Robert Andrews - 19% Dist.2: Frank LoBiondo - 44% Dist.3: Jon Runyan - 57% Dist.4: Christopher Smith - 44% Dist.5: Scott Garrett - 71% Dist.6: Frank Pallone - 24% Dist.7: Leonard Lance - 62% Dist.8: Albio Sires - 9% Dist.9: Bill Pascrell - 23% Dist.10: Donald Payne - 11% Dist.11: Rodney Frelinghuysen - 40% Dist.12: Rush Holt - 25% New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich - 12% Sen. Tom Udall - 21% Dist.1: Michelle Lujan Grisham - 0% Dist.2: Stevan Pearce - 55% Dist.3: Ben Lujan - 15% New York Sen. Charles Schumer - 14% Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand - 10% Dist.1: Timothy Bishop - 19% Dist.2: Peter King - 45% Dist.3: Steve Israel - 18% Dist.4: Carolyn McCarthy - 19% Dist.5: Gregory Meeks - 19% Dist.6: Grace Meng - 0% Dist.7: Nydia Velázquez - 24% Dist.8: Hakeem Jeffries - 20% Dist.9: Yvette Clarke - 21% Dist.10: Jerrold Nadler - 22% Dist.11: Michael Grimm - 55% Dist.12: Carolyn Maloney - 20% Dist.13: Charles Rangel - 18% Dist.14: Joseph Crowley - 20% Dist.15: José Serrano - 22% Dist.16: Eliot Engel - 17% Dist.17: Nita Lowey - 14% Dist.18: Sean Maloney - 10% Dist.19: Christopher Gibson - 70% Dist.20: Paul Tonko - 16% Dist.21: William Owens - 21% Dist.22: Richard Hanna - 54% Dist.23: Tom Reed - 66% Dist.24: Daniel Maffei - 14% Dist.25: Louise Slaughter - 20% Dist.26: Brian Higgins - 14% Dist.27: Chris Collins - 60% North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan - 14% Sen. Richard Burr - 56% Dist.1: George Butterfield - 16% Dist.2: Renee Ellmers - 68% Dist.3: Walter Jones - 77% Dist.4: David Price - 18% Dist.5: Virginia Foxx - 72% Dist.6: Howard Coble - 66% Dist.7: Mike McIntyre - 44% Dist.8: Richard Hudson - 80% Dist.9: Robert Pittenger - 62% Dist.10: Patrick McHenry - 72% Dist.11: Mark Meadows - 80% Dist.12: Melvin Watt - 22% Dist.13: George Holding - 77% North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven - 54% Sen. Heidi Heitkamp - 40% Dist.: Kevin Cramer - 60% Ohio Sen. Robert Portman - 50% Sen. Sherrod Brown - 24% Dist.1: Steve Chabot - 63% Dist.2: Brad Wenstrup - 70% Dist.3: Joyce Beatty - 10% Dist.4: Jim Jordan - 80% Dist.5: Robert Latta - 73% Dist.6: Bill Johnson - 66% Dist.7: Bob Gibbs - 68% Dist.8: John Boehner - 54% Dist.9: Marcy Kaptur - 30% Dist.10: Michael Turner - 48% Dist.11: Marcia Fudge - 18% Dist.12: Patrick Tiberi - 52% Dist.13: Tim Ryan - 25% Dist.14: David Joyce - 70% Dist.15: Steve Stivers - 63% Dist.16: James Renacci - 62% Oklahoma Sen. Thomas Coburn - 82% Sen. James Inhofe - 71% Dist.1: Jim Bridenstine - 100% Dist.2: Markwayne Mullin - 80% Dist.3: Frank Lucas - 60% Dist.4: Tom Cole - 54% Dist.5: James Lankford - 70% Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley - 14% Sen. Ron Wyden - 17% Dist.1: Suzanne Bonamici - 22% Dist.2: Greg Walden - 48% Dist.3: Earl Blumenauer - 20% Dist.4: Peter DeFazio - 31% Dist.5: Kurt Schrader - 21% Pennsylvania Sen. Patrick Toomey - 67% Sen. Robert Casey - 10% Dist.1: Robert Brady - 21% Dist.2: Chaka Fattah - 19% Dist.3: Mike Kelly - 64% Dist.4: Scott Perry - 70% Dist.5: Glenn Thompson - 69% Dist.6: Jim Gerlach - 40% Dist.7: Patrick Meehan - 57% Dist.8: Michael Fitzpatrick - 46% Dist.9: Bill Shuster - 56% Dist.10: Tom Marino - 59% Dist.11: Lou Barletta - 60% Dist.12: Keith Rothfus - 70% Dist.13: Allyson Schwartz - 11% Dist.14: Michael Doyle - 29% Dist.15: Charles Dent - 45% Dist.16: Joseph Pitts - 62% Dist.17: Matthew Cartwright - 30% Dist.18: Tim