amanda | April 28, 2010
The Independence Institute and Liberty on the Rocks invite you to join us for an unforgettable movie event featuring The Cartel on Tuesday, May 4, at 7 PM, at Denver’s Chez Artiste Theatre.
Watch the trailer here: http://bit.ly/p6lWI
A new, award-winning documentary, The Cartel focuses on New Jersey to offer a fresh inside look at the K-12 public [...]
amanda | April 23, 2010
Liberty on the Rocks is proud to co-sponsor this great event that is coming to Denver at the end of April. Sign up today!
The Post Party Summits: Organizing for a Free America, a collaboration by American Majority, The John Hancock Committee for the States, SmartGirl Politics and RedState.com, will educate concerned citizens concerning the most [...]
David K. Williams, Jr. | April 22, 2010
Jonah Goldberg has offered his take on where the Tea Partiers where while George W. Bush was expanding government and spending money he didn’t have. (See “Tea parties a delayed Bush backlash.“)
Conservatives didn’t necessarily bite their tongues (remember the Harriet Miers and immigration fiascoes), but they did prioritize supporting Bush — often in the face of far nastier attacks than Obama has received — over ideological purity. Besides, where were conservatives supposed to go? Into the arms of John Kerry?
infinity3 | April 20, 2010
Feeding my drudgereport.com addiction, I was checking the site for updates and saw this article and thought surely, this is a spoof, a joke, a satire story you’d see in the Onion, but from what I can glean, it seems like the European Union is serious. The Ottawa Citizen headline reads “Vacationing a human right, EU Chief Says.” I kept thinking this can’t be a real news story, it just can’t.
The EU proudly boasts travel as a universal human right and proposes to subsidize travel throughout the EU with taxpayer money. Daddy Warbucks, I mean, the EU (entitlement union) is proposing this as a compassionate strategy to increase the quality of life for those who go without vacations due to financial hardship or have an inability to read maps or just like to stay home. The EU says the motivation behind this is to promote cultural appreciation, and increase the quality of life of its people. As an added bonus it will also prop up the tourism industry.
It reads as follows, “taxpayers footing some of the vacation bill for seniors, youths between the ages of 18 and 25, disabled people, and families facing ‘difficult social, financial or personal’ circumstances.” So I say to myself- well, today was hard, I think I’m having a personal hardship, time for a government-sponsored road trip! Don’t kids 18-25 need a job instead of a holiday and then they can pay as they go?
Would a workaholic desk jockey who slaves in his cubicle day in and day out without time off be a human rights violation?? How do the refugees in Darfur feel about that? Is the EU going to force you to take vacation? Is tourism going to be the only productivity coming out of the EU? Should we short the euro now or later? Perhaps the EU will devolve into its former nomadic culture and become a vast wasteland of vagabonds who are now free to indulge their wanderlust.
I’m still flabbergasted at the whole concept of the EU granting its people the right to be a tourist, not just basic welfare programs, but now holidays. It gives the phrase, tourist trap, a whole new meaning. My question is – when do the announcements of new human rights stop? Why don’t they keep going and grant each person an Italian villa for a holiday escape. How about vouchers for activities, such as gondola rides, tourist trinkets, postcards, a per diem per se. Basically it sounds like an all-expense paid trip to get out of town. The article continues that they advise the northern Europeans to travel to southern Europe and vice versa. What if they want to go to Vegas or Dubai? Wouldn’t the EU be infringing their on their right to play tourist if they restrict travel only to certain approved areas? What the EU giveth, the EU taketh away.
How do you think this all got started? When a governing body starts granting rights to services, like health care and vacations and a laundry list of things are rolled out to entice a citizen to comply with a government’s rules to play along, one becomes an automaton to be controlled. Instead of a short-lived video game, the government’s game is for keeps.
David K. Williams, Jr. | April 20, 2010
Colorado HB 1351 would limit the interest rates “payday lenders” can charge. The bill made it out of the House, and now moves on to the Senate. Representative Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver, supports the bill. According to the Denver Post (Payday-loan bill passes in House), Rep. Ferarandino said
“This is about the cycle of debt people find themselves in with payday lending. We’re allowing people to overleverage themselves, causing bankruptcies.”
In other words, we are allowing adults to make their own decisions. Rep. Ferrandino and the supporters of this bill believe they are smarter than the patrons of payday lenders, and want to stop these people from exercising their own judgment.
Oppose this bill. Support freedom.
amanda | April 19, 2010
The stimulus is supposed to save the economy from depression, right? Isn’t that why the Obama and Bush administrations spent trillions of our hard earned dollars? But has the economy been “stimulated” (sounds dirty, doesn’t it?), or has it simply been propped up, only to fall apart again as soon as the money runs out?
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David K. Williams, Jr. | April 18, 2010
Denver Post columnist Susan Greene is one of my favorite progressives. Her columns are uniformly thoughtful, even when I disagree with one of her statist positions.
David K. Williams, Jr. | April 17, 2010
Thousands stood up at Tea Parties across Colorado on Thursday to send a message to our elected officials that November is Coming. Unfortunately, President Obama is not going to wait to push his big government agenda,
Hi, this is David Williams, Denver Director of Americans for Prosperity. Join me on Monday in Denver on the West Steps of the Capitol at 5:00pm to learn about the intrusive global warming regulations that the administration is trying to force on the American people through the EPA…without a vote of Congress.
Bring out your family and friends for great speakers and dinner and send Senator Bennet a message: Stop the EPA Power grab or we will hold you responsible for the lost Colorado jobs and higher prices!
Press 1 now to let us know you’re attending this free event tomorrow night in Denver. Or Go to regulation reality dot com to register. That’s regulation reality dot com.
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David K. Williams, Jr. | April 17, 2010
David K. Williams, Jr. | April 16, 2010
For U.S. Senate, I will be voting for whomever emerges the winner of the primary between Libertarian candidates John Finger and Maclyn Stringer.
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