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  • Who now stands for Liberty?

    Posted by LIFTW on February 28, 2021May 23, 2021

    Hypocrites, even hypocrites that are too stupid to recognize their hypocrisy, cannot oppose anyone for any reason.

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  • Independence Day Hangover

    Posted by LIFTW on July 6, 2019July 6, 2019

    If we really are a Christian nation, then our national holidays should be in accord with our Christian values, and not merely of Earthly concerns.

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  • Where Social Conservatism Goes Wrong

    Posted by LIFTW on May 11, 2019October 9, 2019

    Disagreements between people of different opinions is perfectly compatible with political conservatism, but let's not forget that conservatism is ultimately about leaving people alone...

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  • Why Is Liberty So Unpopular In America?

    Posted by LIFTW on March 9, 2019March 9, 2019

    Defending liberty of everyone remains the best means of defending liberty for one's self.

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  • Breaking Free: Jeffersonian Liberalism

    Posted by LIFTW on February 23, 2019February 23, 2019

    Historically speaking, human beings have always been kind of awful.

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  • The True Man

    Posted by LIFTW on January 12, 2019July 9, 2019

    Who really believes that a true man, made in the image of God, hearing the cries of his hungry children, knowing the fears of his true wife, would let a wall stop him?

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  • Conservatism: A War Against Ideas, Not People

    Posted by LIFTW on December 22, 2018December 27, 2018

    Conservatives believe all individuals, whether aware of it or not, desire the freedom to pursue their own happiness, and that this is morally good.

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  • Some isn’t Most and Racism isn’t “Right”

    Posted by LIFTW on December 1, 2018January 15, 2019

    As it turns out, weaponizing the government against individuals is what the left does...

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  • Nationalism: Our Shame and Contempt

    Posted by LIFTW on November 24, 2018November 16, 2019

    Nationalism doesn't require any deep intellectual commitment, only an unquestioning loyalty to the partisan nation-state.

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  • A Short Word: Who is the Left Again?

    Posted by LIFTW on November 10, 2018December 6, 2018

    Ironically, red state voters became so focused on the "red scare" that they haven't notice they're every bit as red and every bit as nationalistic as the communists they oppose.

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  • A Short Word: The Conservative Ethic

    Posted by LIFTW on October 20, 2018November 26, 2018

    At the heart of the conservative ethic, we believe that the truth supersedes opinion, because of this we must also believe that our ideas and political positions are always subject to scrutiny.

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  • Spend Your Tax Day Remembering Thomas Paine

    Posted by LIFTW on April 18, 2018April 17, 2018

    Without Paine, the American Revolution dies stillborn in the hearts and minds of the American colonists, muttering impotently under the heeled boots of the King's army.

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  • Through the Wall: The Price of Liberty

    Posted by LIFTW on March 30, 2018March 30, 2018

    It is clear for those living in constant fear and hopelessness, trapped in a ceaseless procession of funerals for young male victims of violence both by their peers and the very men and women sworn to protect them, that something has to change.

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  • Rational Liberalism: Self-Evident Truths

    Posted by LIFTW on March 18, 2018November 9, 2019

    This principle that rights are derived from a superlative moral authority is necessary to the entire idea of rights preexisting a constitution or a nation state to begin with.

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  • Rational Liberalism: The Liberty Ethic

    Posted by LIFTW on January 20, 2018November 9, 2019

    [T]he American conservative has less in common with the Founding Fathers, who contended that the proper amount to take from the people was practically nothing, and more in common with Karl Marx.

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  • So, Really, Why Does Inequality Exist?

    Posted by LIFTW on December 29, 2017December 29, 2017

    There is simply no solution to basic inequality, but that's not to say that society shouldn't care about inequality.

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  • Holding the Line

    Posted by LIFTW on November 30, 2017December 19, 2017

    At the very end of every collectivist's argument is always violence. Every collectivist. Always.

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  • Not the Freedom You’re Looking For

    Posted by LIFTW on November 19, 2017December 20, 2017

    Did the Framers truly intend to condemn us to this charade of taxation, regulation, and coercive enforcement of "do as we say or else"?

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  • Who Wants to Rule the World?

    Posted by LIFTW on November 16, 2017

    In my America, only Liberty wears a crown. Long may she reign.

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  • Lighting Caves, Popping Bubbles

    Posted by LIFTW on October 28, 2017October 30, 2017

    It's time to burst everyone's bubble and force them into the sunlight, even if they run shrieking back into the comfortable captivity of their caves and safe spaces of their bubbles.

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  • The Tyranny of Silence

    Posted by LIFTW on September 29, 2017October 26, 2017

    If we lived in such a land where men and women were bound by a necessity of fear and anxiety of one another, how could they ever build a community, let alone a nation?

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