A former Texas police officer is causing a stir in jolly Old England. After leaving his job in Garland, Texas, and moving with his British wife and their three children to Reading, Ben ...
Early in the morning of November 21, four unoccupied townhouses in Hagerstown, Maryland, were intentionally set on fire, causing approximately $300,000 in damage. An anonymous email to news organizations claimed the attack ...
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Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute ...
America doesn’t have a Department of Sustenance. Why not? Eating is one of the most important things we do. Without food, human beings die. Still, we’re content to allow individual citizens and families to choose for themselves how best ...
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The Republic of Costa Rica has no army. The country, roughly the size of West Virginia and with a population of around 4 million people (including 50,000 North American expatriates), is proudly ...
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“Are you a libertarian?” I wasn’t expecting the question, but under the circumstances it made sense.
We were in Costa Rica, in a taxi heading southeast into the heart of San Jose. My ...
One is misled not by what he does not know but by what he believes he knows.
— Jean Jacques Rousseau, On Education
The purpose of government is the protection of individual rights. Government officials are ...
The state’s monopoly on education is perhaps the worst thing that has ever happened to children in America.
From the earliest days of the republic, education was provided by parents, churches, and ...
... a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the ...
“We didn’t run for office just to rake the leaves and tend to tree trimming. We’ve got ideas.”
— George L. Leventhal, vice president,
Montgomery County (Maryland) Council
That statement sums up the ...