Murphy - 48% Rhode Island Sen. John Reed - 14% Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse - 12% Dist.1: David Cicilline - 22% Dist.2: James Langevin - 20% South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham - 63% Sen. Tim Scott - 80% Dist.2: Joe Wilson - 60% Dist.3: Jeff Duncan - 86% Dist.4: Trey Gowdy - 80% Dist.5: Mick Mulvaney - 78% Dist.6: James Clyburn - 20% Dist.7: Tom Rice - 70% South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson - 17% Sen. John Thune - 56% Dist.: Kristi Noem - 73% Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander - 53% Sen. Bob Corker - 67% Dist.1: David Roe - 74% Dist.2: John Duncan - 81% Dist.3: Charles Fleischmann - 71% Dist.4: Scott DesJarlais - 80% Dist.5: Jim Cooper - 21% Dist.6: Diane Black - 66% Dist.7: Marsha Blackburn - 63% Dist.8: Stephen Fincher - 76% Dist.9: Steve Cohen - 18% Texas Sen. Ted Cruz - 90% Sen. John Cornyn - 68% Dist.1: Louie Gohmert - 74% Dist.2: Ted Poe - 70% Dist.3: Sam Johnson - 66% Dist.4: Ralph Hall - 59% Dist.5: Jeb Hensarling - 67% Dist.6: Joe Barton - 61% Dist.7: John Culberson - 65% Dist.8: Kevin Brady - 57% Dist.9: Al Green - 23% Dist.10: Michael McCaul - 61% Dist.11: K. Conaway - 63% Dist.12: Kay Granger - 52% Dist.13: Mac Thornberry - 55% Dist.14: Randy Weber - 70% Dist.15: Ruben Hinojosa - 20% Dist.16: Beto O'Rourke - 10% Dist.17: Bill Flores - 70% Dist.18: Sheila Jackson-Lee - 24% Dist.19: Randy Neugebauer - 65% Dist.20: Joaquin Castro - 10% Dist.21: Lamar Smith - 55% Dist.22: Pete Olson - 75% Dist.23: Pete Gallego - 0% Dist.24: Kenny Marchant - 68% Dist.25: Roger Williams - 80% Dist.26: Michael Burgess - 66% Dist.27: Blake Farenthold - 72% Dist.28: Henry Cuellar - 17% Dist.29: Gene Green - 26% Dist.30: Eddie Johnson - 18% Dist.31: John Carter - 59% Dist.32: Pete Sessions - 61% Dist.33: Marc Veasey - 10% Dist.34: Filemon Vela - 10% Dist.35: Lloyd Doggett - 24% Dist.36: Steve Stockman - 100% Utah Sen. Mike Lee - 90% Sen. Orrin Hatch - 59% Dist.1: Rob Bishop - 68% Dist.2: Chris Stewart - 70% Dist.3: Jason Chaffetz - 82% Dist.4: Jim Matheson - 35% Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders - 27% Sen. Patrick Leahy - 16% Dist.: Peter Welch - 22% Virginia Sen. Mark Warner - 14% Sen. Timothy Kaine - 0% Dist.1: Robert Wittman - 69% Dist.2: E. Rigell - 74% Dist.3: Robert Scott - 22% Dist.4: J. Forbes - 57% Dist.5: Robert Hurt - 72% Dist.6: Bob Goodlatte - 61% Dist.7: Eric Cantor - 57% Dist.8: James Moran - 19% Dist.9: H. Griffith - 78% Dist.10: Frank Wolf - 48% Dist.11: Gerald Connolly - 11% Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell - 13% Sen. Patty Murray - 12% Dist.1: Suzan DelBene - 10% Dist.2: Rick Larsen - 17% Dist.3: Jaime Herrera Beutler - 71% Dist.4: Doc Hastings - 56% Dist.5: Cathy McMorris Rodgers - 65% Dist.6: Derek Kilmer - 10% Dist.7: Jim McDermott - 24% Dist.8: David Reichert - 39% Dist.9: Adam Smith - 20% Dist.10: Denny Heck - 0% West Virginia Sen. John Rockefeller - 14% Sen. Joe Manchin - 40% Dist.1: David McKinley - 66% Dist.2: Shelley Capito - 46% Dist.3: Nick Rahall - 33% Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin - 28% Sen. Ron Johnson - 86% Dist.1: Paul Ryan - 58% Dist.2: Mark Pocan - 30% Dist.3: Ron Kind - 23% Dist.4: Gwen Moore - 22% Dist.5: F. Sensenbrenner - 77% Dist.6: Thomas Petri - 60% Dist.7: Sean Duffy - 64% Dist.8: Reid Ribble - 75% Wyoming Sen. Michael Enzi - 70% Sen. John Barrasso - 80% Dist.: Cynthia Lummis - 82%

