When I think of public schools, the first thing that comes to mind now is the high school principal who was removed from his position and escorted from the building by police because he wanted his teachers to use lesson plans. Everyone knows public schools are broken. Can they be fixed?
Archives: March 2009
Lisa Snell: Competition is Revolutionizing Public Schools
Posted: March 31, 2009 11:51 am
Updated: April 5, 2009 2:36 pm
Boston T. Party: The Future of the Second Amendment Post-Heller
Posted: March 29, 2009 3:16 pm
Updated: April 5, 2009 2:35 pm
The June 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court decision was hailed as a victory by advocates of gun rights. It was also hailed as a victory by advocates of gun control. Who is right to claim victory? And what legal challenges do gun owners face in the future?
Marc Stevens: Delusions
Posted: March 26, 2009 3:30 pm
Updated: April 5, 2009 2:32 pm
If you consider yourself a citizen of the United States of America, or of any other country, you should not watch this video until you have mentally prepared yourself to have everything you believe in challenged. You have been warned.
Mary Ruwart: Deadly Secrets Behind Soaring Pharmaceutical Prices
Posted: March 25, 2009 2:42 pm
Updated: April 5, 2009 2:29 pm
Dr. Mary Ruwart is a quiet heroine of the liberty movement. In addition to being author of one of the most widely cited books on liberty, she is also a pharmaceutical industry insider, and at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum, she told exactly why prescription drugs (and health care generally) are expensive and difficult to access, and how many people have died because of it.
Glen Jacobs: Why Liberty is Inevitable
Posted: March 25, 2009 2:42 pm
Updated: April 5, 2009 2:28 pm
If you’ve ever seen professional wrestler Glen Jacobs at his day job, you may be quite surprised to hear him speak when he’s not at work.
Ethan Nadelmann: Ending Drug Prohibition
Posted: March 19, 2009 10:59 pm
Updated: April 5, 2009 2:27 pm
When alcohol was prohibited in the United States, it didn’t take long for people to recognize it as a universally bad idea. Yet the same is true of the prohibition of other drugs, and for the same reasons. A popular slogan at the time was, “Save Our Children: Stamp Out Prohibition.” Perhaps we should bring it back, because the war on drugs certainly is endangering our children.
Gary Franchi: Activism, Networking and Media in the Digital Age
Posted: March 18, 2009 1:23 pm
Updated: April 5, 2009 2:26 pm
As virtually everyone is aware, the Internet has changed the way people do business and how they live their lives. It has also changed the way people do activism.
David Nolan: Libertarian Strategy and Tactics in the Age of Obama
Posted: March 17, 2009 12:10 pm
Updated: April 5, 2009 2:18 pm
“Most people do not value liberty,” says Libertarian Party founder David Nolan, “at least not as much as we do.” What does this mean for those who wish to spread the message of freedom?
Alan Schaeffer: Alliance for the Separation of School and State
Posted: March 14, 2009 1:11 pm
Updated: April 5, 2009 2:24 pm
Separate school and state? But how will children get an education unless the government gives it to them?
New Hampshire Liberty Forum 2009
Posted: March 12, 2009 4:42 pm
Updated: April 5, 2009 2:22 pm
What happens when 500 activists for freedom converge on the same hotel in one of the freest places left in this country?
Surveillance Self-Defense
Posted: March 8, 2009 8:46 pm
You haven’t done anything wrong, so why should you worry about surveillance? It was Cardinal Richelieu who said, “If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.” The United States doesn’t hang innocent people any more, but it certainly does imprison them by the millions, and occasionally does kill them.