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Secret Committee of Correspondence 1776-1783

Surely, we can learn from the history of our “secret correspondence” committee from the colonial period. Put your thinking cap on for that time period and equate that era with the encumbrances of serfdom we have at the present.

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Committees of Correspondence & Sons of Liberty: Progenitors of the American Revolution

Where are they today - Do we need them again?

In an era before modern communications, news was generally disseminated in hand-written letters that were carried aboard ships or by couriers on horseback. Those means were employed by the critics of British imperial policy in America to spread their interpretations of current events.

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A Must Read: The Economic Philosopher's Outcast: Mises

The Economic Philosopher's Outcast: Mises

Steve Mariotti

Founder, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship

Posted: 08/21/2013 4:23 pm 

SS Gestapo Chief Henrich Himmler's agents sped through the streets of Vienna on an early morning, March 11, 1938, to capture and eliminate Nazi Germany's enemies. One of his prime targets lived in a middle-class Jewish neighborhood at 28 Weihoffen St. Apartment 7. Ludwig Von Mises, a 58-year-old political philosopher, was Jewish and defenseless. 

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How to Fight the Modern State - Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Mises Daily: Friday, August 16, 2013 by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

 

In this 1997 speech by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, now available as an ebook from the Mises Institute under the title What Must Be Done, Hoppe presents a plan of action for anarcho-capitalists against the modern state. 

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Rothbard and the Libertarian Populists - David S. D'Amato

Could you cut the mustard of a libertarian?

Mises Daily: Thursday, August 15, 2013 by David S. D'Amato

 

Recent weeks have seen much speculation by pundits about the nature of “libertarian populism.”

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▶ Nullification a Tool We All Have by Thomas Woods - YouTube

Published on Jun 26, 2012

Best selling author Thomas Woods was keynote speaker at the convention of The County Sheriff Project held on January 30-31, 2012 Las Vegas.

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Gold, China, And The Austrian Business Cycle

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/10/2013

Submitted by Olav Dirkmaat via GoldRepublic,

The Chinese account for over a third of total gold demand. We know therefore that any development in China - either positive or negative - has a rippling effect on gold, as well as other commodities that were bid up to new record heights during the Chinese credit bubble.

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On Moral Education - Herbert Spencer

Mises Daily: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 by Herbert Spencer

[As reprinted in Left and Right, Spring 1966, edited by Murray N. Rothbard.

Rothbard’s Editorial Note: Education is a perennially important and controversial subject, especially in a country as child-centered as the United States. 

Within libertarian ranks, an unlimited diversity of viewpoint prevails, ranging from rigorous traditionalists to ultra-progressives. Among the numerous libertarians in the Los Angeles area, a controversy is now raging between the Cardin and Montessori methods of education. We believe that the views of Herbert Spencer, the great nineteenth-century English social philosopher, can provide a much-needed but totally neglected contribution toward a rational solution to many of these disputes, a solution grounded on education in cause-and-effect. The following article is condensed from the chapter on “Moral Education” in Herbert Spencer’s Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical (A. L. Burt Company, n.d.).]

While it is seen that for the purpose of gaining a livelihood, an elaborate preparation is needed, it appears to be thought that for the bringing up of children, no preparation whatever is needed. In the absence of this preparation, the management of children, and more especially the moral management, is lamentably bad. Parents either never think about the matter at all, or else their conclusions are crude, and inconsistent. In most cases, and especially on the part of mothers, the treatment adopted on every occasion is that which the impulse of the moment prompts: it springs not from any reasoned-out conviction as to what will most conduce to the child’s welfare, but merely expresses the passing parental feelings, whether good or ill; and varies from hour to hour as these feelings vary. Or if these blind dictates of passion are supplemented by any definite doctrines and methods, they are those that have been handed down from the past, or those suggested by the remembrances of childhood, or those adopted from nurses and servants — methods devised not by the enlightenment, but by the ignorance of the time. 

Let us go on to consider the true aims and methods of moral education. When a child falls or runs its head against the table, it suffers a pain, the remembrance of which tends to make it more careful for the future; and by an occasional repetition of like experiences, it is eventually disciplined into a proper guidance of its movements. If it lays hold of the fire-bars, thrusts its finger into the candle-flame, or spills boiling water on any part of its skin, the resulting burn or scald is a lesson not easily forgotten.

Now in these and like cases, Nature illustrates to us in the simplest way, the true theory and practice of moral discipline. Observe, in the first place, that in bodily injuries and their penalties we have misconduct and its consequences reduced to their simplest forms.

Though according to their popular acceptations, right and wrong are words scarcely applicable to actions that have none but direct bodily effects; yet whoever considers the matter will see that such actions must be as much classifiable under these heads as any other actions. Note, in the second place, the character of the punishments by which these physical transgressions are prevented. Punishments, we call them, in the absence of a better word; for they are not punishments in the literal sense. They are not artificial and unnecessary inflictions of pain; but are simply the beneficent checks to actions that are essentially at variance with bodily welfare — checks in the absence of which life would quickly be destroyed by bodily injuries. It is the peculiarity of these penalties, if we must so call them, that they are nothing more than the unavoidable consequences of the deeds which they follow; they are nothing more than the inevitable reactions entailed by the child’s actions. 

Let it be further borne in mind that these painful reactions are proportionate to the degree in which the organic laws have been transgressed. A slight accident brings a slight pain, a more serious one, a greater pain. When a child tumbles over the doorstep, it is not ordained that it shall suffer in excess of the amount necessary, with the view of making it still more cautious than the necessary suffering will make it. But from its daily experience it is left to learn the greater or less penalties of greater or less errors, and to behave accordingly. And then mark, lastly, that these natural reactions which follow the child’s wrong actions, are constant, direct, unhesitating, and not to be escaped. No threats: but a silent, rigorous performance.
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The Attractiveness of Austrian Economics | Thomas E. Woods, Jr. - YouTube

Published on Jul 21, 2013

Archived from the live Mises.tv broadcast, this lecture was presented by Tom Woods at the 2013 Mises University, hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2013.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DStLhWMRERM&feature=em-uploademail

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Institutionalizing Ignorance - Walter Block

Mises Daily: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 by Walter Block and Jordan Reel

 

According to the official White House website, the end goal of schooling is to “help restore middle-class security.” Such a stance is a surprisingly honest one in a political environment built on deceit.

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Russia and China building their gold reserves

If Russia's new central bank chieftan, Elvira Nabiullina, confirms suspicions and implements "Austrian School" monetary policies, the world could become very peaceful that it hasn't been for decades. Seriously, not kidding. Wars are debt-funded. Austrian school is sound money, gold exchange orientated, hence: no golden tickee, no washee.

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By Alasdair Macleod

July 1, 2013

Western economic commentary on China and Russia is usually colored by monetarist assumptions not necessarily shared in Moscow and Beijing. For this reason, Russian and Chinese fiscal and monetary policies are misunderstood in financial markets, as well as the reasons their governments buy gold.

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